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important books and manuscripts
Catalogue 104
Spring
2013
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CATALOGUE 104
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1. A.E. [RUSSELL, George] Collected Poems. London: Macmillan, 1935. pp. xix, 430, 1
(works by A.E). Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. T.e.untr. A very good copy in rare d.j.
€45
George William Russell (1867-1935) was born in Lurgan, and after the family moved to Dublin he was
educated at Rathmines School and the Metropolitan School of Art where he became friends with W.B.
Yeats. His play Deirdre was one of the first to be staged by the 'Irish Literary Society', forerunner of
the Abbey Theatre. He was a founder of the 'Irish Theosophical Society', and from 1923-30 was editor
of The Irish Statesman. Yeats said of his poetry "the most delicate and subtle" that any Irishman had
written in his time. Also an artist, he kept open house in Dublin for the intelligentsia of the day.
2. ANDERSON, John. Catalogue of Early Belfast Printed Books, 1694 to 1830. Compiled by
John Anderson. Supplementary to the Third Edition, published 1890. Belfast: Printed by M'Caw,
Stevenson & Orr, Limited, Linenhall Works, 1894. 4to. pp. 23. Very good in printed stitched
wrappers.
€65
3. AN OXONIAN [S. Reynolds Hole] A Little Tour in Ireland. With illustrations by John
Leech. London: Edward Arnold, 1892. 4to. pp. xii, 240. Olive green cloth, title in gilt on upper
cover and spine. A very good copy. Scarce.
€125
APPARITION IN COUNTY TIPPERARY
THE EARLIEST REPORT OF A 'UFO' OVER IRISH SKIES
4. [APPARITION] A True Account of Divers most Strange and Prodigious Apparitions seen in
the air at Poins-town in the County of Tipperary in Ireland, March the second, 1678/9. Published
at Dublin, and thence communicated hither. Attested by sixteen persons that were eye-witnesses.
Licensed, 1679. London: Printed for L.C., 1679. 4to. pp. 8. Modern half calf on marbled boards.
Extremely rare.
€2,750
Sweeney 5172. Wing T 2335B. ESTC
R3569 locates only 1 copy in Ireland.
This can claim to be one of the earliest
reports of a "UFO" or "unidentified
flying object" in the skies over Ireland
and was attested to by "sixteen persons
that were eyewitnesses." In a vivid
description it tells that "there appeared
at a great distance in the air ...
something like a ship coming towards
them; and so near to them it came, that
they could distinctly perceive the
masts sails tacklings and men; she then
seemed to tack about, and sailed with
the stern foremost Northwards, upon a
dark smooth sea, (not seen before)
which stretched itself from South-west
to North-west; having seemed thus to
sail some few minutes, she sunk by
degrees into the sea, her stern first, and
as she sunk, they perceived her men
plainly running up the tackling, in the
fore-part of the ship as it were to save
themselves from downing".
They subsequently told of other
apparitions, two ships fighting one
another, a chariot, a serpent, a bull and
a dog all of which were observed on "a
very clear and very calm evening, no
cloud seen, no mist, nor any wind
stirring".
This account was given by Mr C.
Hewetson and Mr R. Foster who were
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also spectators who saw the unidentified flying object. Other witnesses included: Mr Grace, Lieutenant
Dwine, Mr Larkin, etc.
In the Civil Survey of County Tipperary (1654-1656) Pierce Cantwell was the owner of half a colpe in
Poinstowne in the parish of Fennor, Barony of Slieveardagh and Compsy. The Survey also states that
Pierce Cantwell was owner of the lands in fee by descent from his ancestors: "Upon this land stands a
little castle wanting repaire & one thatcht house noe other impvemt. The other part of Poynstowne
being a quarter of a colpe in the parish of Kilcowly".
5. ARCHER, Lieutenant Joseph. Statistical Survey of the County Dublin, with Observations on
the Means of Improvement; Drawn up for the Consideration, and by order, of The Dublin
Society. Dublin: Printed by Graisberry, 1801. pp. 13, [viii], 276, 7 (index). Lacks map of the
county. Some contemporary marginalia. Edges of titlepage frayed. Recent buckram. Rare. €125
The Royal Dublin Society was founded in 1731 for "improving Husbandry, Manufactures, and other
useful Arts and Sciences". One of its greatest achievements was the publication of the statistical
surveys for each of the counties of Ireland. The work thoroughly surveys the topography of the county,
its geology, mines, quarries; its rivers, navigations, fish and fisheries; bogs and their reclamation; its
agriculture ... markets, farming methods ... tenure and rents, population, towns and their developments
... use of spirits; the schools, manufacturing industry, roads and bridges, etc.
6. [ASHWORTH, John Harvey] The Saxon in Ireland: or, the Rambles of an Englishman in
Search of a Settlement in the West of Ireland. With a frontispiece and map. London: Murray,
1852. Second edition. pp. xi, 263, 32 (Murray's list). Recased. Very good.
€185
In the introduction the author states: "We seldom know the real value of anything till we lose it ". With
a lithograph of Slievemore and Croughan mountains from the Plains of Ballycroy, and a detailed map
of Erris and Galway.
7. BALL, J.T. Historical Review of the Legislative Systems operative in Ireland, from the
Invasion of Henry the Second to the Union (1172-1800). London and Dublin: Longmans &
Hodges Figgis, 1888. pp. vii, 256. Recent cloth with original spine laid on. A very good copy.
Very rare.
€265
The contents includes: Councils and Parliaments of Ireland; Claims of the English Parliament to
Legislate for Ireland; Parliament of Ireland, 1613-1688; Parliament of Ireland, 1688-1700; Discussions
Respecting the Claim of the English Parliament - Treatises of Bolton, Molyneaux, and Mayart; Claim
of the English Parliament to Legislate for Ireland Considered; Parliament of Ireland 1700-1798; The
Policy of Union Adopted by the English Government, and Proceedings of the English Parliament with
Reference to it; Proceedings in the Irish Parliament with Reference to Union, 1799; Union; Debates
upon the Union in the Irish Parliament; Consideration of the Debates upon the Union in the Irish
Parliament Continued, etc.
8. BALL, John. Ed. by. Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers. A series of excursions by members of the
Alpine Club. Illustrated with eight chromolithographs, nine maps and numerous woodcuts.
London: Longman, Green and others, 1859. Fourth edition. pp. xx, 532. Nathaniel Colgan's copy
with his signature in pencil on half-title. Brown cloth, gilt design of two climbers on upper cover,
title in gilt. Spine expertly rebacked. Very good.
€265
John Ball, 1818-1889, politician, naturalist and Alpine traveller, eldest son of an Irish judge, Nicholas
Ball, was born in Dublin. He was educated at the Roman Catholic College at Oscott near Birmingham,
and at Christ's College, Cambridge. He showed in early years a taste for natural science, particularly
botany; and after leaving Cambridge he travelled in Switzerland and elsewhere in Europe, studying his
favourite pursuits, and contributing papers on botany and the Swiss glaciers to scientific periodicals. In
1846 John Ball was made an assistant poor-law commissioner, but resigned in 1847, and in 1848 stood
unsuccessfully as a parliamentary candidate for Sligo. In the House of Commons, Ball had attracted
Lord Palmerston's attention by his abilities, and in 1855 he was made under-secretary for the colonies,
a post which he held for two years. At the Colonial Office he had great influence in furthering the
cause of natural science. In 1852 he successfully contested the county of Carlow in the Liberal interest.
In 1858 he stood for Limerick, but was beaten, and he then gave up politics and devoted himself to
natural history. John Ball was first president of the Alpine Club (founded 1857), and it is for his work
as an Alpinist that he is chiefly remembered, his Alpine Guide being the result of innumerable climbs
and journeys and of careful observation recorded in a clear and often entertaining style.
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9. BANVILLE, John. Doctor Copernicus. A novel. London: Secker & Warburg, 1976. First
edition, first impression. pp. [vii], 246. Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Signed
presentation copy from John Banville to the Irish broadcaster Patrick Gallagher. In unclipped
dust wrapper. A very good copy.
€195
First edition of an early, scarce Banville, the first part of the Revolutions Trilogy - very collectible.
FIRST EDITION
10. BANVILLE, John. The Book of Evidence. London: Secker & Warburg, 1989. First edition.
pp. [iv], 220. Brown paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Fine in fine d.j.
€135
11. BANVILLE, John. The Sea. London: Picador, 2005. First edition. pp. [iv], 264. Blue paper
boards, title in gilt on spine. Fine in fine illustrated d.j.
€75
ERSKINE CHILDERS' COPY
12. BARKER, Ernest. Ireland in the Last Fifty Years (1866-1916). Second and enlarged edition.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1919. pp. 148. Printed frayed wrappers. Erskine Childers' copy with a
note to him from The New Europe dated 6th July, 1919, requesting a short review. A very good
copy. Scarce.
€165
The contents include: General Survey of the Period; The Irish Church and Irish Education; The
Agrarian Problem in Ireland; The Government of Ireland; Ireland during the War, etc.
13. BARRY, Commandant General Tom. Guerilla Days in Ireland. Tralee: The Kerryman,
1955. pp. [vi], 190. A very good copy in illustrated coloured wrappers.
€45
14. BARRY, Sebastian. The Pinkening Boy.
Dublin: Joe McCann. pp. [viii], 25. One of 20
copies numbered 1-XX bound in quarter goatskin
on cloth boards, from a total edition of 85 copies.
Signed by Sebastian Barry. Fine in glassine
wrapper.
€275
15. BECKETT, J.C. The Making of Modern
Ireland 1603-1923. With folding maps. London:
Faber and Faber, 1966. pp. 514. Fine in illustrated
wrappers.
€35
"Technically this book is a masterly achievement: the
collection, sorting, selecting and balancing of material
has meant an immense amount of hard and highly
skilful work. The presentation is not only learned but
cool, objective, unimpassioned and yet almost always
alive and compassionate as well ... As a reference
book alone it is immensely valuable ... As an example
of a humane, scholarly, expert history, Professor
Beckett's book will be difficult to surpass". D.B.
Quinn in the Belfast Telegraph .
16. BEECHER, Seán. An Gaeilge in Cork City. A
Historical Perspective to 1894. Illustrated. Cork:
Goldy Angel Press, 1993. pp. 83. Illustrated
coloured wrappers. A very good copy.
17. BEHAN, Brendan. Brendan Behan's Island. An Irish Sketch-book. With drawings by Paul
Hogarth. Illustrated. London: Hutchinson, 1962. First edition. pp. 192. T.e.red. Green and brown
paper boards. A very good copy in frayed illustrated d.j.
€45
18. [BELFAST] A Guide to Belfast and the Counties of Down & Antrim. Prepared for the
meeting of the British Association by Members of The Belfast Naturalists' Field Club. With
Illustrations and folding coloured maps. Belfast: M'Caw, Stevenson & Orr, 1902. pp. [vi], 284, 3
(adverts). Very good in original cloth gilt.
€65
The Belfast Naturalists' Field Club was founded in 1863, for 'The Practical Study of Natural Science
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and Archaeology'. For this meeting of the British Association members diligently prepared this account
of the flora, fauna, geology and antiquities of the Antrim and Down district. This guide was edited by
Francis J. Bigger, R. Lloyd Praeger, and John Vinycomb.
19. [BELFAST BIRDS] Birds Around Belfast. A guide for bird watchers. Produced by the
Belfast RSPB Members' Group. Foreword by C. Douglas Deane. Illustrated with sketches and
maps. Belfast: Produced by the Belfast RSPB Members' Group, 1981. pp. [ii], 66. Fine in
illustrated wrappers.
€15
20. [BELFAST BIRDS] Birds Beyond Belfast. A guide for birdwatchers. Produced by the
Belfast RSPB Members' Group. A companion volume to Birds around Belfast. Foreword by Bill
Oddie. Illustrated with sketches and maps. Belfast: Produced by the Belfast RSPB Members'
Group, 1985. pp. [ii], 118. Fine in illustrated wrappers.
€25
21. BETHAM, Sir William. Irish Antiquarian Researches. With numerous plates, some folding
and hand coloured, mostly facsimiles from Ancient Irish Manuscripts. Two volumes. Dublin:
William Curry, and Hodges and M'Arthur; London: Longman ... and Green; Daniel Lizars,
Edinburgh, 1826/7. pp. iii, 242, [x], 243-442, lv. Modern half brown morocco on marbled boards,
title in gilt on spine. A fine set. Rare.
€575
COPAC locates only 7 copies.
With historical notices on the Leabhar Dhimma; Book of Armagh; Geraldine Knights; O'Donell; The
Caah (Cathach); Venerable Bede, and the Ancient Irish Church. The author was Keeper of Records in
Dublin, and a noted genealogist.
22. BIRMINGHAM, George A. The Lighter Side of Irish Life. With sixteen illustrations in
colour by Henry W. Kerr. London: Foulis, 1911. First edition. pp. vii, 271, 6 (publisher's list).
Brown cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. T.e.g. Cloth a little faded, otherwise a very
good copy. See illustration below.
€30
23. BLUNT, Wilfrid Scawen. My Diaries. Being a
Personal Narrative of Events 1888-1914. With a
foreword by Lady Gregory. Portrait frontispiece of the
author. London: Martin Secker, 1933. pp. xiv, [3], 905,
+ errata. Cont. full tree calf, covers framed by a gilt
floral roll. Spine divided into six compartments by five
gilt raised bands, title and author in gilt on brown
morocco letterpieces in the second and fourth; green
and gold endbands. Premium label on front pastedown;
college badge in gilt on upper cover. A.e.g. A fine
copy. See illustration on page 122.
€375
This is the only edition to have a foreword by Lady
Gregory, which alludes to their intimate friendship. Blunt
lived a picturesque, exciting life, ever the champion of lost
causes and confidant of England's leading statesmen. At
one time or another he was - poet, sculptor, diplomat,
breeder of Arab horses, revolutionary, and aristocrat. It is
believed that he had an affair with Lady Gregory soon after
her marriage. In the preface Lady Gregory states: "The
story told in these Diaries from year to year, sometimes
from day to day, the 'humour, the charming good temper
that flickers into all corners of life' through its pages makes a richly woven background, a tapestry of
rich colour, for the adventure of that personal life, the 'life of love, the romance of travel, the delight in
words and fields and skies, the pride of ancestry and race' ascribed to him by one who knew him; the
many gifts, the mastery of living, that seem to belong to the heroic ages of the world, that show him out
as one of Plutarch's men". The chapters include: A Visit to Greece in 1888; Egypt under Tewfik, 1889;
The Veiled Protectorate; Cromer's Heavy Hand; A Summer in England, 1894; A Visit to Tunis and
Tripoli; Poland and Armenia; The Jameson Raid; Omdurman and Fashoda; "Satan Absorbed" - The
Boer War; Last Year of the Nineteenth Century; My Paris Diary of 1870; Memorandum as to the
Evacuation of Egypt; Death of Queen Victoria, 1901; George Wyndham's Irish Land Bill, 1902;
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Literature and Politics; The Beginning of Grey's Blunders - Akabah; Francis Thompson; Asquith at
Downing Street; King Edward's Death; George V King; The French Invade Morocco; The War with
Germany Declared; The Italian Massacre of Arab Peasantry in Tripoli; Sir Roger Casement's Letters to
Mr. Blunt; Miss Frances Jennings to Miss Elizabeth Lawrence, etc.
SIGNED BY THOMAS BODKIN
24. BODKIN, Thomas. Hugh Lane and His Pictures. Illustrated with numerous plates. Dublin:
Published by the Stationery Office for An Chomhairle Ealaíon (The Arts Council), 1956. pp. xv,
96, [2], LI (plates). Signed by Thomas Bodkin on f.f.e. Red cloth, title in gilt on spine. Fine in
repaired d.j.
€95
25. [BOOK OF FENAGH] The Book of Fenagh in Irish and English,
originally compiled by St. Caillin, Archbishop, Abbot, and Founder of
Fenagh, alias Dunbally of Moy-Rein, tempore St. Patricii ... Carefully
revised, indexed, and copiously annotated by W.M. Hennessy and done
into English by D.H. Kelly. With two coloured plates. Together with:
Book of Fenagh Supplementary Volume. Two volumes. Dublin: Thom,
1875 & Dublin Stationery Office, 1939. First editions. 4to. pp. (1) x, 439
(2) 115. Cont. full polished calf and quarter calf on green cloth. Spines
divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands. Contrasting
burgundy and dark blue morocco letterpieces, the remaining
compartments tooled with a harp device. With neat library stamps.
Signed dedication copy from the translator D.H. Kelly, with his address
at 'Araghty Grange, Co. Roscommon, July 1875'. A most attractive set.
Very rare.
€750
RARE THREE CANDLES PRINTING
26. [BOOK OF KELLS] The Book of Kells. An Introductory Note to a
selection of thirty-six Colour Slides. Eight pages in illustrated stapled
wrappers printed in red at The Three Candles Ltd., Dublin, dated April
1962.
€75
Not in De Burca.
The introductory note was written by William O'Sullivan, Keeper of
Manuscripts, The Library, Trinity College, Dublin.
27. [IRISH BINDINGS] An Exhibition of Irish Bindings from the
Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries. 29th September to 23rd October
1954. London: Foyle's Art Gallery, 1954. pp. 9. Some annotations in
pen, otherwise very good.
€75
28. BOURKE, Very Rev. Ulick J. The College Irish Grammar. The
College Irish Grammar, containing, besides the usual subject of
grammar, some remarks in the form of dissertation on the orthography of
the language; how it can become fixed; on the number of declensions,
and number of conjugations, &c. Compiled chiefly with a view to aid the
students of St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, and of the Catholic
University of Ireland, in the study of the national language. Dublin: John
O'Daly, 1856. First edition. pp. xxvii, 204, + errata. Blind stamped olivegreen cloth, evenly sun-tanned. The Harp of Erin in gilt on upper cover.
Minor ink stains to cover, otherwise a very good copy.
€150
Canon Ulick Bourke (1829-1887), Irish scholar and writer was born in Linenhall Street, Castlebar, son
of Ulick Bourke and Cecilia Sheridan. He was educated first at Matthew Archdeacon's Academy in
Castlebar, next at Errew Monastery near Castlebar, where he studied Irish under the eminent Irish
scholar and historian, James Hardiman a native of Drummin, near Westport. He entered St. Jarlath's
College, Tuam, in May, 1846, and Maynooth in 1849, where he was ordained on 25 March, 1858, at
Tuam by his cousin Archbishop MacHale. While a student at Maynooth he wrote the "College Irish
Grammar" for his fellow students in that college and the students of the then recently founded Catholic
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University of Ireland. On leaving Maynooth he was appointed Professor of Irish, Logic, and
Humanities at St. Jarlath's College, which subjects he continued to teach there from 1859 to 1877. He
was President of St. Jarlath's from 1865 to 1877; was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in
1866; and was made a Canon of the Cathedral of Tuam in 1872. During his stay at St. Jarlath's he acted
for some time as private secretary to Archbishop MacHale. He was a member of the Society for the
Preservation of the Irish Language, but seceded from it with its original founders, and in March, 1880,
established the Gaelic Union, which afterwards developed into the Gaelic League. In 1878 he was
named Parish Priest of Kilcolman (Claremorris). He was one of the Commissioners appointed to
inquire into the alleged apparition of the Blessed Virgin at Knock, Co. Mayo, 1879. Canon Bourke died
in Castlebar, and was buried at Barnacarroll, 25 November, 1887.
29. 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. 4to. pp.
xxix, 301. Burgundy paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine d.j.
€135
Recognized 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'.
30. BOWEN, Desmond. Souperism: Myth or Reality? A study of Catholics and Protestants
during the Great Famine. Cork: Mercier, 1970. pp. 256. Mauve paper boards, title in gilt on
spine. Map of the Dioceses of Killala and Achonry on endpapers. Minor spotting, otherwise a
very good copy in d.j. Rare.
€145
A study of a neglected aspect of Irish social history, the work of the clergy of the Established Church
during the Great Irish Famine, and their relationship with the Catholic population. It is generally
believed that the parsons who manned the soup kitchens during the famine gave relief only to those
Catholics who were willing to attend Protestant services or 'change over'. Special attention is paid to
the ultra-Protestant proselytizers who tried to take advantage of the terrible suffering in the west by
establishing missionary colonies in Dingle, Connemara and Achill, with the hope of initiating a 'Second
Reformation' in Ireland.
31. BOWEN, Elizabeth. Bowen's Court & Seven Winters. Memories of a Dublin Childhood.
New introduction by Hermione Lee. With illustrations and family tree. London: Virago Press,
1984. pp. xvii, 460, 52. Very good in illustrated wrappers.
€25
THE FATHER OF MODERN BIBLIOGRAPHY
32. [BRADSHAW, Henry] A Memoir of Henry Bradshaw. Fellow of King's College,
Cambridge, and University Librarian. By G.W. Prothero. Portrait frontispiece. London: Kegan
Paul, Trench & Co., 1888. pp. vii. 447. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Very
rare.
€285
Henry Bradshaw (1831-1886), bibliographer and Cambridge University Librarian, was born in London,
where his father, from Milecross, County Down, then resided. Educated at Eton and Cambridge, he
taught briefly at St. Columba's College, County Dublin. Assistant Librarian, Cambridge, 1856; he
reformed the early printed books and manuscripts department and put bibliography on a scientific
basis. In 1884 he addressed an audience in Dublin on the necessity of establishing a survey on Irish
printing, leading to pioneer work by Ernest Reginald McClintock Dix and others for the Irish
Bibliographical Society. A great book collector, he presented his own and his father's collection of
5,000 early Irish books and pamphlets to Cambridge University Library and later published A
Catalogue of the Bradshaw Collection of Irish Books in the University Library Cambridge - 1916. He
was called the 'father of modern bibliography'.
33. BRASH, Richard Rolt. The Ogam Inscribed Monuments of the Gaedhil in the British
Islands. With a dissertation on the Ogam character. Illustrated with fifty photo-lithographic plates
and a folding map. Edited by George M. Atkinson. London: Bell, 1879. 4to. pp. xvi, 425, 50
(plates). Later half morocco on marbled boards. T.e.g. Very good. Very scarce.
€475
Mr. Brash in his prospectus for this work states: "There is no country in Europe which presents so rich
a field for the investigation of the antiquity as Ireland ... We have abundant evidence that successive
tribes, driven towards the Atlantic by more recent migrations from the East, found a refuge in this
remote isle, in attestation of which we find, that every district teems with the military, religious, and
sepulchral monuments of pre-historic peoples, most of which are the subjects of weird traditions still
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preserved by the peasantry, being even yet regarded with that jealous veneration inherent in the Celtic
race. Foremost in interest amongst these megalithic remains stand her Ogam inscribed pillar-stones,
bearing the sepulchral legends of a race of her early colonists in such archaic characters as at once to
place them amongst the most ancient written records known".
34. BREEN, Dan. My Fight for Irish Freedom. With an introduction by Joseph McGarrity.
Illustrated. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1956. pp. xii, 258. Illustrated wrappers. Scarce.
€45
Dan Breen (1894-1969) born near Soloheadbeg Co. Tipperary, worked as a plasterer and later as a
linesman on the Great Southern Railway. Joined the Irish volunteers in 1914, and later Quartermaster
Third Tipperary Brigade. He was co-planner of the Soloheadbeg ambush, staged on the first day of
Dáil Eireann, 21 January 1919, this was the most significant incident since the Rising of Easter Week
for it marked the beginning of the War of Independence. With the price of £10,000 on his head, he
quickly established himself as a daring Republican.
35. BRENNAN, Phil & JONES, Ewart. Birds of North Munster. A ten year report. With maps
and illustrations. Galway: Printed for the North Munster Branch of the Irish Wildbird
Conservancy by Corrib Printers, 1982. pp. 56. Fine in illustrated wrappers.
€20
36. BROWNE, Charlie. The Story of the 7th. A concise history of the 7th Battalion, Cork No. 1
Brigade, Irish Republican Army from 1915 to 1921. With a foreword by Nora Browne. Cork:
Schull Books, 2007. pp. 104. Fine in illustrated wrappers.
€20
37. BRYAN, Donough. The Great Earl of Kildare, Gerald Fitzgerald, 1456-1513. Dublin &
Cork: The Talbot Press, 1933. First edition. pp. xxiv, 305. Blue faded cloth, title in gilt on spine.
A very good copy. Scarce.
€125
38. BURGHCLERE, Lady. The Life of James First Duke of Ormonde 1610-1688. With
portraits and illustrations. In two volumes. London: Murray, 1912. pp. (1) xv, 534, (2) vii, 458.
Reddish brown cloth, title in black on upper cover and in gilt on spine. Very good. Scarce. €265
39. BURKE, James, Esq. The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and
Historical Introductions. Dublin: James Duffy, n.d. (c.1853). pp. xxiv, 25-456. Green blindstamped cloth, title in gilt on spine. New endpapers. A very good copy.
€45
40. BURKE, Oliver J. The Abbey of Ross, Its History and Details. Illustrated. Dublin: Gill and
Waterford: 1908. New edition. pp. [viii], 86. Some minor spotting, otherwise a very good copy in
the original green cloth binding. Scarce.
€95
This Friary was founded in 1348 by Raymond de Burgh, progenitor of the MacRaymond Burkes of the
Barony of Clare in Co. Galway. Luke Wadding in his Chronicles tells us that it took three years to
build. The friary flourished until the suppression of the monasteries by Henry VIII in 1538, many of the
monks were put to death, some imprisoned, and those that survived fled. They were always however
protected by the powerful Clanricardes and shortly afterwards were reinstated. The author was a
member of that distinguished family of the Burkes of Ower, a noted historian and an eminent barrister
in his day.
41. BURKE, Oliver J. The South Isles of Aran (County Galway). London: Kegan Paul, Trench,
1887. First edition. pp. x, 112, 44 (publisher's list). Red cloth, title in black on upper cover and in
gilt on spine. A fine copy. Rare.
€285
This is undoubtedly the rarest of all Burke's works. The author traces the history of this mystical island
from the pre-Christian era to the 1880's. There are chapters on: Druidism; Antiquities; Flora & Fauna;
Families; Letters on the Islands by Dr. Petrie; Sir Francis Head, R.F. Mullery; Statistics; Forests, etc.
EDITION LIMITED TO 100 COPIES
SIGNED BY THE MARQUIS OF ORMONDE
42. BUTLER, John, Marquis of Ormonde. Vita Sancti Kannechi a Codice in Bibliotheca
Burgundiana extante Bruxellis transcripta et cum Codice in Bibliotheca Marsiana Dublinii
adservato collata. [Edited, with an introduction, by James Butler, Marquis of Ormonde.]
[London]: 1853. 4to. pp. [vi], xxv. 47. No. 34 only of 100 copies printed and signed 'Ormonde'.
Original blind-stamped cloth. Spine expertly rebacked. Very good. Very rare.
€485
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43. BYRNE, Don The Power of the Dog. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd., n.d.
(1929). pp. [iv], 471. Title printed in green and black. Edition limited to 500 copies only for sale.
Quarter vellum on grey cloth boards. Title in gilt on spine. T.e.g. Some spotting to untrimmed
fore-edge, otherwise a very good copy.
€125
44. [BYRNE, Miles] Memoirs of Miles Byrne. Edited by his widow [Fanny Byrne]. With an
introduction by R.B. McDowell. Three volumes in one. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1972.
Third edition. pp. (1) xi, [iii], 391, (2) [iii], 242, (3) [iii], 356. Original green cloth, title in gilt on
spine. A very good copy. Rare.
€175
45. 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. List of subscribers. Dublin:
Sealy, 1903. pp. xxvii, 212, [3], 8 (publisher's list). Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Some wear.
Map in superior facsimile. Very good.
€125
Philip O'Sullivan-Beare (1560-1618), the only son of Donal O'Sullivan (1537-63), Lord of Beare and
Bantry, was born c.1590 in Dunboy Castle, Co. Cork, the ancestral home of that branch of the
O'Sullivan clan who were descended from the kings of Munster. He was educated in Waterford where
he learned English and Latin. He took no part in the Desmond Rebellion, but entered the Nine Years
War in 1601 when a Spanish force landed in Kinsale. After the defeat at Kinsale he was sent to Spain
to be educated at Santiago de Compostela. Later on he entered the naval service where he distinguished
himself. The Historia Catholicae is divided into four parts: (1) The much admired topography of
Ireland; (2) An account of the pilgrimage of Don Ramon de Penllos to Lough Derg; (3) A History of
the English in Ireland from the Invasion of Henry down to 1588; (4) Irish affairs down to 1618.
According to Allison and Rogers it reprints "the text of the two catalogues of Irish Saints and heroes
compiled respectively by Richard Conway and Henry Fitzsimon." The most dramatic of all events,
though, is a family story. After the defeat at Kinsale and the capture of his castle at Dunboy, Donal
O'Sullivan Beare led a thousand of his people, men, women and children, on a winter march
northwards where he had obtained refuge from Brian O'Rourke in County Leitrim. Philip's father and
mother were amongst the thirty-five survivors. This great retreat has been the subject of a fine modern
retracing by Peter Somerville Large - From Bantry Bay to Leitrim, in which he picked up folk memory
echoes all along the way. Many valuable historical documents are quoted, Donall O'Sullivan-Beare's
letter to the King of Spain complaining about the terms of De Aguila's Kinsale capitulation; Florence
Conry's statement of Catholic grievances. It is the only account of the Elizabethan wars in Ireland
purely from an Irish or Catholic perspective, and is a refutation of the English and Anglo-Irish
protestant histories.
46. CALWELL, H.G. Andrew Malcolm of Belfast 1818-1856. Physician and Historian.
Together with: The History of the General Hospital Belfast, and the other Medical Institutions of
the Town: With Chronological Notes & Biographical Reminiscences. Two volumes in one.
Illustrated. Belfast: Brough Cox & Dunn, 1977. pp. xv, 138, 139, xxii. Black arlin, title in gilt on
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spine. Fine in frayed d.j.
The History of the General Hospital was originally published in Belfast in 1851.
€45
47. CAMERON, Sir Charles A. Reminiscences of Sir Charles A. Cameron, C.B. Illustrated.
Dublin: Hodges Figgis & London: Simpkin, 1913. pp. 181. Faded cloth. A very good copy. €135
Sir Charles Alexander Cameron, CB (1830-1921) Physician and Chemist was born in Dublin, the son
of Captain Ewen Cameron of Scotland and Belinda Smith of County Cavan. He was descended from
Clan Cameron of Lochiel. For over fifty years he had charge of the Public Health Department of
Dublin Corporation. He received his early education in chemistry and pharmaceutical chemistry in
Dublin. In 1852 he was elected professor to the newly-founded Dublin Chemical Society, while
continuing to study medicine at several schools and hospitals in Dublin. In 1854 he went to Germany
where he graduated in philosophy and medicine. Upon his return to Ireland he became scientific
advisor to the Irish government in criminal cases and over the years took part in many notable trials,
including those relating to the Phoenix Park Murders. In 1862 he became public analyst for the City of
Dublin, which position was later extended to 23 counties in Ireland. In 1867 he was elected Professor
of Hygiene in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He was also lecturer in chemistry in Dr
Steevens' Hospital and the Ledwich School of Medicine, succeeding Dr. Maxwell Simpson, and
retained these positions until 1874. In 1884 he became vice-president of the Royal College of Surgeons
of Ireland, and the following year became president. He was knighted in 1885 in consideration of "his
scientific researches, and his services in the cause of public health". In 1862 he married Lucie
MacNamara of Dublin. At his death he left a son and two daughters; his eldest son, Captain Charles J.
Cameron, died in a boating accident in Athlone in 1913, while another son, Lieutenant Ewen Henry
Cameron, shot himself in a train in Newcastle in 1915 while on the way to the Western Front.
LIMITED EDITION
48. CAMPBELL, Joseph. Earth of Cualann. With twenty-one designs by the author. Dublin:
Maunsel, 1917. pp. [viii], 62. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies. Owner's signature on f.f.e.
Qtr. vellum on grey boards. Usual spotting to vellum. Untr. Very good. Scarce.
€235
According to the author, the poems in this work were inspired by the ancient district of Cualann which
belonged, for the most part, to the County of Wicklow.
49. 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. Some minor wear to head and tail of spine, otherwise a very good copy.
€75
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.
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.
MARKREE COPY
ULSTER A MOST BEWTIFUL SWEETE COUNTRIE
50. CAMPION, Edward. HANMER, Meredith. & SPENSER, Edmund. The Historie of
Ireland, Collected by Three Learned Authors. Campion's Historie of Ireland. The Chronicle of
Ireland & A View of the State of Ireland, edited by Sir James Ware. Three parts in one volume.
Dublin: Printed by the Societie of Stationers, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majestie,
1633. First edition. Folio. pp. [x], 127, [8], [9], 138, [1], 223. Near cont. full calf. Markree copy
with armorial bookplate of Colonel Cooper on front pastedown. Early owner's signature on
titlepage. Two leaves in manuscript in a near contemporary hand. A very good copy. Very rare.
€675
STC 25067 Sweeney 840.
First edition of all three works edited by the antiquary and historian Sir James Ware. From a literary
point of view the most important work is Spenser's A View of the Present State of Ireland. It was
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certainly written in 1596, though never printed till 1633. In it Spenser is speaking chiefly, but not
exclusively, as a civil servant and supporter of Lord Grey "... The prose, despite a few vivid phrases, is
drab ... yet his essay will always have a certain interest not only for historians but for students of
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Spenser's poetry ... He loves Ireland strongly, in his own way, pronouncing Ulster `a most bewtiful and
sweete countrie as any is under heaven'. And he gives free rein to those antiquarian interests so
characteristic of his age" - C.S. Lewis.
51. CARLETON, William. Rody the Rover; or, The Ribbonmen. Dublin: James Duffy, 15
Wellington Quay, 1864. Sixth edition. pp. vii, 244. Green cloth, title blind-stamped on covers
within a garland of shamrocks and in gilt on spine. Very good. Scarce.
€45
Loeber C82 (First edition). Sadleir 515.
This is a re-issue of the 1845 first edition, also published by Duffy. Story addressed to Irishmen on the
evils of Ribbonism.
FAR FROM A JOYFUL OR BEAUTIFUL SPECTACLE
52. CARLYLE, Thomas. Reminiscences of My Irish Journey in 1849. With a preface by J.A.
Froude. London: Sampson Low, 1882. pp. vii, 263. Green buckram, title in gilt on spine. Light
foxing to prelims, otherwise a very good copy.
€235
This work was not intended for publication by the author, Thomas Carlyle, the noted essayist and
historian, as it was based on letters to his family but on the advice of J.A. Froude it was published. The
author travelled extensively throughout the country and for much of the journey was accompanied by
Gavan Duffy. "Have half forcibly recalled all my remembrances, and thrown down on paper since my
return. Ugly spectacle: sad health: sad humour: a thing unjoyful to look back upon. The whole country
figures in my mind like a ragged coat; one huge beggar's gabardine, not patched or patchable any
longer: far from a joyful or beautiful spectacle".
53. CASEMENT, Roger. Some Poems of Roger Casement. With portrait frontispiece. Dublin:
The Talbot Press, & London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1918. Sq. 8vo. pp. xviii, 26. Original illustrated
wraps. A very good copy. Scarce.
€375
COPAC locates 8 copies only.
Roger Casement (1864-1916), was born in Sandycove, Dublin. Both his parents died when he was
young and he was raised by an aunt in Ulster and educated at Ballymena Academy. He was employed
in the British Consular Service from 1895 to 1913, from which position he exposed cruelties in the
Congo and on the rubber plantations of Brazil, where he was Consul-General. Knighted in 1911, a year
later he joined the Irish Volunteer movement. In 1914 after joining Sinn Féin, he went to Germany
looking for arms. In April 1916 the Germans despatched the 'Aud', with a cargo of arms to be landed
in Kerry for use in the Easter Rising. Casement followed in a submarine and landed on Banna Strand
where he was captured, taken to London and tried and hanged for high treason.
CASEMENT'S 'BLACK DIARIES'
54. [CASEMENT, Sir Roger] The Black Diaries. An account of Sir Roger Casement's life and
work with a collection of his diaries and public writings. Edited by Peter Singleton-Gates &
Maurice Girodias. Paris: Olympia Press, 1959. Special edition limited to 1,500 numbered copies.
Coloured maps on endpapers. Fine in d.j.
€225
Sentenced to death on a charge of high treason, Casement was hanged on August 3, 1916. He was a
victim of one of the most infamous machinations ever contrived; he was hanged, although it seemed
certain a reprieve would be granted, because his political enemies, aided and abetted by the British
Government, circulated copies (typed by Scotland Yard clerks) of diaries which appeared to reveal a
homosexual obsession. These were leaked in Britain and the U.S. to stop a campaign of clemency.
55. [CELTIC CHRISTMAS] A Celtic Christmas 1901. The Irish Homestead Christmas
Number. Illustrated. Dublin: Printed for the Irish Homestead Ltd., at the Sackville Press, 1901.
Folio. pp. i-iv, 28, v-viii. Very good in illustrated wrappers.
€235
The contents include: Illustration - The Heavenly Host. By Pamela Coleman Smith; Innisfail. By E.
Longworth Dames; The Singing Angels of the Nativity. By Edward Martyn; Cushlough. By L.
McManus; An Bás Dubh ar Mo Chroidhe. By Douglas Hyde; Lis An Doill. By Eva Gore-Booth; The
Little Green Linnet of Boe. By Seumas MacManus; The Ard Righ of Finbil. By Mary E.L. Butler,
illustrated by AE; Cocky's Prescriptions. By Jane Barlow; Four Lyrics. By J.K.M.; In Irish Ireland. By
The Honourable Mary Spring-Rice; A Nocturne. By Alice Milligan; The Solitary Fairy. By W. B.
Yeats, illustrated by AE; The Awakening of Brian Joyce. By Father O'Donovan; Mountain Poppies. By
Eva Gore-Booth; Mickey the Tolls. By Mrs. L. Leared, illustrated by the author. An Grugach Uasal. By
Lady Gregory, with music, illustrated by Jack B. Yeats; Song. By AE; The Fairy and the Gnome.
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By M.G. Brereton; The Seven Men of Meenacalliay. By Seumas MacManus; Our Itinerant Instructors.
By Bryan Gilligan; The Marrying of Barney Maguire. By K.F. Purdon; Editorial Note; The Love
Talker. By Eithna Carbery. Special Illustrated Art Supplement in Colours, by Jack B. Yeats "Midsummer Eve" (loosely inserted). The Irish Homestead was founded by A.E. to spread the gospel
of the cooperative movement among Irish small farmers. Its regular contents were necessarily practical
in tone and subject matter. The series of special Christmas numbers was on a different level, featuring
the work of the best writers and illustrators of the Irish revival. The quality is very high, and much of
the work was not republished elsewhere. Copies in good condition are very rare
56. [CELTIC CHRISTMAS] A Celtic Christmas 1903.Irish Homestead Christmas Number.
Illustrated. Dublin: Printed for the Irish Homestead Ltd., at the Sackville Press, 1903. Folio. pp. ivi, 24, vii-xii. Very good in illustrated wrappers.
€235
The contents include: A Settled Girl. By K.F. Purdon, illustrated by Jack B. Yeats; The Old Brocade.
By M.G. Brereton; The Tale of a Tourist; Peace. By Eva Gore-Booth; The Grey Dusk. By Seumas
O'Sullivan; The Winter of Age. By Lady Gregory; Homeless; The Vanishing of the Sidhe. By Alice L.
Milligan; The Gates of Faery. By Paul Gregan; Her Little White Cow. By Florence L. Wilson; Flower
o' Gold. By Florence M. Wilson, illustrated by Miss Pamela Coleman Smith; Lament of the Daughters
of Erin. By Eva Gore-Booth; The Victor. By Mary E. L. Butler; The Silly Trewn. By Seumas
MacManus; Down the Long Boreen. By E. Longworth Dames, illustrated by AE; Autumn. By T.
Koehler; The Loan of a Pencil. By Jane Barlow; A Drover. By Padraic MacCormac Colm; The Queen,
Golden Flaming. By Lily MacManus, illustrated by AE; Rainn Bheaga. By An Craoibhin Aoibhinn. Trí
Neithe, Findabair. By Eila Oge; The Prisoner of Love. By George Roberts; Grey. By Alberta V.
Montgomery; Unto This Last. By M.G. Brereton; The Living Chalice, illustrated by AE; The Voice of
One; Jeanie Reanie's Foolish Fowls. By Seumas MacManus, illustrated by Mrs. Jack Yeats
Folio. pp. i-vi, 25, vii-xi. Very good in illustrated wrappers.
€235
The contents include: Cradle Song. By Padraic Colm, illustrated by AE; An American Visitor. By K.F.
Purdon, illustrated by Jack B. Yeats; The Drowned Harp. By Jane Barlow; A School-Day Sketch. By
Alice L. Milligan; Supplication. By Thomas Keohler; The King and the Tinker. By Seosamh Mac
Cathmaoil, illustrated by Seaghan Mac Cathmaoil, music arranged by Herbert Hughes; The Obsession
of Sibb. By Lily McManus; A Health to the Birds. By Seumas MacManus; The Fish Dreamer. By E.
Longworth Dames, illustrated by AE; The Celtic Renaissance Birth-Day Book; The Coming of
Connlaoch. By Stephen Gwynn; Trinity. By S. O'Sullivan; The Portent. By Seumas O'Sullivan; Quiet.
By Eva Gore Booth; The Greenlands. By Susan L. Mitchell; Why Ghosts Walk in Boots. By Louise
Kenry, illustrated by Miss Pamela Coleman-Smith; Niamh. By Eila Oge; The Poet Alone. By John
Torrens; The Ballad of a King. By Florence M. Wilson; Dead Roses. By W. O'Leary-Curtis; A
Canadian Winter. By Douglas Hyde; Little Brother of the Rock. By Florence M. Wilson, illustrated by
AE; A Bird of Paradise. By M. G. Brereton; The Cramary Openin' Day. By Bryan Gilligan.
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Folio. pp. i-vi, 26, vii-x. Very good in illustrated wrappers.
€235
The contents include: The Cold Women. By Nora Chesson, illustrated by Pamela Coleman Smith; The
Furry Farm. By K.F. Purdon, illustrated by Jack B. Yeats; The Call. By Laon; The Phantom Ship. By
Alice Milligan; Succour. By Thomas Keohler; The Light in the Valley. By Michael Manning; A
Prelude. By Seumas O'Sullivan; Recollection. By Edith Wheeler; Ballads of the Year 1905; In Quest of
Paradise. By Lily McManus; A Night Prayer. By Seosamh MacCathmhaoil; The First Sorrow of
Fergus. By Ethel Goddard, illustrated by Pamela Coleman Smith; The Terrible Robber-Men. By
Padraic Colm; The Gates of Dreamland. Words by AE., arranged for Irish harp by C. Milligan Fox; A
Long Holiday. By Jane Barlow; The Schoolmaster. By Seumas MacManus; The Countess and the
Chairwoman. By Edward McNulty; Ireland. By Susan L. Mitchell, illustrated by AE; An Old Viking.
By Ella Young; The Dark Shepherd. By Florence M. Wilson; The Climbers. Poem and illustration by
AE; An Bhan Aodhaire; The Girdle of Colman MacDuagh. By Mary Butler; The Seeding Song. By S.
MacCathmhaoil; The Roman Road. By Rachel Armand Taylor; An Emigrant. By W.T. Trench.
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Folio. pp. i-vi, 26, vii-x. Very good in illustrated wrappers.
€235
The contents include: Frolic. By AE, illustrated by AE; On His Own Confession. By Jane Barlow; A
Dream. By S.L.M., illustrated by AE; How Larry came back to Passage. By Michael A. Manning; For
the Famine of your Houses. By George A. Birmingham, illustrated by Jack B Yeats; The Egoist. By
Alice Milligan; The Dream of a Dead Lover. By Ella Young; The Game Leg. By K.F. Purdon; Eilis.
By Padraic Colum; In Tenebris. By Seosamh MacCathmhaoil, illustrated by Pamela Coleman Smith;
The Spirit of the Flowers. By Mary Butler; Adhna. By Lily M'Manus, illustrated by AE; Epitaph. By
Thomas Keohler; The Far-Shee. By the late Norah Chesson; The Shannon at Foynes. By T.W.
Rolleston; The Wishing Well. By Louise F. Kenny; Religio Feminae. By Seumas O'Sullivan; The
Prayer of a Pagan Priest. By Thomas Keohler; The Years Passing. By Florence Wilson; The Moon
Rainbow. By E. Longworth Dames; At the Sea-Foot. By Seosamh MacCathmhaoil; Quatrains. By
O'Leary Curtis.
Illustrated. Folio. pp. i-vi, 26, vii-x. Very good in illustrated wrappers.
€235
The contents include: The Finding of the Táin. By Laon; The Chiefs of the Air. By A.E.; Saints and
Scholars. By George Birmingham; Hope. By Thomas Keohler; De Profundis. By Seamas Ó Conghaile;
The Fall of Barbulkund. By Lord Dunsany; Immortality. By Susan Mitchell; To - . By W. Curtis;
Comrade Children at the Furry Farm. By K. F. Purdon; The Awful Wheel. By Theo Hannay; On
Lisnadara. By Jane Barlow; The Race from Naas. By Louise Kenny; Achievement. By Ella Young;
The Worm. By Fanny Johnson; The Birth of the Kings. By E.L. Dames; Druim-Ceat, A.D. 573. By
Lily McManus; the Return of Deirdre. By Ethel C. Davidson.
Folio. pp. i-vi, 27, vii-ix. Very good in illustrated wrappers.
€235
The contents include: A Want-Wit. By Jane Barlow, illustrated by A.E.; The Banquet. By G.
Birmingham, illustrated by Jack Yeats; Pollnaveigh. By F. Davidson; Poltarnees, Beholder of Oceans.
By Lord Dunsany, illustrated by AE; Christmas. By Susan L. Mitchell; The Tryst. By E. L. Dunes; On
The Stray. By K.F. Purdon, illustrated by AE; Praise. By Thomas Keohler; A Madonna. By Seumas
O'Sullivan, illustrated by Beatrice Elvery; A Fool's Song. By Ella Young; The Passing of the King. By
Lily McManus; Windy Corner. By James Stephens; Herself and the Leprechaun. By F. Davidson; Tir
na n-Og. By Jane G. Mitchell, illustrated by AE; Symbols. By W. O'Leary Curtis; A Shamrock. By
W.G. Johnstone; The Coming of Death. By V. Russell; The Lament of Thomas Laidir. By Alice
Milligan; The Vigil. By W.E. Johnstone; The Ninth Day. By F. O'Neill Gallagher; A Walpurgis Night.
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62. [CELTIC CHRISTMAS] The Irish Homestead. A Celtic Christmas 1910. Special Double
Folio. pp. [1033], 1034-1064. Very good in printed wrappers.
€235
The contents include: The Unworthy Princess. By James Stephens, illustrated by Jack B. Yeats; A
Ballad of China Tea. By Shane Leslie; The Hosting of Slieve-na-Man. By Violet Russell; Irritation. By
J. Crawford Neil; The Vision of Aedh. By Lily McManus; The Master. By M.E. Kennedy; The
Witchery Ladder. By K.F. Purdon; The Music of the Silence. By S.J.M.; That Understandin' Woman.
By J.G. Mitchell; Birth. By A.E.; Jim Glyn or Before and After. By O. Tipp. Etc.
63. CERRETI, Giovanni Battista. Histoire des on s e
a e es
le ons s la
Nature de ces Établissemens. Padoue: 1752. pp. xii, 153. Early owner's signature dated 1778 on
verso of titlepage. Armorial bookplate of Caroli Hoffmann, Bruxelles, on front pastedown. Cont.
full mottled calf. Spine gilt with title in gilt on red morocco letterpiece.
€675
Goldsmiths'-Kress 8726. OCLC 23611578. COPAC locates 5 copies only.
64. [CHAPBOOK] James Talbot; or, The Importance of Recollecting. "God sees me at all
times". Woodcut title and frontispiece. Dublin: Printed by Bentham and Hardy, Cecilia -street,
1826. 12mo. pp. 72. Superb copy in original stitched printed wrappers. Exceedingly rare. €475
Only 1 copy located on COPAC.
Chapbooks literally meant cheap books for mass circulation and were sold by 'Booksellers, Chapmen
& Hawkers in Town and Country', at the price of a halfpenny or a penny each, i.e. subsidised by the
Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts. This agency, it seems, had links with the
Association for the Discountenancing of Vice, an evangelical movement recently founded in Dublin to
counteract the circulation of Godless and subversive literature. Both organisations were inspired by the
success of Hannah More and her penny publications in England.
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65. [CHAPBOOK] Nature Displayed: Designed to Excite the Youthful Mind to Piety and
Virtue. Frontispiece. Dublin: Printed by Joseph Blundell, Great Britain-Street, 1828. 12mo. pp.
180. Owner's signature on f.f.e. Original sheep, gilt ruled and lettered spine.
€165
Freeman, British Natural History Books 278. COPAC locates 4 copies only.
Apparently, the only edition of this partial translation of J. F. Martinet's Katechismus der Natuur ,
Amsterdam, 1778-79 in the form of dialogues between a father and son. Astronomy, meteorology,
geology, land and water, anatomy, hearing and sound, are among the subjects discussed.
66. [CHAPBOOK] The Natural History of
Animals: containing an account of remarkable
beasts, birds, fishes, and insects. Dublin:
Smith & Son, Printers, Mary Street, 1822.
12mo. pp. vi, 180. Original sheep, title in gilt
on spine. Upper joint cracked but firm and
holding. Early signature of John J. Rutherford
on f.f.e. A very good fresh copy of an
extremely rare issue of this popular children's
book.
€375
COPAC locates the TCD copy only.
67. [CHAPBOOK] The Natural History of
Remarkable Insects, with their Habits and
Instincts. With frontispiece and woodcuts.
Dublin: Printed by A. O'Neil, 17, Chancery Lane, 1822. 12mo. pp. viii, 169. Original sheep, gilt
ruled and lettered spine. Binding rubbed and a little worn but sound, top of spine chipped. A very
good copy in original state. Very rare.
€165
Perhaps the second edition: there was another in 1819, printed for William de Veaux, but apparently
none earlier than that. The illustrations include a full-page woodcut of a flea, copied from Hooka's
celebrated picture in Micrographia .
68. CHART, D.A. Ed. by. The Register of John Swayne. Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of
Ireland 1418-1439. With some entries of earlier and later Archbishops. Belfast: H.M.S.O., 1935.
Roy. 8vo. pp. xvi, 235. Very good. Scarce.
€95
69. CHATTERTON, Lady. Rambles in the South of Ireland during the year 1838. With eight
lithographic plates and numerous engravings. Two volumes. London: Saunders, 1839. Second
edition. pp. (1) xi, 312, (2) iv, 305, 2. Spine neatly rebacked in qtr. on original cloth with a gilt
harp on all covers. Very good. Scarce.
€375
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Lady Henrietta Chatterton (1806-76), author, was born in Piccadilly, the only child of Rev. Lascelles
Iremonger, prebendary of Winchester. She married in 1824 Sir William Abraham Chatterton, of Castle
Mahon, Co. Cork. The Great Famine deprived them of rents from their estate and they retired to
England. After his death in 1855, she married secondly Edward Heneage Dering, retired Coldstream
Guards officer. Shortly after their marriage Dering was received into the Catholic church and was
followed ten years later by Lady Chatterton. A prolific writer of wide interests with over thirty
publications to her credit, Cardinal Newman praised the refinement of thought in her later works. Her
high moral standards and her desire to do good are reflected in her writings. Lady Chatterton's heartfelt
enthusiasm is evident as she discovers the hidden delights of counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick and Clare.
In the advertisement she acknowledges the kindness of Mr. Crofton Croker for historical material, and
states: "My principal object in publishing this book is to endeavour to remove some of the prejudices
which render so many people afraid either to travel or reside in Ireland ... and to furnish the most
decided proofs that a tour in some of its wildest districts may be keenly enjoyed by an Englishwoman".
The work is enhanced by a series of delightful plates: Sugar-Loaf Mountain, Bantry Bay; Near
Adrigoil; Castletown to Glengarriff; Mines of Allihes; Darrynane Abbey; Mitchelstown Castle;
Kingston Caves; Quin Abbey, and St. Dominick's Friary. Elmes & Hewson, lists 7 lithographs only.
70. CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer. Illustrated after drawings
by W. Russell Flint. London: The Medici Society, 1929. pp. xiii, 637. Recent half blue morocco
on marbled boards. Spine decorated in gilt. T.e.g. A fine copy.
€295
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the
end of the 14th century. The tales (mostly written in verse although some are in prose) are presented as
part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from
Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The prize for this contest is a
free meal at the Tabard Inn at Southwark on their return.
After a long list of works written earlier in his career, including Troilus and Criseyde, House of Fame,
and Parliament of Fowls, the Canterbury Tales was Chaucer's magnum opus. He uses the tales and the
descriptions of its characters to paint an ironic and critical portrait of English society at the time, and
particularly of the Church. Structurally, the collection resembles The Decameron , which Chaucer may
have read during his first diplomatic mission to Italy in 1372.
71. CHERRY, Richard R. Ed. by. The Irish Land Law and Land Purchase Acts, 1860 to 1891,
together with the Rules and Forms issued under each Act. Edited, with notes of all cases decided
under each section and rule, and an appendix of statutes incorporated, and referred to in the notes,
by Richard R. Cherry, Barrister-at-Law, Reid Professor of Constitutional and Criminal Law in
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the University of Dublin; assisted by John Wakely and J.W. Brady Murray, Barristers-at-Law.
Second edition. Dublin: John Falconer, 53, Upper Sackville-Street, 1893. pp. xxxi, 769, [6
(publisher's list)]. Ex. lib. with stamp. Very good.
€175
72. [CIVIL WAR] On the Proper Shoulders. [Quotation from President Cosgrave]. In view of
the repeated and determined attempts to saddle the Provisional Government with the ENTIRE
responsibility for the war, a perusal of the following should be instructive. S.n. (1922). pp. 8.
Stapled wrappers. Much worn, but scarce.
€235
Verbatim transcript of portions of a House of Commons debate, June 26th 1922, implying British
pressure on the Free State government to attack the Four Courts.
73. CLAYTON, John. A Sermon Preach'd at St Michan's Church in Dublin, February the 23d
1700. Upon Receiving into the Communion of the Church of England ... Sir Terence MacMahon
... and Christopher Dunn, Converts from the Church of Rome. Wherein is an Account also of a
late Controversie betwixt the Author and some Romanists. By John Clayton, Praebendary of St.
Michan's. Dublin: Printed by Joseph Ray, and are to be Sold at his Shop in Skinner-Row, over
against the Tholsel, [1700]. 4to. pp. [iv], 20. Recent qtr. morocco on maroon buckram.
€685
Wing C 4609A. Sweeney 1075. ESTC R37725 records the Armagh, NLI and TCD copies in Ireland.
The preacher was rector of Crofton and prebendary of St Michan's and also included is an account "of a
late controversie, betwixt the author and some Romanists".
SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF 100 COPIES
74. CLIFFORD, Sigerson. Travelling Tinkers. Ballads. Drumcondra: The Dolmen Press, 1951.
Sm. 4to. pp. [vii], 22, [1]. Blue printed wrappers. Edition limited to 500 copies. Signed
presentation copy from the author to Seamus Fenton "Best and true friend of the bards", dated
15/9/51. A fine copy. Rare.
€385
Miller 1. Second printing of the first Dolmen publication. The first book by The Dolmen Press, issued
from Sion Hill House, Drumcondra. A small collection of ballads about Ireland's 'travelling people'
published on Gathering Day of Puck Fair, 1951. The establishing of the press and their first publication
was received with such enthusiasm that the little book sold out in a couple of weeks. This
encouragement resulted in the Dolmen Press continuing with publishing and they went on to be one of
Ireland's greatest printing houses.
75. COFFEY, Brian & DEVLIN, Denis. Poems. Dublin: Printed for the Authors by Alex
Thom, September 1930. pp. 23. Printed wrappers. Some minor spotting, otherwise a very good
copy.
€175
Brian Coffey (1905-1995) poet and scientist, was born in Dun Laoghaire. He lived in Paris in the
1930's, where he was influenced by the surrealists. He was close friend of Denis Devlin, and along with
Thomas MacGreevy and Samuel Beckett, one of an Irish modernist group of poets who are often seen
as providing a vision that stood in contrast to the work of Yeats, Clarke, and Kavanagh.
Contains nine poems by Brian Coffey and four poems by Denis Devlin.
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76. [COLLINS & GRIFFITH] Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins. A Pictorial History. Cover
illustration by Harry Clarke. Numerous other plates. Dublin: Martin Lester, Ltd., n.d. (1922). 4to.
First edition, first issue. pp. 62. Original illustrated wrapper. A very good copy. Scarce.
€375
Steenson B39.a.
Contributions by Beaslai, O'Higgins, A.S. Green, MacNeill. With General Mulcahy's oration at Collins'
graveside.
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77. [COLLINS, Michael] Two Years of English Atrocities in Ireland. Dublin: Published for Dail
Eireann, n.d. (1919). pp. 64. Stapled wrappers. Very good.
€375
Carty 979, points out that accounts presented to Dail Eireann in 1919 by Michael Collins include £190
for "half cost of printing the Atrocities pamphlet". Collins may have supplied some of the detailed
reports included. Important work, including very detailed lists of Irish people jailed, detained or
deported for nationalist activities.
78. COLLINS, John. A Plea for the bringing in of Irish Cattel, and keeping out of Fish caught
by Foreigners: Together with an humble Address to the Honourable Members of Parliament of
the Counties of Cornwal and Devon, about the Advancement of Tin, Fishery, and divers
Manufactures. By John Collins, Accomptant to the Royal Fishery Company. E Reg. Soc.
Philomath. London: Printed by A. Godbid and J. Playford, and are Sold by Langely Curtis in
Goat-Court on Ludgate-Hill, 1680. 4to. pp. [iv], 38.
€875
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Wing C 5379. Sweeney 1126. ESTC R18891.
The author was the "Accomptant to the Royal Fishery Company" and apart from the general argument
he also offers "an humble Address to the Honourable Members of Parliament of the Counties of
Cornwal and Devon, about the advancement of Tin, Fishery and divers Manufactures". In his opening
address to the reader Collins reports that "The Royal Fishery Company having lost a stock of 11000l.
chiefly by reason six of their seven Doggers (whereof three were new built) together with their ladings,
were taken in 1676 by the French, were forced in July last to sell their Vessels and stores to One Mr
Benjamin Watson, Merchant." Near the end is to be found a reprint of a broadside by Sir William Petty
under the title "Some of the observations made by W.P. upon the trade of Irish Cattel". The original
was described as a lost broadside until recent times. Now however Wing locates two copies.
79. COLUM, Padraic. Broad-Sheet Ballads being a Collection of Irish Popular Songs.
Frontispiece by Jack B. Yeats. Dublin: Maunsel, n.d. [1913]. pp. xvi, 76. Green cloth, title in gilt
on upper cover and spine. Fine.
€75
SIGNED LIMITED EDITION
80. COLUM, Padraic. Three Men. London: Elkin, Mathews & Marrot, 1930. First edition. pp.
36. Edition limited to 530 numbered copies, signed by the author. Qtr. linen on illustrated paper
boards. Title and author on rectangular label on upper cover. Minor wear to corners, otherwise a
very good copy. Very good.
€235
SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
81. COLUM, Padraic. Three Plays. The Land, Thomas Muskerry, The Fiddler's House. Dublin:
Allen Figgis, 1963. Sm. octavo. pp. [iv], 188. Black buckram, title in gilt on spine. Signed
presentation inscription copy from the author: 'For the son of a fine folklorist/ Henry Morris/
Padraic Colum'. Very good in d.j.
€125
SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
82. COLUM, Padraic. Wild Earth. A Book of Verse. Dublin: Maunsel, 1907. First edition. pp.
[vi], 39, + errata. Signed by the author on f.f.e. Ex lib. with stamps. Very good in qtr. linen on
brown paper boards.
€145
Padraic Colum (1881-1972) was a poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer and collector of folklore. He
was one of the leading figures of the Celtic Revival. He was born in a County Longford workhouse
where his father worked. In 1911, with Mary Gunning Maguire, a fellow student from UCD, and David
Houston and Thomas MacDonagh, he founded the short-lived literary journal The Irish Review, which
published work by Yeats, George Moore, Oliver St John Gogarty, and many other leading Revival
figures. This was Padraic Colum's first collection and includes most of his best-known poems.
83. CONNELL, K.H. Irish Peasant Society. Four Historical Essays. With illustrations and maps.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968. pp. xiv, 167. Blue linen, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy
in frayed d.j.
€135
These collected essays deal with the social aspects of Irish peasant life largely overlooked by
historians: Illicit Distillation; Illegitimacy before the Famine; Ether-Drinking in Ulster; Catholicism
and Marriage in the Century after the Famine.
84. CONNELLAN, Owen. Translated by. The Annals of Ireland, Translated from the Original
Irish of the Four Masters. With annotations by Philip MacDermot, Esq. and the translator.
Coloured half-title and large folding clan location map. Dublin: Bryan Geraghty, 1846. Th. 4to.
Bound by Wilson in cont. full green morocco. Covers framed by double gilt fillets enclosing an
elaborately tooled centre to a floral design. Spine divided into five compartments by four gilt
raised bands, title in gilt direct in the second the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner
design; board edges and turn-ins gilt. A.e.g. A very attractive copy.
€1,650
Owen Connellan (1797-1871), the distinguished Gaelic scholar was born in the Barony of Tireragh,
County Sligo. It would appear that he received a good education in his youth, embracing a detailed
study of ancient Irish manuscripts and comprehensive training in penmanship. He worked in the
Library of the R.I.A. where for twenty years he transcribed from the ancient annals, editing texts, and
producing grammars, under the patronage of Sir William Betham, Ulster King-at-Arms. When King
George IV visited Ireland in 1822 he appointed Owen his Irish Historiographer-Royal. His copies of
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The Book of Ballymote and The Book of Lecan are part of the R.I.A. collection.
Connellan was a founder member of the Ossianic Society and was occupant of the first Chair of Irish in
the newly established Queen's College, Cork. His most important contribution to Gaelic scholarship
was the present work Annals of Ireland , covering the period 1171 to 1616, which was the first
translation from the Irish of that section of the Annals of The Four Masters. He spent many years
working on this and was helped occasionally by the eccentric James Clarence Mangan who phrased
part of the translation "in eloquent and glowing English".
An important translation with emphasis on historical and genealogical records of the chief tribes and
septs in ancient Ireland.
85. [CONNOLLY, James] Connolly of Ireland, Patriot and Socialist. By Dr. Noëlle Davies.
Caernarfon: 1946. pp. 59. Owner's signature on titlepage. Illustrated wraps. Very good. Scarce.
€145
Short biography, introducing Connolly's ideas to Welsh socialists.
RARE FIRST EDITION - SEAN MILROY'S COPY
86. CONNOLLY, James. Labour in Irish History. Dublin: Maunsel, 1910. First edition. pp. xvi,
216. Sean Milroy's copy with his signature in pencil on titlepage, also two sketches and some
annotations most probably by him. Blue cloth gilt. A very good copy.
€475
Sean Milroy (1877-1946) Politician and revolutionary was born in Maryport, Cumberland, and was a
journalist by profession. He became acquainted with Arthur Griffith and remained a close friend and
political ally. A member of the Sinn Fein Executive he became an Irish Volunteer, fought in the Easter
Rising and was imprisoned afterwards in England. He was arrested in April 1918 for his alleged part in
the 'German Plot'. He was deported and imprisoned in Lincoln Jail. He drew a cartoon of a man with a
key similar to that of the prison gate as part of the escape plan.
He escaped from Lincoln Jail with De Valera and Sean McGarry in the celebrated rescue organised by
Michael Collins. He supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty and voted in favour of it. He became a member
of Cumann na nGaedheal but left the party in 1924 along with seven other TDs in opposition to the
Government's actions over the so-called Irish Army Mutiny. He was elected a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála
(TD) at the 1921 elections for both the Cavan constituency and for the Fermanagh and Tyrone
constituency. He contested the June 1927 general election unsuccessfully. In later years, he made up
with his former colleagues and was elected to Seanad Éireann, serving for both Cumann na nGaedheal
and later for Fine Gael from 1928 until the Free State Seanad was abolished in 1936. He was re-elected
to the new Seanad following the 1937 general election but failed to be re-elected following the 1938
general election.
FIRST EDITION OF CONNOLLY'S LAST MAJOR WORK
87. CONNOLLY, James. The Re-Conquest of Ireland. With AE's Open Letter 'To the Masters
of Dublin' (appendix, reprinted from the Irish Times). Dublin: Published at Liberty Hall, 1915.
First edition. pp. (iv), 64. Tall octavo. Red pictorial wrappers with elaborate heraldic Celtic
design. Small piece torn from fore-edge and top of rear wrapper. Rebacked. A clean very good
copy of this very rare item.
€375
O'Hegarty 9. Not in Carty.
James Connolly (1868-1916), was born in Edinburgh of Monaghan parents. Ex British Army, he
married a Wicklow lass, came to Ireland in 1896 and founded The Worker's Republic, the first Irish
socialist newspaper. Connolly organised, trained and was Commandant of the Irish Citizen Army.
When the secret military council of the I.R.B. called for an armed rising in 1916, he was part of the
organising team along with Pearse and McDonagh. He commanded the volunteers in the G.P.O. on
Easter Monday and he was one of the seven signatories of the Irish Proclamation. During the action in
the G.P.O. he was badly wounded. Captured and court-martialled, he was executed by firing squad in
Kilmainham on May 9th, 1916, while tied to a chair as he could not stand. His writings are an
invaluable source on the labour movement in Ireland. Connolly's political testament, bringing Labour
in Irish History up to date, and charting a course for Labour in the building of Irish independence. The
last substantial work he completed before the 1916 Rising and his execution.
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88. [CONNOLLY, James] The Tragedy of James Connolly. By Rev. Denis Fahey. Maria
Regina Series no. 6. Cork: Forum Press, 1947. First edition. (Dublin printed). pp. 50. Printed
stapled wrappers.
€125
With Imprimatur of the Bishop of Cork.
Forceful essay, setting out 'the opposition between the philosophy accepted by James Connolly,
namely, that of Karl Marx, and Our Lord's Programme for order.' Fr. Fahey was founder of the Maria
Duce movement.
89. CONWAY, Patrick. Captain Robert Charles Halpin, and The Atlantic Telegraph. Extract
from Wicklow Regatta Programme , August 1945. Illustrated. pp. 2-19. Disbound.
€15
Captain Robert Halpin was master of the 'Great Eastern' which laid the first successful transatlantic
cable in 1866.
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90. CONWELL, Eugene A. Discovery of the Tomb of Ollamh Fodhla. Ireland's famous
Monarch and Lawmaker upwards of three thousand years ago. With fifty-six illustrations and list
of subscribers. Dublin: McGlashan & Gill, 1873. pp. x, 69, [2] + corrigenda. Ex lib. with stamps.
Worn green cloth, title in gilt on rebacked spine. T.e.g. Internally very good.
€135
With one page list of subscribers.
91. COOKE, Thomas Lalor. The Early History of the Town of Birr, or Parsonstown with the
particulars of remarkable events there in more recent times. Also the towns of Nenagh, Roscrea,
Banagher, Tullamore, Philipstown, Frankford, Shinrone, Kinnetty, and Ballyboy, and the ancient
septs, princes, and celebrated places of the surrounding country. With photographic frontispiece
of the author. Dublin: Robertson, 1875. pp. xxiv, 415. Green blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on
spine. Early owner's signature on f.f.e. Bookplate of Percy J. Paley of Castle Hackett on front
pastedown. A very good copy. Very rare.
€485
With a four page list of subscribers that included the Duke of Abercorn; Cardinal Cullen; Cardinal
Manning; the Duke of Devonshire; the Duke of Leinster; Sir Arthur Guinness; Sir Bernard Burke; Very
Rev. Charles Vignoles; Capt. J. Eyre; Rev. S. Hayman; William O'Connor Morris; Jonathan Pim;
Laurence Waldron, etc.
92. COOKE, Thomas Lalor. The Early History of the Town of Birr, or Parsonstown with the
particulars of remarkable events there in more recent times. Also the towns of Nenagh, Roscrea,
Banagher, Tullamore, Philipstown, Frankford, Shinrone, Kinnetty, and Ballyboy, and the ancient
septs, princes, and celebrated places of the surrounding country. Birr: "Offaly Chronicle" Printing
Works, n.d. pp. xiv, 154 (double column). Embossed stamp on upper cover. Occasional light
browning. Very good in original wraps with repair to spine. Scarce.
€275
93. COPPARD, A.E. The Man from Kilsheelan. A Tale by A.E. Coppard with a Woodcut by
Robert Gibbings and a Foreword by the author. Being No. 3 of the Furnival Books. London:
Jackson, 1930. pp. 38. Edition limited to 500 signed copies only for sale, printed at the Chiswick
Press. Bookplate of Anthony John Poucher. Blue buckram gilt, spine faded. Very good.
€165
ROYAL UNIVERSITY COURSE
94. COSGRAVE, E. MacDowel. The
en s o an .
l n ann n
Co.
a ons ee ohn al one
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lle-s ee
on on a ll e, Tindall, & Cox., 1885. pp.
[8], [1] 2-93, [1]. Signed presentation copy from the author to Dr. Falkiner dated Feb. 1885.
Spine expertly rebacked. Illustrated boards, faded and worn. Rare.
€295
THE ABOMINATIONS OF DERRYCOOSH
95. COULTER, Henry. The West of Ireland: its Existing Condition, and Prospects. Illustrated
with thirty-four lithographic plates (some coloured) and folding map. Dublin: Hodges & Smith,
1862. pp. xii, 372, 20 (Adverts). Recased. Occasional light foxing to some plates, otherwise a
very good copy. Scarce.
€675
This work contains the letters of the special correspondent of Saunders' News-Letter from the West of
Ireland, in relation to the condition and prospects of the people, consequent upon the partial failure of
agricultural produce. Travelling extensively throughout the western seaboard counties from Clare to
Galway, Mayo through Sligo and up to Donegal he gives a graphic description of the social condition
of the peasantry, state of the country, workhouses, distress of the small-holders, liberality of the local
gentry and landlords, Castlebar and 'Gombeen' Men, emigration, fisheries, etc. On his way from
Westport to Castlebar he passed through the village of Cloonkeen: "There are many instances,
however, of lands being held in rundale on joint lease where the tenants have been comfortable and
os e o s … Cloon een a llage on o
an's estate, is an example of this kind. It goes by the
soubriquet of 'Cabbage Town', from the immense quantity of that excellent vegetable cultivated there;
but the inhabitants are not pleased at the name, and any stranger who ventured to utter aloud the
obnoxious epithet in the hearing of the villagers would probably find himself assailed with a shower of
cabbage-stalks". The tenant farmers here kept a large number of milch cows, and carry on a most
profitable trade by supplying the towns with milk, butter, and cabbage. "There is another rundale
village, called Derrycoosh, about three miles from Castlebar, on the Newport road, which exhibits in an
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exaggerated form all the characteristics of the village I have just described. The cottages are built most
irregularly, here, there, and everywhere – some parallel with the road, others at right angles with it. The
walls are black, green, and brown – in short, every colour but white; there is scarcely a clean thatch to
be seen; every cabin has its pond of liquid and its heap of solid manure directly opposite and within a
few feet of the door; the road through the village is ankle deep in mud; and pigs, poultry, and children
are to be seen running about in every direction. Words fail to convey an adequate idea of the filthy and
disorderly appearance which this village presents. So bad it is, that a road is actually in course of
construction for the purpose of avoiding the abominations of Derrycoosh".
SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF 50 COPIES ONLY
96. CRAIG, Maurice. Notes on my Books. Dublin: The DOVS, 2006. pp. 23. Edition limited to
50 copies only, numbered and signed by the author, binder and publisher. Quarter linen on blue
paper boards, title in black on upper cover and on paper label on spine. Rare.
€375
A fine limited edition set in Monotype hot-metal in 12 and 14 point Plantin by Con Devlin at the
National Print Museum and printed letterpress by Sean Sills at NCAD on Zerkall mould-made 210gsm
paper.
Maurice Craig (1919-2011) was born in Belfast and was educated at Castle Park, Dalkey and
Shrewsbury School before going on to Magdalene College, Cambridge and Trinity College, Dublin.
He has written on subjects as diverse as Irish book-bindings, biography, poetry, and topography, but it
is for his books on architectural subjects that he is best known. His seminal Dublin 1660 – 1860
appeared in 1952 and was followed by further ground-breaking works including Classic Irish Houses
of the Middle Size and The Architecture of Ireland from the Earliest Times to 1880.
Maurice's interest in and understanding of architecture is apparent in his photography. Since first taking
up his camera in the 1940s Maurice has recorded buildings of all types and periods. He has an
instinctive ability to select what is important for one reason or another, be it unique, quirky or
vulnerable. This keen observation of architecture from the serious to the whimsical is tempered by wit
and humanity. Maurice's photographs convey a rich texture of time and place. They bring buildings and
streets alive, conveying the atmosphere of an Ireland of the past and a society now as radically altered
as many of the buildings themselves.
97. CREGAN, Mairín. Hunger-Strike. A play in two acts. Dublin: Gill, n.d. pp. 48. Fine in
printed wrappers.
€75
98. CROFTON, Mrs. William. Eight Views for the Benefit of the County Leitrim Protestant
Orphan Society. From the Original drawings by Mrs. William Crofton. With list of subscribers.
London : Ackermann & Co., [1854]. Oblong quarto. Blind-stamped olive green cloth with gilt
motif on upper cover. Spine expertly rebacked. Some mild foxing to plates (mainly to margins).
A very good copy. Exceedingly rare.
€1,650
COPAC locates the BL copy only. Not in Abbey.
Illustrated with eight tinted lithographs after drawings by Mrs. William Crofton. Printed by Day & Son,
Lithographers to Queen Victoria. The plates are in striking detail showing scenery chiefly of the Irish
country side, castles, abbeys and ruins.
The lithographs included are: View from Clooncaher of Lough Rynn and Lakefield, County Leitrim;
Ruins of Muckruss Abbey, Killarney; Monastery on Innisfallen Island, and Ross Castle, Killarney;
Castle Otway, County Tipperary, Residence of Captain Otway, R.N.; Dunbrody Abbey, County
Wexford; Pembroke Castle, South Wales; Isle of Portland, Dorsetshire; Village of Hambledon, Hants.
99. A COSMOPOLITE [S. Reynolds Hole] The Sportsman in Ireland. A new edition with
illustrations (some in colour) by P. Chenevix Trench. London: Edward Arnold, 1897. pp. xvii,
306. Cont. half vellum on blue marbled boards, title in gilt on calf label on spine. Black
endpapers. Tissue guards. T.e.g. A very good copy.
€275
This work contains lively descriptions of travel in search of sport, chiefly angling, in the West of
Ireland, interspersed with interesting and amusing anecdotes illustrating the character of the people and
the history of the districts visited. The illustrations admirably catch the spirit of the work, which forms
one of the most entertaining accounts of sport ever published.
100. CROKER, T. Crofton. Ed. by. Killarney Legends. A New Edition. Revised by T. Wright,
with an introduction by T.F. Dillon Croker. Illustrated. London: William Tegg and Co., 1879.
Second edition. pp. xvi, 287. Very good in original cloth gilt. Very scarce.
€165
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101. CROKER, Thomas Crofton. The Popular Songs of Ireland. Collected and edited, with
introduction and notes. Illustrated. London: Henry Colburn, 1839. First edition. pp. xix, [i], 340.
Cont. half calf on marbled boards. Early owner's signature on titlepage. An attractive copy. €235
Thomas Crofton Croker (1798-1854) a native of Cork, was one of the most celebrated of Irish
antiquaries, folklorists and collector of ancient Irish airs. He had but little education and at sixteen was
apprenticed to a firm of Cork Quaker merchants. From an early age he showed a great interest in
literature and antiquities and between 1812 and 1815 rambled about the south of Ireland collecting the
songs, legends, and traditions of the peasantry. He gave some ancient airs to Thomas Moore, who
afterwards invited him to England where he further developed in his literary career.
102. CRONIN, Anthony. Dead as Doornails. A chronicle of life. Dublin: Dolmen Press.
London: Calder & Boyars, 1976. First edition. pp. [vi], 201. Blue paper boards, title in gilt on
spine. Avery good copy with d.j.
€45
In this work the author tells of his association with such interesting characters as Patrick Kavanagh,
Brendan Behan and Myles na Gopaleen. Their paths crossed and re-crossed in the artistic Dublin of the
Fifties and Sixties. Cronin analyses and muses about them with a conversational ease that is irresistible.
Comedy mixes with deep understanding is a rare sort of critical biography, which is among the best of
its kind.
103. CRONIN, Anthony. Heritage Now. Irish Literature in the English Language. Dingle:
Brandon, 1982. pp. 214, 1. Brown paper boards. Fine in d.j.
€45
104. CRONIN, Anthony. The Life of Riley. "A comic triumph" Dingle: Brandon, 1964. Second
edition. pp. 222. Brown paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in fine d.j.
€35
105. CRONNELLY, Richard F. Irish Family History: Being an Historical and Genealogical
Account of The Gaedhals, from the earliest period to the present time. Compiled from authentic
sources. Historical account of Clanna-Rory ... The Clan Eoghan or Eugenians ... The Dalcasians,
The Cianacht, or the Descendants of Cian, son of Oilioll Ollum, King of Munster. Compiled
from Ancient Records ... Four parts in one volume. Dublin: Printed for the author by N.H. Tallon
and Company; Sold by W.B. Kelly, Grafton Street, 1865. pp. 422. From the library of the Carroll
Institute with their neat stamp. Later half calf on linen boards. Spine gilt with title and author in
gilt direct. T.e.g. Light fading to spine and minor wear to corners. A very good copy. Rare. €575
With detailed accounts and pedigrees of the following Clans: Clanna Rory: The Magennises; The
O'Mores; The O'Cronnellys; The O'Dugans; The O'Morans; The O'Lennans; The O'Casans;
MacGowans or Smiths; MacWards; M'Scanlans; O'Kennys; O'Lawlors; O'Lynchs; O'Manions; The
Maginns; The MacColreavys or Grays; M'Cartans; O'Carelons; The O'Conors Kerry; O'Conors Corc;
O'Loghlens Burren; O'Kielys of West Connaught; MacShanleys; MacPriors; McFinvars or Gaynors;
M'Cormicks; M'Dorchys; M'Raghnaills or Reynolds; The O'Quinns; O'Mulveys; O'Neidhes;
O'Conarys; O'Diochallas; O'Maoletighs; M'Keoghs; O'Beices; M'Maolisas; O'Dugans; O'Coscridhs;
M'Rory or Rodgers; Corca Dallan; Corca Aulim; Dal Confinn; Ciarruighe Loch an Airneagh;
Ciarruighe Ae, or Ai, or Nao; Ciarruighe Airteach; Cinel Buine Gailenga; Ui Liodan; Owny; Deisceart;
Eoganacht aire Cliach; O'Drennans; M'Dubhains or Duans; The Irish Saints; The Irish Monarchs.
The M'Carthys; The Mac Carthys Mor; The Mac Carthys of Muskerry (Earls of Clan Carthy); Mac
Carthy of Carrignavar; Mac Carthy of Aglish; Mac Carthy of Cloghroe; Mac Carthy na Mona; The
Mac Donnell Carties; The Mac Carthy Reagh; Mac Carthy Duna; Mac Carthy of Ballynoodie; Mac
Carthy Glas; Mac Carthy Glas of Dunmanway; O'Keeffe; O'Keeffe of Ballymacquirk; Mac Auliffe;
O'Donoghue of Kerry; O'Donoghue of Cashel; The O'Donoghues of Ossory; O'Collins; O'Connell;
O'Daly; O'Mahony; O'Callaghan; O'Callanan; O'Moriarty; O'Collins; O'Cullen; O'Sullivan; Mac
Gillicuddy; O'Quill; O'Riordan; O'Shea; O'Lyon; O'Cronan; O'Donovan.
The Dalcasians: O'Brien; The O'Briens of Ara; The O'Briens of Dough, Newtown and Ennistymon;
M'Lysaght; O'Ailche; O'Ahern; MacNamara; O'Gunning; O'Kennedy; O'Mara; MacBrody; O'Mulcahy;
Mac Einery; O'Liddy; O'Lenaghan; O'Lonergan; Mac Clancy or Clanchy; Mac Coghlan; Mac Curtin;
O'Grady; O'Morony; O'Molony; O'Griffin; O'Hanraghty; O'Hanrahan; O'Hehir; Mac Innerny;
O'Hartigan and O'Hardiman; O'Hickey; O'Hogan; O'Hurley; O'Hurley of Ballinacarrig; O'Hurley of
Tralee; O'Lynch; O'Casey; O'Cudihy; O'Connolly; O'Cormacan; O'Crotty; MacMahon; O'Lanigan;
O'Kirwan; Magrath; O'Neill; O'Dea; O'Spelman; O'Fogarty; O'Sheehan; O'Tuomy; O'Regan;
O'Kelleher; O'Shanahan; O'Hely, Healy and Halley; Mac Arthur; O'Sexton; O'Reidy; O'Slattery;
O'Kearny or Kearney; O'Noonan; O'Quin; Mac Considine; O'Scully; O'Curry; O'Heffernan; O'Cahill;
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O'Hea; O'Finnellan; O'Gloran; O'Toler; O'Hanify. The Cianacht: O'Carroll; O'Meaghar; O'Gara;
O'Hara; O'Casey; O'Loughan; O'Hennesy; O'Breen; O'Connor; O'Corcoran and O'Flanagan.
Pedigrees of the Irian Saints of Erinn collected from the Yellow Book of Lecan , M'Firbis, and Colgan.
106. CUALA PRESS A Unique Collection of 33 Hand-Coloured Cuala Prints (1970s-1980s, and
earlier) From the library of its last proprietor, Anne Butler Yeats, in an album containing:
Mountain Farm, drawing by Jack B. Yeats; Prayer for a Little Child; An Old Woman for the
Roads with a verse by Padraic Colum; The Fairy Hill; Silver Apples, poem by W.B. Yeats; Let
Us Sing and Dance, drawing by Dorothy Blackham, words by James Stephens; The Fiddler of
Dooney, poem by W.B. Yeats; Rune of Hospitality, drawing by Jack B. Yeats; The Lake Isle of
Inisfree, poem by W.B. Yeats; To Travellers, drawing by Brigid O'Brien, words by Ruth Duffin;
Had I the Heavens Embroidered Clothes, poem by W.B. Yeats; A Little House, drawing by E.C.
Yeats, words by W.M. Letts; The Lover Tells of the Rose in His Heart, poem by W.B. Yeats;
The Wild Swans at Coole, poem by W.B. Yeats; Into the Twilight, poem by W.B. Yeats; A
Cradle Song, poem by W.B. Yeats, drawing by Jack B. Yeats; The Pity of Love, poem by W.B.
Yeats; The Lover Tells of the Rose, poem by W.B. Yeats; The Lover Pleads with His Friends,
poem by W.B. Yeats; A Nursery Song for Christmas Eve, poem by Susan L. Mitchell; A Shop in
Sailor Town by Jack B. Yeats; Heart's Desire, picture by S.G. Verschoyle, words by Eleanor
Sinclair; Ireland Oh Ireland!, poem by Stephen Gwynn; We Can Make our Minds so like Still
Water, poem by W.B. Yeats; The Rainbow, drawing by Cottie Yeats; A Little House, drawing by
E.C. Yeats, words by W.M. Letts; O, Wind, O, Mighty Melancholy Wind, by John Todd Hunter;
Be Glad of Life! Words by Henry Van Dyke; The Turf Cart; Come Gather Round Me Parnellites,
poem by W.B. Yeats, drawing by Jack B. Yeats; May - An Old Gaelic Blessing. Across the
Door, poem by Padraic Colum; Wise Small Birds, words by Monk Gibbon, drawing by E.C.
Yeats. The Wren Boys, drawing by Jack B. Yeats. The majority of the prints are mounted in a
large quarto album, bound in full green cloth, title in gilt on morocco label on upper cover.
Various sizes: 280 x 380mm.; 400 x 275mm.; 190 x 278mm.
€2,250
Anne Butler Yeats (1919-2001) painter and stage designer was a daughter of the poet William Butler
Yeats and a niece of Jack B. Yeats, niece of Lily Yeats an embroiderer associated with the Celtic
Revival, and watercolour artist Elizabeth Yeats. Her brother Michael Yeats was a politician.
She was born in Dublin, and trained in the Royal Hibernian Academy school from 1933-36. Anne
worked as a stage designer with the Abbey before taking up painting full-time in 1941. She designed
many of the covers for the books of Irish-language publisher Sáirséal agus Dill over a twenty-year
period from 1958. In 1969 the Cuala Press was re-started by W. B. Yeats' children, Michael and Anne
Yeats in association with Liam Miller. Some new titles were issued in the 1970s, and also prints which
were hand coloured by Anne. The press was originally founded by their aunts, Elizabeth Yeats and her
sister Lily. The Royal Hibernian Academy held a retrospective of Anne's work in 1995, as did the
National Gallery of Ireland in 2002. She donated her collection of Jack B. Yeats' sketch books to the
National Gallery, leading to the creation of the Yeats Museum within the Gallery. Her brother,
Michael, in turn, donated her sketchbooks to the Museum.
Provenance: Collection of Anne Yeats, last proprietor of the Cuala Press. A unique and beautiful item.
107. CULLEN, J. Howard. Leisure-Hour Musings. Dublin: M'Glashan & Gill, Belfast: J.
Magill, 1861. pp. 140. Printed within a framed border. Blind and gilt stamped. Olive green
cloth. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. No copy located on COPAC.
€475
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108. CUSACK, Ralph. Cadenza An Excursion. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1958. pp. 224. Blue
cloth. A very good copy in torn d.j.
€25
109. DALTON, Charles. With the Dublin Brigade (1917-1921). With frontispiece and folding
map. London: Davies, 1929. pp. 178. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Signed and dated by the
author on half-title. Spine evenly faded, otherwise a very good copy. Scarce.
€225
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SUPERB COPY
110. D'ALTON, Right Rev. Monsignor. History of the Archdiocese of Tuam. With folding map
of the diocese, and illustrations. Two volumes. Dublin: Phoenix, 1928. pp. (1) xv, 388, (2) xi,
379. Green cloth, title in blind on upper cover and in gilt on rebacked spines. T.e.g. A very good
set. Very scarce.
€550
The contents includes chapters on: Pre-Christian Times; The Introduction of Christianity; Early
Christian Times; During the Danish Wars; The First Archbishops; Tuam in the Thirteenth Century;
Irish and Anglo-Irish; The Fifteenth Century; The Reformation Period; Troubled Times; The
Suppressed Religious Houses; Under the Stuarts; O'Queely and De Burgo; The Penal Times; The
Dawn of Toleration; The Union Period; The Nineteenth Century; John McHale; The Famine and After;
Proselytism and Evictions; The Closing Years; The New Regime; The Twentieth Century; The Chapter
of Tuam; The Deanery of Ballinrobe; The Deanery of Castlebar; The Deanery of Claremorris; The
Deanery of Clifden; The Deanery of Tuam; The Deanery of Westport; Writers of the Archdiocese.
111. D'ARCY, Gordon. Birds at Lough Beg. Illustrated. Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1978. Sq.
8vo. pp. viii, 93. Fine in illustrated wrappers.
€30
112. D'ARCY, Gordon. Pocket Guide to The Birds of Ireland. With colour illustrations. Belfast:
Appletree Press, 1986. Tall slim octavo. pp. 72. Fine in illustrated wrappers.
€15
113. DAVIS, Eugene. Souvenirs of Irish Footprints over Europe. Illustrated. Dublin: The
Freeman's Journal, Reprinted from the "Evening Telegraph", n.d. (c.1888). pp. 140. Recent qtr.
morocco on marbled boards. A very good copy.
€125
With chapters on: Antwerp and its Irish Associations; The Old Irish College at Louvain - Irish
Refugees - Brother O'Clery; O'Sullivan from Kerry - The Chateau Caesar, once the home of Hugh
O'Neill; The Brussels Royal Library - A Collection of Jacobite Reliques - Murder of Bernard O'Neill;
The Town of Ypres - The Irish Benedictine Convent - Charles Lever in Belgium - Where Sarsfield
Died; The Irish College of Tournay - Feats of Irish Valour in Tourney; Illustrious Irishmen in Belgium
- The Plunketts and The O'Sullivans - General Thomas Preston; Irish Military Association in France Career of Count O'Connell; A Visit to Fontenoy; Father Arthur O'Leary; How O'Beirne saved Brisach 31
O'Moran from Elphin - Irish Exiles in Marlaix - O'Neills and O'Donnells in Rouen; Duns Scotus at the
Sorbenne - Keating, Mac Geoghegan - Gallant Count Lally Tollendal; Saint Germain - Richard
Brinsley Sheridan's Elopement with a Fair Singer; The Dillons in France - General Arthur O'Connor;
Wolfe Tone in Paris; Three Cork Painters in Paris - Barry, Maclise and Thaddeus - The Countess of
Blessington, etc.
114. DEANE, C. Douglas. Bird Watching in Northern Ireland. Illustrated. Belfast: Published by
the Northern Ireland Tourist Board, n.d. pp. 14. With author's inscription on upper cover. Fine in
€10
115. DE BEAUMONT, Gustave. Ireland: Social, Political, and Religious. Edited by W.C.
Taylor, LL.D. of Trinity College, Dublin. Two volumes. London: Richard Bentley, 1839. pp. (1)
vii, 382. (2) iv, 356, 4 (publisher's list). Very good in recent buckram. Very scarce.
€375
M. Gustave de Beaumont (1802-1865) was a French magistrate, prison reformer, and travel companion
to the famed philosopher and politician Alexis de Tocqueville. De Beaumont was a descendant of the
Bonin de la Bonnière family, who were originally from Touraine. After the French Revolution, the
family moved to the chateau de La Borde in the town of Beaumont-la-Chartre in the Loire Valley. He
became King's Prosecutor at the Tribunal de Première Instance at Versailles where he stood out from
other young magistrates by his eloquence and verve, which earned him an appointment at Paris in
September, 1829. In 1836 Gustave de Beaumont married Clémentine de Lafayette (the granddaughter
of the famous general). His second book, Ireland: Social, Political, and Religious, was the result of his
travels in Ireland in 1835 with his friend de Tocqueville, and a second trip in 1837 with his wife, and it
is in every way a remarkable work. The author gives an excellent historical introduction followed by
detailed accounts of the political condition of Ireland, with chapters on the religious wars, colonisation,
Penal Laws, effects of American Independence on Ireland, the Volunteer movement, insurrection of
1798, the Union, etc. Although Beaumont and de Tocqueville remained close friends, Beaumont was
forced financially to turn away from society and retire (along with his family) to his chateau de
Beaumont-la-Chartre. Nevertheless, he did not forget his best friend. He oversaw the release of de
Tocqueville's last book and was at his side when he died in 1859. Gustave de Beaumont died in March
1865 in Paris, the victim of an epidemic.
116. DE BLÁCAM, Aodh. Gaelic Literature Surveyed. Second and revised edition.
Frontispiece. Dublin: The Talbot Press Limited, n.d. pp. xvi, 390. Brown paper boards, title in
gilt on spine. Occasional light foxing, otherwise very good in d.j.
€45
The author seeks: "to describe Gaelic literature, its interest and its charm, as they appear to the
Irishman of today, and to supply a sort of chart of the literature surveyed, so that the reader will be able
to distinguish the different schools and movements of Irish letters".
117. [DECLARATION OF IRISH INDEPENDENCE] The Declaration of Independence.
Official English Translation. Historic Pronouncement of Ireland's Freedom from English Rule,
made at the First Meeting of DÁIL EIREANN (Ireland's Republican Parliament) in the Mansion
House Dublin on Tuesday January 21st 1919. Dublin: Published by Fergus O'Connor, 1919. Tall
octavo. three pages (single folded sheet printed on three sides). The typography is interesting,
including the use of antique types, and may reflect the influence of Colm O Lochlainn. Faint fold
mark, a few tiny spots, otherwise a very good clean copy of a very scarce document.
€675
Approved by vote of the First Dail on its first day of sitting, the Declaration ratifies the establishment
of the Irish Republic, and asks Almighty God for His Divine blessing 'on this the last stage of the
struggle which we have pledged ourselves to carry through to freedom'. It followed from the Sinn Féin
election manifesto of December 1918.
If the 1916 Proclamation is the founding document of Irish nationhood, the present Declaration is the
foundation stone of the modern Irish State. It was naturally suppressed by the British and RIC with
their usual energy, and is consequently very scarce.
The Irish Republic claimed to encompass the whole island of Ireland. The declaration made no mention
of the independence of the 32-county geographic island, just the independence of the 'Irish nation' or
'Irish people'.
118. DE LATOCNAYE, J.L.B. A Frenchman's Walk through Ireland 1796-7. Translated from
the French by John Stevenson. With an introduction by John A. Gamble. Belfast: Blackstaff
Press, 1984. pp. [vi], xiv, 287. Green paper boards. Very good in illustrated d.j.
€25
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TO THE TRENCHES WITH MUSIC
119. DE MONVEL (Roger Boutet) & ARNOUX (Guy). Le Bon Anglais. Text by de Monvel.
Images by Guy Arnoux. Paris: Chez Devambez, n.d. (c. 1918). Ob. 12mo. Colour pictorial
pochoir wrappers. Very good. Rare.
€165
With 12 charming hand-coloured pochoir page each with a matching page of text in English,
affectionately portraying the English allies. No 7 shows Les Irlandais: " They have songs. They cannot
help it. Therefore when they go to the trenches, they go with music ...".
"THERE IS NOT IN THIS WIDE WORLD A VALLEY SO SWEET"
120. DEMPSEY, Rev. P. Avoca. A History of the Vale. Illustrated. Second edition revised and
enlarged. With Illustration. Dublin: Browne & Nolan, 1913. pp. 110. Red faded cloth, title in gilt
on upper cover. A very good copy.
€75
A very good history of the Vale, where the sweet waters meet. The contents includes: Place Names;
Hotel Accommodation; Ecclesiastical Ruins; A Prelate's Cradle; The Parish; Minds; Scenery; The
Moor Memorial; Some Additional Information; Eugene O'Curry's Wicklow Letters, etc.
121. [DE VALERA, Eamon] President De Valera. Recent Speeches and Broadcasts. Dublin:
Talbot Press, 1933. pp. 61. Printed wrappers. A good copy.
€35
Carefully chosen selection showing De Valera in presidential mode, addressing Eucharistic Congress,
Assembly of League of Nations etc.
122. DEVLIN, Denis. The Heavenly Foreigner. Edited and introduced by Brian Coffey.
Illustrated. Dublin: Dolmen, 1967. Folio. pp. 71, [1]. Edition limited to 1,000 copies, signed by
Brian Coffey. Fine in frayed d.j.
€175
123. DICKSON, William Steele. A Narrative of the Confinement and Exile of William Steele
Dickson, D.D. Formerly Minister of the Presbyterian Congregations of Ballyhalbert and
Portaferry, in the County of Down and now of Keady in the County of Armagh. To which is
annexed, An account of an Assault committed on the Author, September 9th 1811, on his return
from the Catholic Meeting in the City of Armagh; with a sketch of proceedings consequent
thereon. Bound with an appendix: Three Sermons on the subject of Scripture Politics. Dublin:
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Printed for the Author by J. Stockdale, 1812. pp. [ii] 371, 118, + errata. Cont. half calf on
marbled boards. Spine expertly rebacked, preserving original. Very scarce.
€365
William S. Dickson (1744-1824) was born in Carnmoney, County Antrim, educated in Glasgow, where
he graduated as Doctor of Divinity in 1783. A strong supporter of the Volunteer movement he joined
the United Irishmen and was Adjutant-General for County Down in 1798. On the eve of the rebellion
he was arrested and later imprisoned in Fort George, Scotland, until 1802. He returned to Ireland and
ministered at Keady, County Armagh for thirteen years. He died in poverty in Belfast.
124. DIX, E.R. McClintock. An Early Dublin Almanack. Together with: On an Ogham
Inscription recently discovered in County Wicklow by R.A.S. Macalister. Together with:
Unpublished Letters of William Penn by Rev. R.H. Murray. Illustrated. Dublin: P.R.I.A., 1916.
pp. 225-240, [3 (plates)]. Very good in wrappers.
€35
PRINTING IN BELFAST
125. DIX, E.R. McClintock. Books and Tracts Printed in Belfast in the Seventeenth Century.
Dublin: P.R.I.A., 1916. pp. 73-80. Fine in wrappers.
€35
126. DIX, E.R. M'Clintock. Early Printing in Dublin in Foreign Types. Together with: William
Kearney, the second earliest known Printer in Dublin. Together with: Chemical Notes on a Stone
Lamp from Ballybetagh. By R.J. Moss. Together with: The Custom called Tolboll, 1308 and
1385. By H.F. Berry. Dublin: P.R.I.A., 1910. Sm. folio. pp. 149-173. Very good in printed
wrappers.
€45
127. DIX, E.R. McC. Irish Bibliographical Pamphlets. No. VI. A List of Irish Towns and the
Dates of the Earliest Printing in Each. Dublin: Corrigan & Wilson, 13 Sackville Place, 1909. 4to.
pp. [16]. Stapled sheets. In very good condition apart from rusty staples. Scarce.
€65
PRINTING IN CORK
128. DIX, E.R. McC. Pamphlets, Books, etc., Printed in Cork in Seventeenth Century. Dublin:
P.R.I.A., 1912. pp. 71-82. Fine in wrapper.
€35
129. DIX, E.R. McC. Printing in Cork in the First Quarter of the Eighteenth Century (17011725). Dublin: P.R.I.A., 1921. pp. 10-15. Fine in wrappers.
€35
PRINTING IN CORK
130. DIX, E.R. McC. Printing in Cork in the First Quarter of the Eighteenth Century (17011725). Together with: A Study of the Chronology of Bronze-Age Sculpture in Ireland. By l'Abbé
Breuil & R.A.S. Macalister. Dublin: P.R.I.A., 1921. pp. 15. Fine in wrappers.
€35
PRINTING IN WATERFORD
131. DIX, E.R. McClintock. Printing in the City of Waterford in the Seventeenth Century.
Dublin: P.R.I.A., 1916. pp. 333-344. Fine in wrappers.
€35
IRISH BIBLIOGRAPHY
132. DIX, E.R. McC. Tables relating to some Dublin Newspapers of the 18th Century. Shewing
what volumes, &c., of each are extant and where access to them can be had in Dublin. Dublin:
Hanna & Neale, 1910. 4to. pp. [i], 12. Printed green wraps. Very good. Scarce.
€45
133. DIX, E.R. McC. The First Printing of The New Testament in English at Dublin. Dublin:
P.R.I.A., 1911. pp. 179-185. Fine in wrappers.
€35
134. [DOBBS, Arthur] 'Curious in Everything'. The Career of Arthur Dobbs of Carrickfergus
1689-1765. Edited by D. Helen Rankin & E. Charles Nelson. With maps and illustrations.
Carrickfergus: Carrickfergus & District Historical Society, in association with Society for the
History of Natural History, 1990. Folio. pp. 37. Fine in illustrated stapled wrappers.
€45
Arthur Dobbs (1689-1765) was the eldest son of Richard Dobbs of Carrickfergus, County Antrim, who
was Sheriff of Antrim in 1694. He was a neighbour and friend of Jonathan Swift despite their political
differences. He became an engineer and Surveyor-General of Ireland, supervising the construction of
the Parliament House in Dublin, as well as other Irish public buildings. He was appointed High Sheriff
of Antrim in 1720 and in 1727 was elected Member of Parliament for Carrickfergus, a seat he held
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until 1760. In May 1741, following his advice, two vessels sailed to discover a north-west passage to
India, and during their voyage named a point of land on the north-west of Hudson's Bay, Cape Dobbs.
In 1745 Arthur Dobbs purchased 400,000 acres of land in North Carolina and encouraged settlement in
the colony, especially by Irishmen. In January 1753, he was appointed Governor of North Carolina, a
post he took up in the following year. He was a man of letters and of liberal views, and as a politician
adopted humane and conciliatory measures towards the Indian tribes.
135. DORBENE, Kevin Stroma. (An American). Ireland Beats Wilson. Dublin: Whelan n.d.
(c. 1920). pp. 32. Purple wrappers. Scarce.
€125
Carty 1113.
Quotes extensively from American Presidents, in support of the view that America should intervene in
favour of Irish independence. When the Paris Peace Conference opened on 18 January 1919, IrishAmericans united in requesting President Wilson to support self-determination for Ireland in accord
with the ideals of his Fourteen Points for peace. Dail Eireann actively pursued the same policy. This
pamphlet was in tune with that policy. However, President Wilson was happy to sign the Peace Treaty
of Versailles on 28 June 1919, which ignored Ireland's claims.
136. DOWD, Rev. James. Round About the County of Limerick: Illustrated. Limerick: McKern,
1896. pp. xiv, 339. Recent red buckram. Some minor staining, otherwise a very good copy.
Scarce.
€225
137. DURCAN, Paul. The Laughter of Mothers.
London: Harvill Secker, 2007. pp. 131. First
edition, first issue. Red paper boards, title in gilt
on spine. Fine in fine d.j.
€45
Paul Durcan was born in 1944 in Dublin of Mayo
parents. In addition to this work, his main published
collections include: 'A Snail in my Prime', 'Crazy
About Women', 'Greetings to Our Friends in Brazil'
and 'Cries of an Irish Caveman'. In 2003, he
published a collection of his weekly addresses to
the nation, 'Paul Durcan's Diary', on RTÉ Radio. He
is a member of Aosdána. In 2009 he was conferred
with an honorary degree by Trinity College,
Dublin.
" a l
an … s one o he o n s lea ng
l ng oe s … H s s ange mesme s ng o e
wraps itself into every syllable and texture of his
poems, wrapping the audience into its very spell,
into the very grain of the text" - Michael
Cunningham, Irish Times.
138. [DWYER, Philip] A Hand Book to
Lisdoonvarna and its Vicinity. With map and
woodcuts. Giving a detailed account of its
curative waters, and tours to the principal places
of interest in the Co. Clare. Ennis: Clasp Press,
1998. pp. [vi], xv, 118. Fine in fine d.j.
€45
A fine reprint of a rare book first published in Dublin by Hodges Foster & Co. in 1878.
139. EAGER, Alan R. A Guide to Irish Bibliographical Material. A Bibliography of Irish
Bibliographies and Sources of Information. Second revised and enlarged edition. London:
Library Association, 1980. 4to. pp. xv, 502. Cloth. A fine copy.
€85
140. [EASTER FIRES] Pages from Personal Records of 1916. The Fight in the GPO Dublin as
seen by Sean McEntee, Dr. Seumas Ryan, and Living Memories of Patrick Pearse by his Sister.
Introduction by Alan Downey. Illustrated. Waterford: The St. Carthage Press 1943, pp. 34 +
plates. Green wrappers. Scarce.
€175
141. EDGEWORTH, R. L. & Maria. Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Esq. begun by
himself and concluded by his daughter, Maria Edgeworth. London: Printed for R. Hunter, and
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Baldwin, Craddock, and Joy, 1820. pp. [iv] 392, (2) vii, 498, 2. Cont. half calf on marbled
boards, spine richly gilt with recent morocco labels. Armorial bookplate of James King King,
Esq. on front pastedown. Some minor foxing to prelims of volume one. A very good set. €475
Richard Lovell Edgeworth was born at Bath in 1744; his father was the head of a family which had
been settled in Ireland since 1583, and had given its name to Edgeworthstown, in County Longford.
When he was seven years of age he exhibited extraordinary precocity in scientific knowledge. He was
educated by the Rev. Patrick Hughes, who had taught Goldsmith, and when about seventeen entered
Trinity College. Most of his time there was spent in mechanical studies and experiments. In 1763 he
married a Miss Elers (a runaway match, and not a happy one).
For discoveries in telegraphy and mechanics, the Society of Arts presented him with both silver and
gold medals. For some time, about 1771, leaving his wife behind in England, he resided on the
Continent, chiefly at Lyons, where he took an active part in works then in progress for diverting the
courses of the Rhone and Saone. The death of his wife recalled him to England. During her lifetime he
had become attached to Honoria Sneyd, whom he married in 1773. They settled at Edgeworthstown.
After Honoria's untimely death, he married her sister Elizabeth in 1780. His most intimate friends were
Thomas Day, the eccentric author of Sandford and Merton , and Dr. Erasmus Darwin, the botanist,
Humphrey Davy, Boulton, Wedgwood, James Watt, Lord Charlemont and Henry Grattan who were
life-long friends and correspondents. Edgeworth was one of the original members of the Royal Irish
Academy, and one of its most active supporters. He threw himself with ardour into the Volunteer
movement.
He sat in Grattan's Parliament for St Johnstown (County Longford) from 1798 until 1801 and
advocated Catholic Emancipation and parliamentary reform. During the Insurrection he protested
against the severity of the measures taken by the Government for its suppression. At the time of the
French landing at Killala, he scandalized most of his friends by admitting Catholics into the ranks of
the Volunteer corps for the defence of the country. He personally approved of the project of Union, but
voted against it because he saw that the feeling of the country was opposed to it, and because of the
means by which the passage of the measure was urged. After the Union, he retired from politics, and
devoted himself mainly to the question of National Education. A year after the death of his third wife in
1797, he married a Miss Beaufort. During the peace of Amiens he visited France with his family,
where his labours at Lyons, and a work written by him in French on the construction of mills, led to his
reception as a member into the Société d'Encouragement pour Industrie Nationale. During his residence
in Paris, he was suddenly ordered to leave within twenty-four hours, the Government supposing him to
be brother of the Abbe Edgeworth. Napoleon is said to have disavowed the action of the officials,
saying that, far from its being a crime, it was an honour to belong to the family of that faithful and
courageous ecclesiastic.
Returning to Ireland, he betook himself again to his scientific pursuits. In 1806 he formed one of a
commission appointed to enquire into the system of National Education. In 1809 he reported
favourably on the possibility of draining the bogs.
He died at Edgeworthstown in 1817, aged about 73, and was buried there. His widow, Frances Anne,
survived him and died some forty eight years later in 1865. In private life he was sincere and amiable.
His conversation was inexhaustible - profound or light, according to the subject, and always arousing
attention and satisfying curiosity. In his scientific explorations, he sought truth rather than distinction,
and more than once his inventions were appropriated and published by others as their own, without any
protest on his part. Of his twenty-one children, twelve survived him. His writings were principally in
conjunction with his daughter Maria, and were often published under her name.
The radical English Publisher, Richard Phillips approached Edgeworth in 1802 and offered him £1,000
for his autobiography. Some twelve years earlier Darwin wrote to Edgeworth "why don't you publish
something wonderful, you have so much invention", but Edgeworth was neither interested in money,
nor for that matter in fame. These Memoirs display Edgeworth as a man not only of genius, but
tremendous character, a man who could play with fire and escape being burned. They are a source of
information which has been of considerable importance to scholars and picture for us the story of a
great genius who was also a great Irishman.
142. 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,
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from the earliest period, to the year 1792. Cork: By Anthony Edwards, Printer, Bookseller, and
Stationer, Castle-Street, 1792. pp. iv, 301, 8 (Edwards Catalogue). Interleaved copy. Recent half
calf on original marbled boards. First two leaves in facsimile on matching eighteenth century
paper. Very good. Scarce.
€295
143. EDWARDS, Ruth Dudley. Patrick Pearse. The Triumph of Failure. London: Victor
Gollancz, 1977. First edition. pp. xviii, 384. Brown paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Ex lib.
Nial Devitt with his bookplate. Fine in illustrated d.j.
€65
There has always been argument about whether Pearse's leadership of the Easter Rising in 1916
represented a failure or a triumph. Ireland certainly thrives on her martyrs and Pearse, who found
himself on Easter Monday proclaimed President of the Provisional Government and Commander-inChief of the army of the Republic, took on himself the most bitter of roles at the finish: he was the first
to make the move to surrender - and he was the first to be executed.
Pearse has an extraordinary reputation in Ireland today (although ironically his father was an
Englishman): he is seen popularly as a romantic poet and playwright, educational theorist and political
thinker, socialist, nationalist and military leader.
MAURA SCANNELL'S COPY
144. ELMES, Rosalind M. Catalogue of Irish Topographical Prints and Original Drawings.
National Library of Ireland. Dublin: S.O., 1943. First edition. pp. [vii], 255. Recent wrappers by
Maura Scannell, with her signature on titlepage,. Very good.
€85
Maura Scannell's copy with additions and insertions.
145. FARRELL, James P. History of The County Longford. With numerous illustrations and
folding genealogical table. Dublin: Dollard, 1891. First edition. pp. 361. Recent half calf on cloth
boards, spine with raised bands and contrasting labels. Early owner's signature on titlepage. A
fine copy. Very scarce.
€475
146. FAY, W.G. and CARSWELL, Catherine. The Fays of the Abbey Theatre. An
Autobiographical Record. With a Foreword by James Bridie. Illustrated. London: Rich & Cowan,
1935. First edition. pp. [xv], 314. Brown cloth faded with light staining. A very good copy. Rare.
€65
147. [FELDMAN, David] The Revenue Stamps of Ireland. Illustrated. Dublin: David Feldman
Ltd, 102 Leinster Road, Dublin, n.d. (c.1975). pp. 4. Signed by the author on f.f.e. Green paper
boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in d.j.
€65
148. FELDMAN, David. Handbook of Irish Philately. Illustrated. Dublin: Joint Publication of
David Feldman & The Dolmen Press, 1968. First edition. pp. 176. With the signature of the
author on verso of f.f.e. Fine in d.j.
€45
Miller 130.
149. FERGUSON, Kenneth. Ed. by. King's Inns Barristers 1868-2004. Illustrated. Dublin: The
Honorable Society of King's Inns, 2005. pp. xiv, 446. Fine in d.j.
€45
150. [FIANNA FAIL] Fianna Fail. The I.R.A. Connection. S.n. (c.1970). pp. 68. Printed stapled
wrappers. Rare.
€65
Published by elements in the 'Official' I.R.A. alleging Fianna Fail support for the 'Provisionals'. The
contents includes: The Succession Race; The Fianna Fail Speech War; Days of Decision; The Cabinet
Sub-Committee; The I.R.A. Moves; The Sub-Committee Offensive; The Struggle for Control; Things
begin to Go Wrong; The Speech War Continues; The Republican Movement Divides; Garda Fallon
Dies; From Mutual Assistance to Blackmail; Post-script.
INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR
151. [FITZGERALD, Robert Stephen, Baron] A Word to the People of England, on the
Subject of a late capture of Neutral Ships, and of the Project of Confederacy, supposed to exist in
the North against this Country. Margate: Printed by J. Warren, Stationer, on the Parade, 1800.
First edition. pp. [ii],45, [1]. Inscription on upper blank margin of title "From the Author Lord [
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.... ] FitzGerald. Lord Robert Fitzgerald". The Christian name in the second line of the inscription
is deleted, and the second Fitzg[erald] has been cropped by the binder. Recent qtr. morocco. Very
good. Rare.
€375
No copy located in COPAC. The British Library, Harvard and Newberry copies located in the ESTC.
This pamphlet urges naval action against Denmark and Sweden. Lord Robert Stephen FitzGerald was
the son of Lt.-Gen. James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster and Lady Emilia Mary Lennox. In 1792 he
married Sophia Charlotte Feilding daughter of Commodore Charles Feilding and Sophia Finch. He was
one of nineteen and brother to Lord Edward Fitzgerald. Robert Stephen was a diplomatist of some note,
and was minister 'ad interim' in Paris during the early years of the French revolution, and afterwards
British representative at Berne.
152. FITZPATRICK, Thomas. The Bloody Bridge and Other Papers Relating to the
Insurrection of 1641 (Sir Phelim O'Neill's Rebellion). Dublin: Sealy, Bryers and Walker, 1903.
pp. xl, 296, 8 (publisher's list). Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. T.e.g., others untr. Some light
staining to upper cover, otherwise a very good copy.
€95
The author in this work tries to give a balanced and honest account of the Rebellion of 1641. He states:
"And never was the action of an entire people so elaborately, so disingenuously, misrepresented". On
the other hand "the alleged 'Massacre' - the Massacre of Milton, Temple, Borlase, May, Rushworth,
Cox, Harris, Carlyle, and Froude - is a stupendous falsehood".
153. FITZPATRICK, W.J. The Life of Charles Lever. New edition, revised. London: Downey,
1901. pp. xii, 392. Red cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Fine. Very scarce.
€125
"Doctor Fitzpatrick, both as a practical writer, and as one who has made the great men of Ireland his
special study, possesses peculiar qualifications for the task. The biography contains a considerable
number of anecdotes, and will serve to correct many popular errors with regard to Lever" - Dublin
Daily Express.
154. FLANNERY, John B. The Irish Texans. Illustrated. San Antonio: University of Texas,
1980. 4to. pp. [v], 173. Green arlin, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Fine in frayed
illustrated d.j.
€75
155. FLEMING, J.S. The Town-wall Fortifications of Ireland. Illustrated by the author. Paisley:
Alexander Gardner, 1914. 4to. pp. 92. Qtr. linen on illustrated boards. Upper board faded,
otherwise very good. Scarce.
€145
An interesting work containing forty six illustrations from sketches made by the author during his
several visits to Ireland, treating the history and antiquities, with copious notes.
156. FLINN, D. Edgar. F.R.C.S. Ireland: Its Health-Resorts and Watering Places. With
numerous illustrations and two coloured maps of Ireland showing mean annual temperatures and
mean annual rainfall, and several statistical surveys. Dublin: Fannin, 1895. Second edition. pp.
xi, 180, 11 (adverts). Red cloth, title printed in black on upper cover and in gilt on faded spine.
Very good. Scarce.
€195
The chapters include: Descriptions of Malahide; Skerries; Howth; Warrenpoint; Bangor; Glandore;
Glengarriff; Queenstown; Dalkey; Killiney; Bray; Enniskerry; Lisdoonvarna; etc.
157. FLOOD, W.H. Grattan. A History of Irish Music. With list of subscribers. Dublin:
Browne and Nolan Limited, 1906. Second edition. pp. xv, 357. Blue cloth, gilt device and title in
gilt on upper cover and spine. Minor foxing to prelims, otherwise a very good copy.
€95
This work examines the growth of Irish music from bardic times to the nineteenth century. It describes:
Irish Church Music; Ancient Irish Musical Instruments including the Irish Harp; Irish Pipers of the
Eighteenth Century; The Historical Role of Harp Festivals and Harp Societies, etc.
158. FOLEY, Joseph E. A.P.S. The 'Taylor-Made' Fenian Essays. Federalsburg: The American
Philatelic Society Inc., Eire Philatelic Association, 1971. pp. 24. Colour illustrated wrappers.
Scarce.
€35
159. FORBES, John. M.D. Memorandums Made in Ireland in the Autumn of 1852. With map
and illustrations. Two volumes. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1853. pp. (1) xv, 308, 16
(publishers list), (2) xv, 414. Cloth with arms of Ireland in gilt on upper covers. Slight foxing.
Map in colour facsimile. Spine faded, otherwise very good. Scarce.
€245
Dr. Forbes strives to dispel prejudices against Ireland and the Irish in this work. Travelling through the
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southern, western and northern parts of the country he gives an accurate and impartial account of the
condition of the people both moral and physical; the state of trade and commerce in Ireland.
160. FORESTER, Margery. Michael Collins - The Lost Leader. Illustrated. London: Sidgwick
& Jackson, 1971. pp. xii, 371. Ex lib. Kimmage Manor with their stamps. Green paper boards. A
very good copy in d.j. with traces of tape from flaps to pastedowns.
€65
A legend in his own lifetime, Michael Collins is one of the greatest heroes Ireland has ever produced.
This biography is based on letters and papers which heretofore had not seen the light of day.
ILLUSTRATED BY SEAGHAN MacCATHMHAOIL
161. FOX, C. Milligan. Four Irish Songs. Words by Edith Wheeler and Alice Milligan. The
Connacht 'Caoine' (in Irish) by Tadhg O Donnachdha. Illustrated by Seaghan MacCathmhaoil
(John Campbell). Dublin: Maunsel, n.d. (c.1907). Folio. pp. 30. Original publisher's black
wrappers, lettered in silver. A fine copy. Scarce.
€185
Dedicated to the members of the Irish Folk Song Society, the songs included are: The Connacht
Caoine; My Singing Bird; Mayo Love Song and Antrim Glen Song.
162. FRASER, Maxwell. Southern Ireland. Illustrated. London: G.W.R. 1932. pp. 64. Fine in
recent qtr. goatskin on marbled boards. Scarce.
€150
Illustrated guide through Munster and back to Dublin via the West Coast.
163. FRASER, William. Illustrations of The Douglas Book. Edinburgh: 1885. 4to. pp. vi, 61.
Red pebbled cloth, armorial shields in gilt on both covers, title in gilt on spine.
€175
With illustrations of charters, indentures, armorial bearings, tombs, monuments, letters, grants, seals
and the sword given by King Robert the Bruce to Sir James Douglas. Loosely inserted is an engraving
of Mary Queen of Scots from an oak panel, painted by Zucchero in 1575, to enlist the sympathy of the
Austrian Court in favour of the Queen, then a prisoner in England. Engraved from the original by
Shervin in 1771, and now reproduced by W.J. Hay.
The Douglases are an ancient Scottish clan from the Scottish Lowlands taking their name from
Douglas, South Lanarkshire, and from there their chiefs gained vast territories throughout the Scottish
Borderland. They were the most prominent family in lowland Scotland during the Late Middle Ages,
often holding the real power behind the throne of the Stewart Kings. The heads of the House of
Douglas held the titles of the Earl of Douglas (Black Douglas) and later the Earl of Angus (Red
Douglas). The clan does not have a chief recognised by the Lyon Court, so therefore it is now
considered an armigerous clan. See illustration on next page.
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164. FRENCH, Henry W. Our Boys in Ireland. Illustrated. New York: Worthington, 1891. pp.
x, 331. Very good in pictorial cloth.
€235
Henry Willard French, a native of West Hartford, Connecticut, American author of fiction for juveniles
and newspaper correspondent. The story opens in Boston where a group of boys set sail for Scotland
via Ireland. They land in Galway and travel around the west and south of Ireland. Along the way they
meet peasants whose story they relate. After visiting Dublin they set sail for Scotland. The work is
considerably enhanced by the magnificent illustrations.
FIRST EDITION
165. FRENCH, Percy. Prose, Poems and Parodies of Percy French. Edited by his sister Mrs. De
Burgh Daly. With foreword by Alfred Perceval Graves. Portrait frontispiece of Percy French.
Dublin: The Talbot Press, and London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1925. First
edition. pp. xix, 204. Owner's initials on f.f.e. Very good in frayed illustrated d.j.
€85
Most uncommon in the dust jacket, which is from a water colour by Percy French.
166. FROUDE, James Anthony. The English in
Ireland in the Eighteenth Century. Three volumes.
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1882. pp. (1)
xviii, 704, (2) xii, 568, (3) xiii, 608. Cont. half green
morocco on marbled boards, spine divided into six
compartments by five gilt raised bands; title and
author on contrasting morocco labels in the second
and fourth, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centreand-corner design; comb-marbled endpapers.
Armorial bookplate on front pastedowns. A.e.mar.
Some light foxing to flyleaves, otherwise a very
good set.
€175
RARE ILLUSTRATED GALWAY HISTORY
167. [GALWAY HISTORY] The Gailliv. An
Illustrated History of the Ancient City of Galway.
Galway: Philip O'Gorman, Printer and Publisher,
1901. pp. viii, 3-103, [15] (adverts). Recent qtr.
green morocco on green paper boards with original
coloured wrappers bound in. Very good.
Exceedingly rare.
€475
COPAC lists only two copies.
With chapters on: Forthill Cemetery; Site of the Ancient Abbey of St. Augustine. By Rev. D. Travers;
The Augustinians in Galway. By Rev. D. Travers; The Galway Nunnery of St. Augustine. By Rev. D.
Travers; Fireuntacht an Loinsigh. Eoghan Ua Neachtain; The Story of Galway. By M.J. Tighe; Some
Incidents in the History of Galway. By R.J. Kelly; The Ancient Records of the Old Corporation of
Galway. By W.F. Trench; The Bazaar of 1901.
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168. GATTY, Mrs. Alfred. The Old
Folks from Home; or, A Holiday in Ireland
in 1861. London: Bell and Daldy, 1862.
Second edition. pp. viii, 256, 30
(publisher's list). New endpapers, spine
neatly rebacked. Very good. Scarce. €275
Margaret Gatty (1809-1873) was an English
writer of children's literature. She was the
daughter of the Rev. Alexander John Scott,
D.D., a Royal Navy chaplain, who served
under, and was the trusted friend of, Lord
Nelson onboard the HMS Victory before and
during the Battle of Trafalgar. She married
the Rev. Alfred Gatty, D.D., Ecclesfield,
Yorkshire in 1839. Mrs. Gatty became a
highly useful and popular writer of tales for
young people. She became fascinated with
marine biology, possibly on the advice of
William Henry Harvey, who she had met in
Hastings in 1848. She undertook this visit to
Ireland in the summer of 1861and sent
detailed descriptions of her travels to her
daughters.
She
travelled
extensively
throughout the country: Dublin, Kildare,
Limerick, The Shannon, Kilkee, MiltownMalbay, Tarbert, Killarney and Cork. An
interesting, informative and light hearted
work.
ROSE BARTON ILLUSTRATED
169. GERARD, Frances. Picturesque
Dublin Old and New. With ninety-one
illustrations by Rose Barton and reproductions of old engravings. London: Hutchinson, 1898. pp.
xx, 432. Title in red and black. Green buckram, arms of Dublin in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt
on spine. New endpapers. T.e.g. A very good copy. Scarce.
€165
170. GILMORE, George. Labour and the Republican Movement. Foreword by Peadar
O'Donnell. Drogheda: Republican Publications, 1966. pp. 24. Wrappers.
€85
The 1916 Rising was the first Irish rebellion in which organised labour, as such, played a leading role.
Ernie O'Malley described the attitude of the of the I.R.A. volunteers as being, generally speaking,
vaguely sympathetic towards the cause of Labour.
171. GIMLETTE, Thomas. The History of the Huguenot Settlers in Ireland, and Other Literary
Remains. Bound with: The French Settlers in Ireland. The Settlement in Waterford. The Feuds of
the Bishops of Waterford and Lismore, under the Plantagenets. The Synod of Cashel and The
Annals of the Danish Church of St. Olaf's (The Ancient Cathedral of Waterford). Illustrated with
two coloured folding maps (France and Ireland), A map of the Seat of the Waldenses, a folding
chart of Poitou and other illustrations. S.n. [Dunmore East, 1888?]. Printed for private circulation
only. 4to. pp. [vi], 296, xii, xxii, 28, 4, 8. Original cloth. Ex library copy with stamps. Bookplate
of C. Perceval Bolton, Esq., J.P., Brook Lodge, Waterford. Minor wear to spine otherwise very
good. Very rare.
€850
The author was vicar of Dunmore East. Thomas Gimlette's The History of the Huguenot Settlers in
Ireland and other Literary Remains offers a fascinating insight into the persecution, flight and ultimate
survival of one of Europe's minority Protestant faiths. Made infamous by the Edict of Nantes, its
Revocation and the subsequent events of the Reformation, the history of Europe's Huguenots preceded
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these events by some four centuries
when
small
communities
of
worshipers could be found all over
Europe and especially in Provence,
southern France, worshipping simply
and in their own language, which put
them at odds with the established
faith. The origin of the appellation
'Huguenot' is unclear, but may have
its root in the French work 'Hugon', a
cave-dwelling creature. Gimlette's
work, pursued out of interest and
contact with the descendants of
Huguenot settlers in Waterford where
he held his ministry, amply describes
the history of the Huguenots from the
earliest French Reformers, the
doctrines of John Calvin until the
Edict of Nantes in 1598 and its
eventual Revocation nearly a century
later. The Huguenot settlement of
Ireland began after the Reformation
of Henry VIII, but continued apace
during the reign of his successor,
Elizabeth I.
It was during this period that Dublin
became the home to many Huguenot
merchants, traders and artisans
chiefly from Rochelle and Bordeaux.
These settled in the area around
Christchurch and the High Street and
many of the street names in these
areas still show their influence.
Huguenot settlement in Dublin and
other enclaves of Ireland reached its zenith with the Victory of William of Orange at the Boyne, when
he shortly after inaugurated a number of French Churches, both Calvinistic and Episcopalian. Gimlette
pays great attention to the fate of the Huguenot settlers in Dublin and Waterford in the periods
immediately following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and details to some extent the roles played
by leading Huguenots in Dublin under the patronage of William III. Amongst these elite were
numbered the families of Chevenix, Westenra and Nassau, which would leave their indelible marks on
Irish History.
172. GLEESON, James. Bloody Sunday. Illustrated. London: Four Square, 1963. First Four
Square edition. pp. 128. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy.
€25
Bloody Sunday tells the exciting story of Michael Collins' struggle against the mighty British Empire
and in particular the events of Sunday, November 21st. 1920. Exactly at 9 a.m. on that bright Sunday
morning as crowds of Dubliners were going and coming from Mass the revolvers and automatic pistols
of Collins' execution squad (Twelve Apostles) shot to death British secret agents in hotels and
boarding-houses throughout the city.
173. GODDARD, Ethel. Dreams for Ireland. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1903. pp. [iv], 89. Some
light browning, otherwise very good in original cloth.
€65
The contents include: The Call of the Strong Wind; The Re-Birth of the Irish Celt; A Plea for a Native
Art; A Vision of Kathleen Ni Houlihan; The White Flame of Ireland, etc.
174. GOGARTY, Oliver St. John. Tumbling in the Hay. London: Constable, 1939. First
edition. pp. xi, 325. Blue buckram, title in gilt on spine. Signed presentation copy from the
author. A very good copy in repaired d.j.
€165
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175. GRAY, Tony. A Peculiar Man. A Life of George Moore. Bestselling Irish author, 18521933. Illustrated. London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1996. pp. vii, 344. Maroon paper boards, title in
gilt on spine. Fine in fine d.j.
€45
176. GREER, James. Ed. by. Guide to Londonderry and Highlands of Donegal. Illustrated.
Londonderry: William Gailey, 1885. pp. 104. Recent wrappers. Exceedingly rare.
€350
No copy located on COPAC.
FROM BUNREE TO BARNACOLLEEN
177. 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.
178. [GRIFFITH, Arthur] A Study of the Originator of the Sinn Féin Movement. Arthur
Griffith. Dublin: Cahill, n.d. (c. 1917). pp. 24. Owner's signature on titlepage. Illustrated
wrappers. No author ascribed.
€185
Carty 831.
179. GRIFFITH, Arthur. Arguments for the Treaty. Dublin: Martin Lester, n.d. (c. 1922). pp.
32. Stitched wrappers with picture of Griffith. A little soiling to cover, otherwise very good. Very
scarce.
€275
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In this little book, put together from speeches delivered in the heat of the struggle, Griffith's political
testament may be found. His language is direct, his sincerity plain, the logic of his argument
inescapable.
180. [GRIFFITH, Arthur] Songs Ballads and Recitations by Famous Irishmen - Arthur Griffith.
Edited by Piaras Beaslaí. Dublin: Walton's Musical Instrument Galleries, n.d. pp. 32. Very good
in illustrated wrappers.
€65
181. GRIFFITH, Arthur. When the Government Publishes Sedition. Tracts for the Times, No.
4. Irish Publicity League, Dublin [1915].
€175
O'Hegarty 8 Carty 338c.
Influential pamphlet, analysing the British Government's census returns and finance accounts for
Ireland, and pointing out that every country in Europe had increased its population since 1841 – except
Ireland.
182. GRIFFITH, Richard. DONNELLY, J.F.D. Et al. Report Upon The Royal Dublin
Society, The Museum of Irish Industry, and The System of Scientific Instruction in Ireland.
Dublin: Printed by Alexander Thom, 1862. pp. 125. Library buckram, title in gilt on spine.
'Ministry of Education Reference Library' label on lower cover. Ex. lib. Science and Art / Board
of Education Library, with stamps. Very good.
€185
The Minutes of Evidence taken on 2nd October 1862 whereby L.E. Foot was examined by Richard
Griffith upon the Constitution of the Royal Dublin Society; E.W. Davy was examined on Agriculture,
Lectures, Utility of Museum and Suggestions for Improvements; William Edward Steele was examined
on Meetings of Society and Election of Members, etc.; Rev. Samuel Haughton was examined on the
National History Museum; Alexander Carte was examined on the Conditions of Specimens at the
Museum; Henry Connor White on Accounts and Audit; Simon Foot on Botanic Gardens; John D'Olier
on the Fine Arts; David Moore on the Botanic Gardens; Robert Collins on Agricultural Shows;
Frederick J. Sidney on the Library, Sir Robert Kane on the Museum of Irish Industry; Lord Talbot de
Malahide and Andrew Corrigan on the Agricultural Museum, etc.
183. GWYNN, Stephen. The Fair Hills of
Ireland. With illustrations by Hugh Thomson.
Dublin & London: Maunsel & Macmillan,
1906. pp. xi, 416. Green cloth decorated in
gilt to a Celtic design. Armorial bookplate of
Henry Coddington of Boyne Hill on front
pastedown. T.e.g. A very good copy.
€65
With chapters on: The Boyne Valley, and the
Monuments of Brugh; Cong, Tuam, and the
Surrounding Country - the Firbolgs; Armagh The Red Branch of Ulster; Sligo and Benbulben;
Slemish and St. Patrick; Tara - The High King's
Court; Athlone, Aughrim, and Clonmacnoise The Great Days of Irish Learning; Kincora and
Thomond; Dublin Bay and Clontarf; Cashel of
the Kings.
184. [H.B.] Letters from Ireland. (Reprinted
from the New Ireland Review). Dublin:
Office of the "New Ireland Review", 1902.
pp. 144. Titlepage in red and black. A very
good copy.
€75
The author tells us in the opening letter to his
'Dear Friend': "I have been over six months in
Ireland. Before leaving America I promised to
write you my impressions of my native land, as
it appeared to one who, loving the country with
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an exile's love, would judge it by the canons of that practical common sense to which we, in America,
are, perhaps, too much inured".
185. HALL, J.B. Random Records of a Reporter. With a foreword by T.P. O'Connor, M.P.
Illustrated. London: Marshall, n.d. pp. 240. Blue cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A
very good copy in a rare repaired d.j. Scarce.
€75
A vivid description of stirring events and famous personalities of the last sixty years in Ireland. "Mr.
Hall has a wider experience in every phase of journalism than most men ... He has, besides, known all
sorts of men and things in the romantic and tangled life of Ireland'".
186. HALL, Mr. & Mrs. S.C. Hand-Books for Ireland. The South and Killarney. With map and
many illustrations. London: Virtue, Hall & Virtue, Paternoster Row, 1853. Sm. octavo. pp. viii,
172 [4].
€135
Anna Maria Hall (1800-1881), a native of Dublin, was brought to Wexford in 1806, where she lived
and mixed a good deal with the country people until the age of fifteen, when she was taken to London
by her mother. In 1824 she married Samuel Carter Hall (from Cork), who collaborated with her on this
work. She wrote plays, sketches, short stories and novels and her works were immensely popular both
in England and Ireland.
187. [HARDY, Philip Dixon] Hardy's Tourists' Guide Through Ireland; in Four Tours. Counties
of Dublin and Wicklow; Giant's Causeway; Lakes of Killarney; Connemara and the Irish
Highlands. Illustrated by numerous engravings and four coloured folding maps. London:
Simpkin and Marshall, n.d. (c.1862). pp. xxx, 382, + plates and adverts. Green cloth, title in gilt
on upper cover and spine within a cluster of shamrocks. Very good. Rare.
€295
Dedicated to Sir William Betham. Hardy was the first editor of the Dublin Penny Journal. His tales of
Irish life deal with fairies, outlaws, smugglers and adventurers on the whole tainted with the 'stage
Irishman' brush.
188. HART, Clive. A Concordance to 'Finnegans Wake'. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 1963. 4to. pp. [xiii], 516 (triple column).Fine in green linen gilt.
€65
189. HARTNETT, Michael. Selected Poems. Dublin: New Writer's Press, 1970. pp. 61. Fine in
illustrated wrappers with a portrait of the poet. Scarce.
€125
190. HARVEY, William. Irish Life
and Humour in Anecdote and Story.
London: Maclaren & Company,
1908. pp. 221, [3 (publisher's list)].
Brown cloth, title in blind on upper
cover and in gilt on spine. Some
spotting to fore-edges. A good copy.
See illustration opposite.
€35
Chapters include: Bench and Bar; The
Jarvey; The Domestic Servant; Soldiers
of the King; Priest and People; The
Medical Man; The Flowing Bowl; Wit
and Humour; Bulls and other Blunders;
Births, Marriages, and Deaths; The
Irishman Abroad, and Paddy.
191. HAYES, Richard. Irish
Swordsmen of France. With a
foreword by Rev. Patrick Browne.
Illustrated. Dublin: Gill, 1941.
Second edition. pp. xix, 307. Light
blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Spine
suntanned, otherwise very good.
Scarce.
€125
In this work Dr. Hayes gives us a
detailed account of the careers of six
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distinguished Irish officers in the French army: General Theobald Dillon; General James O'Moran;
Colonel Arthur Dillon; General Charles (Jennings) Kilmaine; General Thomas Arthur Lally and
Colonel Richard Warren. Four of these were living when the Revolution came, and continued to hold
their commissions in the revolutionary army. In fact they were promoted to the highest ranks, although
later they were suspected by the 'pure' Republicans, who found it difficult to believe that the Stuartloving Irish could be anything else but royalist. They, like most Irishmen in France, aspired towards the
liberation of Ireland by various schemes.
192. HEALY, John. Nineteen Acres. Life and labours on a typical Mayo farm. Foreword and
poem by Brendan Kennelly. Portrait of Mary O'Donnell frontispiece. Achill: House of Healy,
1987. pp. viii, 141. Very good in illustrated wraps. Scarce.
€35
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193. HEALY, John. No One Shouted Stop! Formerly - The Death of an Irish Town. Foreword
by John Hume M.E.P. Illustrated. Achill: The House of Healy, 1988. pp. ix, 108. Very good in
illustrated wrappers. Very scarce.
€40
This is the story of the rise and fall of Charlestown, a typical Irish, rural town. Born in anger during the
Great Famine, it died in the most affluent time in the long and ancient history of Ireland. It shows how
layers of indifference, apathy and cynicism were laid down by Church, State and the people. The
author demonstrates the inter-play of internal and external forces which had left the West of Ireland a
wasteland. This is done with angry compassion by a man who was born in Charlestown in 1930 and
lived there for 20 years. The Death of an Irish Town is a social document of rare significance. First
published in the Irish Times as a series of articles - 'No One Shouted Stop' in October 1967, it was
hailed as one of the finest pieces of social comment published by an Irish newspaper.
LIMITED EDITION
SIGNED BY SEAMUS HEANEY
194. HEANEY, Seamus. District and Circle. London: Faber and Faber, 2006. pp. [ix], 113. First
edition limited to 300 numbered copies, signed by the author. Qtr. linen on paper boards. Fine in
fine slipcase.
€950
195. HEANEY, Seamus. District and Circle. London: Faber & Faber, 2006. pp. x, 76. First
edition. Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Fine in fine d.j.
€65
196. HEANEY, Seamus. Electric Light. London: Faber and Faber, 2001. First edition. pp. [x],
81. Limited to 300 copies, signed by Seamus Heaney. Qtr. linen on boards, title on printed paper
label on spine. A fine unmarked and unopened copy in slipcase.
€950
197. HEANEY, Seamus. New Selected Poems 1966-1987. London: Faber and Faber, 1990. First
edition. pp. x, 245. Olive green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Fine in illustrated d.j.
€185
Seamus Heaney was born near Castledawson, County Derry, and grew up on his father's small farm.
He was the eldest in a Catholic family of nine children. Heaney attended St. Columb's College, Derry,
and moved in 1957 to Belfast to continue his studies. In 1961 Heaney graduated from Queen's
University, Belfast, and was then trained as a teacher at St. Joseph's College of Education. After one
year as a secondary school teacher, Heaney returned to St. Joseph's, where he was a lecturer for three
years. In 1966 he became a lecturer at Queen's University. In 1972 Heaney gave up his work at Queen's
and moved to Glanmore, County Wicklow, working for a time as a freelance writer and later lectured at
Carysfort College.
Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. According to Heaney, poetry
balances the "scales of reality towards some transcendent equilibrium". From the early collections,
Heaney has combined in his work personal memories with images of Irish heritage and the landscape
of Northern Ireland. There are also references to English-Irish and Catholic-Protestant conflict.
However, Heaney's view is much more visionary and allegorical than bound to contemporary issues.
LIMITED EDITION
198. HEANEY, Seamus. Opened Ground. Poems 1966-1966. London: Faber, 1998. pp. xiii,
478. First edition. Limited to 300 numbered copies, signed by the author. Quarter linen on tan
paper boards. Fine in fine slipcase.
€950
Brandes & Durkan A 70c.
This work concludes with Seamus Heaney's acceptance speech for the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature,
awarded to him, in the words of the Swedish Academy of Letters, for his 'works of lyrical beauty and
ethical depth'.
LIMITED EDITION
199. HEANEY, Seamus. Seeing Things. London: Faber and Faber, 1991. pp. [ix], 113. First
edition. Limited to 250 numbered copies, signed by the author. Qtr. linen on brown paper boards.
Fine in fine slipcase.
€950
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200. HEANEY, Seamus. The Redress of Poetry. Oxford Lectures. London: Faber and Faber,
1995. First edition. pp. xviii, 213. Grey paper boards, title in white on spine. Fine in d.j.
€95
201. HEANEY, Seamus. The Tree Clock. Belfast: Linen Hall Library, 1990. pp. 28. Edition
limited to 870 copies. Beige linen, title in blind on upper cover. Celtic design on endpapers. Fine
in fine d.j. with title printed in gilt.
€275
202. [HIGGINS, F.R.] "Gallivanting in the Country" Foxford - May 17th - 19th 1991. A Unique
Folk/Cultural Celebration and Seminar honouring the Foxford-Born Lyric Poet F.R. Higgins 1896-1941 and partaking in the festivities of the ancient and mythological Foxford Goat Fair.
Programme of events. Single card folded in fine condition.
€25
CUALA PRESS LIMITED EDITION
WITH ALS FROM THE AUTHOR TO GEORGE W. RUSSELL
203. HIGGINS, F.R. Arable Holdings: Poems. Dublin: Cuala, 1933. pp. [viii], 43. Edition
limited to 300 copies. Loosely inserted is an autograph letter signed by O'Higgins to George
Russell. Near fine in qtr. linen on printed blue boards. Very scarce.
€475
In the letter O'Higgins acknowledges the receipt of a poem from Russell which he is about to publish in
The Shamrock and he states "We must renew and strengthen our friendship. Why not send me some
short stories".
204. HIGGINS, F.R. Island Blood. With a foreword by A.E. London: John Lane The Bodley
Head, 1925. First edition. pp. xiv, 74, [8 (publisher's list)]. Signed presentation copy from the
author. Brown cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Light fading. A very good copy. €175
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".
205. HIGGINS, F.R. Salt Air. Illustrations by W. Victor Brown. Dublin: Published by the Irish
Bookshop Ltd., 45 Dawson Street, Dublin, 1923. First and only edition, limited to 500 copies. pp.
8. Stitched sewn wrappers. Minor spotting, otherwise a fine copy.
€125
This is Higgins' first work, published by his friend A.J. (Con) Leventhal from his bookshop in Dawson
Street. It was illustrated by W. Victor Brown, artist and friend of Higgins. He also contributed
illustrations to the Cuala Press Broadsides 1935 and 1937.
206. HIGGINS, F.R. The Dark Breed. A Book of Poems. London: Macmillan, 1927. pp. viii, 69.
Inscribed on f.f.e. Blue cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Signed presentation copy
from the author. A very good copy in fine d.j.
€235
Dedicated to A.E. 'most generous of givers'.
207. HOARE, Sir Richard Colt. Journal of a Tour in Ireland A.D. 1806. London: Miller, 1807.
pp. cix, 336. Cont. half calf on marbled boards. Spine expertly rebacked. Ink inscription and
browning on titlepage. Very good. Very scarce.
€285
Early travel book which seldom appears on the market. Details of a tour starting in Dublin onto Meath,
Offaly, Clare, Limerick, Kerry, Cork, Waterford, Tipperary, Kildare, Cavan, Donegal, Derry, Antrim,
Down, Louth and returning to Dublin. With general remarks on the antiquities, stone crosses, religious
buildings, dress, agriculture, bogs, climate, roads & turnpikes, topographical description, etc.
208. HOBSON, Bulmer. Ireland Yesterday and Tomorrow. With tables and plans. Illustrated.
Tralee: Anvil Books, 1968. First edition. pp. [x], 247. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Signed
presentation copy from the author, with a short ALS loosely inserted. Fine in frayed d.j.
€175
Bulmer Hobson (1883-1969), Irish Nationalist and a leading member of the IRB, was born in Belfast
and founded Na Fianna Eireann there in 1903. He was sworn into the IRB by Denis McCullough; they
joined other young men including Sean MacDermott and Patrick McCartan. In 1906 they founded the
Dungannon Clubs, another front organisation for the IRB. Its mouthpiece was The Republic,
established by Hobson in December, 1906, which published several writers associated with Bigger and
the Ulster Theatre. In May, 1907 The Republic merged with the Dublin journal The Peasant, edited by
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W.P. Ryan with Hobson as deputy editor. When the Dungannon Clubs merged with Griffith's Sinn Fein
shortly afterwards, Hobson became Vice-President of the organisation. He was later elected to the
supreme council of the IRB and was a particular friend of Thomas Clarke, who idolised him as the new
John Mitchel and hoped that he could one day win over Ulster Protestants to separatism. Hobson swore
Pádraig Pearse into the IRB in 1913 but opposed the Rising. He took little or no part in politics after
1916 and became a civil servant in the Free State Government.
LIMITED TO 650 COPIES
209. HOBSON, Bulmer. Ed. by. The Gate Theatre, Dublin. Profusely illustrated with coloured
and black and white plates. Dublin: The Gate Theatre, 1934. 4to. pp. 140, + errata. Edition
limited to 650 copies. Qtr. linen on gold paper boards, lacking paper label on upper cover.
Occasional light foxing. A good copy. Very scarce.
€95
210. HOGAN, James Francis. The Irish in Australia. With a prefatory paper by The Hon. Sir
Charles Gavan Duffy. London: Ward and Downey, 1888. Third edition. pp. lvii, 349. Some
browning. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. A good copy. Scarce.
€45
211. HOLINSHED, Raphaell. Holinshed's Irish Chronicle. The Historie of Irelande from the
first inhabitation thereof, unto the yeare 1509. Collected by Raphaell Holinshed, & continued till
the yeare 1547 by Richarde Stanyhurst. Edited by Liam Miller and Eileen with the cancels
restored and the woodcut illustrations of the first edition. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1979. Folio. pp.
xxiv, 363. Edition limited to 850 copies. Cloth. A very good copy in d.j. With slipcase.
€285
Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland, first printed in the year 1577, is one of the
great historical reference-books of the sixteenth century. Leading historians of the day assisted
Holinshed in the massive undertaking of editing, assembling, and expanding existing historical and
topographical works. The 'learned Gentleman, Maister Richard Stanyhurst' compiled the Description of
Ireland. He was the son of James Stanyhurst, the Recorder of Dublin, and a friend and collaborator of
the English Jesuit, Edmund Campion. When the first edition was in preparation, the Privy Council
objected to certain passages, and this resulted in a number of cancelled leaves. The original texts have
been restored in this edition and are printed as appendices. A unique feature of this publication is the
remarkable series of woodcuts throughout the text, and the present volume is further enhanced by the
inclusion of two woodcuts from the cancelled leaves.
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212. HUNT, B. Folk Tales of Breffny. London: Macmillan, 1912. pp. viii, 197. Green cloth, title
in gilt on upper cover and spine. Very good. Scarce.
€75
Many of the stories in this work were told by an old man who said he had more and better learning than
the scholars: "The like of them" he declared, "do be filled with conceit out of books, and the most of it
only nonsense, 'tis myself has the real old knowledge was handed down from the ancient times".
"Wholly delightful volume ... These folk-tales are rich in the qualities of poetry, witt and intelligence,
and though the part which Miss Hunt has played is not that of a creator, her versions are marked by
such unfailing charm, such happy and characteristic turns of phrase, that she deserves to rank with
those musicians like Francis Korbay, who have lend fresh lustre to folk tunes by the beauty and
picturesqueness of their settings" - Spectator.
213. HUNT, St. L. Cashel and its Abbeys. Dublin: James Duffy, 1952. pp. 24. Illustrated stapled
wrappers. Very good.
€15
214. HURSE, Alfred Edward. Monkstown and Passage West Co. Cork. Some Notes, Historical,
Archaeological and otherwise. With illustrations. Cork: Guy, 1928. pp. [vi], 61, 8 (plates). Qtr.
linen on grey printed boards. Exceedingly rare.
€350
COPAC locates the TCD and BL copies only.
215. HYDE, Douglas [An Craoibhín Aoibhinn]
Abhráin agus Dánta an Reachtabhraigh ar na
gcruinniughadh agus ar na bhfoillsiughadh den
chéad uair. Portrait frontispiece of the poet Antoine
Ó Reachtabhra. Baile Átha Cliath: Oifig Díolta
Foillseacháin Rialtais, 1933. pp. 283. Brown cloth.
Very good in frayed d.j.
€65
216. HYDE, Douglas. Abhráin Diadha Chúige
Connacht. The Religious Songs of Connacht being
the sixth and seventh chapters of the Songs of
Connacht. Introduction by Dominic Daly, O.S.A.
With text in English and Irish. Two volumes in one.
Shannon: I.U.P. 1972. pp. xxi, 404, xi, 420. Green
buckram, title in gilt on spine. Owners' signatures
on f.f.e. A very good copy in repaired d.j.
€95
It is a strange paradox that Hyde, the direct descendant
of five generations of Protestant clergymen, should
have devoted himself to the task of rescuing from
oblivion the traditional prayers and practices of the
Catholic people of Gaelic-speaking Connacht. His
success in compiling this work makes this book, an
important social document, as well as a superb literary
work.
MICHÉAL Ó FLOINN'S COPY
217. HYDE, Dr. Douglas. Abhráin Ghrádha Chúige Chonnacht. Baile Átha Cliath: S.O., 1931.
pp. 128. Green paper boards, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Slight wear to spine-ends.
Owner's signature on f.f.e. Very good.
€85
218. HYDE, Douglas [An Craoibhín] An Pósadh (dráma). Baile Átha Cliath: Gill, [1905]. pp.
64. Frayed printed wrappers, repair to spine. Owner's signature on half title. Rare.
€145
219. INGLIS, Brian. Downstart. The Autobiography of Brian Inglis. London: Chatto & Windus,
1990. pp. [vi], 298. Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Fine in d.j.
€35
220. INGLIS, Henry D. A Journey Throughout Ireland, during the Spring, Summer, and
Autumn of 1834. With folding maps. Two volumes. London: Whittaker, 1835. Second edition.
pp. (1) xii, xii, 349 [2] (2) viii, 348. Occasional light foxing. Cloth. Title on worn printed labels
on spine.
€135
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PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR
221. IREMONGER, Valentin. Horan's Field and other Reservations. Dublin: Dolmen, 1972. pp.
80. Inscribed by author on half title and titlepage and also signed by him. Fine in illustrated
wrappers.
€75
222. [IRISH BIBLE] An Biobla Naomhtha: Leabhuir an tSean Tiomna, ar na dtarruing on
Teanguidh Ughdarrach go Gaidhlig Tré Chúnam agus Saothar. An Doctúir Uilliam Bedel.
Roimhe so Easpog Chille Móire a nErin. Bound with: An Tiomna Nuadh dTíghearna agus Ar
Slánuightheora Íosa Criosd: Air na tharraing go fírineach ar an nGréigis Ughdarach. Ris an
t'Athair is onóraighthe a nDía Uilliam O'Domhnuill, Aird Easpug Thuaim. London: Printed by R.
Watts, 1830. 12mo. pp. [v], 1574. Cont. full calf with blind tooling to a panel design with initials
'BHJ'. Title in gilt on spine. Upper joint cracked but very firm and holding. A fine copy.
€265
An early nineteenth century reprint of the first Bible in Irish to contain both the Old and New
Testaments acknowledging the work of bishops Bedell and Daniel. See illustration on p. 122.
William O Domhnuill (d.1628), Archbishop of Tuam, was a native of Kilkenny and his name appears
in the patent (3 March 1592) for the foundation of Trinity College, Dublin. It was while at Trinity that
William took up the work of translating The New Testament - Tiomna Nuadh into Irish, begun by
Nicholas Walsh, Bishop of Ossory, who was murdered in 1585, and continued by John Kearney (who
translated and published the first Irish Catechism - Dublin 1571) and Nehemias Donellan, Archbishop
of Tuam in 1595.
William Bedell was a man revered not only by the English but by the native Irish as well. When he was
consecrated Bishop of Kilmore in 1629 he witnessed the appalling hardship and poverty among the
native Irish. With his kindness and generosity towards them in the spirit of a true Christian, he became
their trusted friend. He even learned their language and was the first translator of the Old Testament
into Irish. O'Reilly of Breifne styled him 'Ultimus Anglorum', the best of the English.
223. [IRISH CERTIFICATES] Irish Certificates. Wexford and Cookstown. Illustrated.
Margate: Printed by H. Keble, 1904. pp. 6. Very good in frayed stitched wrappers.
€65
An interesting description of Masonic regalia and accompanying certificates dating from around the
end of the eighteenth century.
A SALUTE TO THE EMERGING NATION
224. [IRISH FREE STATE] Saorstat Eireann. Irish Free State Official Handbook. With
numerous illustrations and large folding map at end. Edited by Bulmer Hobson. Dublin: Talbot
Press, 1932. pp. 324, 150 (Ads). Black paper boards with a colourful Celtic revival illustrations
by Art O' Murnaghan. Fine. Rare with map and in such fine condition.
€175
With chapters on: The Country and its People; The Fauna and Flora; Geology, Structural and
Economic; History; Religion; Constitution; Judiciary; Ownership of Land; Fisheries; Agriculture;
Archaeology; Libraries; Early Christian Art; Modern Irish Art; Irish Language; Folklore, etc. etc. The
contributors include, Eoin MacNeill, R.L. Praeger, George O'Brien, A. Mahr, J.H. Delargy, C.P.
Curran, etc. Superbly illustrated from paintings by Paul Henry, John Keating, Sean O'Sullivan, Maurice
MacGonigal, Harry Kernoff, etc. Still a useful reference work.
VIEWS OF GLENDALOUGH
225. [IRISH LIFE] Valentine's Snapshots. Twelve real photographs for your album.
Glendalough. Titles on the reverse side of the photos. Printed in Britain. No date (circa 1900). 80
x 67mm. Fine in binder's folder. Rare.
€145
The Snapshots included are: Glendalough; Temple-na-Skellig showing ascent to St. Kevin's Bed;
Temple-na-Skellig showing ascent to St. Kevin's Bed in the Cliffs; St. Kevin's Cross and Kitchen;
Ferry to St. Kevin's Bed; The Upper Lake; St. Kevin's Bed and Chair; The Cathedral and Round
Tower; St. Kevin's Kitchen and Round Tower; The Gateway; Round Tower; Cross in St. Kevin's
Kitchen.
226. [IRISH RAILWAYS] The Railway Magazine with which is incorporated "Transport &
Travel Monthly". Special Irish Railway Number. No. 515. Vol. 86. May 1940. Illustrated.
London: 1940. pp. xv, 257-320. Owner's initials on upper cover. Very good in illustrated
wrappers.
€65
Includes articles on the Schull & Skibbereen Light Railway; Scenes on the Valentia Harbour Branch,
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G.S.R.; Reminiscences of the G.N.R., 1892-1914; The Bessbrook & Newry Railway; Tickets of the
Great Southern Railways; etc.
See item 225
227. [IRISH RAINFALL ASSOCIATION] Handwritten letter on single sheet of notepaper
with the letterhead of the Irish Rainfall Association, Ballinamona, Cashel, to S. Morris Bower,
Esq. dated Jan. 14th, 1925. Inscribed on both sides and signed by E. W. Montagu Murphy
(F.R.Met.Soc.), Hon. Secretary. 110 x 180mm.
€65
Interesting letter reporting that "a sharp thunderstorm, which only lasted a short time passed over here
about 1.30 a.m. during the night of the 12th-13th [January 1925]. There was vivid lightning, and heavy
rain". The reports came in from: Cashel, Cahir, Clonmel, Dunmanway, Waterford and Donegal.
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228. [IRISH SELF-DETERMINATION LEAGUE] Souvenir Programme. Mass Meeting of
Irish Residents in London. Albert Hall. Wed., 11th Feb., 1920. Illustrated. London: Irish SelfDetermination League of Great Britain, 1920. pp. 8. Very good in recent boards with original
printed wrapper bound in.
€65
Carty 1199. Speakers at the meeting included Arthur Griffith and Eoin MacNeill.
229. [IRISH SPORT] Sporting Ireland. Angling, Hunting, Shooting, Bowling, Motoring, Golf,
Lawn Tennis, Yachting, Rowing, Coursing, Polo. Important Events & Race Fixtures, 1930, The
Dublin Horse Show. Illustrated. Dublin: Irish Tourist Association, Inc., 1930. 4to. pp. 48. Fine in
illustrated wrappers. Scarce.
€125
230. [IRISH TOURIST] The Irish Tourist's Illustrated Handbook for Visitors to Ireland. With
numerous folding maps and illustrations. London: Office of the National Illustrated Library, &
Dublin, McGlashan, 1852. pp. 16, xvi, 167, 56 (adverts). Original decorated cloth, evenly tanned,
new endpapers. A very good copy.
€195
231. [IRISH YEAR BOOK] Leabhar na hÉireann. The Irish Year Book. 1908. Issued by The
National Council. Dublin: Duffy, Gill, and Sealy, Bryers & Walker, 1908. First issue, first
edition. pp. [xxviii], 348, 10 (adverts). Illustrated with Celtic designed tailpieces. Printed green
linen. Very good. Rare.
€285
The contents includes: Agriculture in Ireland; Art in Ireland; Irish Athletics from the National
standpoint [G.A.A.]; Archaeology; The Beet Sugar Industry; The Brewing Industry; The British
Empire; The Catholic Church in Ireland; The Church of Ireland-Protestant (Rev. J.O. Hannay); Celtic
Mythology; An Irish Consular Service; Consumption; Biotailte; Distilling in Ireland (translation); The
Irish Drink Bill; Early Irish Trade and Commerce; Electricity and the Irish Revival; The Fauna of
Ireland; The Feis Ceoil; Finance; Flax Growing; The Flora of Ireland; The Gaelic League; Geology of
Ireland; Some Old Dublin Industries; The I.A.O.S. and the Co-operative Movement; Insanity;
Intermediate Education; The Industrial Movement; The Irish Language; The Language and Literature;
Irish Music; Irish Musical Instruments; The Methodist Church; Milling in Ireland; The Modern Aspect
of Irish Music; A National Civil Service; The Poor Law; The Irish Poplin Industry; Popular Credit; The
Irish Poultry Trade; Presbyterian Church in Ireland (Rev. D. Stewart); Irish MSS.; Science in Ireland;
Sinn Fein-[Constitution]; Technical Instruction; Technical Instruction for Ireland; Tobacco growing in
Ireland; Transit; Unionism; University Situation; The Boglands; The Irish Woollen Industry; To the
Women of Ireland; The Year's Drama; The Year's Literature.
The contributors include: Herbert J. Reid, P.J. Devlin, F.J. Bigger, U. L. MacCumhaill, P. Egan, Rev.
T. Kelly, Ella Young, Cu Uladh, W.R. Wigham, Sean -Ghall, S. O hUadhaigh, R.F .Scharff, R.I. Best,
Richmond Noble, Helen Laird, Diarmuid Trinseach, Grenville A. Cole, Seamus Deacain, H. Norman,
Seamus O Beirn, E.J. Riordan, Donal O'Connor, Richard Henebry, W.H. Grattan Flood, M. Fitzell
Bovenizer, W.E. Shackleton, Robert O'Dwyer, David Fagan, T. Elliot, Geo. W. Russell, Charles
Dawson, N. ní Riobaird, E.E. Fournier d'Albe, N. Everard, Edward Sheehan, J.W. Tristram, C.
O'Curran, Richard Sankey, Henry Roche, Maire de Buitleir, Padraic Colum.
232. IRWIN, Clarke H. A History of Presbyterianism in Dublin and the South and West of
Ireland. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1890. First (sole) edition. pp. xxiv, 357. Blue faded
cloth. A very good copy.
€135
A study of the overall history with chapters on: The Test Act; The Subscription Controversy; Dublin
Presbyterians and Irish Grievances; The Seceders; Presbyterians and the Volunteers; and in the
Rebellion of 1798; The Union; Mission Work; The General Assembly of 1850 and the Land Question,
etc.
This is followed by a short history of every congregation outside of Ulster, including the important
Unitarian Dublin Congregations, and Extinct Congregations.
WEXFORD IN 1798
233. [JACKSON, Charles] A Narrative of the Sufferings and Escape of Charles Jackson, Late
Resident at Wexford, in Ireland. Including an Account of Several Barbarous Atrocities
committed in June, 1798, by the Irish Rebels in that Town while it was in their Possession: To
the Greater Part of which he was an Eye-Witness. The fourth edition, with additions. With list of
subscribers. London: Printed, for the Author, by H.L. Galabin, Ingram-Court, 1798. pp. viii, 82,
+errata. Later qtr. morocco on marbled boards. Printed label on upper cover. Very good.
€575
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234. JACKSON, Very Rev. J. The Basking
Shark. How it is caught by Net on Achill
Island, County Mayo, Ireland. Illustrated.
Galway: O'Gorman, n.d. pp. 12. Illustrated
stapled wrappers. Scarce.
€25
235. [JACOBITE PEERAGE] The Jacobite
Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage & Grants of
Honour compiled and annotated by Melville
Henry Massue Marquis de Ruvigny & Raineval
[1868-1921]. A facsimile of the original edition
of 1904 with an added introduction by Roger
Ararat. London & Edinburgh: Charles Skilton,
1974. 4to. pp. [xlix], xviii, 267. Title in red and black. Dedication inscription on front free
endpaper. T.e.red. A very good copy. Scarce.
€150
SIGNED BY ALBERT REYNOLDS
236. [JOINT DECLARATION] Joint Declaration by An Taoiseach, Mr. Albert Reynolds, T.D.,
and The British Prime Minister, The Rt. Hon. John Major, M.P. 15 December 1993. Dublin:
Cahill Printers, 1993. pp. 14. Stapled wrappers. Signed by Albert Reynolds. Fine.
€75
237. JOYCE, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. London: The Egoist Ltd, 23
Adelphi Terrace House, 1918. First English edition from English sheets. pp. [vi] 299. Edition
limited to 1,000 copies. Dark green cloth, title blind stamped on upper cover, spine gilt stamped
(barely visible). Light spotting to cream endpapers, otherwise a sound copy.
€375
Slocum & Cahoon A13.
238. JOYCE, James. Advertisement Leaf for James Joyce's Exiles: A Play in Three Acts,
including hitherto unpublished notes by the author, discovered after his death, and an
Introduction by Padraic Colum. Octavo, printed on one side only. 125x160mm. New York: The
Viking Press, (December) 1951. In fine condition.
€125
239. 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.
PRESENTATION COPY FROM COLM Ó LOCHLAINN
240. JOYCE, P.W. Ancient Irish Music: Comprising One Hundred Airs Hitherto Unpublished,
Many of the Old Popular Songs; and Several New Songs. Collected and edited by P.W. Joyce.
The Harmonies by Professor Glover. Reissue. London: Longmans & Dublin: Gill, 1906. 4to. pp.
ix, 104. Presentation copy inscribed: 'Mícheál Ó Cholm, Inid, 1937' - from Colm Ó Lochlainn to
Michael [Bowles], Director of Music at Radio Eireann in the 1940's. Pencil annotations by Colm
on p.2. Full green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Bound by Remnant & Edmonds, London. Binding
worn at extremities. Ink stain to endpapers and a couple of margins. Very good. Scarce.
€225
241. JOYCE, Weston St. J. Ireland's Battles and Battlefields. A series of articles reprinted from
the Evening Telegraph . Illustrated. Dublin: Evening Telegraph, 1892. 4to. pp. iv, 76 (double
column). Recent qtr. morocco on marbled boards. A very good copy. Scarce.
€75
With chapters on: The Battles of Kilmashogue, Sulcoit; and Glenmama; The Battle of Clontarf; The
Career and Battles of The Bruces; The Wars of Hugh O'Neill; Tyrrellspass and Drumfluich;
Bellanaboy on The Yellow Ford; The Disastrous Campaign of Essex; The Battle of The Curlieu Pass;
The Downfall of Essex and The Campaign of Mountjoy and Carew; The Siege and Battle of Kinsale;
The Sack of Dunboy and The Retreat of Donal O'Sullivan; The Battle of Benburb; The Battlefields of
Rathmines and Cullenswood; The Siege of Derry; The Battle of the Boyne; The Two Sieges of
Athlone; The Battle of Aughrim; The Second Siege of Limerick and The Treaty; Conclusion.
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242. JOYCE, W. St. J. Rambles Near Dublin. With numerous illustrations. Dublin: Reprinted
from the "Evening Telegraph", 1890. pp. [iii], 75, double column. Recent qtr. morocco on
marbled boards. A very good copy.
€85
The contents includes chapters on: Clondalkin, Esker, Lucan and Celbridge; The Scenery and
Antiquities of the Dodder; Kingstown and its Neighbourhood; Tallaght, Old Bawn, and the Tallaght
Hills; Maynooth and its Neighbourhood; Castleknock, Blanchardstown, Clonsilla, Clonee and
Dunboyne; Killester; St. Doulough's, Feltrim, Malahide and Kilbarrack; The Feathered Mountain,
Glencree and Lough Bray; The Scenery and Antiquities of the Dodder (II) Glenasmole; Finglas,
Dunsoughly Castle, St. Margaret's and Kilsallaghan; Brittas, Three-Castles, Blessington Poulaphuca
and Ballymore Eustace; The Bray Road, Greystones, and Newtownmountkennedy; Shanganagh, Brides
Glen, Glen Druid and Carrickmines Castle; The Rocky Valley and the Great Sugar Loaf, A Trip to
Lambay Island, etc.
KAVANAGH'S FIRST WORK
243. KAVANAGH, Patrick. Ploughman and Other Poems. London: Macmillan, 1936. pp. 35.
Printed stitched wrappers, a little sunned and frayed, otherwise very good. Rare.
€1,350
Patrick Kavanagh (1904-1967), poet and novelist, was born at Inniskeen, Co. Monaghan and educated
locally. He worked on his father's small farm in the townland of Mucker, and for a time as a cobbler.
He left school at thirteen and almost immediately began to 'dabble in verse'. George Russell recognised
his talent and published three poems in The Irish Statesman . In 1936 Macmillan published his first
book Ploughman and Other Poems, a collection of thirty-one poems written between 1930 and 1935,
which contains some of his best. Inniskeen Road achieved great popularity: "A road, a mile of
kingdom, I am king of banks and stones and every blooming thing". Kavanagh later called it `a
worthless kingdom'. This work demonstrates Kavanagh's growth from a schoolboy poet of the late
1920's to an accomplished literary artist. Here the poet sees various truths revealed through such
natural phenomena as the twisted furrows of fields, birds in song, or late blooming trees.
SIGNED BY PATRICK KAVANAGH
244. KAVANAGH, Patrick. A Soul For Sale. Poems. London: Macmillan, 1947. pp. vi, 55.
Green cloth. Signed by Patrick Kavanagh on titlepage. Repair to half-title. A very good copy in
slightly frayed d.j. Scarce.
€675
In this, his second collection of poems, Kavanagh takes his themes from the life about him in his native
Ireland, or from her tragic past, treating them sometimes in the mood of the mystic, sometimes with a
sharp realism. His portrait of an old Irish peasant in the famous poem, The Great Hunger , shows his
qualities as a writer of marked power and insight.
245. KAVANAGH, Patrick. Collected Poems. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1964. First edition.
pp. xv, 202. Natural linen, title in silver on blue paper label on spine. Fine in d.j. Scarce.
€375
CRITICISM AND GAEITY IN PLENTY
246. KAVANAGH, Patrick. Collected Pruse. With illustration. London: MacGibbon, 1967. pp.
287, [1]. Green paper boards. T.e.red. A very good copy in lightly foxed d.j.
€175
The word 'Pruse' was coined by Kavanagh. He uses it to describe the contents of this work. Monaghan
oozes through the pages. There are aphorisms, criticism and gaiety in plenty.
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247. KAVANAGH, Patrick. Lough Derg. With an introduction by Dr. Peter Kavanagh. The
Curragh: The Goldsmith Press, 1978. pp. 42. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy.
€65
In the opinion of many critics, Patrick Kavanagh's Lough Derg is a more important poem than The
Great Hunger , and certainly it is one of his best poems - a look at modern Ireland, its values and
character seen in microcosm in a pilgrimage to Lough Derg and explored with the unique Kavanagh
blend of insight, compassion and humour. A memorable poem from one of Ireland's greatest poets,
here made available on its own for the first time.
248. KAY, D.L. The Glamour of Dublin. With eight etchings by Estella F. Solomons. Dublin &
Cork: The Talbot Press Limited, 1929. pp. 108. Owner's signature on f.f.e. Qtr. linen on printed
boards in torn illustrated d.j. Very good.
€35
D.L. Kay was the pseudonym of Daniel Lawrence Kelleher.
249. KEANE, John B. Many Young Men of Twenty. A Play with Music. Dublin: Progress
House, 1961. First edition. pp. [viii], 46, [8 (music score)]. Illustrated wrappers. Very good. €45
John B. Keane (1928-2002), a son of William B. Keane and Hannah Purtill, was educated at Listowel
National School and then at St. Michael's College, Listowel. He worked as a chemist's assistant before
emigrating to England in 1951 where he held various jobs. Keane returned to Listowel in 1955 to run a
pub which became famous the length and breadth of Ireland and abroad for the wit and personality of
its owner. John B. married Mary O'Connor and had four children.
He was an Honorary Life Member of the Royal Dublin Society from 1991, served as president of Irish
PEN and was a founder member of the Society of Irish Playwrights and a member of Aosdána. In his
life John B. Keane published 46 works, including his famous plays Sive and The Field . In 2007 a lifesize bronze statue by Clare sculptor Seamus Connolly was erected in his honour in his beloved
Listowel during Writers' Week. Many Young Men of Twenty, a poignant play about emigration from
rural Ireland in the nineteen fifties, was first presented by the Southern Theatre Group at the Father
Mathew Hall in Cork.
250. KEANE, John B. The Chastitute. A Play in Two Acts. Cork: Mercier, 1981. pp. 72. Fine in
€45
John B. Keane's celebrated work about a 'Chastitute' - defined by the author as "a person without holy
orders who has never lain down with a woman".
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251. KEANE, John B. The Crazy Wall. A Play in Two Acts. Cork: Mercier, 1974. pp. 88. Fine
€45
'The Crazy Wall' had its premiere at the Theatre Royal, Waterford on June 27th, 1973 and subsequently
played at the Cork Opera House and Dublin's Gaiety Theatre.
252. KEARNEY, Peadar. The Soldier's Song and other Poems. With introduction and music.
Dublin: Talbot Press, 1928. Sm. 4to. pp. 32. Printed grey wrappers. Very rare.
€375
The contents includes: A Dedicatory Poem to Sean O'Farrelly by Peadar Ó Cearnaigh; Music of "The
Soldiers Song"; The Old Woman; Gathering Round the Flag; Michael Dwyer; Slán Libh; To Eva; The
Devil's Crew, 1916; Daddy Boy; The Three Coloured Ribbon; To England; Down in the Village;
Fragment; Seán Treacy; Arise! (The Ballykinlar March); Midnight in Ballykinlar; Comrades.
253. [KELLY, Thomas] The Arms of the Provinces, Cities and Chief Towns of Ireland and the
Principal Settlements of the Clan na nGael throughout the world. Bound with: Arms and Heraldic
Devices of Ancient Families of Ireland. Taken from the originals by the kind permission of the
Trustees of Trinity College, Dublin. Bound with: A Geography of Ireland. A description of the
country, and of the several counties. Illustrated with twenty six plates (ten in colour), and a large
coloured map of Ireland. New York: Thomas Kelly, 1885. pp. 8 (colour plates), 2-33, 1 (plate),
[1], 11 (Coats of Arms), 3 (plates), 2 (folding map), [iii], 147. Some repairs and mild soiling.
Very good in recent amateur quarter linen on paper boards. Exceedingly rare.
€375
254. KENNEDY, A. & J. An Authentic Account of the Wreck of the "Royal Charter" Steam
Clipper, on her passage from Australia to Liverpool, October 26th, 1859; with an interesting
addition of subsequent Events and Incidents, written during a Residence at Moelfra, the scene of
the Catastrophe. With two engravings. Dublin: M'Glashan & Gill, 1860. pp. [ii], 121, [2].
Illustrated paper boards, spine with recent reback. Owner's signatures on titlepage and A2. A
very good copy. Exceedingly rare.
€475
Only 3 copies located on COPAC.
The chapters include: The Wreck at Moelfra; Intelligence of the Wreck at Liverpool; Coroner's Inquest
at Llanallgo; Official Inquiry at Liverpool; Captain Taylor; Particulars of Unclaimed Bodies from the
Registers of the Rev. S.R. Hughes of Llanallgo, and the Rev. H. Hughes, of Penrhos; Lligwy;
Particulars of Remains Identified and Claimed; Mr. Bradbury's and Mr. Carew Taylor's Account of the
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Wreck; Visitors to Moelfra in Search of their Friends' Remains; The Divers; News of The Wreck at
Australia.
Charles Dickens the English novelist, who was then a cub reporter with "The Chronicle" described the
scene after stumbling over a portion of the hulk on his visit to the parish of Meolfra; "It was", wrote the
great novelist, "the uppermost fragment of the wreck of the Royal Charter, Australian trader and
passenger ship, homeward bound, that struck here on that terrible morning of the 26th of this October,
broke into three parts, went down with her treasure of at least 500 human lives, and has never stirred
since!" ... "Cast up among the stones and boulders of the beach were great spars of the lost vessel, and
masses of iron, twisted by the fury of the sea into the strangest forms. The timber was already bleached
and iron rusted; and even those objects did no violence to the prevailing air the whole scene wore, of
having being exactly the same for years and years". [Dickens visited the spot two months after the
shipwreck]. Dickens continues his description in that vivid narrative style which generations of English
people have come to know so well. He tells of the local peasantry rushing to the beach and finding "the
sea mercilessly beating over a great broken ship ... As they stood in the leaden morning stricken with
pity, leaning hard against the wind, their breath and vision often failing as the sleet and spray rushed at
them from the ever-forming and dissolving mountains of sea, and as the wool which was part of the
vessel's cargo blew in with the salt foam, they saw the ships lifeboat pull off from one of the heaps of
wreck. First there were three men in her and in a moment she capsized and there were but two; and she
was struck by a vast mass of water and there was but one; and again she was thrown bottom upwards
and that one with his arm struck through the broken planks and waving as if the help that could never
reach him, went down into the deep". He goes on to describe the kind-heartedness of the Anglesey
peasantry and the local clergyman Rev. Stephen Roose Hughes, who buried many scores of the
shipwrecked people and opened his house and heart to the agonized friends.
255. KENNEDY, P.G. An Irish Sanctuary. Birds of the North Bull. With coloured frontispiece
and numerous illustrations. Dublin: At the Sign of the Three Candles, 1953. pp. 168. Qtr. linen
on illustrated boards. Signed presentation copy from the author to the historian Dr. George Little.
A fine copy.
€145
See item 255, 257 & 266
256. KENNELLY, Brendan. Bread. Poems. Dublin: Tara, 1971. pp. 30. Edition limited to 1,000
copies. Some browning, otherwise very good in printed stapled wrappers. Very scarce.
€95
LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE ARTIST
257. KERNOFF, Harry. 12 Woodcuts by Harry Kernoff, R.H.A. Dublin: At the Sign of the
Three Candles, n.d. (c.1945). 4to. pp. [iv], [26]. Edition limited to 300 copies, signed by the
artist. Half coarse linen on grey paper boards, title printed on upper cover. Some minor spotting
to endpapers, otherwise a very good copy.
€875
Harry Kernoff (1900-1974), artist, was born in London, son of a Russian father and Spanish mother. In
1914 the family moved to Dublin, where he studied at the Metropolitan School of Art and won the
Taylor Scholarship in 1923. He began his working life as a woodworker in his father's furniture
business, and this led him to the production of woodcuts. During his career of more than fifty years he
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painted most of the literary figures of Dublin, including Joyce and Yeats, and many of the people of
Dun Chaoin and the Blasket Islands. Three collections of his woodcuts were published in limited
editions.
Although this item has no publisher's imprint, it is evidently a Three Candles item, having their logo on
the final page. A very rare item not attributed to Colm's firm in any of the catalogues, checklists or
prospecti.
LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE ARTIST
258. KERNOFF, Harry. Thirty-Six Woodcuts. With foreword by Aaron A. Branavel. Dublin:
Privately published, and printed by Hely's, 1951. 4to. Limited edition of 400 copies, signed and
numbered by Kernoff. Printed cloth. Very good.
€875
The third of Kernoff's three books of woodcuts, printed under the artist's personal supervision. Scarce.
T.W. MOODY'S COPY
259. KIELY, Benedict. Counties of Contention. A study of the origins and implications of the
Partition of Ireland. Cork: Mercier, 1945. pp. vii, 188. Tan paper boards, title in black on upper
cover and spine. With the bookplate of T.W. Moody and some marginalia by him. Very good in
frayed d.j.
€75
AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL SIGNED
260. KIELY, Benedict. Land Without Stars. London: Christopher Johnson, 1946. First edition.
pp. ix, 221. Reddish brown cloth. Signed by the author. Very good.
€375
261. KILFEATHER, T.P. The Connaught Rangers. Campaigns of the famous fighting Irish
regiment in service of the British crown. Tralee: Anvil, 1969. pp. [iii], 212. Wrappers. Fine. €45
Treating the mutiny of the 1st Battalion Connaught Rangers at Jullundur and Solan Barracks, India, in
protest against the murderous brutality of the Black-and-Tans and Auxiliaries who had been unleashed
by Lloyd George against the Irish people. Fourteen Connaught Rangers were condemned to death but
only Private Daly from Tyrrellspass, Co. Westmeath was executed. Before he died in a letter to his
mother he wrote: "It is all for Ireland and I am not afraid to die".
262. KILGANNON, Tadhg. Sligo and Its Surroundings. A descriptive and pictorial guide to the
history, scenery, antiquities and places of interest in and around Sligo. Profusely illustrated and
with maps of the county and town. Sligo: Kilgannon, 1926. First edition. pp. xxii 360. Green
cloth, title and Round Tower in gilt on upper cover and in gilt on spine. Owner's signature on
f.f.e. A fine copy. Scarce.
€150
The chapters include: Story of Sligo; The Borough of Sligo; Lough Gill; The County of Sligo, and
Industrial and Business Section.
263. [KILMAINHAM JAIL] Ghosts of Kilmainham. Dublin: Kilmainham Jail Restoration
Committee 1963. pp. 57. Illustrated wrappers. Presentation copy inscribed to Seán Ó Cuileáin by
Piaras Mac Lochlainn. Fine copy. Two Christmas cards showing the Kilmainham Madonna,
printed for Seán Cullen, laid in.
€45
SCARCE FIRST EDITION
264. KINSELLA, Thomas. Another September. Poems. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1958. First
edition. pp. iv, 48. Grey cloth, title in black on spine. Fine in fine d.j.
€175
Miller 29.
His first trade collection, preceded only by small limited editions. "With Another September, Thomas
Kinsella firmly established his reputation as a poet. This was the first of our books to be chosen by the
Poetry Book Society and also the first book published outside England to be chosen by the Society. It is
also the first fully 'professional' publication from the Dolmen Press as, with the move to a Georgian
basement in Upper Mount Street, Dublin, the publishing and printing work became a fulltime
occupation for me" - Liam Miller.
265. KINSELLA, Thomas. Nightwalker. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1967. pp. 24. Printed wrappers,
small stain on upper cover.
€25
RARE DOLMEN PRESS ITEM
266. KINSELLA, Thomas. Nuchal (a fragment) by Thomas Kinsella. A portfolio containing
four prints by Patrick Hickey, John Kelly, Leslie MacWeeney and Anne Yeats. Dublin: Printed
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by the Dolmen Press for the Graphic Studio, December, 1970. Limited to 65 copies only reserved
for the poet.
€675
Each print is signed by the artist and numbered 5/65.
LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THOMAS KINSELLA & ANNE YEATS
267. KINSELLA, Thomas One. Illustrated by Anne Yeats. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1974.
Peppercanister 5. Tall 8vo. pp. [32]. Sewn in plain white card covers with dustjacket attached at
the spine. Edition limited to 124 copies on handmade paper, quarter bound in calf and signed by
the author and illustrator. T.e.g. A very good copy.
€675
WITH LE FANU'S PEDIGREE OF THE QUIN FAMILY
268. KIRKPATRICK, T. Percy C. Henry Quin, M.D., President and Fellow of the King and
Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland, and King's Professor of the Practice of Physic. (17181791). Illustrated. Dublin: Printed at the University Press, by Ponsonby & Gibbs, 1919. pp. 66.
William Le Fanu's copy, with manuscript note and large pedigree of the Quin family by Le Fanu.
Printed wrappers. A very good copy.
€235
Henry Quin (1718-1791) was born in Dublin, the son of Thomas Quin, apothecary and Master of the
Guild of St. Luke. He studied medicine at Trinity College, where he graduated in 1743. He then
travelled on the continent for six years, during which he obtained a doctorate of the University of
Padua. Shortly after his return, having passed the required examination, in September 1749 he was
elected King's professor of the practice of physic at the medical school of Trinity College. He was later
Fellow and seven times President of the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland. He built up
a large and lucrative practice in Dublin, but also devoted himself to the arts and to the support of artists
in the city. These included the Scottish engraver James Tassie and Dublin medallist William Mossop.
He died at his home on St. Stephen's Green, Dublin. He married Ann Monck (d. 1788) in the 1750s.
His daughter Anne married Charles Monck, 1st Viscount Monck. His son Charles William followed in
his father's footsteps and became President of the College of Physicians in 1789. His other son, Henry
George (1760–1805), was a noted book collector; he travelled widely on the continent and bought at
auctions there as well as in Ireland and England. Although by all accounts in good spirits, and
financially well off, he shot himself in the heart with a pistol as he lay in bed in Dublin on 16 February
1805.
The pedigree traces the Quins back to the 17th century and one Mark Quin, apothecary who was Lord
Mayor of Dublin in 1667. They were also connected to the Bellinghams, Whitsheds, Brownriggs,
Moncks, and the Parnells of Avondale.
269. KIRKPATRICK, W.B. Chapters in Irish History. London: S.W. Partridge & Dublin: W.
M'Gee, n.d. (1875). Second edition. pp. viii, 176. With label and stamps of the 'Ferguson Bequest
Fund'. Bound in cont. half calf by J. Ferguson of Glasgow, with their ticket on front pastedown.
Very good.
€125
The contents includes chapters on: Ireland before the time of St. Patrick; St. Patrick and St. Bridget;
Columba and Columbanus, Missionaries of the Ancient Irish Church; The Decline of the Ancient Irish
Church; The Anglo-Saxon Invasion; Ireland before the Reformation; The Introduction of Protestantism
into Ireland; Slow Progress of the Reformation in Ireland Explained; The Introduction of
Presbyterianism into Ireland; The Insurrection of 1641; The Acts of Settlement; The Revolution;
William Prince of Orange; The Penal Laws; The Legislative Independence of Ireland; The Union;
Roman Catholic Emancipation, etc.
270. [KNOCK APPARITION] The Apparition of Our Blessed
Lady as Witnessed at Knock Church, County Mayo, 21st August,
1879. Commemorative medal. Depicted on upper side is the gable of
the chapel where the apparition happened showing: Blessed
Immaculate Mother, St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist.
On lower side along the circumference the legend 'Apparition at
Knock Chapel Co. Mayo' and in centre 'Blessed / Immaculate /
Mother / St. Joseph / St. John the Evangelist / Pray for Us'. A copper
medal with chain hole affixed. 32mm in diameter. In very good
condition.
€125
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271. [KNOCK PILGRIMAGE] Great Southern Railways --- Omnibus Department. Knock
Pilgrimage Sunday, 16th August, 1936. Schedule of routes, departure times and fares. Single
page, 145 x 240mm. Single sheet, printed on one side. The Echo Printing Co., Enniscorthy. €35
272. KNOX, Hubert Thomas. Notes on the Early History of the Dioceses of Tuam, Killala and
Achonry. Dublin: Hodges Figgis, 1904. pp. xvi, 410. Recent full tan calf. Spine with double
labels. A fine copy. Very rare.
€375
Not in Bradshaw or Gilbert. COPAC locates only 2 copies.
The chapters includes: The Chronology of St. Patrick; Political and Tribal Divisions; St. Patrick's Work
in Connaught; Information from the Tripartite Life; Remarks on the Record; Topographical Notes; The
Companions of St. Patrick; St. Patrick's Church; Enda of Aran; The Church Under the Abbots;
Establishment of Dioceses; The Old Organisation and the New; The Deanery of Shrule; The
Archbishops of Tuam; Diocese of Mayo; Diocese of Annaghdown; Various Antiquities; See Lands;
The Parishes; Bodkin's Visitation and Notes; The Division of Connaught and Thomond; Valor
Beneficiorum and Notes; Benefices and Incumbents in 1591; List of Old Churches and Graveyards;
Distribution of Rectories in the 16th Century; The Abbeys; The Monastic Orders, etc.
273. 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. Rare. €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
Galloglass,
Bourke
MacWilliam Iochtar, Gibbons, Jennings, Philbin,
Barret, Joyce, Jordan, Costello, etc.
274. KNOX, Hubert Thomas. The History of the
County of Mayo to the Close of the Sixteenth
Century. With illustrations and three maps. Exact
facsimile reprint of the first edition (Dublin, 1908).
Castlebar: De Búrca, 1982. Roy. 8vo. pp. xvi, 451.
Very good in d.j.
€75
Prime historical reference work on the history of the
County Mayo from the earliest times to 1600. It deals
at length with the De Burgo Lordship of Connaught.
Illustrated with a large folding detailed map of the
county, coloured in outline. There are 49 pages of
genealogies of the leading families of Mayo:
O'Connor,
MacDonnell
Galloglass,
Bourke
MacWilliam Iochtar, Gibbons, Jennings, Philbin,
Our first venture into the world of Irish publishing.
Barret,
Joyce,
Jordan,
Costello,
etc.
275. KOHL, J.G. Travels in Ireland. London: Bruce and Wyld, 1844. pp. xii, 9-417, [2
(publisher's list)]. Spine slightly tanned, otherwise very good. Scarce.
€275
Johann Georg Kohl, the German travel writer came to Ireland in September 1842 "without" as he said
himself, "any object in view other than to become acquainted with the country, and to see everything
that was interesting and remarkable in it". Kohl was an experienced and astute observer and his
widespread travels allowed him to compare Irish conditions with the general European experience. His
book on Ireland is therefore an unbiased account from a neutral traveller unlike many of his
contemporaries and provides a most valuable insight into the conditions of pre-Famine Ireland.
Landing in Dublin, he found the houses and buildings there much the same as those in English cities.
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From there he proceeded to Edgeworthstown, on to Athlone, Shannon, Limerick, Kilrush, Tarbert,
Tralee, The Lakes, Bantry, Cork, Kilkenny, Waterford, Wexford, Belfast, Giant's Causeway, Coast of
Antrim - the MacQuillans and MacDonnells, Fair Head, etc.
276. LANGRISHE, Richard. Handbook to the Cathedral Church of St. Canice, Kilkenny 1879.
With engraved frontispiece and folding plan. Kilkenny: Printed at the "Moderator" Office, 1879.
pp. 38, + errata. Purple cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. Some additional marginalia probably by
the author. A very good copy. Very rare.
€185
Only 4 copies located on COPAC.
277. LAWLOR, Chris. The Massacre on Dunlavin Green. A Story of the 1798 Rebellion.
Illustrated. Naas: Printed by the Leinster Leader, 1998. pp. 175. Presentation copy from the
author. Fine in illustrated wrappers.
€25
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
278. LAWRENCE, T.E. Secret Despatches from Arabia. By T.E. Lawrence. Published by
Permission of the Foreign Office. Foreword by A.W. Lawrence. Portrait frontispiece. The
Golden Cockerel Press, n.d. [1939]. Large 8vo. pp. 173. First English edition. Printed in Perpetua
type on Arnold's mound-made paper. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in quarter black Niger
morocco over cream cloth boards. Spine divided into six compartments by five raised bands, title
and Golden Cockerel device in gilt. Limited to 970 copies. T.e.g. A very good copy.
€475
O'Brien A226.
Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO (18881935), known professionally as T. E. Lawrence,
was a British Army officer renowned especially
for his liaison role during the Sinai and Palestine
Campaign and the Arab Revolt against Ottoman
Turkish rule of 1916-18. The breadth and variety
of his activities and associations, and his ability
to describe them vividly in writing, earned him
international fame as Lawrence of Arabia, a title
which was used for the 1962 film based on his
World War I activities. Peter O'Toole played the
leading role.
Lawrence was born illegitimate in Tremadog,
Wales, in August 1888 to Sir Thomas Chapman
and Sarah Junner, a governess who was herself
illegitimate. His Anglo-Irish father, Thomas
Robert Tighe Chapman, who in 1914 inherited
the title of Westmeath in Ireland as seventh
Baronet, had left his wife Edith for his daughters'
governess Sarah Junner. Chapman had left his
wife and first family in Ireland to live with Sarah
Junner. They afterwards called themselves Mr
and Mrs Lawrence.
The majority of Lawrence's contributions to the
Arab Bulletin are published in this volume. In
addition to these items, Syrian Cross Currents,
previously unpublished, is included; this was taken from a manuscript on Arab Bureau paper.
279. LE BROCQUY, Louis. Studies Towards an Image of James Joyce. Illustrated. Genoa: S.
Marco dei Giustiniani, 1977. pp. [36]. Owner's address on lower cover. Very good in illustrated
wrappers.
€45
The career of Louis le Brocquy (1916-2012), one of Ireland's most distinguished artists, spanned fifty
years of creative work including drawing, graphics, tapestry and design. "Louis le Brocquy belongs to a
category who have always existed - obsessed by figuration outside and on the other side of illustration who are aware of the vast and potent possibilities of inventing ways by which fact and appearance can
be re-conjugated" - Francis Bacon.
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280. LEDWIDGE, Francis. The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge. With introduction by
Lord Dunsany. Portrait frontispiece of the poet. New York: Brentano's, 1919. First American
edition. pp. 291. Owner's signature on f.f.e. Qtr. green cloth on paper boards. Minor wear to
corners, otherwise a very good copy. Scarce.
€65
Ledwidge died in the trenches near Ypres in Belgium on July 31, 1917. His lament for Thomas
MacDonagh, set into Slane Bridge, is appropriately his own:
"He shall not hear the bittern cry
In the wild sky where he is lain,
Nor voices of the sweeter birds
Above the wailing of the rain".
281. LE FANU, J. Sheridan. Borrhomeo the Astrologer. A Monkish Tale. Introduction by W.J.
McCormack. Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1985. pp. 35, [2]. Edition limited to 150 copies
printed on vellum parchment (130 of which were for sale). Original blue paper wrappers, title on
printed label on upper cover. A very good copy.
€175
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873), novelist and journalist, was born in Dublin and educated by his
father, a clergyman, and at T.C.D. While an undergraduate he became a contributor to Dublin
University Magazine and about 1837 wrote two stirring ballads, Paudrig Crohoore and Shamus
O'Brien, which won wide popularity. He was called to the bar two years later, but abandoned it to
devote himself to journalism and writing. He bought three Dublin newspapers and amalgamated them
as the Evening Mail, which flourished for over a hundred years.
Outgoing, witty and gregarious, Sheridan Le Fanu withdrew from society following the death of his
wife in 1858 and took to writing the novels for which he is best remembered, The House by the
Churchyard, Uncle Silas, and a collection of stories In a Glass Darkly, which included The Watcher ,
the most spine-chilling of them all. From 1869 to 1872 he was proprietor and editor of the Dublin
University Magazine. He was a friend of Charles Dickens.
First published anonymously in The Dublin University Magazine of January 1862. 8vo. pp. 35. A wellcrafted story set in Milan during the plague of 1630. It relates the attempts of Borrhomeo to acquire the
grand Arcanum which is capable of conferring long life and turning base metals into gold.
LIMITED EDITION
282. LE FANU, V.C. Selected Poems and Translations of Horace. Dublin: Orwell Press, 1939.
pp. 31. Edition limited to 200 copies. Inscription on f.f.e. Very good in wrappers with d.j. €125
283. LETTS, W.M. Songs from Leinster. Illustrated. Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, 1947. pp. ix,
71. Qtr. linen, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Signature of previous owner on f.f.e. Fine in
fine d.j.
€455
284. [LIBERTIES OF DUBLIN]
Memorandum that at Midsummer
Assembly 1764 George Maquay
Merchant was admitted to the
Franchises and Liberties of the City
of Dublin by Service and took the
usual Oaths & was enrolled In
Testimony whereof of the Seal of y
Tholsel Office is hereto affixed and
the same is Signed by y Town
Clerks thereof this 26th day of
September,
1764.
Engraved
Memorandum printed on vellum,
with manuscript entry. Signed.
Partial loss to lower border
infringing on engraved border. A
rare item.
€235
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ILLUSTRATED BY LAWRENCE
285. [LISDOONVARNA] Guide to Lisdoonvarna, including twenty views of the district.
Lisdoonvarna: Improvements Committee, n.d. (c.1900). pp. 49, + adverts. Recent cloth. Very
good. Very rare.
€235
The promoters of this guide expresses their gratitude to Dr. Conor McGuire of Claremorris for his
massive contribution to this publication. With excellent photography by William Lawrence.
PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED BY DAN BREEN
286. LITTLE, Dr. George A. Malachi Horan Remembers. With folding map and coloured
portrait frontispiece of Malachi Horan of Killenarden. Dublin: Gill, 1944. pp. xiv, 162. Qtr. linen
on paper boards. Presentation copy signed by Dan Breen to his niece, dated Xmas 1944. Small
ink stain to spine. A very good copy.
€235
Malachi Horan was born at Killenarden, ten miles from Dublin in 1847 at the height of the Great
Famine. Malachi's people seem to have escaped the rigours of the Famine: "We lived well", he says.
"We would have stirabout and sweet-milk, wheaten bread (sometimes made fancy with fraughans from
Seechon, sun-dried and used like raisins). Cabbage was our chief vegetable; we had it with sometimes
a little meat and, of course, always potatoes".
287. LLOYD, John. Lloyd's Tour of Clare 1780 (From Henn's exact reprint of 1893). With map
on front endpaper. Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 1986. pp. xvi, 60. Fine.
€10
THE KATHERINE FITZGERALD MARRIAGES
288. LOFTUS, Dudley. Digamias adikia: or, The First marriage of Katherine Fitzgerald, (now
Lady Decies): Contracted in facie Ecclesiæ with John Power, now Lord of Decies, asserted, by
Dudly Loftus, D.LL. and Judge of the Prerogative Court in Ireland. London: [s.n.], Printed in the
year, 1677. 4to. pp. [6], 26. Recent half green morocco on marbled boards. Sweeney states this
work is exceedingly scarce.
€1,650
Wing L2821. Sweeney 2874. ESTC
R31703. O'Higgins 4.11a.
Property was at the root of this marital
scandal and the villain of the piece was
Katherine's uncle. Katherine became
the ward of her uncle, Lord Power of
Curraghmore, who, in many ways,
would seem to have been an efficient
guardian. However, in 1673, being
over-desirous of gaining a rich
inheritance for his family, he quite
unjustifiably arranged a marriage
between his eldest surviving son, John
Power and the heiress of Dromana,
Katherine Fitzgerald. The ceremony
was performed before Gilbert Sheldon,
Archbishop of Canterbury, and took
place at the chapel of Lambert, the
bride being not yet thirteen years of
age and the bridegroom only seven. In
October of the same year Richard Lord
Power of Curraghmore by letters
Patent was created Earl of Tyrone and
Viscount Decies. Two years after her
uncle's elevation to the Earldom,
Katherine, the Lady of Decies, as she
was called, challenged the validity of
the marriage ceremony on the grounds
of not having given true consent, as
"she disagreed to the same", and in
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May, 1675 she, in company with several witnesses, appeared before the Archbishop of Canterbury and
made her protest. She eloped with Edward Villiers eldest son of George, 6th Viscount Grandison
entered into a form of marriage with him. Through his connection with the Royal Court they managed
to extricate themselves from the unfortunate position in which their hastily contracted marriage had
landed them, and they were able to enjoy, undisturbed, the considerable property her father had left her
and the validity of her marriage with Edward Villiers was never again questioned.
Dr Dudley Loftus (1619-1695) jurist and noted orientalist was born the second son of Sir Adam Loftus,
into a family of seventeen siblings on his great-grandfather's estate of Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin. He
graduated from Trinity College, later he entered Oxford University in 1639 on the advice of Bishop
Usher, taking his Master of Arts degree in 1641.
In his lifetime he was acclaimed as a linguist, and his reputation as an orientalist was unrivalled thanks
to his Latin translations from Ethiopic, Armenian, Syriac, Hebrew, Arabic, and Persian texts. He served
four times as a Member of the Parliament of Ireland, representing Naas, the combined Counties of
Kildare and Wicklow in the Third Protectorate Parliament of 1659 at Westminster, Bannow, Fethard
(County Wexford).
He was also Vicar General of Ireland, Judge of the Prerogative Court, and Senior Master of Chancery.
He inherited the family seat of Rathfarnham castle in 1659. Despite his many accomplishments,
Archbishop Marsh wrote of him that "he never knew so much Learning in the Keeping of a Fool".
Even so, the archbishop collected the majority of Loftus' manuscripts and housed them at a public
library, (Marsh's Library), next to St. Patrick's Cathedral, where they can be seen to this day.
289. LONG, Des. Ed. by. Awakening the Spirit of Freedom. 50th Anniversary Booklet.
Illustrated. Limerick: Coiste Cuimneacháin Seán Sabhat, n.d. (2007). pp. 88. Signed by the
author. Fine in illustrated wrappers.
€65
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the deaths of Seán Sabhat (Sean South) and Feargal O'Hanlon
who were killed in an attack on Brookeborough Police Barracks (Northern Ireland) on New Year's
Day, 1957.
290. LONGFIELD, Ada K. The Manufacture of "Raised Stucco" or "Papier Mâché" Papers in
Ireland, c.1750-70. Illustrated. Dublin: Reprinted from The Journal of the Royal Society of
Antiquaries of Ireland, 1948. pp. 55-62. Wrappers, with rusting from staples. Very good.
€25
INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR
291. LONGLEY, Michael. The Echo Gate: Poems 1975 - 1979. London: Secker & Warburg,
1979. First edition. pp. 53. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Inscribed by the author on f.f.e. Fine
in fine d.j.
€135
The fourth collection of Michael Longley's poems.
A UNIQUE COLLABORATION
292. LONGLEY, Michael. The Lake Without a Name.
Poems of Mayo. Wood engravings by Jeffrey Morgan.
Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 2005. First edition. pp. [xvi], 52,
[2]. Edition limited to 275 numbered copies signed by the
author and illustrator. Qtr. linen on grass paper boards. Fine
in lined slipcase. Rare.
€375
The fine press limited edition of The Lake Without a Name
consists of 275 signed and numbered copies. It is printed on 170
gsm mould-made Zerkall paper with a deckle edge. The twentynine wood engravings were fashioned on endgrain boxwood
supplied by blockmaker Chris Daunt of Gateshead. The edition is
printed letterpress at Libanus Press, Marlborough, in Wiltshire,
and is quarter-bound with Frogmore Mill grass paper boards and
Ratchford Colorado Amazon cloth, presented in a lined slipcase
with a bow edge. The Lake Without a Name is the fruit of an
enduring friendship between poet and artist, a unique
collaboration between two extraordinary craftsmen.
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LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
293. LONGLEY, Michael. The Weather in Japan. London: Cape Poetry, 2000. First edition. pp.
x, 72. Edition limited to 150 copies, signed and numbered by the author. Decorated boards. Fine
in glassine wrapper.
€245
294. LOWE, Robson. 1922 Ireland 1972 [Irish Postage Stamps]. Illustrated. London: Robson
Lowe Limited, n.d. (c.1972). pp. 12. Illustrated wrappers.
€25
MAURICE CRAIG'S COPY
295. [LUCKOMBE, Philip] A Tour through Ireland; wherein the Present State of the Kingdom
is considered; and the most noted Cities, Towns, Seats, Buildings, Loughs, &c. described.
Interspersed with Observations on the Manners, Customs, Antiquities, Curiosities, and Natural
History of that Country. To which is prefixed a General Description of the Kingdom; with the
distances between the ports, &c. on the coast of Great-Britain, and those on that of Ireland. Lacks
folding map. Dublin: Printed by J. and R. Byrn, Sycamore-Alley, For Messrs. Whitestone,
Sleater, Sheppard, Wilson, Spotswood, Beatty, White, Wogan, Perrin, and Byrne, 1780. 12mo.
pp. xxiv, 362, 17 (index). Cont. full calf, spine professionally rebacked. Early owner's signature
and stamp on titlepage. Bookplate of Maurice Craig on front pastedown. Small hole and tear to
B4. A very good copy. Rare.
€375
No copy listed on COPAC.
Philip Luckombe (1730?-1803), miscellaneous writer, was born at Exeter. After acting as a printer for
twelve years, he is said to have entered 'one of the Oxford colleges' (Nichols), but his name does not
figure in the university register. He subsequently settled in London, and did much miscellaneous
literary work. Besides editing several dictionaries and cyclopaedias, he wrote books on printing, and
made a special study of conchology. His collection of shells was considerable, and his learning brought
him the acquaintance of Bishop Percy. In writing his book on Ireland he seems to have borrowed
heavily from a number of contemporary writers including Chetwood, Twiss, Bush and Campbell.
Eighteenth century tours in Ireland are relatively scarce and despite the fact that Luckombe may have
plagiarised the works of others this book is a considerable rarity and interesting in its own right. His
tour in Ireland is arranged in four 'journeys': the first through the South East part of this Kingdom, the
second through the 'South, and South West Counties', the third through the 'South West, and part of the
Western counties' and the fourth journey is 'From Dublin to the North-East, North and Western Part'.
The work is indexed.
296. LYDON, James. Ed. by. The English in Medieval Ireland. Dublin: R.I.A., 1984. pp. iv,
168. Brown paper boards, title in black on spine. Fine in d.j.
€75
After the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland in the twelfth century, settlers imported new customs and
language. These essays examine the cultural mix, which eventually led to their becoming 'Hibernis
Ipsis Hiberniores' and, much later, in some instances the Anglo-Irish.
297. LYNCH, Patricia. PANKHURST, E. Sylvia. & O'CALLAGHAN, Mary. Rebel Ireland.
Thoughts on Easter Week, 1916 by E. Sylvia Pankhurst. Scenes from the Rebellion by Patricia
Lynch. The first Sinn Fein member of Parliament by Mary O'Callaghan. London: Workers'
Socialist Federation, [1919]. pp. 16. Worn stapled wrappers, title printed on upper cover. €475
COPAC locates 2 copies only. None in Ireland.
Patricia Lynch was born in Cork. She received her education at schools in Ireland, England, Scotland
and Belgium. The young Patricia Lynch was a strong supporter of the cause of the Suffragettes, and
was full of admiration for Sylvia Pankhurst. After finishing her schooling she joined Pankhurst, who,
as well as campaigning for women's votes, carried out political and social work in the East End of
London. Patricia loved the direct, no-nonsense Cockneys and retained their accent to the end of her
days. She never lost sight of her Irishness and was an active member of the Gaelic League, which was
committed to establishing an Irish-speaking nation and to fostering Irish culture and customs. She made
frequent trips to Ireland to support the 'Cause'.
She became a journalist and in 1916, and on the outbreak of the Easter Rising she was sent to Dublin
by Pankhurst to report on events for The Workers' Dreadnought. Patricia joined the great number of
soldiers in Euston Station on the leg of her journey to Ireland. On the boat she met one of the soldiers
with an Irish ascent, who told her that he had enlisted to help the Belgians and that he did not want to
fire on people who fighting for their country. When the boat docked at Dun Laoghaire, Patricia was
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told that no civilians were allowed to land, but eventually with the help of her soldier friend, who
claimed that she was his sister, she was allowed to disembark. When she reached Dublin, she found
barricades across the streets and the air heavy with the smell of burning and dense clouds of smoke,
rows of shops had their front windows broken, and goods were scattered among the broken glass.
O'Connell Street and Eden Quay were black with dust, and soldiers and police stood along the
pavements preventing people from entering side streets. The G. P.O. was peppered with bullets, and
bodies were being brought out from the ruins. Patricia felt that she had entered a nightmare world.
Before leaving London, Sylvia Pankhurst had given Patricia a list of contacts which included George
Russell (Æ). Patricia first met Æ in his office in Merrion Square. She describes in her article on the
Rising how the great man wept openly as he told her that his friends James Connolly and Francis
Sheehy-Skeffington had just been shot. Sheehy-Skeffington, a pacifist and a socialist, had been
attempting to prevent the looting of bombed-out shops when he was arrested and later killed by a
British officer. As a pacifist, Sheehy-Skeffington had taken no part in the Rising and indeed had
condemned what he called 'barbarous warfare' - which made his killing all the more cruel.
In her article, Patricia goes on to describe the suffering of the people of Dublin, especially those
women who were searching for their husbands and sons and didn't know if their bodies were still lying
in the rubble of the blackened ruins. She also describes the scramble for food, the crying of frightened
children, the heroism of the rebels, the confusion of some of the soldiers, whose loyalties were divided,
and the scenes of utter confusion.
Lynch married socialist historian R. M. Fox in Dublin in 1922 and they settled in Glasnevin. She died
in Monkstown, County Dublin in 1972. Her semi-autobiographical A Story-Teller's Childhood was
published in 1947.
298. LYNCH, Patricia. Knights of God. Stories of the Irish Saints. Illustrated by Alfred E. Kerr.
London: Hollis & Carter, 1945. First edition. pp. 190. Very good in patterned brown cloth. €45
The contents include: Saint Ciaran; Saint Patrick - Roman Slave; Enda of Aran; Saint Brigid - The
Light of Kildare; Brendan The Voyager; Columcille - Dove of the Church; Kevin of Glendalough;
Lawrence O'Toole - Captive Prince; Eithne - Who Strayed from Tir na nOg.
299. LYNCH, Patricia. King of the Tinkers. Illustrated by Katharine C. Lloyd. London: Dent,
1948. Second. pp. ix, 241. Grey decorated cloth. Fine in sun-tanned and frayed d.j.
€75
With seven colour plates and line drawings by Katherine C. Lloyd.
300. LYNCH, Patricia. The Dark Sailor of Youghal. Illustrated by J. Sullivan. London: Dent,
1951. First edition. pp. 224. Fine in slightly frayed d.j. Scarce.
€135
301. LYNCH, Patricia. Tales of Irish Enchantment. Illustrated by Fergus O'Ryan. Dublin:
Clonmore & Reynolds Ltd., 1952. First edition. pp. 186. Green cloth, spine evenly faded.
Owner's stamp on f.f.e. Very good. Scarce.
€60
302. LYNCH, Patricia. Delia Daly of Galloping Green. Illustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe.
London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1958. Second edition. pp. [viii], 186. Green paper boards, title in
gilt on spine. A fine copy in a very good d.j.
€65
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303. MACARDLE, Dorothy. Tragedies of Kerry 1922-1923. Seventh edition. Dublin: Irish
Book Bureau, 1922. pp. 60, + adverts. Name clipped from titlepage. Very good in frayed
€25
304. McCABE, Patrick. The Butcher Boy. London: Picador, 1992. The true first edition. pp. [v],
215. Black paper boards, title in silver on spine. Fine in fine d.j.
€165
305. MacCATHMHAOIL, Seosamh [Joseph Campbell] Mearing Stones. Leaves from my
Note-Book on Tramp in Donegal. With sixteen pencil drawings by the author. Dublin: Maunsel,
1911. Sm. 4to. pp. ix [1] 56, 16 (drawings). Original blue paper boards, printed title on upper
cover. Wear to spine with printed letterpiece. A very good copy.
€175
COPAC locates 5 copies. The TCD copy only in Ireland.
306. MacCATHMHAOIL, Seosamh. The Mountainy Singer. Dublin: Maunsel, 1909. Sm. 4to.
pp. viii, 72. Grey paper wrappers, title printed on upper cover. Recent repair to spine. Some
fraying to edges, otherwise very good.
€75
307. MacDONAGH, James Christopher. History of Ballymote and the Parish of Emlaghfad.
Dublin: 1936. pp. [vi], 205. Green cloth. Ballymote Castle and the Arms of Brett, Scanlan,
MacDonagh and Taaffe in gilt on upper cover. A fine copy. Scarce.
€145
308. McDONAGH, Michael. Irish Graves in England. Illustrated. Dublin: Evening Telegraph,
1888. pp. 148 (double column). Recent qtr. morocco on marbled boards. Very good.
€75
The contents includes biographical sketches of noted Irish people who were buried in England: Oliver
Goldsmith; Laurence Sterne; Edmund Burke; Thomas Crofton Croker; James Barry; Rev. Arthur
O'Leary; Thomas Carmody; Lady Morgan; Samuel Lover; Thomas Parnell; John Wilson Croker; Hon.
Thomas Boyle and George Farquahar; John Henry Foley; Catherine Hayes; Lord Castlereagh; Michael
Balfe and Vincent Wallace; Duke of Wellington; Richard Brinsley Sheridan; William Mulready; Peg
Woffington; Feargus O'Connor; Thomas Moore; William Maginn; John Francis O'Donnell; Kitty
Clive; Daniel Maclise; Charles Macklin; Mrs. S.C. Hall; Henry O'Brien; The "Fair Geraldine"; Sir
Martin Archer Shee; Rev. George Croly "Pamela"; Mrs. Ellen Forrester; Bartholomew Simmons.
SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THOMAS Mac DONAGH
309. MacDONAGH, Thomas. [Signatory of 1916 Proclamation] Lyrical Poems. Dublin: Irish
Review, 1913. Quarto. pp. 86. Blue faded cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Signed
presentation copy from Thomas Mac Donagh to Miss Nora Hartigan, dated 27. IV. 1915. T.e.g.,
others uncut. Light fading to spine, cover a little faded, otherwise very good.
€2,250
Thomas MacDonagh (1878-1916) was a nationalist, poet, playwright and a leader of the 1916 Easter
Rising. Born in Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary MacDonagh followed his parents into teaching. Interested
in the Irish language, he joined the Gaelic League and while staying on the Aran Islands he first
encountered Pádraic Pearse. He joined the teaching staff of St. Enda's and later he became a professor
of English at the National University. He co-edited The Irish Review and was also a poet. He was coopted to the Military Council weeks before the Easter Rebellion in 1916. He was executed by firing
squad on 3 May 1916, aged thirty-eight.
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310. MacDOWELL, Maeve Cavanagh. In the Time of
"The Tans". A Play in Three Acts. Dublin: Talbot Press, n.d.
[1920s]. pp. 48. Illustrated stapled wrappers.
€185
Characters include: An Imperialist, An I.R.A. leader, 'Blackand-Tans' and soldiers.
AUTHOR'S SECOND NOVEL
311. McGAHERN, John. The Dark. London: Faber, 1965.
First edition. pp. 191. Black cloth. A fine copy in repaired
d.j.
€275
312. McGAHERN, John. The Pornographer. London:
Faber, 1979. First edition. pp. 252. Brown paper boards,
title in gilt on spine. Fine in d.j.
€250
313. McGAHERN, John. The Collected Stories. London:
Faber, 1992. pp. [viii], 408. Brown paper boards, title in gilt
on spine. Fine in very good illustrated d.j.
€175
The contents includes: Wheels, Why We're Here, Coming into
his Kingdom, Christmas, Hearts of Oak and Bellies of Brass,
Strandhill, the Sea, The Key, Korea, Lavin, My Love, My Umbrella, Peaches, The Recruiting Officer,
The Beginning of an Idea, A Slip-up, All Sorts of Impossible Things, Faith, Hope and Charity, The
Stoat, Doorways, The Wine Breath, Along the Edges, Swallows, Gold Watch, Parachutes, A Ballad,
Like All Other Men, Old Fashioned, Eddie Mac, Crossing the Line, High Ground, Sierra Leone, The
Conversion of William Kirkwood, Bank Holiday, The Creamery Manager, The Country Funeral.
314. McGAHERN, John. That They May Face the Rising Sun. London: Faber, 2002. First. pp.
[vi], 298. Black paper boards, title in white on spine. With the signature of the author on
titlepage. Fine in d.j.
€245
LIMITED EDITION
315. McGAHERN, John. Memoir. London: Faber and Faber, 2005. pp. [viii] 272 . Qtr. cloth on
green paper boards. Limited to 250 copies, signed by the author. Fine in maroon slipcase. €465
One of the greatest works by this supremely gifted writer, sadly no longer with us. This is certain to
become one of the most sought after of his editions.
316. MacGEOGHEGAN, M. l'Abbé. Histoire De L'Irlande Ancienne et Moderne. Tirée des
Monumens les plus authentiques. With six folding maps (one coloured in outline) by Robert de
Vaugondy. Three volumes. Paris & Amsterdam: Chez Antoine Boudet, 1758/63. 4to. pp. (1)
xlviii, 488, 2 (errata), (2) lxxxiv, x, 376, [2], (3) ix, [1], 377-798. Title vignettes; head and tailpieces, capitals, marginal notes. Cont. full French mottled calf, spine professionally re-backed,
tooled in gilt to a floral pattern and with contrasting red and blue morocco labels; board-edges
gilt; comb-marbled endpapers. A.e.mar. Armorial bookplate of Anne Therese Ph: D'Yve on front
pastedowns. A superb set. Scarce.
€1,650
James MacGeoghegan (1701-1764), historian and cleric was born near Uisnech in Co. Westmeath and
belonged to the family known in Irish as Cinel Fhiachach. He was a kinsman of Richard
MacGeoghegan the defender of Dunboy in 1602, and Conall MacGeoghegan, translator of the Annals
of Clonmacnoise, as well as Francis O'Molloy, author of Lucerna Fidelium. This work extends from
the earliest period to the Treaty of Limerick. It combines Jacobitism with Irish patriotism, asserting the
Royal title of the Stuarts while condemning England's misgovernment of Ireland, insisting on Ireland's
status as a kingdom, and praising its past cultural achievements. It is dedicated to the Irish troops in the
service of France and the author consulted the manuscript copy of the Book of Lecan , which at that
time was housed in the Irish College in Paris. An English translation by Patrick O'Kelly appeared in
Dublin in 1831 and was republished in 1844 with a continuation to the present time by John Mitchel. In
his preface O'Kelly states: "One of the most important works that have ever been written respecting
Ireland". Maps included are: Carte de l'Ancienne Irlande; Province d'Ultonie; Province de Momonie;
Province de Connacie; Province de Midie et de Lagénie; Royaume d'Irlande (coloured in outline).
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THE NAVVY POET
317. MacGILL, Patrick. Songs of a Navvy. Windsor: MacGill, & Londonderry: The Derry
Journal, n.d. (1911). pp. 85.
€475
Patrick MacGill (1889-1963) poet and novelist
was born in Maas, Co. Donegal and grew up in
Glenties, the Glenmornan of his fiction. As the
eldest of eleven children in a poor Catholic
family, he was sent out to the 'hiring fair' of
Strabane at the age of twelve, remitting most of
his small wages as a bonded servant to his
parents. Two years later he emigrated to
Scotland to work in the potato-fields as a 'tatiehoker', then on the railways and construction
sites. This experience of itinerant labouring
formed the basis of his novels Children of the
Dead End and The Rat Pit. He began writing
verse in his teens and his first collection
Gleanings from a Navvy's Scrapbook, printed at
Derry, attracted the attention of a Canon
Dalton, who found him a job at the Royal
Library at Windsor Castle, from where he
published in 1911 the present collection. In
1913 he was taken on as a cub reporter on the
London Daily Express. Unhappy with this
position he returned to Donegal and wrote
Glenmornan which incurred the wrath of the
Catholic Church, due to its socialist and anti-
clerical tone.
In the First World War he saw active service as a stretcher-bearer with the London Irish Rifles. He
recalled the horrors of the trenches in The Amateur Army, The Great Push , and The Red Horizon ,
which he dedicated to 'The London Irish'. In 1915 he married Margaret Gibbons, a writer of pulp
fiction and niece of Cardinal Gibbons. In the ensuing years he wrote further books on navvy life and
war, as well as comic and tragic novels of Irish rural life. He died from multiple sclerosis in
Massachusetts, on the day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
318. MacGILL, Patrick. Songs of the Dead End. London: The Year Book Press, 1915. Second
edition. pp. 167, 4 (author's works). Red cloth decorated in gilt with a pick and shovel design.
Spine evenly faded. Very good. Scarce.
€45
319. MacGILL, Patrick. The Amateur Army. London: Jenkins, 1915. First edition. pp. 122, 6.
Tan cloth, title in red on upper cover and spine.
€65
320. MacGILL, Patrick. The Brown Brethren. London: Jenkins, 1918. pp. 306, 14 (Publisher's
List). Brown cloth, title in black within a black border on upper cover and spine. Very good. €45
321. MacGILL, Patrick. The Carpenter of Orra. London: Jenkins, n.d. pp. 296. Ex. lib.
Decorated green cloth, title in black on upper cover and spine. Very good.
€45
322. MacGILL, Patrick. The Diggers. The Australians in France. London: Jenkins, 1919. pp.
121. First edition. Red faded cloth, title in black within a black border on upper cover and spine.
Previous owner's stamp on f.f.e. and titlepage. Very good. Very scarce.
€65
323. MacGILL, Patrick. The Great Push. An Episode of the Great War. London: Herbert
Jenkins, 1916. Third edition. pp. x, 254, [2]. Green cloth, title in black on upper cover and spine.
Covers a little faded otherwise a very good copy.
€35
324. MacGILL, Patrick. Fear! London: Jenkins, n.d. pp. 121. Popular edition. Green cloth, title
in black within a black border on upper cover and spine. Very good. Very scarce.
€65
325. MacGILL, Patrick. Moleskin Joe. London: Jenkins, n.d. pp. 320. Orange paper boards,
title in black on upper cover and spine recently rebacked. Very good.
€25
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326. MacGILL, Patrick. Soldier Songs. London: Jenkins, 1918. pp. 120, 8 (Publisher's List).
Green cloth, title in black within a black border on upper cover and spine. Very good in rare
frayed d.j.
€145
327. M'GREGOR, John James. New Picture of Dublin: Comprehending a History of the City,
an accurate account of its Various Establishments and Institutions, and a correct Description of
all the Public Edifices connected with them; with an Appendix, containing several useful tables;
forming a Complete Guide to everything Curious and Interesting in the Irish Metropolis.
Illustrated with fifty-six views of Public Buildings collected from authentic Documents, and
Personal Inspection. Dublin: Printed for Johnson and Deas, Bachelor's Walk. Sold by Keene,
Milliken, Archer, & Others, 1821. pp. x, v, 336. Cont. full red morocco, title in gilt on upper
cover. Flat spine with title in gilt and arms of Dublin in gilt in four compartments. Complete with
16 plates and large folding map in superior facsimile. Rare.
€165
328. MacHALE, John, Archbishop of Tuam. A Selection of Moore's Melodies, Translated into
the Irish Language by the Most Reverend John MacHale. Portrait frontispiece of the author.
Dublin: James Duffy, 1871. pp. 187. Roy. 8vo. Green patterned cloth, title in gilt on upper cover,
Arms of the Archbishop in gilt on lower cover. Recased. Very good. Very scarce.
€275
329. MACKAY, James Townsend. Flora Hibernica. Comprising the Flowering Plants, Ferns,
Characeae, Musci, Hepaticae, Lichenes and Algae of Ireland. Arranged according to the natural
system with a synopsis of the genera according to the Linnæan system. Dublin: William Curry
Jun, 1836. pp. xxxvii, 279. Owners signature and inscription; annotated throughout. Cont. worn
half calf on marbled boards, spine rebacked, new endpapers. Very good. Very scarce.
€265
330. MacKENNA, Lambert. Philip Bocht Ó Huiginn. Dublin: Talbot, 1931. Roy. 8vo. pp. xxvi,
264 +corrigenda. Unopened copy in stiff printed wrappers. Very good. Scarce.
€85
SIGNED BY DE VALERA
331. MacMANUS, M.J. Eamon de Valera. A Biography. Portrait frontispiece of Eamon de
Valera. Dublin and Cork: Talbot Press, 1944. Second edition. pp. [vi], 361. Qtr. cloth on cream
boards. Signed by Eamon de Valera on titlepage. A very good copy.
€275
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332. MacNALLY, Leonard. Fashionable Levities, A Comedy, in Five Acts. Dublin: Printed by
W. Porter, 1786. pp. [4], 74, 2. With a half-title and an epilogue. Recent marbled wrappers. €175
ESTC T35409.
Leonard MacNally, a barrister who distinguished himself in the defence of the United Irishmen, but
who, since his death, has been discovered to have been a government spy, was born in Dublin in 1752.
Early in life he abandoned the grocery business, to which he had been brought up, studied law with
great assiduity, entered at the Middle Temple, and was called to both the English and the Irish Bar.
Practising first in England, he is said to have been induced by Curran to transfer his talents to his native
country. He was one of the original members of the Society of United Irishmen, and assisted in the
defence of Emmet, Jackson, Tandy, Tone, and many others. He was the trusted friend of Curran - one
of the intimates to whom the family felt it proper first to communicate Curran's death. MacNally was
the author of twelve dramatic pieces, including the present work.
He died at 22 Harcourt-street, Dublin, in 1820, aged 68. Then only did his treachery appear. His heir
claimed a continuance of a secret service pension of £300 a year, which his father had enjoyed since
1798. The Lord-Lieutenant demanded a detailed statement of the circumstances under which the
agreement had been made; it was furnished after some hesitation, and the startling fact became
generally known, not only that he had been in regular receipt of the pension claimed, but that during
the state trials of 1798 and 1803, while he was receiving fees from the prisoners to defend them, he also
accepted large sums from Government to betray the secrets of their defence. The Cornwallis
Correspondence, Madden's Lives of the United Irishmen, and communications from Mr. FitzPatrick in
Notes and Queries, 2nd Series, put all this beyond doubt.
Another writer in the same series relates how in the London riots of 1780, MacNally saved the life of
Dr. Thurlow, Bishop of Lincoln. Sir Jonah Barrington gives an amusing account of a duel between
himself and MacNally, in which he says: "MacNally stood before me, very like a beer-barrel on its
stilly, and by his side were ranged three unfortunate barristers, who were all soon afterwards hanged
and beheaded for high treason - namely, John Sheares, who was his second ... and Henry Sheares and
Bagenal Harvey, who came as amateurs". In the same connexion, Sir Jonah, who was of course
ignorant of MacNally's perfidy, thus describes him: "His figure was ludicrous; he was very short, and
nearly as broad as long; his legs were of unequal length, and he had a face which no washing could
clean ... He possessed, however, a fine eye, and by no means an ugly countenance; a great deal of
middling intellect; a shrill, full, good bar voice... In a word, MacNally was a good-natured, hospitable,
talented, dirty fellow".
333. MAGUIRE, S.J. Ed. by. The Galway Reader. Incorporating Quarterly Notes. Volume 3,
No. 3. Spring, 1951. Galway: Galway County Council Public Libraries, 1951. pp. 122. Printed
stapled wrappers.
€65
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The chapters includes: State and Other Papers; A Famous Trial Recalled; Galway Jail; The Church of
St. Nicholas; Livestock Sales in Co. Galway at the Close of the Eighteenth Century; Houghing in the
West; Some Facts about Grianna Uaile; Notes on Tuam in Olden Days; Notes on Ballinasloe, Athenry,
Loughrea, Dunmore, Kilconnel, The Galway Coulin, Weights and Measures, Catholic Chapels.
KICKHAM ANTHOLOGY
334. MAHER, James. Ed. by. The Valley Near Slievenamon. A Kickham Anthology. The
poems, letters, memoirs, essays, diary and addresses of Charles J. Kickham. With a foreword by
Hon. John Cudahy, U.S. Ambassador. Illustrated. Mullinahone: Maher, 1941. pp. xx, 365. Red
paper boards, title in black on upper cover and spine. Ex lib. with stamps. Very good in recent
buckram.
€185
Charles Kickham was born at Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary in 1828. From an early age he developed a
flair for writing and contributed articles to the nationalist papers - The Nation, The Celt, The Irishman,
The Irish People. Joining the Fenians he was later arrested with John O'Leary, and sentenced to
fourteen years' penal servitude. His health never really recovered from this term of imprisonment and
he died at Blackrock, near Dublin, in 1882.
335. MAHONY, Robert. Jonathan Swift The Irish Identity. New Haven & London: Yale
University Press, 1995. pp. xvii, 222. Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in
fine d.j.
€25
336. MALONE, E.J. Irish Trout and Salmon Flies. Illustrated with eleven coloured plates and
other illustrations and maps. Gerrard's Cross: Colin Smythe, 1984. First edition. pp. xiv, 427.
Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Fine in d.j.
€95
Irish Flies and Flymakers, Hooks, Materials, Dyeing, Natural Dyes, Trout Fly Dressing, Salmon Fly
Dressing and a list of recommended books. The preface contains sound advice to fishermen ... "To the
sportsman who has his doubts about visiting Ireland in her present unhappy and troubled state, I would
assure him of a hundred thousand welcomes, giving but one word of advice - talk of fishing, horses,
dogs or whiskey, but avoid like the plague any discourse on religion or politics".
LIMITED TO 50 COPIES ONLY
337. MALONE, E.J. Tying Flies in the Irish Style. Trout and Sea-trout Patterns. With coloured
and mono illustrations. With thirty-five examples of Irish flies, counter sunk on seven thick cards
in the specimen volume, tied by Frankie MacPhilips of Enniskillen. List of subscribers. Two
volumes. Otley: Smith Settle, 2003. pp. (1) xvi, 227, (2) Flies. Edition limited to 50 copies for
subscribers only. Signed by the author, binder, and fly tier. Bound in full chestnut oasis gilt by
Smith Settle. T.e.g. Superb as issued in slipcase.
€1,250
338. MALORY, Sir Thomas. The Story of King Arthur & of His Noble Knights of the Round
Table. Written by Sir Thomas Malory, first printed by William Caxton, now modernised, as to
spelling and punctuation by A.W. Pollard. Illustrated with wood engravings by Robert Gibbings.
Three volumes. London: Printed at The Golden Cockerel Press for the Limited Editions Club,
New York, 1936. Slim folio (196 x 318 mm). pp. xv, 221, 268, 272. Edition limited to fifteen
hundred copies, signed and numbered by Robert Gibbings. Quarter blue cloth on blue and white
armorial decorated paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine set in grey paper slipcase with
printed label on spine.
€475
Robert Gibbings (1889-1958) was an Irish artist and author who was most noted for his work as a
wood engraver and sculptor, and for his books on travel and natural history. Along with Noel Rooke he
was one of the founder members of the Society of Wood Engravers in 1920, and was a major influence
in the revival of wood engraving in the twentieth century. Gibbings was born in Cork into a middleclass family. His father, the Reverend Edward Gibbings, was a Church of Ireland minister. His mother,
Caroline, was the daughter of the Antiquarian, Robert Day, Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries
of Ireland and president of The Cork Historical and Archaeological Society. He grew up in the town of
Kinsale where his father was the rector of St. Multose Church. He studied medicine for three years at
University College Cork before deciding to persuade his parents to allow him to take up art. He studied
under the painter Harry Scully in Cork and later at the Slade School of Art and the Central School of
Art and Design. During the First World War he served in the Royal Munster Fusiliers and was
wounded at Gallipoli in the Dardanelles. He was invalided out and resumed his studies in London. In
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1919 he married Moira Pennefather, daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Edward Graham Pennefather from
Tipperary, with whom he had four children, Patrick, Brigid, Lawrence, and Finnbar.
339. [MANNIX, Archbishop] Dr. Mannix in Australia. The Brief Story of Seven Strenuous
Years under the Southern Cross. By Cearball Ó Briain. Dublin: Mahon's printing Works,
Yarnhall Street, n.d. (c. 1920). pp. 39, (1). Stapled wrappers. A very good copy.
€85
Carty 1279.
Daniel Mannix, Archbishop of Melbourne and later Cardinal, was born in Charleville, Co. Cork in
1864. He became Professor of Philosophy and President of Maynooth College before going to
Melbourne as coadjutor Bishop in 1912. He continued to speak on Irish affairs, opposing conscription
and criticising the Black-and-Tan campaign. In 1920 the British Government arrested him at sea and
brought him to Cornwall to prevent him visiting Ireland as planned.
Quotation from Arthur Griffith on front cover, referring to British Government's action to prevent Dr.
Mannix visiting his native Ireland.
BANNED BT THE FREE STATE GOVERNMENT
340. [MARKIEVICZ, Countess de] Fianna Handbook. Issued by the
Central Council of Fianna Eireann for the Boys Scouts of Ireland.
Illustrated by Countess de Markievicz. Dublin: Reprinted and
Republished by The Central Council of Fianna Eireann, 1924. pp.
158. Illustrated wrappers. Exceedingly rare.
€375
341. MARTIN, F.X. Ed. by. The Howth Gun-Running and the
Kilcoole Gun-Running 1914. With a foreword by Eamon de Valera.
With illustrations and maps on endpapers. Dublin: Browne and Nolan,
1964. pp. xxvi, 201. Red paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Very good
in d.j.
€85
On 26 July 1914 a little white yacht, overloaded with a cargo of rifles and
ammunition, sailed bravely into Howth Harbour – and into Irish history. It was an audacious and a
perfectly timed operation carried out in broad daylight, under the eyes of officers of the Crown.
342. MASON, Thomas H. The Islands of Ireland. Their Scenery, People, Life and Antiquities.
Illustrated from Photographs by the Author. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons & London:
Batsford, 1938. Second edition, revised. pp. viii, 135. Recent half red morocco on marbled
boards. A very good copy.
€45
In "The Islands of Ireland" the author demonstrates his great love for those isolated parts of Ireland. His
keen eye for the unusual in nature, the ancient in man's handywork and his intense feeling for island
people emerges strongly from every chapter.
343. MATHEW, Frank. Ireland. Painted by A. Heaton Cooper. Described by Frank Mathew.
New edition with new illustrations in colour, with tissue guards. London: Black, 1916. pp. xix,
212. Title in black with red border. Presentation inscription on f.f.e. Very good in decorated
boards.
€135
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344. MAXWELL, W.H. Wild Sports of The West. With legendary tales, and local sketches.
Illustrated with five steel engravings and twelve vignettes. Two volumes. London: Bentley, 1832.
First edition. pp. (1) xvi, 327, (2) viii, 343. Cont. half calf on marbled boards, spine with
contrasting letter pieces. Occasional browning, a very good set of the rare first edition. Very
scarce.
€950
Acknowledged as the finest book ever written on the West of Ireland. A truly remarkable work by a
remarkable author, treating the wild sport, folklore and traditions of that romantic and untouched Erris
peninsula. Maxwell was a lively and gifted story-teller with a genuine interest in the ordinary people
and how they lived. Born at Newry in 1792, he was educated locally and later went to Trinity. He took
holy orders and was transferred to the prebendary of Balla, Co. Mayo, an area which afforded good
shooting and fishing. Having befriended the Marquis of Sligo, he was given the use of his shooting
box, Croy Lodge, at Ballycroy. It was here he spent most of his time fishing, shooting and pursuing his
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literary career. It was in the Officers' Mess at Castlebar Barracks, that he heard all the army gossip.
Being a good listener and with an excellent memory he put pen to paper and wrote Stories of Waterloo .
He wrote a total of twenty books in all. He died near Edinburgh in destitute circumstances in 1850.
MAXWELL, W.H. Wild Sports of The West. Interspersed with legendary tales, and local
sketches. Illustrated. Wakefield: EP Publishing, 1973. pp. xiii, 322. Red paper boards, title in gilt
on spine. A fine copy in suntanned d.j.
€65
346. MAY, Ralph. Glory is no Compensation. The Border Regiment at Gallipoli, 1915. By
Ralph May. With Stuart Eastwood and Clive Elderton. Illustrated. Carlisle: Border Regiment,
2003. pp. 320. Signed presentation copy from the author. Paper boards. Fine in d.j.
€45
347. MEEHAN, Rev. C.P. The Confederation of Kilkenny. New edition, revised and enlarged.
Coloured frontispiece. Dublin: James Duffy, 1882. 16mo. pp. vii, 331, 20 (Duffy Catalogue).
Green cloth with badge and motto of Confederate Ireland in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on
spine. A very good copy. Scarce.
€125
By the time the civil war between the King and Parliament had broken out in England, all Ireland,
except Dublin, and East Ulster, was in the hands of the insurgent forces. The English army in Ireland
was divided, those in Ulster, led by the Scottish General, Monroe, were on the side of the
Parliamentarians; those who held Dublin remained loyal to King Charles. But neither of those two
parties was willing to grant concessions to the Irish. The Irish leaders, Gaill and Gaedhil, saw that they
must take measures to preserve law and order and defend the country. A General Assembly was
established, composed of lords spiritual and temporal and of members elected by counties and towns.
The Assembly, first met on October 23rd, 1642, at Kilkenny and was known ever after as the
Confederation of Kilkenny. The Assembly elected a 'Supreme Council' of twenty-four members - six
from each province. There were two distinct parties in the Confederation: (1) The Gaelic Irish or 'Old
Irish', who were strongest in Ulster and Connacht. They aimed to overthrow the previous plantations
and to restore the Catholic religion. (2) The Anglo-Irish Catholics, who were strongly represented in
Leinster and Munster. They demanded security in their lands, but not the overthrow of the plantations
and were satisfied with toleration in matters of religion.
348. MEEHAN, C.P. The Rise and Fall of the Irish Franciscan Monasteries, and Memoirs of the
Irish Hierarchy, in the seventeenth century. With Appendix containing numerous original
documents. Dublin: James Duffy, n.d. (post 1877). Sixth edition. pp. xi, 402, 16 (Duffy
Catalogue). Very good in cloth gilt.
€125
349. MERRIMAN, Bryan. The Midnight Court. A new translation by Cosslett Ó Cuinn. With
illustrations by John Verling. Dublin: Mercier, 1982. Cr. 8vo. pp. [vi], 90. Ivory paper boards,
title in gilt on spine. Fine in fine illustrated d.j.
€85
350. MESCAL, Daniel. The Story of Inis Cathaigh, (Scattery Island). Illustrated. Dublin:
O'Donoghue, 1902. pp. 88. Green faded cloth, title in gilt on spine. Scarce.
€95
The contents includes: The Time St. Senan, and the Prophecy of his Birth; St. Senan's Parentage and
Early History; His Education and Acts before Establishing Himself in Inis Cathaigh; Some Leading
Incidents and Occurrences during his Time There; St. Senan's Death; The See of Inis Cathaigh;
References in the Irish Annals, etc.
351. MILLIGAN, S.F. & Alice L. Glimpses of Erin: An account of the ancient civilisation,
manners, customs, and antiquities of Ireland; short sketches of more important events in history,
and of the social condition of the country, past and present; and papers on tours off the beaten
track, descriptive of places and scenery not usually visited by tourists. With map, plates and
adverts. London: M. Ward, n.d. (C.1890). pp. 280. Green gilt decorated cloth. Very good. €95
BOUND BY JOSEPH LEATHLEY COLLEGE BINDER
352. MILTON, John. Paradise Lost. A Poem, in Twelve Books. The author John Milton. The
Thirteenth Edition. To which is prefix'd an Account of his Life. Together with: Paradise
Regain'd. A Poem. In Four Books. To which is added: Samson Agonistes; and Poems upon
several Occasions. With a Tractate of Education. The Seventh Edition, Corrected. With engraved
plates by P. Fourdrinier. London: Printed for Jacob Tonson in the Strand, 1727. Armorial
bookplate of Colonel Vesey with his signature on titlepage. Bound by Joseph Leathley's
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Parliamentary Binder in full contemporary red morocco. Covers decorated with a wide floral
border consisting of crowns, fleur-de-lys, pointelles and mitres. Spine divided into six
compartments by five gilt raised bands, title and volume number in gilt on contrasting labels in
the second and third; the remainder framed by triple gilt fillets and extensively tooled in gilt to a
centre-and-corner floral design consisting of stars, acorns, flowers and dots (McDonnell & Healy
Gold-tooled Bookbindings Commissioned by Trinity College, Dublin in the Eighteenth Century
Tools: 113, 117, R7, R16, R23, R29); board edges gilt; comb-marbled endpapers; cream and red
endbands; green silk marker. All edges gilt. Both spines rebacked preserving original. Apart from
minor wear a very nice fresh set of a fine mid-eighteenth century Irish binding.
€3,450
Joseph Leathley, the College Binder, was one of the most technically accomplished binders of the
eighteenth century. He was apprenticed to John Hyde, who in turn learned his trade from William
Norman (who described himself as "Bookbinder to his Grace the Duke of Ormond" in 1683); Joseph
had his premises at Sycamore Alley, Dame Street, where he had a flourishing book business. Maurice
Craig in Irish Bookbindings 1600-1800 states that at least seventeen volumes from the workshop of this
binder are known and are on books printed at the Dublin University Press, most of these are large paper
copies of the Hawkey classics. The firm of Joseph Leathley accounted for the largest body of binding
commissioned by Trinity College, Dublin. For a six month period in the mid-eighteenth century he was
paid £80-17-7 for binding approximately 950 volumes (McDonnell & Healy Gold-tooled Bookbindings
Commissioned by Trinity College, Dublin in the Eighteenth Century). An interesting advert appeared in
the Dublin Journal in 1767 "Wanted, a man that has been bred to the Vellum Binding and can be
recommended for Sobriety and Honesty". Advertisements for tradesmen were very rare at this time.
There must have been a dearth of bookbinders who could work vellum. It appears that before Leathley
died in 1757, he employed at least two finishers and that his widow Anne [Robinson] continued
supplying fine bindings although the finisher employed during the 1760s and early 1770s is noticeably
less skilful than his predecessors. Anne Leathley employed her nephew William Hallhead who
succeeded as owner following her death in 1775. Joseph Leathley's books consisting of almost 3000
volumes in 'most faculties and languages' were auctioned by William Ross in Dublin in 1758 (Sleator's
Public Gazetteer ).
A magnificent example in fresh condition - from Joseph Leathley's Binder.
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353. MITCHEL, John. Ireland, France and Prussia. A Selection from the Speeches and Writings
of John Mitchel. With an Introduction by J. de L. Smyth. Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1918. pp. 48.
Illustrated stapled wrappers. Lightly sun-tanned. A very good copy.
€125
The contents includes: The Franco-Prussian War; King William of Prussia; The French Empire;
Prussian Ambitions; The Franco-Prussian War; The Meaning of the War; France; A Prussian
Revolution; The Nationalverein; Prussian Annexations.
"LIBERTY EQUALITY FRATERNITY"
354. MITCHEL, John. The United Irishman. Vol I No I, February 12, 1848 - Vol I No I, 6, May
27, 1848. Printed and published by John Mitchel, at his Office, 12 Trinity Street. Complete.
Bound with: The Irish Felon, Successor to the United Irishman. Vol I No I, June 24, 1848 - Vol I
No 5, July 22, 1848. All published. Dublin: 1848. Large folio. pp. 248, 80 (triple column). Very
good in recent qtr. morocco on buckram boards. One penny stamp of United Irishmen on some
pages, also with the stamp of the Nation Office. A very good copy. Extremely rare.
€2,750
John Mitchel (1815-75). Young Irelander and journalist, was born in Dungiven, Co. Derry, the son of a
Presbyterian minister. The family moved in 1822 to Newry where he met John Martin, later his
associate and brother-in-law. After graduating from Trinity he worked with a legal firm in Banbridge,
Co. Down, where he came into conflict the local Orange Order. A regular visitor to Dublin he came
into contact with Charles Gavan Duffy and Thomas Davis and it was not long before he joined Young
Ireland and contributed to The Nation.
In 1847 he broke with The Nation and founded The United Irishman , it became the principal organ for
advanced republican views and despite its price of two shillings it sold 5,000 copies on its first day of
issue. Between February and March 1848 he advocated that the starving peasantry should withhold the
harvest, not pay rents or rates, resist distraint and eviction, ostracise all who would not co-operate, and
arm themselves. His paper also provided advice on the organisation of barricades and noted that
railway tracks could be used as pikes. He also advocated that vitriol could be used against soldiers. The
tone of his paper led to his arrest in May. Details of his arrest and trial and also that of William Smith
O'Brien and Thomas Francis Meagher appear in the May issues. The paper was suppressed and he
became the first man tried under the new Treason-Felony Act, before a packed jury, which found him
guilty. This act was rushed through parliament in order to give the Irish Executive power to apprehend
prominent members of Young Ireland. Mitchel wrote in his Jail Journal for May 28th 1848: "Found
the United Irishman of yesterday in my cabin. The sixtieth and last number. Read all the articles. Good
Martin! Brave Reilly! ". The penalty for those found guilty was transportation. So it was for John
Mitchel, who was sentenced to fourteen years in Van Diemen's' Land.
Mitchel's paper had been stopped since his imprisonment, but his brother-in-law John Martin took steps
at once to continue its republican propaganda with a new weekly the Irish Felon . He had no journalistic
abilities but his moral courage was as unbounded as his devotion to Mitchel; and he received
immediate assistance from Devin Reilly and James Fintan Lalor. They wrote with absolute freedom in
its pages and later assumed personal responsibility for unsigned articles published in it. Martin had not
yet published the third number of the Felon when a warrant for his arrest appeared and these articles
were produced as evidence against him. He was also transported to Van Diemen's' Land, where he
remained from 1849 until 1854 and two years later he returned to Ireland. A supporter of tenant-right
during the 1850s and 1860s, he opposed the extremism of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, although
he did deliver the oration for the Manchester Martyrs.
An extremely rare and important historical work which propagated armed struggle for Irish
independence.
DIRTY OLD TOWN
355. MITCHELL, Flora H. Vanishing Dublin. With fifty coloured plates and one page of text
to each. Introduction by the Earl of Wicklow. Dublin: Figgis, 1966. First edition. 4to. pp. x, 101.
Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in very good d.j. with minor wear to head
of spine. Scarce.
€475
Flora Mitchell (1890-1973) was an American-born Irish artist, remembered in particular for her mid20th century paintings of old Dublin architecture. She was born in Omaha, Nebraska. After a Sioux
Indian uprising around the turn of the century, her father moved the family to Ireland, where he went to
work for the Jameson whiskey distillery. Flora studied art at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art.
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She married William Jameson, a great-grandson of John Jameson, the founder of the distillery, in 1930.
A sailor and yachtsman, he died in 1939. A few years later she moved to Killiney, where she lived and
worked for the remainder of her life.
Several hundred of her works, mainly Dublin scenes, are in the collection of the National Gallery. She
is best remembered for the magnificent illustrations that she executed for Vanishing Dublin. Many of
the buildings shown in this enchanting book have disappeared from the face of the city.
The print run was only 600 copies, and considering the number of copies used for breakers, it is
increasingly becoming a rarity.
SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY TO
GEORGE W. RUSSELL FROM THE DEDICATEE - JOHN QUINN
356. MONAHAN, Michael. New Adventures. New York: By George H. Doran Company, 1917.
pp. xi, 374. Author dedication "To John Quinn, A gesture of friendship and admiration". Signed
presentation copy from the dedicatee, John Quinn to George W. Russell [A.E.] "To George W.
Russell with kind regards from J.Q., the dedicatee: but no obligation to read it. JQ, New York,
Nov. 2, 1917". Very good in olive green buckram. Title in gilt on upper cover and spine. €275
SARAH WILSON'S COPY
357. [MONTAGUE, Lady Mary Worthly] Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M---y W---y
M---e: Written during her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa, to Persons of Distinction, Men of
Letters, &c. in different Parts of Europe. Which contain, among other curious Relations,
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Accounts of the Policy and Manners of the Turks; Drawn from Sources that have been
inaccessible to other Travellers. The Third Edition. Dublin: Printed for P. Wilson, J. Hoey,
Junior, and J. Potts, Booksellers, 1765. 12mo. pp. viii, 280. Signature of Sarah Wilson on f.f.e. in
a neat hand dated May, 1774. Full worn calf, spine divided into six compartments by five raised
bands, title on worn morocco label in the second compartment, the remainder tooled in gilt with a
flower tool.
€375
ESTC T79455 locates 7 copies only.
Lady Montague is notable for introducing the practice of inoculation against smallpox to England,
following her return from Constantinople, where her husband was Ambassador.
SIGNED BY MICHAEL DAVITT'S SON
358. MOODY, T.W. Davitt and Irish Revolution 1846-82. Illustrated. Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1981. First edition. pp. xxiv, 674. Black paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Inscribed presentation
copy from Cahir Davitt, Michael Davitt's son, dated Nov. 1982, to Joe O'Neill. Fine in d.j. €125
Michael Davitt, (1846-1906), 'The Father of the Land League' was born at Straide, County Mayo. His
father was a member of a secret agrarian society and at the age of six in 1852 he saw his family evicted
during the clearances that followed the Great Famine. They emigrated to Lancashire, where Michael
was employed on a cotton mill; at the age of eleven his arm was badly injured by a machine and had to
be amputated just below the shoulder. He joined the I.R.B. and in 1870 was arrested for his
involvement in arms trafficking on a charge of treason-felony, and was sentenced to fifteen years penal
servitude. Due to degrading and inhuman conditions in prison and ill health he was released seven
years later. He later wrote an account of his experiences in a publication entitled, Leaves from a Prison
Diary. On Saturday 16th August 1879 in James Daly's Hotel, Castlebar, the 'Land League' was
founded.
359. MOORE, Thoma. Cantus Hibernici, Auctore Thoma Moore, Latine redditi. Editio nova. A
Nicholao Lee Torre, Coll: Nov: apud Oxoniam, Olim Socio. Leamington: Thomas Knibb, 1856.
pp. vii, 111, xv, 111, [1], viii, [1], 175. Bound by H Stamper in cont. full levant morocco, covers
framed by a dog-tooth roll and triple gilt fillets; spine divided into six compartments by five gilt
raised bands. Title in gilt on green morocco letterpiece on the second, the remainder lavishly
tooled in gilt to a floral design. Board edges and turn-ins gilt; comb-marbled endpapers. A.e.g.
From the library of Judge William O'Brien with his bookplate (dated 1899) on front pastedown,
and also with the Milltown Park bookplate. A very good copy.
€275
Dedicated to Henry Petty Fitzmaurice, Marquis of Lansdowne. With a seven page list of subscribers. In
Latin and English.
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360. [MORAL ESSAYS] Moral Essays in Praise of Virtue. Dublin: Printed by J. Scott, 12,
South Cope-St., 1824. 12mo. pp. 180. Cont. full tree calf, title in gilt on spine. Some light signs
of use but a very good copy. Exceedingly rare.
€225
COPAC locates the TCD copy only of this edition.
There were two other Dublin printed editions, both of 1821.
361. MOUNTMORRES, Hervey, Second Viscount. An Historical Dissertation upon the
Origin, Suspension, and Revival, of the Judicature and Independency of the Irish Parliament.
With a narrative of the transactions in 1719, relative to the celebrated declaratory law; extracted
from the papers of the late Earl of Egmont: and a comment on his Lordship's opinion, upon the
legislative union of these kingdoms ...Transcribed from a copy printed by authority the 11th of
Feb 1790. Accurately compared with the leading cases; the dates and causes of their origin,
construction, and application, extracted from the Journals of Parliament, in Great Britain and
Ireland. London: Debrett, 1795. First edition. pp. vi, 121, [1]. Early owner's signature on titlepage of the historical writer and Parliamentarian John Coxe Hippisley. Recent qtr. calf on
marbled boards. Very good. Very scarce.
€375
ESTC T70021.
Mountmorres was an Irish peer of great ability, and notable eccentricity. He had a keen interest in
questions relating to the Irish House of Lords, and " his opinions on these subjects were always worth
listening to, and still possess a certain historical value ". - DNB. This was one of the author's last
publications; on the 8th of August, 1797, he committed suicide at his lodgings in St. James's Square.
362. MULGRAVE, Earl of. Addresses Presented to His Excellancy The Earl of Mulgrave, from
the Different Parts of Ireland, during the years 1835 and 1836. With his Excellancy's Answers.
Dublin: W.F. Wakeman, 1836. pp. [i], 391. Cont. full diced russia. Covers blocked in gilt to a
panel design enclosing in the centre the title in gilt. Spine professionally rebacked, corners lightly
bumped. A.e.g. A very good copy. Rare.
€575
No copy located on COPAC. No copy in TCD.
Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of
Normanby (1797 - 1863), styled Viscount
Normanby between 1812 and 1831 and known
as The Earl of Mulgrave between 1831 and
1838, was a British Whig politician and author.
He notably served as Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland from 1835 to 1839 and as Home
Secretary from 1839 to 1841 and was British
Ambassador to France between 1846 and 1852.
Normanby was the son of Henry Phipps, 1st
Earl of Mulgrave, his great-grandfather
William Phipps had married Lady Catherine
Annesley, who was the daughter and heiress of
James Annesley, 3rd Earl of Anglesey and his
wife Lady Catherine Darnley (an illegitimate
daughter of King James II by his mistress
Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester).
He was educated at Harrow and Trinity
College, Cambridge, where he was the second
President of the Cambridge Union Society.
After attaining his majority, he sat for the
family borough of Scarborough from 1818 to
1820. However after dissenting from the family
politics, such as by speaking in favour of
Catholic Emancipation, he resigned his seat and
lived in Italy for two years. On his return in
1822 he was elected for Higham Ferrers and
made a considerable reputation by political
pamphlets and by his speeches in the house. He
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succeeded his father as Earl of Mulgrave in 1831. He was sent out as Governor of Jamaica and was
afterwards appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1835–1839). He was created Marquess of Normanby
on 25 June 1838, and held successively the offices of colonial secretary and home secretary in the last
years of Lord Melbourne's ministry.
363. MULLEN, Pat. Hero Breed. London: Faber &
Faber, 1936. First. pp. 423. Blue cloth, spine lettered gilt.
Fine in d.j. (partial loss to spine) with a bold pictorial
design by Elizabeth Rivers. A nice copy of a very scarce
book.
€175
Mullen, an Aran islander, was both the subject of, and
assistant director of, the famous film Man of Aran , first
released in 1935. For a period he had worked in America in
numerous labouring jobs and in the rough underworld and in
the Labour movement. Later he returned to Aran where he
"worked like a slave" on his father's small holding. These
stories vividly portray the rigours and energy of life on the
Aran Islands.
364. MURPHY, Dr. Brian P. OSB. The Catholic
Bulletin and Republican Ireland 1898-1926 with special
reference to J.J. O'Kelly ('Sceilg'). Belfast: Athol Books,
2005. pp. 314. Fine in illustrated wrappers.
€45
This book analyses the development of different strands in the
Irish national and cultural movements of the early years of the
twentieth century. The author focuses on the role of a key, but
underrated, figure in that movement - J.J. O'Kelly, known as
'Sceilg' - and in particular on his role as editor of The Catholic Bulletin in the crucial post-1916 period.
365. MURPHY, Rev. Denis. S.J. Our Martyrs: A Record of those who Suffered for the Catholic
Faith under the Penal Laws in Ireland. Illustrated from contemporary prints. Dublin: Fallon,
1896. pp. xxviii, 373. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. New endpapers. Some light fading,
otherwise very good.
€150
366. MURRAY, Robert H. The Diary of Bonnivert, 1690. Dublin: P.R.I.A., 1913. pp. 331-341.
Fine in wrappers.
€35
An important account of the Jacobite War in Ireland.
367. [NATIONAL PLEDGE] The National Pledge. Denying the right of the British
Government to enforce compulsory service in this country, we pledge ourselves one to another to
resist Conscription by the most effective means at our disposal. Single sheet (272x210mm)
printed in colour on one side only. Text within a Celtic border with arms of four provinces at
corners, a cross and round tower in centre. Signed by members of the Gogan family, dated 24th
April, 1918. Copyright design - The Art Depot 6 Mary St. Dublin. Worn and frayed.
€165
Signed by members of the Gogan family, including William Gogan and his son Richard (Dick), said to
have been the youngest member of the G.P.O. garrison, and one of those who assisted the wounded
James Connolly to leave the burning building. He was later a Fianna Fail TD.
Richard's collection of Republican documents which included an original copy of the 1916
Proclamation, sold through this house some years ago.
The Gogan family of Dublin were active Republicans.
RARE GALWAY BINDING
368. NEWMAN, John Henry. D.D. Apologia Pro Vita Sua: being A Reply to a Pamphlet
entitled "What, Then, Does Dr. Newman Mean?". London: Longman, 1864. pp. iv, 3-430, 127.
Bound by L. Hynes, Galway in cont. half morocco on cloth boards with their rectangular green
ticket (Bound by / L. Hynes / Galway.) on front pastedown.
€275
It is now generally accepted that Newman has a place of his own among modern thinkers on
higher education and that his views are of universal application, not limited as to place and
time. During his rectorship there was conflict with John MacHale, Archbishop of Tuam, who
opposed Newman's insistence that English professors should be among those appointed.
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A MASTERPIECE OF BOOK ART
369. [NIELSEN, Kay] East of the Sun and West of the Moon. Old Tales from the North.
Illustrated by Kay Nielsen. London: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. (c.1924). Large octavo. pp. 284.
Bound by Bayntun-Riviere of Bath in recent full blue morocco. Covers framed by a single gilt
fillet. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands; title and illustrator in gilt in
second and third; board-edges and turn-ins gilt; splash-marbled endpapers; blue, gold and white
endbands. A.e.g. A fine copy.
€1,450
These old Norwegian folk tales were collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Engebretsen
Moe. The contents include: East of the Sun and West of the Moon; The Blue Belt; Prince Lindworm;
The Lassie and her Godmother; The Husband who was to mind the House; The Lad who went to the
North Wind; The Giant who had no Heart in his Body; The Princess on the Glass Hill; The Three Billygoats Gruff; etc.
Kay Rasmus Nielsen (1886-1957) was born in Denmark, studied in Paris. He joined the ranks of Arthur
Rackham, Edmund Dulac and Harry Clarke in the early twentieth century, the "golden age of
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illustration" in enjoying the success of the gift books. He worked for the Walt Disney Company in the
1930's, illustrating parts of "Fantasia". His portfolio of work included only five books; the others being
"In Powder and Crinoline", "Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales", "Hansel and Gretel", and "Red Magic".
This work includes 24 tipped-in coloured plates and many additional illustrations in black and white
within the text.
A masterpiece of book art, thought by many to be Nielsen's finest work.
370. Ó BAOIGHILL, Pádraig S. Cardinal Patrick O'Donnell 1856 - 1927. Illustrated. Baile na
Finne: Foilseacháin Chró na mBothán, 2008. pp. xi, 475. Mauve paper boards, title in gilt on
upper cover and spine. Fine in illustrated d.j.
€45
Patrick O'Donnell (1856-1927) was appointed Bishop of Raphoe in 1888; he became Archbishop of
Armagh in 1924 and Cardinal in 1925. This biography documents and analyses O'Donnell's
contribution to the Ireland of his time. He played a pivotal role in church and state politics from the
time he became bishop until his death. He was a staunch Nationalist and had an avid interest in politics
since his student days. All through his life, he supported the Irish Parliamentary Party.
371. O'BRIEN, Conor Cruise. Conflicting Concepts of the United Nations. The Twenty-First
Montague Burton Lecture on International Relations. This Lecture was delivered in the
University of Leeds on 1 March 1963. Leeds: University Press, 1964. pp. 23, 2. Printed stitched
wrappers.
€35
372. [O'BRIEN, Flann] Comhthrom Féinne. The College Magazine of the Students of
University College, Dublin. Volume VIII, No. 1. Dublin: Printed by Wm. Warren & Son, 1934.
4to. p. 20. Green illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. Scarce.
€75
The contents includes: Portrait Sketch. By Donagh Mac Donagh; The Idea of a University. By Sortez;
Dance V. Ceilidhe. By Liam F. Delaney; The Russian Theatre. By Liam O Laoghaire; The Big Game.
By San Dee; Onus on Descartes. By Denis Devlin; Liberty, Democracy - and Freedom. By De Riva
The O'Phelan of the Decies; Democracy, Fascism and Class. By Charles Donnelly; Stage & Amp;
Screen; Shadow and Shoulder. By Harrow; Filidheacht Ghrádha II; The Trend of Modern Philosophy.
By Charles Donnelly; Lampaí Núadh ar Shean-Lanchpaíbh le Níal Naoi nGíallach.
Charles Donnelly, one of the most prominent students of his day, went to Spain with the International
Brigades and died in action there. Brian O'Nolan (Flann O'Brien) also contributed to this magazine
under various pseudonyms.
373. O'BRIEN, Nora Connolly. Portrait of a Rebel Father. With a preface by Robert Lynd.
Portrait frontispiece. Dublin: Talbot, 1935. First edition. pp. 328. Green cloth, title in black on
spine. A fine copy in rare sun-tanned d.j.
€250
James Connolly, the Irish labour leader, was one of the seven men who signed the Proclamation of the
Provisional Government of the Irish Republic at Easter, 1916. As Commandant-General of the Dublin
Division, he was in command at the General Post Office, where he was wounded, and later executed at
Kilmainham. When the writer of this volume was still a child, she accompanied her father on many of
his lecture tours in Great Britain and America, and attended his meetings.
374. Ó CADHAIN, Máirtín. Cré na Cille. Líníocht le Charles
Lamb. Baile Átha Cliath: Sáirséal & Dill, 1970. An Triú Cló. pp.
364. Illustrated boards. A very good copy.
€65
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.
HIS CULTURE-NEUTRAL NO-MAN'S LAND
375. Ó CADHAIN, Máirtín. Irish above Politics. Dublin:
Cuchulainn, n.d. (c.1964). pp. 16. Wrappers. Fine. Rare. €125
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In this pamphlet Ó Cadhain suggests a plan of action for those interested in saving the Irish language.
He goes on to attack the politicians: "Let Garret Fitzgerald have his scorched earth, his culture-neutral
no-man's land, peopled solely with his figure goddesses. It is evident he rates the I.Q. of the Irish
people rather low, so low in fact that he thinks he can easily recruit them to the sole adoration of his
figure goddesses". Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1907-1970), writer and republican, was born at Cois Fharraige,
Connemara. He was a school teacher by profession and taught at various places in Galway, but lost his
post for being a member of the I.R.A. Imprisoned at the Curragh during the Emergency he taught Irish
and other subjects to his fellow prisoners. Fluent in eight languages, he became a Lecturer and later
Professor of Modern Irish in Trinity College, Dublin.
O'CASEY'S FIRST BOOK
376. Ó CATHASAIGH, P. The Story of the Irish Citizen Army. Dublin: Maunsel, 1919. pp. vi,
72. Printed stapled wrappers. A fine copy. Scarce.
€425
Sean O'Casey's first book, with his name in the Irish vernacular. The first account of the formation of
the Irish Citizen Army during the Dublin strike of 1913/14, and the part it played in the subsequent
history of Ireland. The author was a leading figure in the movement and writes with vigour and
conviction on the role of labour in Ireland. It also contains original character sketches of Larkin,
Connolly, Captain White and Madame Markiewicz and an inside account of the relations between the
Citizen Army and the Volunteers.
377. [Ó'CEALLAIGH, Seán – J.J. O'Kelly - Sceilg] The Claim of the Irish Republic.
Statement submitted to Frank B. Kellogg, Secretary of State, Washington, signed by Ó Ceallaigh
as Ceann Comhairle of Dail Eireann. No publisher. 1928, pp. 32. Stapled wrappers. Foxing to
covers.
€225
The statement was signed by Sean Ua Ceallaigh, J.J. O'Kelly - pen name, Sceilg (1872-1957). He
signed as Chairman of Dail Eireann. This Dail Éireann was the illegal Second Dail Eireann reconvened
by de Valera in 1922 and abandoned by him in 1927 after he had founded the Fianna Fail Party. Those
who remained in this Dail Eireann and in the Sinn Féin Party after the departure of de Valera attempted
to justify the all-Ireland republican policy of 1919 against the claims of both the Free State and British
governments. This appeal to Frank B. Kellogg, the American Secretary of State, was part of that policy.
Similar statements were presented to Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of England, in August 1929
and to the Pope in December 1929. Finally, in 1938 this body of Dail Éireann delegated its authority to
the Army Council of the IRA. This statement, therefore, provides a rare insight into a particular
republican ideology.
378. Ó CONAIRE, Pádraic. Field and Fair.
Travels with a Donkey in Ireland. Translated
from the Irish by Cormac Breathnach.
Illustrated by Micheál Mac Liammoir. Dublin
and Cork: The Talbot Press Limited, 1929. First
edition. pp. 95. Green and white cloth, title
printed in green on label on upper cover and
spine. Untrimmed. Very good in frayed
illustrated d.j.
€45
Dedicatory poem on Ó Conaire by F.R. Higgins.
"THIS PATRIOTIC
AND VENERABLE GENTLEMAN"
379. O'CONOR, C. Dissertations on the
History of Ireland, in which an account is given
of the Origin, Government, Letters, Sciences, Religion, Manners and Customs, of the Ancient
Inhabitants. To which are added, a Dissertation on the Irish Colonies established in Britain, with
some remarks on Mr. MacPherson's translation of Fingal and Temora. With Ptolemy's folding
map of Ireland. List of subscribers. Dublin: Printed by J. Christie, 16 Ross Lane, 1812. Third
edition. pp. xliv, [v], 122 (list of subscribers), 344, 20 (index). Some foxing, otherwise very good
in cont. full tree calf. Spine expertly rebacked. Scarce.
€375
The author, a member of the Belanagare family, was a distinguished Irish scholar and antiquary. He
was born in 1710 at Kilmactranny, Sligo; taught to read and write by a Franciscan friar, who knew no
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English. A great collector of Irish manuscripts, he wrote many treatises on history and on the politics of
his day. He corresponded with Dr. Johnson, assisted O'Curry, Vallancey, and Brooke. John O'Donovan
styled him: "this patriotic and venerable gentleman ... who understood the Irish language well". In 1796
his grandson published the first and only volume of his Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the late
Charles O'Conor of Belanagare. This work was first issued in Dublin in 1753, and enlarged Dublin
1766.
The subscribers list amounted to almost one thousand subscribers and is largely made up of the
emerging Catholic middle class.
380. O'CURRY, Eugene. Lectures on The Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History.
Delivered at the Catholic University of Ireland, during the sessions of 1855 and 1856. Re-issue.
With 26 facsimiles of the ancient MSS. Dublin: William A. Hinch, 1878. pp. xxviii, 722. Green
cloth, image of Celtic Warrior in gilt on upper cover and in blind on lower, title in gilt on spine.
A fine copy. Rare in this state.
€295
Eugene O'Curry, the distinguished Irish
scholar and self-taught authority on Irish
manuscripts, was born at Dunaha, Co.
Clare, in 1796. Learning was in his genes,
his father possessed a vast knowledge of
the history, antiquities, and traditions of
the country as well as a great love of the
Irish language and owner of a vast
collection of Irish manuscripts.
Following the depression in the wake of
the Napoleonic Wars, his father had to
vacate their small farm in Co. Clare and
most of the family were scattered. Eugene
got employment in the Limerick Lunatic
Asylum. It was not until his father's death
that he really took Celtic studies
seriously. He recalled: "It was not until
my father's death that I fully awoke to the
passion of gathering those old fragments
of our history. I knew that he was a link
between our day and a time when
everything was broken, scattered, and
hidden; and when I called to mind the
knowledge he possessed of every old
ruin, every old manuscript, every old
legend and tradition in Thomond, I was
suddenly filled with consternation to
think that all was gone forever, and no
record made of it".
He got to know and work with John
O'Donovan (afterwards his brother-inlaw), Dr. Petrie, Mr. Wakeman and James
Clarence Mangan in the topographical
and historical department of the Ordnance
Survey. His duties led him into researches amongst Irish manuscripts in the libraries of Trinity College,
the Royal Irish Academy, Oxford, and the British Museum. Along with O'Donovan he contributed to
the Irish Archaeological Society, the Celtic and Ossianic Societies. In 1849 he made important
discoveries among the Irish manuscripts in the British Museum and he compiled in his own hand a
catalogue of these.
O'Curry was appointed Professor of Irish History and Archaeology on the establishment of the Catholic
University of Ireland by John Henry Newman, who was known to have attended many of his lectures.
Thomas D'Arcy McGee described him at his work: "There, as we often saw him in the flesh ... behind
that desk, equipped with ink-stands, acids, and microscope, and covered with half-legible vellum
folios, rose cheerfully and buoyantly to instruct the ignorant, to correct the prejudiced, or to bear with
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the petulant visitor, the first of living Celtic scholars and palaeographers".
His twenty-one Lectures on the Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History, delivered at the College
during the terms 1855 and 1856 were published with an appendix in one volume. They are a mine of
information on the subject of our Irish manuscripts and are illustrated with numerous facsimile
specimens.
His thirty-eight lectures On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, delivered at the University
between May 1857 and July 1862 (the last one only a fortnight before his death) were published in
Dublin in three volumes. These were edited with an introduction (which takes up the whole of the first
volume), appendices and other material by Dr. W.K. Sullivan. O'Curry's works stand to this day as a
monument to one of our greatest Celtic scholars.
381. O'DONNELL, Peadar. The Knife. Portrait of the author as a young man on f.f.e. Dublin:
Irish Humanities Centre, 1980. pp. 288. Signed by the author and by Grattan Freyer, who wrote
the introduction. Very good in very good d.j.
€145
Peadar O'Donnell, revolutionary and author, was born at Meenmore, Co. Donegal, in 1893. He was
educated at St. Patrick's Training College, Dublin, and taught for a while on Arranmore and Inisfree
islands. After visiting Scotland and seeing the hardship endured by migrant Irish labourers, he became
a full-time organiser for the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union in 1918. He joined the I.R.A.
in 1920 and was wounded whilst on active service during the War of Independence. He opposed the
Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 and was imprisoned for 2 years, escaping in 1924. In June of that year he
married Lile O'Donel, daughter of a wealthy Mayo landlord, and became editor of 'An Phoblacht', the
I.R.A. newspaper. He was part of the I.R.A. breakaway group which formed the Republican Congress
in 1934, for which he was court-martialled. He helped recruit volunteers to fight in the International
Brigade, which fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War.
Sectarian violence in the Lagan Valley prompted Peadar O'Donnell to write The Knife, a political novel
depicting the old protagonists Orange and Green. All his life O'Donnell was an untiring champion of
social reform and unpopular causes.
382. [O'DONOVAN ROSSA] Diarmuid Ó Donnabháin Rosa 1831-1915. Souvenir of Public
Funeral to Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, August 1st 1915. Dublin: 1915. 4to. pp. 24. Printed
sewn wrappers. Cover suntanned around edge, otherwise very good.
€175
Carty 451.
This first edition - issued shortly after the funeral - includes photographs of Rossa, his wife and
daughter. A Character Study by Pearse; Influence of Fenianism by Arthur Griffith; The Irish Volunteer
in 1915 by Thomas MacDonagh. Also includes James Connolly's statement of the Citizen Army's
reasons for honouring Rossa, poems by Thomas MacDonagh, Brian O'Higgins, Seamus O'Sullivan and
others.
"IRELAND UNFREE SHALL NEVER BE AT PEACE"
383. [O'DONOVAN ROSSA] Souvenir Booklet issued by
O'Donovan Rossa Memorial Committee, Dublin, on the
occasion of the unveiling of the Memorial to O'Donovan
Rossa by the President of Ireland (Mr. Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh) in
St. Stephen's Green, Dublin, on Sunday 6th June, 1954.
Dublin: Printed at the Sign of the Three Candles, 1954. pp.
24. Quarto. Illustrated wraps. A very good copy. Rare.
Includes the text of Pearse's celebrated panegyric delivered at
Rossa's grave in 1915. When Pearse gave this oration on 1st
August, he gave notice of the nationalist unrest: "Life springs from
death - and from the graves of patriot men and women spring
living nations. The Defenders of this Realm have worked well in
secret and in the open. They think that they have pacified Ireland.
They think they have purchased half of us and intimidated the other half. They think they have foreseen
everything, think that they have provided against everything; but the fools, the fools, the fools! - they
have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at
peace".
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JOHN O'DONOVAN'S COPY
384. O'DONOVAN, John. A Grammar of the Irish Language, Published for the use of the
senior classes in the College of St. Columba. With two plates depicting 'Ancient Irish Alphabets'.
Dublin: Hodges and Smith, Grafton-Street, Booksellers to the University, 1845. pp. lxxxviii, 459.
Recent half calf on original cloth boards. Spine richly gilt with red morocco letterpiece. With
notes in John O'Donovan's hand and later annotations and signature of the historian, William J
Doherty, who identifies John O'Donovan's writing. A very good copy.
€675
385. O'DONOVAN, John. Ed. by. Letters Containing Information Relative to the Antiquities of
the County of Mayo. Collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1838. Illustrated
with numerous maps. Two volumes. Bray: O'Flanagan, 1927. pp. 4to. (1) xxxiii, 244, (2) xxvii,
232. Original green cloth, title in gilt on rebacked spines. Very good. Rare, only 75 sets were
printed for each county.
€475
In 1829 our greatest antiquary, John O'Donovan was appointed to the staff of the Ordnance Survey of
Ireland under George Petrie, a position left vacant on the death of Edward O'Reilly. It was his job to
examine the ancient Irish manuscripts and records for the purpose of determining the nomenclature to
be used on the maps. He travelled the length and breadth of Ireland and collected every scrap of
information relative to the historic buildings and sites, often from the local historians and seanachies.
This he recorded in a series of letters. These were published in 1927 through the agency of Fr. Michael
O'Flanagan in an edition of 75 copies for each of the counties surveyed.
386. O'FAOLAIN, Sean. An
Irish
Journey.
Specially
illustrated by Paul Henry. With
an itinerary map. Dublin:
Browne & Nolan, 1940. First.
pp. x, 308. Green cloth, title in
silver on spine. A very good
copy in rare illustrated d.j. €125
387. O'FAOLAIN, Sean. De
Valera. A New Biography.
Harmondsworth:
Penguin,
1939. First edition. pp. 181, 9
(Penguin
List).
Fine
in
€35
388. [ÓGLACH] Óglaigh na hÉireann. (Irish Republican
Army) Dublin: Republican
Information Bureau, 12 St.
Andrew Street, 1932. pp. 14.
Printed stapled wrappers. €95
The contents includes: The
Fenians; The World War; The
Easter Week Revolt; And After;
Government of The Republic
Elected; War; The Truce; The
Betrayal;
"Civil
War";
Reorganisation;
The
Irish
Republican Army To-day; The
1932 Elections - and After;
Economic Freedom.
389. O'HANLON, Rev. John.
The Life of Saint Grellan,
Patron of the O'Kellys, and of
the Tribes of Hy-Maine. Dublin:
89
Duffy, 1851. pp. 30. Very good in printed wraps. Very scarce.
Dedicated to Cornelius J. O'Kelly, Count of the Holy Roman Empire.
€65
390. O'HANLUAIN, Enri M.S. The First Christian Altars and the Early Christian Inscriptions
of Ireland. Illustrated. Kilmolog, Portarlington: 1935. pp. [3], 4-13, [3]. Ex lib. with stamps.
Modern folded paper wrappers.
€275
391. O'HARA, Bernard. Killasser: Heritage of a Mayo Parish. Illustrated. Killasser:
Killasser/Callow Heritage Society, 2011. 4to. pp. xviii, 413, [1]. Fine in coloured boards.
€45
The parish of Killasser is situated about one mile north of Swinford. The parish takes its name Killasser
from Cill Lasrach - the church of Lasair. Lasair was an eight-century Irish saint who built a church in
Knockmullin townland. The oldest church was built by Sheshnan Ó Ruane. According to local folklore
Sheshnan was a handsome young man who enjoyed a good time in his younger life. As he grew older
he changed his ways and went to Rome to beg forgiveness from the Pope. The Pope was impressed by
this fine young man and invited him to take a seat and sit down. Sheshnan declined the offer until such
time as he had confessed his sins. The Pope requested him to build a church in his own parish as an act
of penance for his sins. This he did and he acted as its caretaker for the rest of his life.
The Killasser area is renowned for its fishing waters, in particular the Callow lakes which yield
excellent brown trout, and the world renowned River Moy for salmon.
392. O'HIGGINS, Brian. A Tonic in Type. Sketches Grave and Gay. Illustrated. Dublin: Brian
O'Higgins, n.d. (c.1934). pp. 142. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. Rare.
€85
COPAC locates only 1 copy.
393. Ó HUAITHNE, Daithi. Nua-Fhiliocht na Gaeilge. Four Modern Gaelic Poets. Hebrew
version by Penina Nave. Dublin: Jewish Communities of Ireland, 1985. pp. 71, [9]. Edition
limited to 500 numbered copies, published in honour of the visit to Ireland of H.E. Chaim
Herzog, President of the State of Israel, June 1985. Fine in blue linen gilt.
€65
394. O'KELLY, J.J. Partition. Dail Eireann Comes of Age. Dublin: The Sinn Fein Standing
Committee, 1940. pp. 30. Very good in stapled printed wrappers.
€125
A lecture delivered by J.J. O'Kelly (Sceilg) at Sinn Fein Headquarters, January 21st, 1940, in
celebration of the twenty-first anniversary of the inauguration of Dail Eireann.
395. O'MADDEN, Patk. L. The Abbey of Milioc na Sionainne. (A.D. 1414-1854). S.n. 4to.
Eleven pages typescript. Very good in stapled wrappers.
€35
The Antiquary, George Petrie, wrote: "The Abbey of Meelick is romantically situated on the River
Shannon in the Barony of Longford, anciently known as Siol Anmchadha - O'Madden's Country".
396. Ó MUIRITHE, Diarmaid. A Seat Behind the Coachman. Travellers in Ireland 1800-1900.
Illustrated. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1972. First edition. 4to. pp. 209. Red arlin, title in gilt on
spine. Fine in frayed d.j.
€35
A fascinating anthology of extracts from the notebooks of nineteenth-century travellers in Ireland,
giving us a vivid picture of contemporary Irish life. The grandeur of squalor of Dublin and the
provincial towns, the miserable cabins of rural areas, drinking and fighting at Donnybrook Fair, Daniel
O'Connell and Catholic Emancipation, Father Mathew's temperance campaign, the hedge schools, the
Famine, emigration - all are described by Englishmen such as William Makepeace Thackeray, Henry
Inglis, Philip Hardy, the celebrated German Prince Von Puckler-Muskau, the American Clifton
Johnson and the French Anne Marie de Bovet.
R.I.C. TALES
397. [ONE OF THEMSELVES] Tales of the Irish Police by One of Themselves. Illustrated.
Dublin: 1888. pp. 149. [Facsimile copy]. Recent full red morocco, title in gilt on spine. Fine. The
original edition is very rare.
€65
Amusing stories and anecdotes chiefly from the West of Ireland.
398. O'NEILL, Timothy. The Irish Hand. Scribes and their manuscripts from the earliest times
to the seventeenth century with an exemplar of scripts. Introduction by Francis John Byrne.
Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1984. Folio. pp. xxviii, 100. Brown cloth. Fine in fine d. j.
€65
399. O'RAHILLY, Professor Alfred. Thoughts on the Constitution. Dublin: Browne and Nolan
Limited, n.d. (c.1937). pp. 75, [1]. Very good in stapled wrappers.
€125
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400. O'RAHILLY, The. Tracts for the Times, No. 3. The Secret History of the Irish Volunteers.
Second edition. Dublin: Irish Publicity League, 1915. pp. 16. Some light foxing. Stapled
wrappers.
€225
O'Hegarty (1) Carty 458 lists the third edition. This pamphlet by The O'Rahilly (1875-1916) proved of
great interest when it was written and retains its value to-day. O'Rahilly was Treasurer and Director of
Arms of the Irish Volunteers, after Redmond's followers had left the organisation in September 1914.
He wrote, therefore, from an informed position. The pamphlet was one of four Tracts for the Times
produced in early 1915 and sales of 23,000 copies were reported in two months. O'Rahilly's pamphlet
was the most popular. It had three editions in six months and was published by John Devoy in New
York. So critical was O'Rahilly of Redmond and the British connection that the Volunteer Executive
had to alter the first edition to avoid censorship by the Press Censor. O'Rahilly was fatally wounded
and left to die by British troops during the Easter Rising, the only member of the Provisional
Committee of the Irish Volunteers to die in action. An historic pamphlet by a noble person.
401. O'RORKE, T. Archdeacon. History, Antiquities, and Present State of the Parishes of
Ballysadare and Kilvarnet, in the County of Sligo. With notices of the O'Hara's, the Coopers, the
Percevals, and other local families. Illustrated. Dublin: Duffy, 1878. pp. xiv, 544. Green cloth,
gilt device on upper cover and title in gilt on repaired spine. Booksellers stamp and signature of
Arthur Cooper on front pastedown. A.e.red. A very good copy. Scarce.
€385
402. O'ROURKE, Fergus J. The Fauna of Ireland. An Introduction to the Land Vertebrates.
Illustrated. Cork: Mercier Press, 1970. pp. 176. Very good in illustrated wrappers.
€30
DUFFY of DUBLIN
AUTHOR'S INSCRIBED COPY TO
MISS GLADSTONE
403. O'ROURKE, Rev. John. The
Centenary Life of O'Connell. Dublin:
James Duffy, 1877. Octavo. pp. [iv],
283, 4. Magnificently bound by James
Duffy of Dublin in cont. full green
goatskin with his name in gilt on the
lower cover: J. Duffy Binder Dublin.
Covers identically tooled with double
gilt fillets surrounding gouge work with
shamrock tools; in the centre is an
intricately tooled harp the centre of
which is painted with blue enamel;
spine divided into five compartments by
four gilt raised bands, with the title in
gilt in the second and the remainder
identically tooled with outer gilt curves
and a single shamrock tool. The inner
covers are tooled in gilt to a panel
design with a dentelle pattern
surrounding in a gilt harp on watered
silk endpapers. Edges of the boards gilt;
edges of the leaves gilt; red and yellow
endbands; green silk marker. In
matching slipcase.
€850
Provenance: An inscription on the front
endpaper reads: 'To Ms. Gladstone as a
slight memorial of her visit to Ireland this
memoir of one of our great men is humbly presented by the Author. Maynooth, 15th Nov. 1877'. A
tipped in inscription on front flyleaf reads: 'To George Russell from his affectionate friends. Catherine
Gladstone'. A beautiful example of a Victorian mosaic binding, with a magnificent provenance.
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Catherine Gladstone, née Gwynne, was for fifty nine years the wife of William Gladstone, and besides
a significant personality in her own right.
404. ORPEN, Charles Edward Herbert. Anecdotes and Annals of the Deaf and Dumb. Second
edition. London: Robert H.C. Tims [etc.]; Edinburgh: Waugh and Innes; Dublin: Richard Moore
Tims, 1836. 12mo. pp. [i], xxvi, [3], 626 p. [4] plates. Original brown cloth. Spine expertly
rebacked preserving original paper label and spine. Bookplate of Rosstrevor House Library on
f.f.e. Some pages lightly tanned. Very good. Very rare.
€275
The first edition was published in
Dublin, in 1827 entitled The
Contrast,
between
Atheism,
Paganism and Christianity. There
are three plates in this edition. Plate
1 shows the 'Two-Handed or
English Manual Alphabet' and Plate
2, the 'One-Handed, or Spanish
Manual Alphabet,' both used in the
National Deaf and Dumb Institution,
at Claremont, Glasnevin, near
Dublin. The third plate depicts
'Profile View or Section of the
Organs of Speech; to Shew the
Mechanism
of
Articulation',
lithographed by John Johnston, a
Deaf mute (formerly a pupil in the
Institution)
at
his
Master's,
McAllen's Lithography, 16 Trinity
Street, Dublin.
Charles Edward Herbert Orpen,
(1791-1856),
surgeon
and
clergyman, was born in Cork, third
son of the Rev. Francis Orpen, vicar
of Kilgarven, Co. Kerry, rector of
Dungourney, Co. Cork, and later
rector of Douglas, Co. Cork. He
initially trained as a surgeon and
was a fellow of the Royal College of
Surgeons in London and later the
RCSI. In 1814 he visited an institute
for the education of deaf and dumb
children in Birmingham and,
convinced of the need for a similar
institute in Dublin, set about
collecting funds to establish one. He
succeeded in securing the patronage
of Lord Powerscourt, and in 1816
founded the National Institution for
the Deaf and Dumb at Claremont in
Glasnevin. During the fever
epidemic in Dublin in 1819, he
worked among the city's poor and
was shocked at their living
conditions. He published a pamphlet
on the subject and severely criticised
Dublin landlords for the dangerous
and unsanitary conditions of their
properties.
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405. ORPEN, Sir William. KBE RA. An Onlooker in France 1917-1919. Revised and Enlarged
Edition. London: Williams & Norgate, 1924. 4to. pp.127, with photogravure frontis. & 96 full
page plates of Orpen's paintings. Brown cloth. Title in black on spine. Some fading to covers
otherwise a very good copy.
€95
Orpen's experiences as a war artist during World War I marked a turning point in his life and work. As
expected he painted portraits of the top brass and the big occasions, but his most deeply-felt works
were his sketches of ordinary Tommies caught in the maelstrom of battle and bombardment.
406. ORPEN, Sir William. Stories of Old Ireland & Myself. Illustrated by the author. London:
Williams & Norgate, 1924. First edition. 4to. Qtr. white coarse linen on green cloth boards. Title
in gilt on upper cover and spine. Very good. Scarce.
€85
Sir William Orpen (1878-1923), was born at Stillorgan Co. Dublin. He studied at the Metropolitan
School of Art in that city, where he later taught for many years. He painted contemporary Irish portraits
for Sir Hugh Lane and greatly influenced the naturalistic style of Irish painting as a teacher. He had a
brilliant and prolific career. In his capacity as official British war artist. In 1917 he travelled to the
Western Front and produced drawings and paintings of privates, dead soldiers and German prisoners of
war along with official portraits of generals and politicians. His large paintings of the Versailles Peace
Conference captured the political wranglings and the vainglory of the gathered politicians and
statesmen, whom Orpen came to loathe but relied upon for post-war commissions. Most of these
works, 138 in all, he gave to the British government on the understanding that they should be framed in
simple white frames and kept together as a single body of work. They are now in the collection of the
Imperial War Museum in London. For his war work, he was made a Knight Commander of the Order
of the British Empire (KBE) in the 1918 King's birthday honours list. He was elected a Royal
Academician (member of the Royal Academy of Arts) in 1919. One of the most successful portraitpainters of his day, who is also remembered for his amusing self-portraits.
407. O'SULLIVAN, Donal. The Irish Free State and its Senate. A study in contemporary
politics. London: Faber and Faber, 1940. pp. xxxi, 666. Black cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very
good copy in frayed d.j. Scarce.
€95
A milestone in constitutional history, not only treating the success and failure of the Senate but an
excellent political history of this country, written with the passionate zeal of the real scholar.
408. O'SULLIVAN, Maurice. Twenty Years
A-Growing. Rendered from the original Irish
with a preface by Moya Llewellyn Davies and
George Thomson. With an Introductory Note by
E.M. Forster. With maps of the Dingle Peninsula
and Blasket Islands on endpapers. London:
Chatto & Windus, 1933. First edition. pp. xii,
324. Fine in illustrated frayed d.j.
€185
Maurice O'Sullivan was born and reared on the
Blasket Islands, off the Kerry coast, and in this
book he tells the story of his childhood. Many of
the folktales he learned at the fireside from his
grandfather. In the preface to the original Irish
edition he wrote: "It was a tender thought that
struck me to write this book for the entertainment
and laughter of the old women of the Blasket
Island, who showed me great love and affection
when I used to call on them during the long winter
nights. And so, remembering their sorrow when I
left them, I took up my pen and wrote this book in
order to send my voice into their ears again, the
voice that always roused them". Copies in dust
wrapper are exceedingly rare.
409. O'SULLIVAN, Maurice. Twenty Years
A-Growing. Rendered from the original Irish
with a preface by Moya Llewellyn Davies and
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George Thomson. With an Introductory Note by E.M. Forster. With maps of the Dingle
Peninsula and Blasket Islands on endpapers. London: Chatto & Windus, 1933. First edition. pp.
xii, 324. Neat inscription on verso of half title. Spine sun-tanned, otherwise very good in faded
cloth.
€65
410. O'SULLIVAN, Peter. Newcastle Lyons. A parish of the Pale. Consultant editors Willie
Nolan and Kevin Whelan. With illustrations and maps. Dublin: Geography Publications, 1986.
pp. xvii, 141. Fine in d.j. Scarce.
€75
411. [PARNELL, Charles Stewart] Parnellism and Crime. Behind the Scenes in America.
Reprinted from The Times. London: Printed and published by George Edward Wright, at The
Times Office, Printing-House Square, 1887. Sm. 4to. pp. 42. Recent qtr morocco on marbled
boards. Very good.
€125
Parnell became the centre of attention of the series Parnellism and Crime which appeared in The Times
during 1887, their authenticity not being checked. The series was based on forged letters by a
disreputable Dublin journalist, Richard Piggott. A Special Commission was set up that would examine
not only the series in The Times but Parnell's whole career during and after the Land War. On 1st
March, when Parnell arrived in the House of Commons, Gladstone led the Liberals in a standing
ovation, Parnell having been cleared of all the charges by the Commission (although finding that he
had supported boycotting).
412. PASTON, George. Mrs. Delany (Mary Granville). A memoir 1700-1788. With seven
portraits in photogravure. London: Grant Richards, 1900. pp. ix, 310. Faded brown buckram.
T.e.g. A very good copy.
€65
THE DOWN SURVEY
413. [PETTY, Sir William] History of the Survey of Ireland, commonly called "The Down
Survey", A.D. 1656-6. Edited, from a manuscript in the libraries of Trinity College, Dublin, with
another in the possession of the most noble the Marquis of Lansdowne, and one in the library The
King's Inns, Dublin, by Thomas Aiskew Larcom. Dublin: For the Irish Archaeological Society,
1851. 4to. pp. [iv], xxiv, 426. Mauve cloth, gilt armorial device on upper cover, title in gilt on
worn spine. Bookplate of Geoffrey Hand on front pastedown, bookseller's label on lower
pastedown. Minor wear to spine. Discolouration to endpapers, otherwise very good.
€375
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 by 1,000 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 mountain, 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.
414. AN PHILIBÍN [J.H. Pollock] Autumn Crocus. Tralee: The Kerryman, 1947. First edition.
Folio. pp. [vii], 47. Qtr. linen on blue boards. Part of dust jacket tipped in. Fine. Rare.
€35
John Hackett Pollock (1887-1964), poet, novelist and playwright was born in Dublin and studied at
C.U.S. Leeson Street and the medical school in Cecilia Street, taking the M.B. and B.Ch. from the
National University in 1913. Attached to the Richmond Hospital, he helped the wounded on the streets
during the 1916 Rising. His love of nature and appreciation of landscape are apparent in his writing. He
was a founder member of the Gate Theatre and sometimes wrote under the pseudonym "An Philibín"
(the Plover).
415. PLUMMER, Charles. Miscellanea Hagiographica Hibernica. Vitae adhuc ineditae
sanctorum Mac Creiche, Naile, Cranat. Ad fidem codicum manuscriptorum recognovit
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prolegomenis notis indicibus instruxit C. Plummer ... Accedit Catalogus Hagiographicus Hibernæ
ab eodem pro tempore informatus. Bruxelles: Société des Bollandistes, 1925. pp. 288. Brown
cloth, title in black on spine. Ex lib University of London with neat stamp and armorial
bookplate. Later cloth. Very good. Scarce.
€125
416. [POBLACHT NA h-EIREANN] Stop Press. Poblacht na h-Eireann. War News No. 3.
Friday June 30, 1922. Broadside, printed one side only, on beige paper. Fold mark in centre,
minor tears to bottom right hand side without loss otherwise very good. Rare. Repeats the claim
that Churchill and Lloyd George ordered the attack on the Four Courts, and states that Éamon de
Valera is on active service with the Dublin Brigade, fighting for the Irish Republic.
€475
417. POLLARD, H.B.C. The Secret Societies of Ireland. Their Rise and Progress. London:
Philip Allan & Co, 1922. pp. xii, 324. Red cloth, title in gilt on spine. Some light foxing to foreedge, otherwise a very good copy.
€85
Major Hugh Bertie Campbell Pollard (1888-1966) was an author, firearms expert, and a British SOE
(Special Operations Executive) officer. He is chiefly known for his intelligence work during the Irish
War of Independence and for the events of July 1936, when he and his SOE colleague Cecil Bebb flew
General Francisco Franco from the Canary Islands to Morocco, thereby helping to trigger the outbreak
of the Spanish Civil War. During the War of Independence (1919-1921), Pollard was Press Officer of
the Information Section of the Royal Irish Constabulary. Together with the Section secretary, Captain
William Darling, he produced the Weekly Summary, an official synopsis of the war in Ireland. The
crudeness of this paper and its obvious intent at deceiving the journalists for whom it was produced
"resulted in much negative publicity for the Crown forces and the Irish Administration". He was also
directly involved in two particularly bungled attempts at 'black propaganda'. One was the attempt to
produce and distribute a fake version of the Irish Bulletin, the gazette of the Irish Republicans. The
fraud was quickly exposed and the reliability of information emanating from Crown sources in Ireland
severely damaged. A second incident involved the bizarre attempt to fake a military engagement in
County Kerry (reported as the Battle of Tralee). The press-release included photographs of the
purported scene of the battle. These were republished in a number of Irish and English papers before
the actual location was identified as Vico Road in Dalkey. The entire event had been staged by Pollard
and Captain Garro-Jones, a colleague of Major Cecil Street, and was without foundation. In December
1920 in the House of Commons, the Government was forced to admit that the photographs and a
contemporary newsreel were fake. Following the Anglo-Irish Treaty, Pollard recorded his
interpretation of the history of Irish nationalist organisations in this work, which included a defence of
sectarian violence and a repetition of some blatant misinformation. One such was the allegation that the
Lord Mayor of Cork, Tomás Mac Curtain, had been assassinated by the Irish Republican Brotherhood,
rather than Crown forces.
418. [POWER, P.] Parochial History of Waterford and Lismore During the 18th and 19th
centuries. With diocesan map. Waterford: Harvey, 1912. 4to. pp. xx, 290. Green cloth, title in gilt
on spine. Owner's signature on f.f.e. A fine copy. Very scarce.
€385
COPAC locates only 2 copies (TCD copy in Ireland).
Although no name of author appears on the titlepage of the above work, it is an open secret that the
handsome quarto is due to Rev. Patrick Power, Member of the Royal Irish Academy, the Editor of the
"Waterford Archaeological Journal". In a brief Preface, the author disclaims any intention of offering
the present volume as an adequate history of the Diocese, and he modestly states that the material here
presented "may stimulate the advent of the future historian", but, in truth, the author need fear no
compeer in the proposed task of issuing a Diocesan History of Waterford and Lismore - on the lines of
O'Laverty, Carrigan, and Begley.
419. POWER, Patrick. Waterford & Lismore. A Compendious History of the United Dioceses.
With maps and illustrations. Cork: University Press, 1937. pp. [x], 402. Recent green buckram,
title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Scarce.
€385
420. PRAEGER, Robert Lloyd. Belfast and County Down Railway Company. Official Guide to
County Down and the Mourne Mountains. With seventy photographs of scenery by R. Welch,
Belfast, maps, and other illustrations. Second edition, revised. Belfast: M'Caw, Stevenson & Orr,
Ltd., The Linenhall Press, 1900. pp. xv, 235, + adverts. Compliment slip on titlepage. A fine
copy.
€135
95
421. PRAEGER, Robert Lloyd. A Tourist's Flora of The West of Ireland. With four coloured
folding maps and numerous illustrations. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1909. pp. xii, 243. Illustrated
cloth. Ex lib Battersea Library with stamp. Bookplate of the naturalist David Bellamy on front
pastedown. A very good copy. Very scarce.
€145
The west of Ireland is undoubtedly one the richest and most interesting regions in Europe with its own
peculiar flora. This book is compiled for the convenience of the tourist and divided into three sections:
Introduction; Topographical; and Systematic. How many, ignorant of their own country, run eagerly
into foreign regions, to search out and admire whatever curiosities are to be found; many of which are
much inferior to those, which offer themselves to our eyes at home" - Linnaeus.
422. PRAEGER, Robert Lloyd. Irish Topographical Botany. Compiled from original material
by R.L. Praeger. With large folding maps, depicting Ireland in forty botanical divisions, progress
of the field work, petrographical and orographical divisions. With bibliography and tables.
Dublin: R.I.A.,1901. pp. clxxxviii, 410. Green cloth over bevelled boards, title in gilt on spine.
Complete with all maps. T.e.g. A very good copy. Scarce.
€375
Maura Scannell's copy with numerous additions, corrections, and insertions.
423. PRENDERGAST, John P. Ireland from the Restoration to the Revolution, 1660 to 1690.
London: Longmans, 1887. pp. xix, 206. With the signature of Rev. T. Keane on f.f.e. Red cloth,
title in gilt on upper cover, some fading and wear to spine ends. Pencil annotation to last page. Ex
libris Christian Brothers' Library, Marino with stamps. A very good copy. Rare.
€475
COPAC locates only 8 copies. The Restoration Settlement of Ireland might well be described as a
Tragedy in three acts. The King's Declaration of 30th November 1660, might be described as the first
act. Here all is fair and hopeful. Then comes the Act of Settlement of 27th September, 1662, treating
the Irish as conquered enemies, with their lands at the disposal of the conquerors. But the rights of
Innocence were still acknowledged, and the binding force of the Peace and other engagements. Last, at
the end of more than three years, comes the Act of Explanation, shutting the door of hope on all
Innocence unheard - on the Article-men or those claiming the conditions of the Peace of 1648 - on the
Ensign-men and the Nominees.
424. [PURDON'S ALMANAC] Purdon's Almanac. The Farmers' Gazette Year Book
Incorporating the Irish Farming World Annual. 1947, 106th year. With adverts. Dublin:
Brunswick Press, 1947. pp. 248. Printed wrappers. A very good copy. Very rare.
€150
The contents includes: Live Stock Items; Seeds and Sowing; Renewing Fencing Posts; Floors for
Piggeries; Storing Farm Implements; Cause of Milk Fever; Red Worms in Horses; Round Worms in
Lambs; Sterility in Cattle; Pedigree Bulls Sales in 1946; Winter Egg Production; Farmers Income Tax;
Crop and Stock Returns; Numbers of Live Stock in Ireland; Game Preservation Act; Department of
Agriculture; Ministry of Agriculture, Belfast, etc.
425. QUINN, David B. Government Printing and the Publication of the Irish Statutes in the
Sixteenth Century. Illustrated. Dublin: P.R.I.A., 1943. pp. 45-129, 3 (plates). Very good in
wrappers.
€35
WITH JOHN QUINN'S BOOKPLATE
426. ROBINSON, Lennox. Two Plays. Harvest: The Clancy Name. Portrait frontispiece.
Dublin: Maunsel, 1911. First edition. pp. [vi], 84, 4. Owner's signature on f.f.e. John Quinn's
copy with his bookplate by Jack B. Yeats. Very good in qtr. linen on paper boards. Scarce. €125
Lennox Robinson (1886-1958), playwright and theatre manager, was born in Douglas, Cork. Following
the death of Synge in 1909, Robinson was taken on as manager and director of the Abbey. The
following year he incurred the wrath of Annie Horniman by failing to close the theatre in mourning for
Edward VII, resulting in the loss of her subsidy. On leaving the Abbey in 1914 he became organising
librarian for the Carnegie Trust under Sir Horace Plunkett, staying with the painter Dermod O'Brien
and his wife Kitty at their country home at Cahirmoyle, Co. Limerick. In this setting he wrote his first
and most enduring comedy The Whiteheaded Boy.
427. ROBINSON, Philip S. The Plantation of Ulster. British settlement in an Irish landscape,
1600-1670. With maps and diagrams. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1984. Blue paper boards, title
in gilt on spine. Fine in coloured illustrated d.j.
€65
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428. RODENBERG, Julius. The Island of the Saints. A Pilgrimage Through Ireland. London:
Chapman and Hall, 1861. pp. [iv], 323. Ex lib. with stamp. Recent cloth. Exceedingly rare. A
good copy.
€350
Julius Rodenberg (1831-1914) was a German Jewish poet and prolific writer.
He studied law at the universities of Heidelberg, Göttingen, Berlin, and Marburg, but soon abandoned
jurisprudence for literature. In 1851 his first poem, "Dornröschen", appeared in Bremen. This poem
was soon followed by many others. Between the years 1855 and 1862 he travelled extensively
throughout Europe, and wrote numerous travel books. He visited Britain, Ireland, Belgium, the
Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, and Switzerland.
Despite some misgivings at the beginning of his visit to Ireland, he ended up thoroughly enjoying the
friendliness and hardship and its people. He learned, however, that humour and the whiskey bottle were
his best allies on his Irish travels, and these probably helped him endure the dreadful transport service
of the time. It was lashing down with rain in Limerick when he mounted a Bianconi coach for Galway:
"It was a long open cart on four wheels drawn by two half-lame nags. The middle of the vehicle was
taken up by herring barrels, large boxes and poles. On both sides along the full length of the cart were
benches which the unfortunate creatures, referred to as passengers, were clinging to for dear life, rather
than sitting on ... ". The coach stopped every quarter of an hour, and with copious changes of horses,
and a lot of whipping, and God knows how many days, they eventually arrived into Galway. He
enjoyed the city and people of the Claddagh and delighted in their stories of courting rituals. He had
equal fondness for the people of Connemara and Mayo. On his journey from the Killary to Westport,
he travelled along the Errif Valley: "Waterfalls poured sheer down the rocks and rushed across the road
into the stream. They seem to be born of the clouds. Only rarely a cabin stood by the wayside or on the
mountains". As he neared Westport he wrote: "Then came human beings again - peasants returning to
their cabins from the town - ponies mounted by girls, with baskets hanging on both sides, or fathers
with wives and children. To me, these people seemed handsomer, and kindler, and better off". Like
Thackeray he was overawed with the outstanding beauty of the town and surrounding countryside. This
was indeed in contrast to Belfast where he was saddened by the great divide between wealth and
poverty: "There are in Belfast dirty dens of corruption, dark nooks of crime, leaving far behind what
the most notorious spots in the capitals of the world have to show. The great northern metropolis of
Ireland has much to do yet ere it has reached the solid wealth, the firm patrician position of its English
prototypes, but it has surpassed them all in the horrors of its dangerous localities".
429. ROUS, Francis. The Mystical Marriage or, Experimental Discourses, of the Heavenly
Marriage between a Soul and her Saviour. London: Printed and Dublin Re-printed, by J. Carson,
for S. Fuller, in Meath-street, 1724. 12mo. pp. viii, 124. The third edition corrected. Cont. half
calf on grey paper boards with minor wear. Armorial bookplates of Mary Barbara Hales and The
Monastery of St. Augustine. Exceedingly rare.
€475
ESTC N35221 located only 2 copies.
Francis Rous or Rouse (1579-1659) English politician and prominent Puritan was born at Dittisham in
Devon. He was also Provost of Eton, and wrote several theological and devotional works. Educated at
Broadgates Hall, Oxford and the University of Leiden. In 1601 he entered the Middle Temple, but soon
afterwards retired to Landrake. For some years he lived in seclusion in Cornwall and occupied himself
with theological studies.
He took a leading part in Parliament, was elected for Cornwall in 1604, for Truro 1626, for Tregony
1628, and for Devon 1653. In the 1628 parliament he took part in the ferocious criticisms of Roger
Mainwaring.
The subjective cast of his piety is reflected in his Mystical Marriage . . . betweene a Soule and her
Saviour (first published in 1635). There is some doubt about the attribution to Rous of co-authorship in
The Ancient Bounds, a work of 1645 advocating religious tolerance.
430. ROWE, David & SCALLAN, Eithne. Historical Genealogical Architectural Notes on
some Houses of Wexford. With a foreword by Professor Kevin Whelan. Illustrated with line
drawings by David and Brian Rowe. Clare: Ballinakella Press, 2004. First edition. Folio. pp.
[513]. Purple cloth, title in gilt on spine. Fine in d.j.
€135
431. [ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY] Analysis of The Report and Epitome of the Evidence taken
before a Select Committee of the House of Commons in the Session of 1836, on the Royal
Dublin Society: together with Notes and Illustrations by a Member of the Society. Dublin:
97
Printed for Hodges and Smith, and all Respectable Booksellers: 1836. pp. [viii], 296, lxxi.
Owner's signature on titlepage. Original cloth, printed paper label with partial loss. Occasional
light foxing. Rear inner hinge starting, label a little chipped, sides lightly mottled, otherwise a
very good copy.
€185
Not in Bradshaw, Gilbert or Lough Fea. This Report was instigated as a result of a scandal in which the
Catholic Archbishop of Dublin was in 1835 blackballed for membership of the R.D.S., due to his
support of Daniel O'Connell, who had also been denied membership in 1811. The witnesses questioned
included Robert Hutton, Richard Griffith, Isaac Weld and Capt. Portlock. A final appendix contains the
letters from the Treasury to the R.D.S. in 1836. Daniel Murray (1768-1852) Archbishop of Dublin, was
born near Arklow and educated at Salamanca where he was ordained priest in 1790. After some years
as curate in Dublin he was transferred to Arklow, and was there in 1798 when the rebellion broke out.
The soldiers shot the parish priest in bed and Murray, to escape a similar fate, fled to the city where for
several years afterwards he ministered as curate. In 1809 at the request of Archbishop Troy he was
appointed coadjutor-bishop, and in 1823, on Dr. Troy's death, he became Archbishop of Dublin. While
coadjutor he had filled for one year the position of president of Maynooth College. Dr. Murray was an
uncompromising opponent of the "veto" and a strong supporter of the Catholic Association and Daniel
O'Connell. On other questions he was less advanced, and was in such favour at Dublin Castle that he
was once offered a seat on the Privy Council, which he declined. He supported Stanley's National
Education scheme and among the first Education Commissioners, he wished to tolerate the Queen's
Colleges, in opposition to the views of Archbishop MacHale. He hesitated, however, in accepting the
adverse decision of Rome, and was present at the Synod of Thurles where the Queen's Colleges were
formally condemned. He was a charitable, kindly man, respected even by his opponents.
432. RUSHE, Rev. James. "A Second Thebaid:" Being a Popular Account of the Ancient
Monasteries of Ireland. With illustrations and Map of Ireland (originally published in Dublin
A.D. 1786) Dublin, London & New York: 1905. pp. xii, 291, viii. Titlepage printed in red and
black. Ex lib. with stamps, some foxing. Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Rare.
€175
The contents includes: Monasticism in the early Irish Church; The Twelve Holy Founders; Some of our
more Ancient Sanctuaries; The Canons Regular; The Norbertines; The Knights Hospitaller of St. John;
The Order of the Most Holy Trinity; The Benedictines; The Cistercians; The Dominicans; The Order of
St. Francis; The Augustines; The Order of Carmel; The Suppression of the Irish Monasteries.
433. RUSKIN, John. Sesame and Lilies. Three
Lectures. Complete edition. London: George
Allen, 1903. pp. xxxvii, 228. Four pages printed
in red. Bound by Birdsall of Northampton in cont.
full vellum. Spine and upper cover decorated in
gilt to a floral design with onlays in green
morocco; board edges and turn-ins gilt; red and
gold endbands. A.e.g. Previous owner's signature
on f.f.e. A fine copy.
€225
434. RUSSELL, Peter. Ed. by. Nine. A
Magazine of Poetry and Criticism. Number 1.
Autumn 1949. Quarterly. Edited and published by
Peter Russell. Typescript letter from the publisher
to Mrs W. B. Yeats loosely inserted. London:
Peter Russell, 1949. pp. 44. Fine in printed
wrappers.
€85
Includes contributions from Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot,
Brian Soper, G.S. Fraser, etc.
435. RUTTY, John. A History of the Rise and
Progress of the People called Quakers in Ireland,
from 1653-1700. Compiled at the request of their
national meeting by Thomas Wight, of Cork.
Afterwards revised, enlarged, and continued to
the year 1751, by John Rutty. London: Phillips,
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1800. Second edition. pp. iv, 348. Owner's initials on f.f.e. Occasional light foxing. Recent qtr.
morocco on marbled boards. Very good. Scarce.
€275
"THE GREATEST FIGHTER IN IRELAND"
436. RYAN, Desmond. Sean Treacy and the Third Tipperary Brigade I.R.A. Illustrated. Tralee:
The Kerryman, 1945. First edition. pp. 223, [1]. Very good. Scarce.
€95
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.
437. RYAN, W.J. John Boyle O'Reilly. Illustrated with a portrait of O'Reilly. London: Denvir's
Monthly Irish Library, 1902. pp. 24, viii. Very good in illustrated stapled wrappers.
€25
438. RYNNE, Etienne. Ed. by. North Munster Studies. Essays in commemoration of Monsignor
Michael Moloney. Illustrated. Limerick: The Thomond Archaeological Society, 1967. 4to. pp.
xvi, 535. A fine copy.
€125
With numerous articles by leading scholars of the day on the history, folklore, placenames,
archaeology, numismatics and biography of North Munster.
THE SAVAGES OF THE ARDS
439. SAVAGE-ARMSTRONG, George F. Ed. by. A Genealogical History of the Savage
Family in Ulster being a revision and enlargement of certain chapters of "The Savages of the
Ards". Compiled by members of the family from historical documents and family papers, and
edited by G.F.S.-A. With illustrations of arms, mansions, ruins of castles, and ancient sites &
monuments connected with the family. London: Marcus Ward & Co., 1888. 4to. pp. xvi, 388.
Full red cloth with title and armorial bearings in gilt. Some minor wear to extremities, otherwise
a very good copy. Scarce.
€375
99
440. [SAYERS, Peig] Peig. A Scéal Féin do scríobh Peig Sayers.
Máire ní Chinnéide, do chur i n-eagar. Baile Átha Cliath: Clólucht
an Talbóidigh, 1936. An céad chló. pp. 251. Green cloth with light
fading. Very good.
€125
441. SEABHAC [Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha]. Jimín Mháire
Thaidhg. Illustrated by Sean Mac Murchada. Baile Átha Cliath:
Maunsel agus Roberts, 1921. pp. [iv], 108. Printed wraps. Spine
rebacked. Scarce. Very good. See illustration opposite.
€25
442. [SEACHRÁNAIDHE] Emancipation. Dublin: The Republican
Press, 1929. pp. 16. Stapled wrappers. Very good.
€75
The contents includes: The Penal Laws; Penal Laws not Anti-Catholic; A
Day of Hope; "The Poor Always Right"; The Rise of The "Cawstle
Cawtholic"; A Change of Masters; The Issue Defined; Concession
Through Fear; The Liberator; Era of Agitation; Alliance of Church and
State; Agitation or Revolution?; The Glorious Achievement; Privileges
and Restrictions; Emancipating the Poor; The New Garrison, etc.
443. SEYMOUR, St. John D. The Book of Adam and Eve in Ireland. Dublin: P.R.I.A., 1922.
pp. 121-133. Wraps.
€35
444. SHAFFREY, Patrick. The Irish Town; an approach to survival. With numerous
illustrations. Dublin: The O'Brien Press, 1975. 4to. pp. 192. Owner's bookplate on f.f.e. Special
edition limited to 100 copies, signed and numbered by the author. Qtr. morocco on green cloth
boards, gilt device on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. T.e.g. A fine copy.
€175
445. SHANNON-MANGAN, Ellen. James Clarence Mangan. A Biography. Illustrated. Dublin:
Irish Academic Press, 1996. pp. xix, 493. Fine in d.j.
€45
446. SHEEHAN, Tim. Lady Hostage. (Mrs. Lindsay). Illustrated. Cork: Sheehan, 2008. Second
edition. pp. x, 198. Fine in illustrated wrappers.
€25
The author describes the events around the Dripsey Ambush, "an ill-fated engagement in the War of
Independence". The Lady Hostage was Mrs. Lindsay of Leemount House, Coachford, who had
outspokenly paraded her loyalty to the British Crown. The story portrays the humanitarian character of
some British officers, particularly Lieutenant Colonel Gareth Evans who commanded the attack on the
I.R.A. ambush party, as well as others on the Republican side who showed sympathy to the hostage.
447. SIMMS, J.G. The Williamite Confiscation in Ireland 1690-1703. London: Faber and Faber,
1956. First edition. pp. 207. Black cloth, title in gilt on spine. Ex lib Christian Brothers with
stamps. Very good in d.j.
€175
This is a study, based on manuscript sources hitherto unused, of a controversial subject in Irish history,
the land confiscation which followed on the defeat of the Jacobites in the war of 1689-91. The way in
which the Treaty of Limerick was implemented and the history of the celebrated 'missing clause' are
considered in detail. The Treaty is shown to have been of greater importance in preserving the estates
of Catholics than was previously supposed. An account is given of the 'exorbitant grants' of Irish land
made by William III to his Dutch favourites and to his mistress, Elizabeth Villiers, and of the political
controversy which ended with the English parliament resuming the grants and ordering the lands to be
put to auction in Dublin. The whole story is illustrated by records of Irish families, whose differing
fates were determined in the last decade of the seventeenth century. The author's conclusion is that the
treaty of Limerick and the dispute between William and his English parliament made the confiscation
much less widespread that it would otherwise have been; but that many of the Catholics who thus
succeeded in retaining their estates were later induced by the penal laws to change their faith.
448. SMIDDY, Rev. Richard. An Essay on the Druids, The Ancient Churches and
The Round Towers of Ireland. With one plate of the Ogham writing. Dublin: Kelly,
1871. pp. ix, 242. Red cloth, Celtic cross a ruined abbey and round tower in gilt on
upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Cloth a little faded. Very good. Very scarce. €135
With chapters on: The Druids; The Ancient Churches of Ireland; The Round Towers.
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In his preface the author states that: "No language has left more extensive traces of its existence on the
face of Europe than the Celtic. It is indelibly engraved there in the names of rivers, cities, lakes, and
mountains, as well as in the frame-work of the modern languages".
449. SMITH, J. Huband. A Day at Howth: or, Guide to its most Prominent Objects of Interest:
containing Notices of its Early History and Archaeological Remains its Geological Structure,
Botanical Productions, and Objects of Natural History, etc. Dublin: Hodges, Smith, 1857. Second
edition. pp. 48, 4 (Publisher's list). Some soiling to lower margin. Printed frayed wrappers. €165
450. SMITHSON, A.M.P. Traveller's Joy. Dublin & Belfast: The Phoenix Publishing Company,
n.d. pp. 263. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Very good.
€35
451. SMYTH, Patrick G. The Wild Rose of Lough Gill. A Tale of the Irish War of the
Seventeenth Century. Dublin: M.H. Gill and Son Ltd., n.d. (c.1883). First edition. pp. xi, 306.
Original blue faded cloth, title in gilt on spine, minor wear to extremities. Scarce.
€45
Owen Roe O'Neill and Miles the Slasher are the principal figures in this fine novel of the War of the
Confederation set around Lough Gill in Sligo and Galway city. There is also a love story interwoven
with the historical events. The author, a schoolteacher was a native of Ballina, Co. Mayo.
452. ST JOHN, Charles. Wild Sports & Natural History of the Highlands. With introduction
and notes by the Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert Maxwell, & fifty illustrations, thirty being reproduced in
colour, from pictures by G. Denholm Armour & Edwin Alexander. London & Edinburgh: T.N.
Foulis, 1919. 4to. pp. xxx, 472, [2].
€150
453. [ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL] St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Duties of Gentlemen of
the Choir (Vicars-Choral and Assistant Vicars-Choral). Printed in 1897 and ascribed to Henry
Jellett, Dean and Ordinary. Three pages printed on single folded sheet.
€65
AUSTIN STACK'S COPY
454. [STACK AUSTIN] St. Ives. Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England. By
Robert Louis Stevenson. London: William Heinemann, 1919. 12mo. pp. viii, 383. Inscribed on
front fly-leaf 'A. de Staic / Cill Maighneann, 19 Samain 1923'. Loosely inserted is a colourful
Brian O'Higgins Christmas card with a manuscript note from 'Una Bean A. de Staic', to 'Caitlin,'
from Seabank, the Stack family home, dated 19 Dec. 1944, with an original envelope to Mrs.
Stack; and a framed portrait print of Austin Stack.
€485
Austin Stack (1879-1929), revolutionary,
was born at Ballymullen, Tralee, Co.
Kerry and educated at the local C.B.S. At
fourteen he became a solicitor's clerk. He
later captained the Kerry team that won the
All-Ireland football final in 1904. Joining
the I.R.B. in 1908, as Commandant of the
Kerry Brigade of the Irish Volunteers he
co-ordinated the landing of arms by Roger
Casement at Banna Strand. He was
arrested and sentenced to death, which was
commuted to penal servitude for life. Stack
was released with the general amnesty of 1917 and was elected Sinn Féin M.P. in the following year.
Between 1919 and 1922 he was at different times Minister for Home Affairs, Finance and Defence. He
opposed the Treaty of 1921, fought with the Republicans in the Civil War, was captured in 1923 and went
on hunger strike for forty-one days before being released in July, 1924. Caitlin in the letter was Kay
Buckley, formerly known as Caitlin Ni Bhuachalla.
455. [STATE OF IRELAND] The Present State of Ireland: together With some Remarques
Upon the Antient State thereof. Likewise a Description of the Chief Towns: With a Map of the
Kingdome. London: Printed by M[ary]. D[aniel]. for Chr. Wilkinson at the Black Boy ... under
St. Dunstan's Church, 1673. pp. [xxiv], 280, 3 (list of books). Modern full sprinkled calf in
seventeenth century style. From the library of Thomas Foley of Great Witley Court in the County
of Worcester, with his bookplate pasted on verso of titlepage. Very good. Very scarce.
€2,250
Wing P 3267 Sweeney 3515.
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The anonymous author of this compilation work starts by
mocking the legend which held that "Cæsaria, Noah's
niece, inhabited Ireland before the Flood". Of greater
interest are his remarks upon the various forms of diet
enjoyed by different social classes, and the fashion in
which English forms of attire had started to supplant the
"Trouses and Mantles" worn by the great majority of the
Irish prior to 1641. On the subject of recreational
activities he writes: "The Irish gentry are musically
disposed, & therefore many of them play singularly well
upon the Irish Harp; they affect also to play at tables; the
common sort meet oftentimes in great numbers (in plain
meadow or ground) to recreate themselves at a play
called Bandy with ball and crooked sticks, much after the
manner of our play at Stoe-ball; they are much given to
dancing after their countrey way, and the men to play
upon their Jews-Harp, and at cards but for no great
value".
Provenance: Thomas Foley (c. 1641-1701) was the eldest
son of the ironmaster Thomas Foley. He succeeded his
father to the Great Witley estate, including Witley Court,
in 1677. He served as a member of Parliament for
Worcestershire from 1679 to 1685; again from 1689 to
1698. Like several members of his family, he was
concerned in the iron industry. He married Elizabeth
Ashe, daughter of Edward Ashe, they had four sons and
four daughters.
456. STAUNTON, George. An Authentic Account
of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the
Emperor of China; including cursory observations made, and information obtained, in travelling
through that ancient empire and a small part of Chinese Tartary. Together with a relation of the
voyage undertaken on the occasion by His Majesty's Ship The Lion, and the ship Hindostan in
the East India Company's service, to the Yellow Sea, and Gulf of Pekin; as well as of their return
to Europe; with notices of the several places where they stopped in their way out and home;
being the islands of Madeira, Teneriffe, and St. Jago; the Port of Rio de Janeiro in South
America; the islands of St. Helena, Tristan d'Acunha, and Amsterdam; the coast of Java, and
Sumatra, the Nanka Isles, Pulo-Condore, and Cochin-China. Taken chiefly from the papers of
His Excellency the Earl of Macartney, Knight of the Bath, His Majesty's Embassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of China; Sir Erasmus Gower, Commander of
the Expedition, and of other Gentlemen in the several departments of the Embassy. Two
volumes. Dublin: Printed for P. Wogan, R. Cross, P. Byrne, J. Rice, J. Halpin, and N. Kelly,
1798. pp. (1) xv, 449, (2) xviii, 430. Cont. full tree calf, spines with contrasting labels. Owner's
initials on titlepages and in gilt on spine 'I. S. B.'. Minor surface wear to leather, a couple of
plates with minor cuts, otherwise a good set.
€375
ESTC T127328
Sir George Leonard Staunton, 1st Baronet (1737-1801) was an employee of the East India Company
and a botanist. He was born in Cargins, Co Galway, and educated at the Jesuit College, Toulouse,
France (obtaining an MD in 1758) and the School of Medicine in Montpellier, France. He was awarded
a DCL by Oxford University in 1790.
He initially practised as a physician in the West Indies but switched to law and was made AttorneyGeneral in Grenada in 1779. In 1784, he accompanied his lifelong friend George, Lord Macartney,
whom he first met in the West Indies, to Madras to negotiate peace with Tipu Sultan, for which service
Staunton was created a baronet of Ireland, of Cargins in the County of Galway on 31 October 1785.
He was elected in February 1787 a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1793, he was named Secretary to
the British mission to the Chinese Imperial Court. This diplomatic and trade mission would be headed
by Lord Macartney. Although the Macartney Embassy returned to London without obtaining any
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concession from China, the mission could have been termed a success because it brought back detailed
observations. Staunton was charged with producing the official account of the expedition after their
return. This work was taken chiefly from the papers of Lord Macartney and from the papers of Sir
Erasmus Gower, who was Commander of the expedition. Sir Joseph Banks, the President of the Royal
Society, was responsible for selecting and arranging engraving of the illustrations in this official
record.
Staunton died at his London house, 17 Devonshire Street, on 14 January 1801 and was buried in
Westminster Abbey, where a monument by Sir Francis Chantrey was erected to his memory. The
baronetcy, his Irish estate at Clydagh, County Galway and his London home were all inherited by his
only son, George Thomas Staunton.
The Stauntons of Waterdale and Clydagh had ancestral roots in Buckinghamshire and – although on a
lesser scale than the Whalleys – enjoyed the fruits of the monastic confiscations in England. A younger
son came to Galway in 1634 in a minor military capacity but yet acquired considerable property there
and bought the lands of Clydagh in 1676 . The Stauntons however failed to build up or consolidate a
large estate. The Waterdale branch turned to law and politics in the 18th century while severe financial
problems forced the Clydagh branch into what became distinguished colonial careers
457. [STEEVENS' HOSPITAL] Dr. Steevens' Hospital and Medical College, Dublin. Session
1861-62. A Prospectus for intended students. Dublin: 1861. pp. 8. Blue wrappers.
€125
458. STEVENS, John, Captain. The Journal of John Stevens. Containing a brief account of the
war in Ireland, 1689-1691. Edited by the Rev. Robert H. Murray. With a map of the Sieges of
Limerick. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912. pp. lxiii. 241. Green cloth, title in gilt on rebacked
spine. Ex lib Christian Brothers, with stamps and armorial bookplate of John Robert O'Connell.
Spine rebacked. Very good. Rare.
€225
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Capt. John Stevens or Stephens, Spanish scholar and translator, was a devout Roman Catholic, and
most probably an Irishman. He served three years in the army in Portugal, he was in civil employment
in London and at the time of the Revolution he was collector of excise in Wales. Stevens is said to have
accompanied James II in his Irish campaigns, and to have been employed in other services by him.
When he resided in Dublin he did so "in esteem and with splendour". Twice in his journals he refers to
a book of his travels in Ireland, but this has been lost. An ardent Jacobite, he fled to France in January,
1689. He is probably to be identified with the Lieutenant John Stephens mentioned by D'Alton in King
James's Irish Army List, (p. 485). He was not attainted until 1695. From that time till his death in 1726,
he was busily engaged in translations and historical and antiquarian compilations. He says nothing of
himself in any of his numerous works, which are almost always inscribed 'Captain Stevens.' The
intimate knowledge of Portuguese, French and the Spanish language and literature displayed in his
prefaces points to a residence in Spain or Portugal. Miscellaneous as Stevens' work was, he deserves
special recognition as a predecessor of Southey, Stirling-Maxwell, and Ticknor in the exploration of
the rich mine of Spanish literature. Some years previously Stevens had essayed a 'revision' of Shelton's
English version of Don Quixote, and he was also a learned and industrious antiquary. In 1718 he
published anonymously a folio translation and abridgment of Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum.
Stevens issued anonymously in 1722, his Monasticon Hibernicum. This is a translation, with additions
and alterations, of Alemand's Histoire Monastique d'Irlande, 1690. This journal begins on January 16,
1689, and abruptly closes on 1st. July, 1691, while the writer is giving an account of the Battle of
Aughrim. This work constitutes an important addition to the history of the Revolution in Ireland. In
terms of interest his journal is comparable to Mercer's Journal of the Waterloo Campaign . Both Mercer
and Stevens were scholars and lovers of books.
459. STEWART, S.A. & CORRY, T.H. A Flora of the North-East of Ireland. Second edition.
Flowering plants, vascular cryptograms and charophytes by Robert Lloyd Praeger. Mosses and
liverworts by William Rutledge Megaw. With map. Belfast: The Quota Press, 1938. pp. lix, 472.
Owner's signature on f.f.e. in pencil. Fine in buckram. Scarce.
€65
460. STOUT, Hon. Robert. Notes
on the Progress of New Zealand for
twenty years, 1864-1884. Illustrated
with charts and maps. Wellington:
George Didsbury, 1886. pp. 39, 21
(charts). Blue cloth, title in gilt on
upper cover. Ex. lib. Glenstal Abbey
Library, with stamp. Spine expertly
rebacked. A very good copy.
€75
There are two folding maps shewing
the location and density of the
population of New Zealand in 1864
and 1881. The map states that the
Maoris are excluded. The author was
Premier of the Colony.
461. [STRICKLAND, Henry]
Ireland from One or Two Neglected
Points of View. By the author of
Hints
to
Country Bumpkins.
London: Hatchards, 1888. pp. xi,
184. Original printed wrappers.
Very scarce.
€225
The chapters include: A Few Hints
about Race; Fitness of Lower Races
for Self-Government; A Race never
changes its Characteristics so long as
it remains Isolated and Unmixed;
Colour; The Irish Land Bills;
Socialism, etc.
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In his introductory remarks the author states: "Repetition of truisms will be found in the following
pages, such as for instance that 'righteousness exalteth a nation'. Books are written not to bore the wise,
but to instruct the foolish. Therefore a free use of truism is necessary".
462. STRONG, L.A.G. The Sacred River. An Approach to James Joyce. London: Theodore
Brun Limited, 1949. First edition. pp. [x], 161. Edition limited to 512 numbered copies. Specially
bound in purple morocco, title in gilt on spine, gilt device on upper cover. Marbled endpapers.
Gold silk marker. T.e.g. A very good copy.
€125
463. STUART, Francis. Memorial. London: Martin Brian & O'Keefe, 1973. First edition. pp.
263. Light green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Owner's signature on f.f.e. Very good in
frayed d.j.
€75
464. STUART, Francis. The High Consistory. London: Martin Brian & O'Keefe, 1981. First
edition. pp. 320. Blue paper boards. Fine in fine illustrated d.j.
€65
465. STUART, Francis. The White Hare. A novel. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936.
First U.S. edition. pp. 314. Green cloth, title in white on upper cover and spine. Double
presentation copy, signed by the author 'to Helen from Francis November 1936' and to 'Joe from
Francis Stuart July 1985'. A very good copy in frayed illustrated d.j. Very scarce.
€185
After independence, Francis Stuart participated in the literary life of Dublin and wrote poetry and
novels. His novels were successful and his writing was publicly supported by Yeats. Yeats, however,
seemed to have had mixed feelings for Stuart who was, after all, married to a woman he regarded
almost as a daughter and, even, as a possible wife. Stuart and Iseult had three children, a daughter
Dolores who died three months old, a son Ian and a daughter Katherine. Ian Stuart went on to become
an artist and was married for a time to the sculptor Imogen Stuart. However, this may not have been a
happy time. From the accounts given in his apparently auto-biographical novels, both he and his wife
struggled with personal demons and their internal anguish poisoned their marriage.
466. SWIFT, Edmund L. The Life and Acts of Saint Patrick the Archbishop, Primate and
Apostle of Ireland. Now first translated from the original Latin of Jocelin, the Cistercian Monk of
Furnes, who flourished in the early part of the twelfth century. With the elucidations of David
Rothe, Bishop of Ossory. Dublin: Printed for the Hibernia Press Company by James Blyth, 1809.
pp. [viii], 232, 34, vi. Untr. Very good in recent buckram.
€185
467. [SWIFT, Jonathan] Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. By Lemuel
Gulliver. With a preface by Henry Craik, and one hundred illustrations by Charles E Brock.
London: Macmillan, 1922. Contemporary full blue morocco gilt. Prize binding presented by
Aysgarth School to J.A. Peck in 1934. With label and badge of college in gilt on upper cover.
A.e.g. A fine copy.
€165
ICONOGRAPHICALLY INTRIGUING
468. SYNGE, J.M. Queens. With nine colour reproductions of stained glass by Harry Clarke.
Notes on the panels by Nicola Gordon Bowe. Dublin: Dolmen, 1986. pp. 16, 9 (colour plates).
Fine in blue cloth. Scarce.
€ 65
'Queens' was written by Synge about 1903 and first printed in his Poems and Translations at the Cuala
Press in 1909. These poems inspired Harry Clarke to design his 'iconographically intriguing' frieze of
miniature stained glass panels in brilliant colours, which is here reproduced for the first time.
469. TAYLOR, Fanny. Irish Homes and Irish Hearts. Frontispiece. London: Longmans, 1867.
pp. xiv, 240. Cloth. Slight foxing, otherwise very good.
€125
The author was an Englishwoman who served as a volunteer nurse with Florence Nightingale in the
Crimean War. Eventually she became a Catholic and a nun, joining the Sisters of Mercy, many of
whose order served also in that war. In 1856 she wrote Eastern Hospitals and English Nurses: a
narrative of 12 months, under the pseudonym of 'A Lady Volunteer'. She travelled extensively
throughout the country, a keen observer, she gives us a great insight into the social, medical,
educational and political scene towards the close of the nineteenth century.
470. TAYLOR, Rex. Michael Collins. London: Four Square, 1966. pp. 285, [2 (Publisher's list)].
A very good copy in illustrated wrappers.
€25
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471. THOMAS HIBERNICUS. Flores Doctorum Insignium, Tam Graecorum, quàm
Latinorum, qui in Theologia ac Philosophia claruerunt, sedulò per Thomam Hybernicum collecti,
& postrema hac editione à mendis quàmplurimus vindicati. With frontis. and engraved title.
Antverpiae: Apud Joannem Bellerum, 1563. 16mo. pp. [11], 12-813. Early owner's signature on
title and front pastedown. German blind-stamped allum tawed pigskin, covers triple blind ruled
to a panel design, outer panel with acanthus roll, centre panel made up of four Biblical scenes.
Minor wear to extremities. Early owner's initials 'MEV' and year '1565' stamped on upper cover.
Paper repair to lower corner of titlepage. Overall in very good condition.
€675
No copy of this edition located on COPAC. Sweeney
5070 and 5071 locates the 1483 and 1650 editions of this
rarity.
This work consists of extracts from classical and
patristic literature arranged in alphabetical order
according to subject. The most frequently reprinted
16th century title by an author whose Irishness is
beyond question. Richard and Mary Rouse in their
most detailed bibliographical analysis of Thomas
Hibernicus Preachers, Florilegia and Sermons locates
twenty-six printings between 1550 and 1596 and
suggested that there were probably another seven that
could be added to the list. The places of publication are
named as Venice, Lyons, Paris, Antwerp and Cologne.
They also state that Guillaume Rouillé commissioned a
work compiled on the same basis and variously titled
Flores Bibliae or Flores Bibliorum, (first published
Lyons, 1554). This appeared anonymously and was
first attributed to Thomas Hibernicus by John Steele's
widow in Antwerp thirteen years later, even though it
lacked any medieval provenance.
The Rouses uncovered a confusion perpetrated by Sir
James Ware in which three different individuals were
fused into a single writer. The first, a Franciscan,
Thomas Hibernicus who died in the convent of Aquila in Abruzzi circa 1270; the second, a secular
priest, Thomas Hibernicus, with University of Sorbonne connections, who died between 1329 and
1338; the third a Dominican, Thomas of Palmerstown, who was Prior Provincial of his Order in the
closing years of the 14th century and died no earlier than 1415. Tony Sweeney in Ireland and the
Printed Word following the Rouses, states that the second of these is the real author and someone who
achieved renown throughout Europe as the large number of extant manuscripts indicates. The Rouses
show that Thomas drew upon two Cistercian florilegia in compiling the Manipulus Florum, and that his
organisation of material helped it to succeed in a crowded market. "This combined" they said, "the
advantages of alphabeticised index and of topical arrangement, with the added element of crossreference or cross-indexing".
Thomas de Hibernia or Hibernicus flourished 1306-1316. He studied at Paris where he became a fellow
of the Sorbonne, and took the degree of bachelor of theology about 1306. He was neither a Franciscan
nor Dominican but has been called both. In his will he bequeathed '16l.' to the Sorbonne along with
copies of his own works and many other books. His name is mentioned seven times in the Sorbonne
Catalogue of 1338, and some of his books are now in the Bibliotheque Nationale. - DNB.
472. THOMPSON, Wm. Esq. The Natural History of Ireland. Birds, comprising the orders
Raptores, Insessores, Rasores, Grallatores, Natatores and Mamalia, Reptiles, Fishes and also
Invertebrata. Four volumes. Portrait frontispiece to volume four. London: Reeve, Benham and
Reeve, 1849-1856. pp. (1) xx, 434, 1, (2) xi, 346, (3) vii, 491, 1, (4) xxxii, 516. Olive green
blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spines. Neat library stamp of John C. MacGowan of
Donaghadee. Light fading to cloth, minor spotting. Fine. Complete sets are rare.
€765
The eldest son of a Belfast linen merchant, William Thompson was born in 1805. While apprenticed to
the linen industry he cultivated his interest in birds, business however did not appeal to him and after a
few years he devoted his life to zoology. He contributed many articles to the Belfast Natural Society
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and other scientific journals. A year before his untimely death he had published three volumes of his
Natural History of Ireland , dealing with birds. The manuscript of the fourth volume pertaining to the
remaining vertebrates and all the invertebrates was published in 1856 by J.R. Garrett and Robert
Patterson. William Thompson was one of the foremost naturalists that Belfast has produced.
"THE MOST BEAUTIFUL VIEW I EVER SAW IN THE WORLD"
473. TITMARSH, Mr. M.A. [William M. Thackeray] The Irish Sketch-Book. With numerous
engravings on wood, drawn by the author. Second edition. Two volumes. London: Chapman and
Hall, 1845. pp. (1) [ii], vi, 311, (2) vi, 327, [i]. Armorial bookplate of John Wood on front
pastedowns. Original ribbed patterned cloth. Occasional light foxing. Spines evenly faded and
professionally rebacked. A very good copy.
€375
William Makepeace Thackeray, the celebrated author, was born in India of English parents. His wife
Isabella Shaw, whom he met in Paris was from Doneraile in County Cork, and a relative, Elias
Thackeray was Vicar of Dundalk. A master of irony and wit, he began his tour of Ireland in 1842. The
book is a masterpiece, cleverly written and gives a straightforward account of Ireland as it appeared to
the observing intelligent traveller before the Great Famine. He contrasts the great divide between the
wealthier landed gentry and the appalling poverty of the peasantry, criticising both the government and
absentee landlords. His description of a part of the country so dear to my heart is awe inspiring: "And
presently, from an eminence, I caught sight not only of a fine view, but of the most beautiful view I
ever saw in the world, I think; and to enjoy the splendour of which I would travel a hundred miles in
that car with that very horse and driver. The sun was just about to set, and the country round about and
to the east was almost in twilight. The mountains were tumbled about in a thousand fantastic ways, and
swarming with people. Trees, corn-fields, cottages, made the scene indescribably cheerful ... but the
[Clew] bay, and the Reek, which sweeps down to the sea, and a hundred islands in it, were dressed up
in gold and purple, and crimson, with the whole cloudy west in a flame. Wonderful, wonderful!".
474. TWISS, Richard. A Tour in Ireland in 1775. With a view of the Salmon-Leap at
Ballyshannon. London: Printed for the author, 1776. pp. [iv], 204. Recent qtr. morocco on
marbled boards. A very good copy. Very scarce.
€350
Richard Twiss (1747-1821), the professional traveller and philanderer, was a native of Rotterdam, the
son of an English merchant. He undertook sixteen sea voyages and travelled altogether about twentyseven thousand miles. He visited Ireland in 1775 and then wrote an account of his tour which caused an
uproar in Dublin due to his critical views of the hygiene of Irish women. It was most unpopular and it
provoked an anonymous satirical attack An Heroic Epistle from Donna Teresa Pinna y Ruiz of Murcia
which mocked Twiss' gallantry in his travels. Shortly after his visit a Dublin manufacturer of
earthenware had Twiss' portrait printed upon the bottom of his chamber-pots. The Irish had the last
laugh. The Lord Chancellor's wife, Lady Clare, is said to have composed the following ditty:
"Here you may behold a liar
Well deserving of hell-fire
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Every one who likes may p--Upon the learned Doctor T---".
475. TYNDALL, John. Address delivered before the British Association assembled at Belfast.
With additions by John Tyndall. London: Longmans, 1874. pp. xxxvi, 83, 44 (Longmans' list).
Mauve faded cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. Owner's signature on half-title. Very good. €65
476. UA DUINNÍN, Athair Pádraig. Faoistin Naomh-Phádraig i Laidin, i nGaedhilg, agus i
mBéarla. Maille le gléar breathnuighthe ar an dtéics agus ar na Fo-ráidhtibh ón Scríbhinn Diadha.
Baile Átha Cliath: M H Gill, 1915. pp. viii, 84. Original printed pink wrappers. Spine rebacked.
Very good. Scarce.
€65
The Confession of Saint Patrick in Latin, Irish and English.
"I, Patrick the sinner, and the most untutored and the least of all the faithful, and am held in contempt
by many. My father was Calpornus a deacon, son of Potitus a presbyter, who belonged to the village of
Bannavem Taberniae ... But I beseech those who believe and fear God, who so ever shall have deigned
to look into or receive this document, which Patrick the sinner, unlearned, as is manifest, wrote in
Ireland, that no one ever say that it was my ignorance that did whatever little I have done or
demonstrated according to God's will, but consider ye, and let it be most truly believed, that it was the
'gift of God'. And this is my confession before I die".
477. UI CHANAINN, Eibhlin. Foclóir An Mhic Léinn. Báile Átha Cliath: An Press Náisiúnta,
1962. pp. 184. Printed red wrappers. Very good.
€25
478. [UNITED IRISH LEAGUE] Riaghlacha Craoibhe na nÉireannach nÓg de Chumann na
nGaedheal nAontuighthe. Rules of the Young Ireland Branch of the United Irish League. 43
rules, in Irish and English. Dublin: United Irish League, n.d. pp. 19. Printed wrappers.
€275
Carty 223b.
479. USSHER, James. A Free Examination of the Common Methods employed to Prevent the
Growth of Popery. In which are pointed out their Defects and Errors, and the Advantages they
give Papists. To which is added, Seasonable Reflections, humbly offered to the Consideration of
the Legislature. Dublin: Printed by D. Chamberlaine, at Faulkner's Head in Dame-Street, facing
Fownes's-Street, 1774. 12mo. pp. xii, 252. Early owner's initials on f.f.e. Recent half green
morocco on marbled boards. Small tear to margin of E (2 subscript***), with partial loss to two
lines. A fine copy.
€165
ESTC N31680.
480. VINEY, Michael. Another Life. Illustrated. Dublin: Irish Times, 1979. pp. 159. Very good
€35
"When we left our city jobs, to make another, more self-sufficient life here in West Mayo, one
colleague said we would be 'living out other people's dreams'. But dreams are one thing; giving up the
permanent and pensionable another! We were both in successful, sedentary careers in journalism and
television. What possessed us? This book is a collected experience, drawn together from the column
Another Life, through which I have shared our progress, week by week" - Michael Viney, Irish Times.
481. [VIRGIN MARY] Officium B.
Mariae Virg: Nuper reformatum, & Pii V.
Pont. Max. iussu editum: Ad instar
Breuiarij Romani sub Vr ano
.
e ogn .
omn a s s lo s s n
e ensa. C m n lgen s o a on s
o o na s
h mn s a
ano
o e s.
e n salm es e a m
om le o
o om n s
es s o s
ann
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m osa o
. Mariae.
Antwerp: Ex officina Plantiniana apud
viduam & heredes Balth. Moreti, 1677.
32mo. pp. [64], 712, [4]. Printed in red
and black throughout. Nineteenth century
full calf. Upper board detached, minor
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wear to corners and spine ends, otherwise a fine copy. Rare.
€375
The Office is a liturgical devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, in imitation of, and usually in addition
to, the Divine Office in the Roman Catholic Church. As the mother of Jesus, Mary has a central role in
the Roman Catholic Church. The church's veneration of her as the Blessed Virgin Mary has grown over
time both in importance and manifestation, not only in prayer but in books, art, poetry and music.
Popes have encouraged this veneration but from time to time have also taken steps to reform it.
Overall, there are significantly more titles, feasts and venerative Marian practices among Roman
Catholics than any other Christian traditions. Pope Benedict XVI maintains that the Virgin Mary
possesses divine motherhood which she continues to bestow as intercessory "graces associated with
God's blessing".
482. [WADDINGTON, Victor] Twelve Irish Artists. With an introduction by Thomas Bodkin.
With 12 mounted coloured plates. Dublin: Printed at the Sign of the Three Candles, 1940. Large
folio. Unbound sheets in binder's folder, title printed on green label on flap. Cover creased,
otherwise fine.
€125
De Búrca 122.
Dr. Thomas Bodkin in his introduction states: "The nation that neglects to display, through the minds
and hands of our artists, the emotions, the ideals, and the aspirations that animate its people is
unworthy of the name". Certainly this publication put paid to that. Undoubtedly it was the most
influential Irish art book ever published. It contains examples of the work of J. Humbert Craig, William
Connor, Grace Henry, Paul Henry, Sean Keating, Harry Kernoff, Charles Lamb, Maurice MacGonigal,
Frank McKelvey, Dermod O'Brien, Sean O'Sullivan, and Leo Whelan.
483. WAKEMAN, W.F. Graves and Monuments of Illustrious Irishmen. Dublin: The Freeman's
Journal, Reprinted from the "Evening Telegraph", n.d. pp. 37 (double column). Recent qtr.
morocco on marbled boards. A very good copy.
€75
The contents includes: Burial Place of Dathi, Last Pagan Monarch of Ireland; The Pillarstone of St.
Patrick's Nephew; The Cross of Monasterboice; The Monument of Felim O'Connor, King of
Connaught; The Oaken Statue of St. Molaise; The Cross of Flann Sinna, Irish Monarch; The Grave of
Theobald Wolfe Tone; The Grave of Robert Emmet; The Monument of John Philpot Curran; The
Grave of Owen Roe O'Neill; The O'Connell Tower, Glasnevin; William Smith O'Brien.
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484. WAKEMAN, W.F. Old Dublin. Second series. Illustrated. Dublin: The Freeman's Journal,
Reprinted from The "Evening Telegraph", n.d. pp. 49. Recent qtr. morocco on marbled boards. A
very good copy.
€85
With chapters on: Howth Harbour; The Phoenix Park, Strawberry Beds, and Palmerstown; Chapelizod;
The Lucky Stone of St. Audoen's; St. Stephen's Green; Kilbarrack and its Associations; St. Kevin's
Church; Kill-of-the-Grange; The Bridges of Dublin; Charlemont House; Dublin Theatres; Duke of
Wellington's Birthplace; Beggar's Bush; The Ordnance Survey of Ireland - Petrie Collection of Celtic
Antiquities; The Ancient Pillory, Cornmarket, etc.
485. WAKEMAN, W.F. The Tourists' Guide to Ireland. With coloured folding map, and
illustrations. Dublin: n.d. (c.1884). pp. [iv], 424, 57 (adverts). One leaf of adverts torn. Very
good in illustrated cloth.
€235
486. 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, 1992. Second edition. Hardback. pp. 335. Very
good in d.j.
€45
"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.
487. WALKER, George. A True Account of the Siege of London-Derry. By the Reverend Mr.
George Walker, Rector of Donoghmoore in the County of Tirone, and late Governour of Derry in
Ireland London: Printed for Robert Clavel, and Ralph Simpson, in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1689.
4to. pp. 59, [1]. Title page with paper repair and advertisement at foot. Very good in recent qtr.
morocco on marbled boards.
€875
Wing W 350. Sweeney 5468.
A legendary description of this dramatic siege by the prime mover in the action. It evoked much
controversy, with the Presbyterian participants in the defence feeling that their contribution to the final
victory had not been given due credit and the absence of the names of the ministers is noteworthy.
After the dedication to William and Mary, there follows a two page description of the city and its
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defences. The ensuing diary contains some splendid set-pieces even if one's credulity is stretched at
times. An example of the good and the bad: "July 2. The enemy drive the poor protestants, according to
their threatening, under our walls, protected and unprotected, and under great distress. Our men at first
did not understand the meaning of such a crowd, but fearing they might be enemies fired upon them;
we were troubled when we found the mistake, but it supported us to a great degree, when we found that
none of them were touch'd by our shot, which by direction of Providence (as if every bullet had its
commission on what to do) spared them and found out and kill'd three of the enemy, that were some of
those that drove the poor people into so great a danger. There were some thousands of them, and they
did move great passion in us, but warm'd us with new rage and fury against the enemy, so that in sight
of their camp, we immediately erected a gallows and signified to them we were resolved to hang their
friends, that were our prisoners, if they did not suffer these poor people to return to their own houses".
488. WALKER, George. Reflections on a Paper, Pretending to be an Apology for the Failures
charged on Mr. Walker's Account of the Siege of London-Derry. London: Printed for Robert
Clavel, and Ralph Simpson, in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1689. 4to. pp. 20. Recent qtr. morocco on
marbled boards. A very good copy. Very rare.
€675
Wing R 695. Sweeney 5474. ESTC R32187.
The author of this tract states: "The Gentleman that writ it, out of a vain Ostentation that so complete a
Treatise could not be believed to be the Issue of one Mans Brains, avows to be the result of a Club of
Wits ... But I am unwilling to think, that those, whom he boasts to be his Party, should be guilty of so
much Imprudence, and so little Candor; while with a malicious Craft he insinuates a disingenuous
Design in the Writer of that Account to eclipse the Honour of the Northern Scots, so formidable to the
Papists, and to bury their memory in the Grave of perpetual Oblivion".
489. WALL, C.W. Mountaineering in Ireland for the Hill-walker and the Rock-climber. With an
introduction by Dr. Robert Lloyd Praeger. Illustrated. Dublin: The Irish Tourist Association,
1939. pp. 88. Very good in illustrated wraps.
€95
490. WALSH, Maurice. The Quiet Man. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1933. pp. [iv], 52. Green
linen, title in black on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. Scarce.
€95
The famous 1951 John Ford film The Quiet Man , starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, was based
on this story, which also appeared in Green Rushes published in London in 1936. It was filmed mainly
in the Cong area of County Mayo.
EDITION LIMITED TO 95 COPIES ONLY
491. 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
492. WALSH, Rev. Paul. Genealogiae Regum et Sanctorum Hiberniae by The Four Masters.
Edited from the manuscript of Mícheál Ó Cléirigh with appendices and an index. Maynooth:
Record Society, 1918. pp. viii, 164. Ex libris Christian Brothers with stamps. Recently bound in
arlin. Rare.
€95
493. WALSH, Peter A Prospect of The State of Ireland from The Year of the World 1756 to The
Year of Christ 1652. Written by P.W. London: Printed for Johanna Broom at the Gun in St. Pauls
Church-Yard, 1682. pp. [lxviii], 504, [vi]. Cont. full calf. Spine expertly rebacked with new
morocco letterpiece. Minor foxing to endpapers. A fine copy.
€685
Wing W 640. Sweeney 5523. ESTC R34713. Peter Walsh, D.D. was born near Naas, County Kildare
c.1618. He was educated at the Irish College at Louvain. Joined the Franciscan Order and was later
Professor of Divinity at Louvain. He returned to Ireland in 1646, the following year he attacked in nine
consecutive sermons the Disputatio Apologetica of Cornelius Mahony, in which the rights of the kings
of England to Ireland was denied. As a consequence of his conduct Walsh was deprived of the
lectureship in divinity to which he had been appointed at Kilkenny. He was driven from the house, and
even forbidden to enter any town which possessed a library. Rinuccini accused him of having affected
the nobility of Ireland and destroyed the cause. He also afterwards described him as "turned out of his
convent for disobedience to superiors, a sacrilegious profaner of the pulpit in Kilkenny cathedral, who
vomited forth in one hour more filth (sordes) and blasphemy than Luther and Calvin together in three
years". Walsh sided with Ormond and wrote against the Papal Nuncio, which led to his
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excommunication. For his loyal services to Ormond he received a pension from the Government. He
died in 1687 and is buried in St. Dunstan's-in-the-West, London. The Bishop of Salisbury said of him
that "He was the honestest and lernedest man among them (Catholics), and was indeed in all points of
controversy almost wholly a Protestant". In the dedication to Charles II Walsh declares himself an
"unrepentant sinner", determined to die as he had lived, the King's "most loyal, most obedient, and
most humble servant".
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494. WARBURTON, J. WHITELAW, J. & WALSH, R. History of the city of Dublin, from
the earliest accounts to the present time. Containing its Annals, Antiquities, Ecclesiastical
History & Charters, its present extent, public buildings, schools, institutions etc., to which are
added Biographical Notices of eminent men, and copious appendices of its population, revenue,
commerce and literature. Illustrated with numerous engraved plates after Malton, maps and plans
(some folding). London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies in the Strand, 1818. 4to. pp. (1)
[viii], xx, 668, (2) [vii], 669-1348, cvi, 7 (corrections, additions and list of engravings). Recent
full panelled calf, title and volume number in gilt direct on spine. Some browning and occasional
foxing. A very good set in a fine binding. See illustrations on previous page also.
€965
Bradshaw 6533 Gilbert 882. Warburton was the Keeper of the Records at Birmingham Tower and in
collaboration with Mr. Whitelaw, set about the compiling of this account of Dublin. The former having
access to many of the ancient documents in the Castle. With the death of Warburton the onerous task
passed to Mr. Whitelaw, but he in turn died before its completion and the history was eventually
finished by Robert Walsh, LL.D. It is an excellent work with much valuable information from
documents which have long since vanished and is complemented with the fine reproductions of
Malton's views and the detailed maps and plans.
495. WELD, Charles Richard. Vacations in Ireland. With aquatint frontispiece of Birr Castle.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857. pp. xvi, 399. Spine expertly
rebacked. Very good.
€325
496. WELD, Isaac. Illustrations of the Scenery of Killarney and the Surrounding Country. With
frontispiece, map, engraved title, one engraved folding plate and eighteen full page engravings.
London: Longman, Hurst, 1812. pp. [i], vii, 293, [1]. Modern half calf on marbled boards. Usual
foxing. A very attractive copy.
€265
Isaac Weld (1774-1856), author, was born in Dublin and educated at Samuel Whyte's School, Grafton
Street and in Norfolk. In 1795 he sailed for Philadelphia and spent two years travelling in America and
Canada, and met George Washington. In 1799 he published Travels Through the States of North
America and the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada which went to three editions and was
translated into French, German and Dutch.
Weld visited Killarney and its lakes, and the present work is the result of that visit, illustrated with his
own drawings. A member of the Royal Dublin Society from 1800, he undertook their Statistical Survey
of Roscommon . Sir Isaac Weld was honorary secretary to the Society for over twenty years, and after
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his death its members erected a monument to him in Mount Jerome Cemetery. A beautiful series of
views of one of Ireland's most scenic regions. Includes views of the lakes, the surrounding mountains
as well as picturesque ruins and castles.
497. WELLS, Geoffrey H. A Bibliography of the Books and Pamphlets of George Bernard
Shaw. Advertiser's complimentary copy. London: Supplement to The Bookman's Journal, 1928.
pp. 16. Qtr. linen on blue paper boards. Very good.
€75
498. WHITE, Rev. Gilbert. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of
Southampton. The Standard Edition by E.T. Bennett. Thoroughly Revised, with additional notes
by James Edmund Harting. Illustrated with Engravings by Thomas Bewick, Harvey, and Others.
London: Bickers and Son, 1875.pp. xxii, [1], 532. Cont. full calf, spines richly gilt. Magdalen
College premium prize awarded to Frederick Adkins Christmas 1874, with badge of College in
gilt on upper cover. Occasional light foxing. A very good copy.
€165
499. WHITE, Patrick Frederick. The Emerald Wreath. By the author of the Boudoir Melodies,
Illustrations of Irish Minstrelsy, etc. etc. Dublin: James McGlashan, 1852. pp. [xii] 166, 1, 2
(notification of The Wandering Bard by the same author). Title printed in green within a garland
of shamrocks. Eleven pages of music printed in green. List of subscribers. Gilt and blind-stamped
cloth with an illustration of Hibernia with her hand on a harp, surrounded by a garland of
shamrocks. Owner's signature and other signatures with a music score on page facing title. A.e.g.
A fine copy. Exceedingly rare.
€475
See items 499 & 500
THE MULLET & INISKEAS
500. WHITE, T.H. The Godstone and The Blackymor. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
London: The Reprint Society, 1960. pp. 224. Maroon cloth. Title in gilt on spine. A very good
copy in frayed d.j.
€45
The quest for the Godstone (naomh óg) around the Mullet and Iniskeas.
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501. WILKINSON, George. Practical Geology and Ancient Architecture of Ireland. Illustrated
with seventeen plates and seventy-two woodcuts. London: John Murray & Dublin: William
Curry, 1845. pp. viii, 348, 44 (Tables of experiments on the principal building stones of Ireland).
Inscribed presentation copy from the author. Cont. half brown morocco on pebbled cloth. Spine
with raised bands; title and author in gilt. T.e.g. Scarce.
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502. WILLMOT, G.F. Three Burial Sites at Carbury, Co. Kildare. Illustrated. Dublin: Reprinted
from the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Volume LXVIII. Part I, 1938.
pp. 130-142, 3 (large folding plans of the burial sites). Minor wear to wraps, otherwise fine. €30
503. WINDELE, J. Historical and Descriptive Notices of the City of Cork and its vicinity;
Gougan Barra, Glengarrif, and Killarney. Cork: Bolster, & Dublin: Cumming, & London:
Longman, 1840. pp. viii, 412. Repair to titlepage where 'Historical and Descriptive' line of title
was torn off. Recent cloth. Very good. Very scarce.
€175
504. WRIGHT, Arnold. Disturbed Dublin. The story of the Great Strike of 1913-1914. With a
description of the industries. London: Longmans, 1914. First. pp. xii, 337. Green cloth, title in
gilt on spine. Minor spotting to prelims and fore-edges. Very good. Scarce.
€125
The contents includes: Industries of the Past; Industries of the Present; Conditions of Life and Labour
in Dublin; The Rise of Larkinism; The Ignoble Art of Intimidation; A Model Factory; Mr. Larkin's
Bete Noire; 'To Hell with Contracts'!; Syndicalism in Excelsis; The Gospel of Repudiation; The
Methods of the Yahoo; The Strike that Failed; An Orgy of Anarchy; The Aftermath of the Riots;
Organised Revolt against Larkinism; The Government Intervenes; Failure of the Enquiry; The Church
and Larkinism, etc.
WATERFORD AUTHOR
505. WYSE, Thomas. Historical Sketch of the Late Catholic Association of Ireland. Two
volumes. London: Colburn, 1829. pp. (1) viii, 435, (2) vi, 121, cccxlvii. Recent qtr. green
morocco on cloth boards. Mild foxing to prelims. A very good set. Very scarce.
€475
This association was the last of a long line of movements which sought to secure Catholic
Emancipation. Numerous previous associations were dissolved or harassed by the Government, the
Catholic Board was dissolved in 1814 and was re-established in 1823 by Daniel O'Connell and Richard
Lalor Shiel as the Catholic Association of Ireland. The author, Sir Thomas Wyse (1791-1862), a
Liberal Politician and reformer, was born in Waterford and educated at Stonyhurst and Trinity College,
Dublin, where he was one of the first Catholic students. After retiring to Waterford in 1825 he played a
leading role in the campaign for Catholic Emancipation and wrote the present work a year after it was
granted. He was later M.P. for Tipperary and supported the Reform Bill of 1832.
506. YEATS, Jack B. Catalogue of Drawings and Pictures of Life in the West of Ireland by Jack
B. Yeats. R.H.A. Exhibited at the Stephen's Green Gallery, 7 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin April
25th until May 8th, 11 to 5.30 daily. Dublin: O'Loughlin, Murphy and Boland, Limited L'Press
Printers, &c. 111-112 Upper Dorset Street, Dublin, n.d. (c1912). Single octavo sheet folded.
With an illustration by Jack B. Yeats. Rare early catalogue.
€275
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507. YEATS, Jack B. Catalogue of Drawings and Pictures of Life in the West of Ireland by Jack
B. Yeats. R.H.A. The Exhibition remains open until April 6th. 10. to 5.30 daily. Copyright of all
pictures reserved. Dublin: Printed by the Cuala Press, n.d. (c1912). Single octavo sheet folded
(180 x 236mm). With an illustration by Jack B. Yeats. Rare early catalogue.
€275
508. YEATS, Jack B. Catalogue of Pictures of Life in the West of Ireland. Exhibited at The
Engineers' Hall, 35 Dawson Street, March 27th until April 8th - 11 to 5.30 daily. Dublin:
O'Loughlin, Murphy & Boland, n.d. (c.1913). Single octavo sheet folded (155 x 230mm). With
an illustration by Jack B. Yeats. Rare early catalogue.
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509. YEATS, Jack B. A Catalogue of Jack B. Yeats' Loan Exhibition. From June 14 - June 26,
1965; Private View June 12, Saturday; Sherry 11am - 1pm. Belfast: New Gallery.
€50
510. YEATS, Jack B. A Small Collection of the Later Work of Jack B. Yeats. On Exhibition at
The Contemporary Picture Galleries, Dublin, from October 27th to November 8th, 1941.
€65
Probably Yeats' last exhibition before his output was contracted to Victor Waddington.
511. [YEATS, Jack B] An Exhibition of Paintings. The Tate Gallery, 14 August - 15 September
1948. Foreword by Philip James, Director of Art. Introduction by Thomas MacGreevy. London:
The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948. pp. 16. Very good in printed wraps.
€125
512. YEATS, Jack B. Catalogue of an Exhibition of paintings arranged by the Arts Council of
Northern Ireland as part of the North West Arts Festival, Londonderry, and the Belfast May
Festival. April, May 1964.
€60
513. YEATS, Jack B. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings by Jack B. Yeats. Catalogue for
the Private view day, Thursday, the Sixth of October, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty
Nine. Dublin: Victor Waddington Galleries, 1949.
€45
514. YEATS, Jack B. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings by Jack B. Yeats. Exhibition open
daily from 10am to 5.30pm; Saturdays, 10am to 1pm. From Friday, 11th February until Monday,
28th February. Dublin: The Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin, 1955.
€45
515. YEATS, Jack B. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings by Jack B. Yeats. Exhibition open
daily from 10am to 5.30pm; Saturdays, 10am to 1pm. From Friday, 3rd October until Thursday,
16th October. Dublin: The Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin, 1947.
€45
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516. YEATS, Jack B. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings by Jack B. Yeats. From 11
February - 13 March 1965. London: The Waddington Galleries, 25 Cork Street, London W1. €45
517. [YEATS, Jack B.] Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957). Early watercolours. Waddington Galleries
Exhibition April 6-29, 1961. With numerous illustrations. London: Waddington, 1961. pp. 68.
Blue wrappers with dust jacket. A very good copy.
€35
518. YEATS, Jack B. Jack B. Yeats 1871 - 1957. Exhibition Catalogue of watercolours and pen
and ink drawings at The Dawson Gallery, April 1961. Portrait frontispiece of the artist. Dublin:
Dolmen Press, 1961. pp. 4. Stapled wrappers. A fine copy.
€45
519. YEATS, Jack B. Jack B. Yeats 7 June - 7 July 1966. Catalogue of exhibition at the Dawson
Gallery. Illustrated. Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1966. 4to. Illustrated wraps with flaps.
€65
520. YEATS, Jack B. Jack B. Yeats National Loan Exhibition June-July 1945. Dublin: National
College of Art, 1945. pp. 43. Very good in cream wrappers, printed in purple. Scarce.
€95
Profusely illustrated with reproductions of Jack B. Yeats' works including frontispiece of the artist as a
boy, and a full page reproduction of his death mask.
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521. [YEATS, Jack B] Jack B. Yeats. 1871-1957. Joint Exhibition of Jack B. Yeats Paintings
from the collections of the Late Ernie O'Malley and the Yeats Museum, Sligo in Sligo County
Library. August 2nd to 20th, 1963. Illustrated. Sligo: County Library and Museum, 1963. pp. 20.
Very good in printed wrappers. See illustration below.
€85
522. [YEATS, J.B.] Programme for J.B. Yeats' In Sand. A Play in three Acts. Performed at
Abbey Experimental Theatre Dublin. (Under the Direction of Miss Rita Mooney). Proprietors
The National Theatre Society, Ltd. Monday, 25th April, 1949, and following nights at 7.45.
Dublin: Corrigan & Wilson, Ltd., 13 Sackville Place, 1949. In fine condition.
€125
The cast included: Brian O'Higgins; Raghnall Breathnach; Michéal O hAonghusa; Eamon Guailli;
Brendan Clegg; Grainne O Shannon; Mollie Griffin; Liam O Foghlú; Angela Newman, etc. The play
was produced by Seán Mac Shamhráin [Jack McGowran].
523. YEATS, Jack B. Sligo. London: Wishart &
Company, 1930. First edition. pp. 158. Owner's signature
on f.f.e. A very good copy in very good and rare d.j. €125
The first of the author's novels for adults.
524. YEATS, Jack B. The Amaranthers. London:
Heinemann, 1936. First edition. pp. [iv], 273. Blue cloth,
title in gilt on spine. Some mild foxing to fore-edges and
prelims, otherwise very good in decorated d.j. Rare. €235
DECORATED BY MAUD GONNE
525. [YOUNG, Ella] Celtic Wonder-Tales. Re-told by
Ella Young. Illustrated and decorated by Maud Gonne.
Dublin: Maunsel & Company, 1910. pp. viii, 202.
Decorated light blue cloth. Spine faded, otherwise very
good. Scarce. See illustration on next page.
€275
Ella Young is best known as a writer of children's stories based
on Celtic myth and legend. This book is handsomely illustrated
by Maud Gonne MacBride. Immortalised by Yeats, she was an
outstanding beauty who spent much of her long life as a
passionate advocate of Irish freedom. See illustration below.
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COLLINS' MAN IN THE CASTLE - SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
526. NELIGAN, David. The Spy in the Castle. Illustrated. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1968.
First edition. pp. 189. Signed presentation copy from the author, dated December, 1968. Brown
paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Fine in very good d.j. Very scarce.
€275
David Neligan joined the Dublin Metropolitan Police during the First World War. He was to become
Michael Collins' right-hand man in his intelligence network against the British Forces. At great
personal risk, Neligan was able to pass vital information to Collins, who himself was leading a life of
great danger from all sides. This work covers in every detail the treacheries, heroisms, excitements and
dangers of that time.
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and other illustrations to each volume. This major work on Michael Collins is by one of his
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Michael Collins (1890-1922), was born at
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B14. HARRISON, Alan. The ean’s
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effect of their presence in Ireland, together with an examination of the Gallóglaigh or Galloglas.
W h ma s ll s a ons an genealog es o he a weene s Clan onal an he O’Ne lls 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 Br. Michael O’Cle
Ch e 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. T.e.g. Superb in presentation
slipcase.
€450
These Annals were compiled under the
patronage of Brian MacDermott, Chief of
Moylurg, who resided in his castle on an
island in Lough Key, near Boyle, County
Roscommon. They begin with the Battle
of Clontarf and continue up to 1636
treating on the whole with Irish affairs,
but have many entries of English, Scottish
and continental events. They are a
primary source for the history of North
Connaught. The compilers were of that
no e lea ne am l o O’
gnans. The
only original copy of these Annals known
to exist is a small vellum manuscript
which was presented to Trinity by Dr.
Leland in 1766.
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
Co n
me
.W. o e
he la e a n hín eo ghe who s a es “ 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.
eg nn ng n
w h o ng l en Thomas’ e an s an a he ga es o
l n Cas le
ells he
s o o e H gh O’ onnell’s a
e an es a e he se o he ea H gh O’Ne ll an he loo
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:
O’Conno
a onnell alloglass o e a W ll am o h a
ons enn ngs h l n a e
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 ‘ n q a an C aze’. The l e mes an wo
n a haeolog o
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
o n n 86
g. a
ons ‘The
n q a an
ol eman’ se e w h he o al sh Cons a la from
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.
wo l own on h s ‘an q a an aze’ he e e e no o e
acknowledged by name, although he was much admired for
h s ne m n an
e a e an q a an ‘ ol ewo ’
those few with whom he shared his interest.
To bring to light his remarkable work, this book draws on
ons’ own no es an
ho og a hs ( ese e
N. . .
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 sheds valuable light on a
chapter of Irish republicanism which has hitherto been seriously neglected. No student of Irish
republican history can afford to ignore this book, which is also to be commended for its selection of
many hitherto unpublished photographs . - Tim Pat Coogan.
Michael MacEvilly narrates the life story of Andy Cooney in compelling fashion. Readers will be
fascinated by the manner in which a young man combined his studies to be a doctor with his duties as
an IRA Volunteer from 1917 onwards. In terms of the wider historical narrative of the period, the
book, using much original source material, makes an important new contribution. It makes clear the
command structure of the IRA, at both a national and local level, during the War of Independence, the
Civil War and beyond. The strengths and weaknesses of individuals are also delineated with
remarkable clarity. In particular new information is provided on ‘Bloody Sunday,’ November 1920; the
role of the IRB and Michael Collins at the time of the Treaty; and the differences between the IRA and
de Valera when Fianna Fail was founded. Above all the book is extremely well researched and
eminently readable. - Brian Murphy OSB.
Michael Ma E ll was o n n Cas le a Co. a o. He was e a e a . a la h’s College T am
Co. Galway and subsequently studied Arts and Commerce at University College, Galway. He worked
as an accountant and auditor in his own firm located in Dublin, and had a long association with and
interest in the Irish Judo Association and the Olympic Council of Ireland.
sh h s o an he sh lang age we e
hael’s ma o n e es s. Th s ma l s emme
om h s
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. 4to. Bound in qtr green morocco on cloth boards. Spine
divided into six compartments by five raised bands. Title and author/editor on maroon morocco
letterpieces in the second and fourth, the remainder tooled in gilt to an interlacing Celtic design.
White endbands. Top edge gilt. Edition limited to ten sets only, signed by the Publisher and
Editor.
€1,650
The great Connacht scholar Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh (c.1600-1671), from Lackan, County Sligo,
compiled his monumental Great Book of Genealogies in Galway at the height of the Cromwellian Wars
in the mid-seventeenth century. The work has long been recognised as the most important source for
the study of Irish family history, and it is also of great importance to historians of pre-17th century
Ireland since it details the ancestry of many significant figures in Irish history - including: Brian
Boroimhe (d.1014); Ulick Burke, Marquis of Clanricarde (d.1657); James Butler, Duke of Ormonde
(d.1688); Somhairle Buidhe (Sorley Boy) MacDonnell (d.1589); Randal MacDonnell, Marquis of
Antrim (d.1683); Garrett Óg Fitzgerald, Earl of Kildare (d.1536); Diarmuid Mac Murchadha (d.1171);
Myler Magrath, Archbisho o Cashel ( . 622)
o gh O’ en a on o n h q n ( . 67 )
eagh a H gh O’ ne ( . 97) o O’Cono .( . 98) e H gh O’ onnell ( . 602) H gh
O’Ne ll Ea l o T one ( . 6 6) Owen oe O’Ne ll ( . 6 9) an man man mo e.
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 an O’ ono an
e a h -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. 4to. Full buckram gilt. Over 3,600 pages. Full buckram gilt,
in presentation box.
€635
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The original text, both prose and poetry, of both works is accompanied by a painstaking English
translation. But, perhaps most important of all, the edition includes, in addition to several valuable
appendices, a comprehensive series of indices which provide a key to the tens of thousands of personal
names, surnames, tribal names and place-names that the work contains. In fact, the portion relating to
personal names is the largest Irish language names index that has ever been compiled.
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 Eugene O’C
. .. .
o esso o
sh H s o an
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.
O’C
’s
wen -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
o he ma e al
. W.K. ll an. O’C
’s
works stand to this day as a monument to one of
our greatest Celtic scholars.
. Nolla g Ó
aíle s a es “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 4to. Superb
set in gilt and blind stamped green buckram, in presentation box.
€865
This is the third and best edition as it contains the missing years [1334-1416] of the now lost Annals of
Lecan om o e
O’ lahe ’s ans
. To enhan e he al e o h s mas e e e a olo
e o
on o a s a oaz o’s ma o elan 609 s n l e n a ma h ng ol e .
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.
hael O’Cle a an s an la
o he . He h msel e o s “there was collected by me all the best
and most copious books of Annals that I could find throughout all Ireland, though it was difficult for
me to collect them in one place”.
The g ea wo
ema ne
o he mos a
n
l she an n ansla e n l ohn O’ ono an
e a e h s e on e ween 8 7 an 8 6. The own ng a h e emen o ohn O’ ono an’s e on
is the copious historical, topographical and genealogical material in the footnotes which have been
n e sall a la me
s hola s. o glas H e w o e ha he O’ ono an e on e esen e “ the
greatest work that any modern Irish scholar ever accomplished ”.
o e e en l Kenne h N holls sa s “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
een.
e o e oole n g l w h a ho seshoe en los ng a e o l w h he hea s o ‘ a le ’s
Wells’ ‘
le’ an ‘N ns ’ a o e la e wa e s ( W N-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 o 2 ea s. He sha e TE ele s on ommen a w h
hael an Ton O’Heh
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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,
h s o es o he ‘ sh e ’ an he ‘ ameson sh an Na onal’.
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.
hael Coll ns’ Own o . Tol o Ha en Tal o . W h 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 €175
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 no leas
h s ha o ea ng e e one om
h
h o he “ lowliest of his supporters” with
equal consideration and politeness. Talbot made it his business to meet Collins as often as possible and
ng mon hs o lose asso a on Coll ns m esse h m as “the finest character it had ever been my
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good fortune to know”. He valued their friendship more than any other.
This work contains an invaluable insigh n o Coll ns’ h n ng an a ons
ng h s e
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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FORTHCOMING PUBLICATION
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 l m e e on €295.
The first comprehensive survey of each of the counties of Ireland. With sketches by the author from
drawings by Petrie, Westropp, Miss Stokes, Windele, Wood-Martin, Wakeman, etc. The third volume
contains an index and the material from folklore, legend, and tradition. A most attractive set of books
and a must for the discerning collector. Available September 2013.
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