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Catalogue 141

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DE BÚRCA RARE BOOKS

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CATALOGUE 141 Spring 2020 PLEASE NOTE

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1. [ACHILLES] Log of H.M.S. Achilles. Commanded by Captain A. C. F. Heneage, afterwards Admiral Heneage. Kept by F. Hammond. February 4th 1880 - November 1881. The log then continues for H.M.S. Diamond from November 1881 to March 30th 1882. Illustrated with several tipped in pen and pencil charts with signals. Small folio volume bound in full vellum parchment, title in manuscript on paper label on upper cover and with three decorative titlepages in watercolour (one with photograph). Unpaginated. pp. [267], [35 (Charts)]. Fine copy. €1,500

HMS Achilles was an armoured frigate built for the Royal Navy in the 1860s. Upon completion in 1864 she was assigned to the Channel Fleet. The ship was paid off in 1868 to refit and be re-armed. When she recommissioned in 1869, she was assigned as the guard ship of the Fleet Reserve in the Portland District until 1874. Achilles was refitted and re-armed again in 1874 and became the guard ship of the Liverpool District in 1875. Two years later, she rejoined the Channel Fleet before going to the Mediterranean in 1878. The ship returned to the Channel Fleet in 1880 and served until she was paid off in 1885. Achilles was recommissioned in 1901 as a depot ship at Malta under a succession of different names. She was transferred to Chatham in 1914 and was again renamed multiple times before she was sold for scrap in 1923. Achilles had more changes of her rigging and armament than any other British warship, before or since. The charts include: Vigo Bay; West Coast of ; Southern Tip of Portugal; Azores; H.M.S. Achilles, Signed F. Hammond; Gibraltar; Southern Tip of Portugal and Spain including Gibraltar; Sailing from Ireland to Azores; Four Plans of H.M.S. Achilles; Sailing from Bantry to Portsmith; Bantry Bay; Sailing from Bantry to Vigo and from Bantry Bay to Plymouth; Sailing from Plymouth to Vigo; Profile of H.M.S. Achilles; Sailing along African Coast, etc. EXTREMELY RARE KILLARNEY ITEM 2. ADAMS, William. Glena of the Creek. A poem of Killarney. : Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1870. First edition. pp. [8], 63, [1], iv (Notes). With a half-title. Green cloth, title within a gilt decoration on upper cover. Signature of W.W. Burton on upper wrapper and front endpaper. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €375 COPAC locates the BL and Cambridge copies only. Not in NLI. O'Donoghue p.6. AUTHOR & PUBLISHER 3. ALLEN, F. M. [Pseud. Edmund Downey] Through Green Glasses. Illustrated by M. Fitzgerald. London: Ward and Downey, 1887. pp. vi, 236, 12 (Catalogue). Publisher's green illustrated cloth over bevelled boards. All edges gilt. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €175 COPAC locates only 1 copy of this edition (NL Scotland). Loeber D160. Edmund Downey (1856-1937) was born in Waterford, son of a ship owner. He was educated at the Catholic University School and John's College, Waterford. In 1878 he moved to London and worked

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for the publisher Tinsley Brothers and two years later became editor of Tinsley's Magazine. In 1884 he established his own publishing house, Ward and Downey. He was one of the few publishers who issued works by living Irish authors, greatly contributing to the popularisation of the Irish novel.

See items 2 & 4. 4. ANNESLEY, Sophia. A Full and Accurate Report of the Entire Proceedings and Investigation in the King's Bench, in Hilary Term, 1810, At the Prosecution of The Countess Dowager of Annesley, and Lady Arabella Jeffries Groves against George Charles Jeffries, Esq. and David Foley, on an Information for a Libel Containing a direct allusion to the cause of the Murder of Several Persons in this Country; With the very able and masterly Statement of Mr. Serjeant M'Mahon, of Counsel for Defendant Jeffries, Never Before Published. Taken in Court by an eminent Short-hand Writer. Dublin: Printed by W. Cox, 1811. pp. 36. Brown stitched wrappers. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €375 COPAC locates the Manchester University copy only. RARE HIBERNIA PRESS PRINTING 5. [ANON] Nice Distinctions: A Tale. Dublin: Printed at the Hibernia Press Office for J. Cummins, 1, Temple-Lane. London: Hurst, Reeves, Orme, and Brown, 1820. 16mo. First edition. pp. vii, 330. Olive-green half calf over marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Signature of Richard Smyth Ballintra at head of . Spine faded, board edges and corners rubbed, endpapers foxed. A very good copy. Very rare. €275 COPAC locates 6 copies only. 6. [ANON] A most unusual Brochure with Gaelic text in calligraphed lettering illuminated in colours, including an Annual Calendar of Saints' days. With sketches of a Round Tower, Celtic Cross and Armorial Shields throughout. : Printed by L. [1918]. pp. 8. Printed in brown, black and green. Signed 'I.M.', also 'P.B. del.' on grey laid paper, two tissue guards. Cream cover printed in orange, green, yellow and black. Titled '1918' above a shield with an Irish harp, surrounded by a cluster of and flourishes. Fastened by a green ribbon. (164 x 221mm). Mild foxing to covers. In very good condition. Exceedingly rare. €375 The text begins with an account of 'Éire an tSeana Shaoghail' (The Ireland of Ancient History), describes Irish participation in America’s struggle for independence. Oiléan Nua 1778-83, and concludes with an account of Irish soldiers in 'An Cogadh Mór' (The Great War: Gallipoli, Serbia etc.). Its authorship is a mystery. The uncritical reference to Irish soldiers in the Great War would seem to rule out a Sinn Féin source. An exceedingly rare and unusual item.

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See item 6. 7. ATKINSON, Robert. The Passions and the Homilies from the Leabhar Breac: Text, Translation, and Glossary. Dublin: Hodges Figgis, 1887. pp. vi, [5], 36-957, [1]. Contemporary full polished calf with original printed wrappers bound in. Covers framed by double gilt fillets, enclosing in gilt on the upper cover the badge of Glasgow University. Spine divided into six panels, title in gilt on red morocco label in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre- and-corner design. Glasgow University Prize label on front pastedown; splash marbled endpapers; red and gold endbands. All edges sprinkled. A very attractive copy. €385 Like most copies our copy does not contain the "Introductory lecture on Irish lexicography", announced for pp 3-34, and which was published separately. Atkinson, Robert (1839-1908), philologist, was born near Gateshead, County Durham, the only child of John and Ann Atkinson. He attended Anchorage Grammar School, and entered TCD (1856), but spent 1857-8 at Liège, Belgium, and worked as a schoolmaster in until he won a scholarship (1862). After graduation he became professor of Romance languages in TCD in 1869, and in 1871 was appointed to the chair of Sanskrit and comparative philology. He held both posts until 1907. In 1884 he was also Todd professor of the Celtic languages in the RIA; he had been elected MRIA in 1875, and was a member of the Academy council for thirty-two years, secretary for twenty-three years, librarian, and president (1901-6). An exceptionally gifted linguist and teacher, Atkinson studied most of the European, Near Eastern, and Indian languages, including Persian; also Chinese and Coptic, and planned a dictionary of Vedic. Most of his published work, however, deals with the , beginning in 1876, when at the Academy's request he produced a valuable edition of the manuscript Book of . In 1880 Atkinson became first editor of the RIA's planned Dictionary of the Irish language; despite lack of funding, some progress was made. The texts he subsequently worked on were selected chiefly to serve the dictionary's needs: introductions to facsimile editions of the Book of Ballymote and the Yellow Book of Lecan appeared in 1887 and 1896; he published the Passions and homilies from the Leabhar Breac (1887)

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and Trí Bior-ghaoithe an Bháis (1890), and edited, with J. H. Bernard, The Irish Liber Hymnorum (2 vols, 1898). He spent twelve years on the complexities of the Ancient Laws of Ireland, producing a fifth volume of the series and a glossary, but these, partly based on the work of others, have been severely criticised. Atkinson died 10 January 1908, at his home in Rathmines, and was buried in Skipton, . SENCHUS MOR - THE ANCIENT LAWS OF IRELAND 8. [ATKINSON, Robert. Et al.] The Ancient Laws of Ireland comprising introduction to the Senchus Mor ... and Law of Distress and Hostage Sureties, Tenure and Social Conditions, Customary Law and the Book of Aicill, Brehon Law Tracts, and Glossary. Edited by Robert Atkinson. With coloured folding plates from the original manuscripts. Six volumes. Dublin: Thom, 1865-1901. Royal octavo. Quarter roan on black papered boards, title in gilt on spines. Volumes 5 & 6 rebound in matching binding. Ex libris with bookplates and stamps. Minor wear to some covers and corners. A very good set of this rare and important work. €1,500 The Senchus Mor or Ancient Laws of Ireland have their origin in the pre-Christian era. They were compiled during the reign of Laeghaire, son of Niall, King of Erin, and they were completed nine years after the arrival of Patrick in Erin, i.e. 441 A.D. The earliest reference to the Senchus Mor is in the Annals of the Four Masters - "The age of Christ 438. The tenth year of Laeghaire. The Senchus and Feinechus of Ireland were purified and written". The judges were called Brehons, they had law schools and collections of laws in tracts, all in the Irish language, by which they regulated their judgements. The two largest and most important of these manuscripts that miraculously have come down to us are the 'Senchus Mor' and the 'Book of Aicill', treating Irish civil and criminal law respectively. The most learned John O'Donovan and Eugene O'Curry, along with Rev. T. O'Mahony translated the various Law-tracts, in the libraries of , the , the British Museum and the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. The editors were R. Atkinson, W.N. Hancock, T. O'Mahony, A.G. Richey, W.M. Hennessy. Glossary compiled by R. Atkinson. Parallel Gaelic text and English translation, with introduction and notes in English. Half-title: Hiberniae leges et institutiones antiquae; or, Ancient laws and institutes of Ireland. 9. BAGWELL, Richard. Ireland Under The Stuarts and During the Interregnum. Three volumes. London: Longmans, 1909. First edition. pp. (1) xv, 370, (2) xii, 388, (3) xi, 351. Blue cloth, title in gilt on rebacked spines. Ex libris with stamps. A very good set. Very scarce. €375 This work deals at length with: Mountjoy and Carey, 1603-1605; Chichester and the Toleration Question; The , 1607; of O'Dogherty, 1608; The Settlement of ; Chichester's Government; The Parliament of 1613-1615; Early Years of Charles I; The Parliament of 1634; Strafford and the Ulster Scots; Wentworth's Plans of Forfeiture and Settlement; Cases of Mountnorris, Loftus and others; Strafford's Army; The Rebellion of 1641; Munster and Connaught, 1641-1642; The War to the First Cessation 1642-1643; Inchiquin, Ormonde, and Glamorgan; Fighting North and South - Rinuccini; The Ormonde Peace 1646; Rinuccini to Cromwell; Cromwell in Ireland, Ormonde's Last Struggles; Clanricarde and Ireton, 1651; Peace, Settlement, and Transplantation; The Restoration, etc. 10. BALL, F. Elrington. Ed. by. The Correspondence of , D.D. With an introduction by Rev. J.H. Bernard, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's. Frontispiece. Six volumes. London: Bell, 1910/14. Maroon ribbed cloth, titled in gilt. Ex libris King's College London, with label and stamps; Bookplate of Professor David Nokes on front pastedowns. Top edges gilt. A very good set of this important and rare work. €365

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11. BARRIE, J.M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. From The Little White Bird by J.M. Barrie. A New Edition. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d., [1912]. Trade edition, first impression. Quarto. pp. [viii], 126. Green cloth, gilt decorated cover and spine with title. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. A very good copy in lightly frayed dust jacket. €1,675

Latimore & Haskell p. 40; Riall p. 114. Original green cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and front cover gilt, plain endpapers. With the dust jacket, priced 25/- net on the front flap. Spine gently rolled, a touch of rubbing to corners, dust jacket with lightly sunned spine, a fine copy. Colour frontispiece and 49 colour plates mounted on plain paper, with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. Riall notes there are two different green cloths used for the binding of the trade edition, either smooth or textured. The cloth on this copy is an emerald-green linen-grain cloth, presumably Riall's "textured" variant. The green dust jacket, which repeats the lettering and pictorial designs of the case, has preserved the cloth in notably very bright condition. This edition is an improved revision of the 1906 edition, with a larger page size, an entirely new setting of type, a new coloured frontispiece, and seven full-page black and white drawings not in the earlier edition. The plates are distributed throughout, not gathered at the end as in the 1906 edition. The edition is undated, except for the new frontispiece, which is dated 1912 within the image.

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12. BARRINGTON, Sir Jonah. Historic Memoirs of Ireland; Comprising Secret Records of the National Convention, The Rebellion, and The Union; with Delineations of the Principal Characters connected with these transactions. Illustrated with curious letters and papers in fac- simile; and numerous original portraits. List of subscribers. New edition. In two volumes. Portrait frontispiece. London: Bentley, 1835. Quarto. pp. (1) xlii, 358, (2) ix, 464. Green pebbled cloth, new printed paper labels on rebacked spine. A very good set. Scarce. €285 Bradshaw 5438 This edition not in Gilbert. Sir (1760-1834) of Knapton, near Abbeyleix, , was a judge in the court of Admiralty in Ireland and at one time M.P. for , Clogher, and Dublin. A steadfast opponent of the Act of Union, he was offered the solicitor-generalship by Lord Clare on condition that he would support such a move. This he vehemently rejected and by so doing put a stop to his professional advancement and deprived himself of a lucrative position. Ironically it is generally believed that he was responsible for winning over some of the opponents of the Union, and it is difficult to reconcile this. Due to some irregularities in the monies paid into his court, and as the result of a commission set up to inquire into same, he was deprived of his office. He moved to and died at Versailles in 1834. 13. [BARRISTER] The Interests and Present State of the Nation, Considered; with thoughts on the British Connexion. By a Barrister. Dublin: Printed by J. Rice, No. 111, Grafton-Street, 1797. pp. 61, [1 (Errata)]. Blue stitched wrappers. A good copy. €185 COPAC locates 3 copies only. ESTC T166822 "Before I take up the political opinions, delivered by Mr. Grattan in the name of the party of which he appears the leader, I shall endeavour concisely to appreciate their claim to the favour of their country. The prerogative which they challenge is no less than to guide the public mind of Ireland, as most deserving to be followed from integrity and wisdom. If they are to be driven from this ground, it must be at the hazard of offering reflections, which can only be executed even to the writer's own feelings, by the necessity of refuting an haughty claim, so prejudicial to the interest of the country. On this justification of a public duty more impressive than any private feelings, I shall proceed with calmness and respectfully." 14. [BARRISTER] Trials at Omagh, Lifford and Londonderry Summer Assizes, 1813, Before The Hon. Sir W. C. Smith, Bart, &c. &c. &c. and Mr. Justice Fletcher, the then going Judges of Assize for the North West Circuit. By a Barrister. Dublin: Printed by Graisberry and Campbell, 10, Back-Lane and Sold at all the Booksellers, 1815. Uncut. pp. 95. Original frayed stitched wrappers. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €375 No copy located on COPAC. The contents includes: The King v. Andrew Murphy (for murder); The King v. Matthew Moss (for a riot); The King v. Alex. Murphy and others (for a rescue and assault); The King v. Pat Strain (for murder); The King v. Carthers and others (for murder). The Appendix contains: The King v. D. Cullion (for an assault). BARTLETT'S MOST INFLUENTIAL WORK 15. BARTLETT, W.H. The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland, Illustrated from Drawings by W. Henry Bartlett; The Literary portion of the Work by J. Stirling Coyne, Esq. Two volumes. London: George Virtue. n.d (c.1840). Quarto. Contemporary half green morocco over cloth boards, title and volume numbers in gilt on red morocco labels on spines. Minor wear to extremities. A fine copy. €375 Bartlett's Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland was an important and influential work, preceding Mrs. Hall's Ireland, its Scenery and Character [1841-3] by at least a year, and establishing a somewhat exaggerated view of the drama of the Irish landscape, which coloured the foreigner's view of Ireland for the rest of the century. The plates of Gougane Barra, Killarney, Carrickfergus, Carrick-a-Rede, and the rest are so familiar now that they no longer surprise, but they were very striking when they first appeared in 1840, a few years before the Famine. The work was many times reprinted, in two handsome quarto volumes. Some of the plates were also used in later editions of Mrs. Hall's work.

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16. BÉASLAÍ, Piaras. Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland. Two volumes. With two portraits in full colour by Sir John Lavery, and other illustrations to each volume. Dublin: The Phoenix Publishing Co., 1926. Second edition. pp. (1) xv, 458, (2) vii, 484. Original green cloth, with medallion portrait of Collins in gilt on upper cover of each volume. Title in gilt on spines. Signed and dated by Piaras Béaslaí and dated 22nd May 1951 on verso of frontispiece to volume two. A very good set. Rare signed copy. €475 Michael Collins (1890-1922), was born at Woodfield, , County , the son of a small farmer. Educated locally, and at the age of sixteen went to London as a clerk in the Post Office. He joined the IRB in London. During Easter Week he was Staff Captain and ADC to in the GPO. With The O'Rahilly led the first party out of the GPO immediately before its surrender. Arrested, imprisoned and released in December 1916. After the victory of Sinn Féin in the 1918 general election and the establishment of Dáil Éireann as the Irish parliament he was made Minister of Home Affairs and later Minister for Finance, and organised the highly successful National Loan. A most capable organiser with great ability and physical energy, courage and force of character, he was simultaneously Adjutant General of the Volunteers, Director of Organisation, Director of Intelligence and Minister for Finance. He organised the supply of arms for the Volunteers and set up a crack intelligence network and an execution squad nicknamed 'Twelve Apostles'. He was for a long time the most wanted man in Ireland but he practically eliminated the British Secret Service with the Bloody Sunday morning operation. Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland is the official biography of a great soldier-statesman and the first authentic history of the rebirth of a nation. Written with inner knowledge by an intimate friend and comrade-in-arms who served with Collins on Headquarters Staff and who shared in many of his amazing adventures and hairsbreadth escapes. 17. BEAUMONT, Gustave De. L'Irlande Sociale, Politique et Religieuse. Two volumes. Paris: Michel Lévy Fréres, 1863. pp. [4], lxxxiv, 396, [iv], 327. Original quarter green morocco over marbled boards, new spine with original backstrip laid on. New endpapers. Wear to corners. A very good copy. €225 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 , 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, , 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. 18. BECKETT, J.C. Protestant Dissent in Ireland 1687-1780. London: Faber and Faber, 1948. pp. 161. Black cloth, title in gilt on spine. Bookplate of D.M. Skelly, on front free endpaper. A very good copy. €45 This work is an attempt to explain why the division among Protestants persisted in face of a hostile majority of Catholics, and to examine the extent to which the dissenters actually suffered under the Penal Laws enacted against them.

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SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 19. BECKETT, Samuel. Come and Go. A Dramaticule. Illustrated. London: Calder and Boyars, 1967. First edition. pp. 10. Grey buckram, upper cover ruled in gilt with title and author. Edition limited to 100 copies (64) signed by the author. A fine copy in slipcase. €1,250 , poet, novelist, and dramatist was born in Foxrock, County Dublin in 1906. He was educated at Portora Royal School, Enniskillen and later at T.C.D. In 1928 he taught French at Campbell College, , before moving to Paris as a lecteur d'anglais at the École Normale Supérieure. It was here that he met through his friendship with Thomas MacGreevy, , whose daughter Lucia grew infatuated with him. One of the major figures of modern , Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1969. The following year the Collected Works was published in New York: his characters search, in vain, for meaning and identity, undergoing a purgatorial suffering in the process. His work is steeped in the Bible, Dante and Pascal: but he also draws upon Irish writers such as Berkeley, Swift, Mangan, Yeats and Joyce. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 20. BECKETT, Samuel. More Pricks than Kicks. London: Calder & Boyars, 1970. pp. 21, [1]. Quarter white calf on brown cloth boards, title in gilt on upper cover and on spine. Edition limited to 100 copies. Signed and numbered by Samuel Beckett. All edges gilt. A fine copy in slipcase. €1,250 SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 21. BECKETT, Samuel. The Lost Ones. Translated from the original French by the author. London: Calder & Boyars, 1972. First English edition. pp. 63. Quarter white calf on grey-brown linen boards, title in gilt on upper cover and on spine. Limited edition of one hundred copies, signed and numbered by the author. Top edge gilt. A fine copy in slipcase. Scarce. €1,250 This work was originally published in French as 'Le Depeupleur' by Les Editions de Minuit in 1971. This specially bound edition was printed in advance of the first English edition. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION AS NEW 22. BECKETT, Samuel. Company. London: Calder, 1980. Medium octavo. pp. 89. True first edition, first printing. Quarter vellum on brown linen, title and reproduced signature of Beckett in gilt. Deluxe first edition, limited to 100 copies, signed by Samuel Beckett on titlepage. This copy signed but not numbered on the titlepage. Browning to the spine. All edges gilt. Housed in matching publishers slipcase. Rare. €1,250 This title by the Nobel Prize winning author was written directly in English unlike many of his other works, and thus was first published here in English. This Deluxe Signed Limited Edition was issued hors commerce before the trade editions in the US/UK and is therefore the true first edition. A fine clean tight copy with no markings. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 23. BECKETT, Samuel. Ill Seen Ill Said. California: Lord John Press, 1982. First edition. pp. 45, [1]. Original dark blue quarter calf on blue marbled boards, title in gilt along spine. Printed in black and blue on mould-made Bugra-butten paper. Edition limited to 299 numbered copies and 26 lettered copies. This is a 'Presentation Copy' signed by Samuel Beckett on half title. Fore-edge uncut. A fine copy. €950 Originally published in French as Mal vu mal dit the preceding year.

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24. BECKFORD, William. Italy; with Sketches of Spain and Portugal. Two volumes. London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1834. First edition. pp. xvi, 371, (2) xv, [1], 381, [1]. Half calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on richly gilt spines. From the library of James McTaggart with his armorial bookplates. Ticket of Hannaford Booksellers, Exeter on front pastedowns. A very good clean tight set. €295 William Thomas Beckford (1760-1844), was an English novelist, a profligate and consummately knowledgeable art collector and patron of works of decorative art, a critic, travel writer and sometime politician, reputed at one stage in his life to be the richest commoner in . One of the fundamental works of the English "Grand Tour" which is full of brilliant descriptions of scenes and manners. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY 25. BELLOC, Hilaire. In Praise of Wine. London: Peter Davies, n.d. (c.1931). First edition. pp. 11. Privately printed and distributed run of 100 copies only, Christmas 1931. Quarter vellum on green and cream decorated papered boards, title in black on spine. Signed presentation copy from the author to the Irish diplomat John Dulanty, dated February, 19, 1934. Cover faded and with an indentation. A very good copy. €1,650

Joseph-Hilaire-Pierre-René Belloc, (1870-1953) French-born poet, historian, and essayist who was among the most versatile English writers of the first quarter of the twentieth century. He is most remembered for his light verse, particularly for children, and for the lucidity and easy grace of his essays, which could be delightfully about nothing or decisively about some of the key controversies of the Edwardian era. Known chiefly for his essays and children's books; he was sometimes referred to by the nickname "Old ." Belloc was educated at the Oratory School, , and then worked as a journalist. After military service, as a French citizen, he entered Balliol College, Oxford, in 1894. He graduated with first-class honours in history, was president of the Union (debating society), and in 1896 married Elodie Hogan (1870-1914) of Napa, California. He became a naturalized British subject in 1902 and sat as a member of Parliament for Salford (1906-10), first as a Liberal and then as an Independent. Hilaire Belloc's Heroic Poem in Praise of Wine. As the title implies, this poem is written in heroic

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rhyming couplets, and sees the poet best-known for his cautionary rhymes paying homage to wine as the nurse-maiden of the arts. Belloc's Catholicism was uncompromising. He believed that the provided hearth and home for the human spirit. More humorously, his tribute to Catholic culture can be understood from his well-known saying, "Wherever the Catholic sun does shine, there's always laughter and good red wine." John Dulanty was Irish High Commissioner in London during the Second World War. 26. BELMORE, The Earl of. The History of Two Ulster Manors and of Their Owners. Re- issue, revised and enlarged. Illustrated. London & Dublin: Longmans & Thom, 1903. pp. xiv, 383, [1]. Red faded cloth, titled in gilt. Spine professionally rebacked. Two neat stamps of Working Men's Institute, Belfast. A very good copy. €235 With chapters on the Manors of Finagh, and Coole in County Fermanagh. Treating the Families of Corry, Lowry, Crosbye, Ussher, Atkinson, Champion, Gilbert, Leslie, Crawford, Amar, and Hamilton. 27. BEST, R.I. & LAWLOR, H.J. The Martyrology of Tallaght. From the Book of Leinster and MS. 5100-4 in the Royal Library, . Edited with an introduction, translations, notes and indices. London: Bradshaw Society, 1931. pp. xxviii, 262. Black cloth, titled in gilt, crest in gilt on upper cover. Bookplate of Francis Crawford Burkitt on front pastedown, previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. A very good copy. €225 The Martyrology of Tallaght is the oldest of the three ancient Irish calendars of martyrs, being a little older than the Félire of Oengus, composed between 797 and 808, and the Martyrology of Gorman, composed between 1166 and 1174. It was the Inishowen historian, John Colgan, who first called it Martyrologium Tamlactense in 1645 to distinguish it from the almost contemporary book of 'Oengus'. Unlike the aforementioned two, it is in prose and aims at completeness, giving first the Roman lists for each day, followed by an Irish list of Saints. A version preserved in The Book of Leinster lacks text for over 150 days, but the missing days can be obtained from a transcript made by Micheál O Cléirigh, Chief of the 'Four Masters', which is now in Brussels. They were the principal sources used by Colgan in his Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae.

28. [BIBLE] The Universal Family Bible: containing the sacred text of the Old and , With the Apocrypha at Large; explained and illustrated with copious Notes and Annotations, Theological, Historical, Practical, Critical and Explanatory ... In this Work are Inserted the most valuable collection of Notes ever Published selected from the writings of such Eminent Divines ... and ... a General Index, or Concordance ... a Chronological Index of Transactions from Adam to the time of Our Blessed Saviour. A Geographical Index ... a full Explanation of the Proper Names in the Scriptures ... a brief account of the Apostles and their Successors ... By the late Rev. Benjamin Kennicott and now considerably improved by a clergyman of this Kingdom. Embellished ... with upwards of fifty engravings. Dublin: Printed and Published by Zachariah Jackson, (No. 18,) Great-Ship Street, 1793-95. Folio. Additional leaves containing a list of subscribers. Contemporary full calf, title in gilt on spine. 'William Esq. / Donnybrook' in gilt on red morocco label on upper cover. Armorial bookplates of Percy Poe, Esq. and William Poe, Esq., on front pastedown; also with label of Watson and Mahony, ; bookplate and label of George Percy Poe, The Castle, Shinrone on lower pastedown. On a blank page after the End of the Apocrypha are some genealogical notes on the Poe family from 1776 to 1847. Upper board detached, titlepage and frontispiece loose, otherwise in very good condition. Extremely rare. €675

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COPAC locates 1 copy only of this edition. Zachariah Jackson, printer, publisher, bookseller, and bookbinder, was one of the most active members of the Dublin book trade from 1788 to 1799. Between 1793 and 1795 he printed and published a number of titles including the Universal Family Bible, issued in fifty numbers, illustrated with engraved plates, and with list of subscribers. The King's printer, George Grierson, challenged Zachariah for printing the Bible, which had annotations by Benjamin Kennicott; in the Court of Chancery. The Lord Chancellor, Lord Clare, refused to give a ruling until the patent privileges had been established at law. The case was dismissed and that decision infuriated Grierson, who did not take any further action. It was during this dispute that Jackson also published Payne's Universal Geography, with a greatly enlarged and illustrated Irish section. This work along with Chambers' Cyclopaedia (D. 1787), and the Dublin edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica, were the most ambitious and impressive book productions of late eighteenth century Dublin. Provenance: From the library of William Poe, Esq., of Donnybrook. William Poe of Knock and Emmanuel Poe of Solsborough, County , were older brothers of James Poe who founded the Harley family. From William Poe descend the Poes of Donnybrook. The male line of this branch died out in the latter half of the nineteenth century. From Emmanuel Poe descend the Poes of Solsborough and Riverston. In 1806 Reverend James Hill Poe, rector of , , married Frances, daughter of William Poe of Donnybrook and in 1843 their eldest son, James Jocelyn Poe, married Jane Lovett, eldest daughter and sole heiress of John Bennett of Riverston, County Tipperary. Donnybrook House was the seat of a branch of the Poe family in the 18th and 19th centuries. William Poe was resident in 1814 and Lewis records him as the proprietor but the house was occupied by a tenant. The Ordnance Survey Name Books mention William Jackson as the occupier and describe the house as "large and commodious". At the time of Griffith's Valuation William Poe held the property in fee, the buildings were valued at £16.14 shillings. Donnybrook House is still extant. It was offered for sale in 2018. 29. [BLAKE, Anthony Richard] Thoughts Upon the Catholic Question By an Irish Roman Catholic. Dublin: Richard Milliken and Son, and James Ridgeway, London, 1829. pp. [8], 87, [4 (Advertisement)]. Printed stitched wrappers. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €475 COPAC locates 2 copies only. Anthony Richard Blake (1786-1849), Irish lawyer, administrator and 'backstairs Viceroy of Ireland'. He was the second son of Martin Blake of Holly Park, . A granduncle was Anthony Blake, of Armagh. He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn, London, in 1808. He became a protégé of Charles Butler, collecting data on Irish catholic affairs for him during 1811-12, which led to Butler's recommending him to the catholic committee as press officer. In 1813 he was called to the Bar. In 1821 Blake travelled to Ireland in the cabinet of Lord Wellesley, being made Chief Remembrancer of the Exchequer of Ireland two years later (which made him the first catholic to hold the post since the reformation). This position enabled him to retain "a unique importance as adviser to British ministers and as their link with catholic interests in Ireland." In 1824, he was appointed to the Royal Commission for inquiring into the nature and extent of the Instruction afforded by the several Institutions in Ireland established for the purpose of Education where he served with the other Commissioners: Thomas Frankland Lewis, John Leslie Foster, William Grant and James Glassford. Blake was on generally good terms with Daniel O'Connell, though the latter was to accuse the government of using Blake as a token catholic. He published the present work that analysed the Irish question and made a number of recommendations to the British government: make an agreement with the Vatican; conciliate Irish catholic demands; provide for the poor; extend voter's franchise. In 1831 he was a member of Lord Anglesey's 'inner conclave', and helped develop the scheme of national education, particularly encouraging teacher training. He served on the Poor Law Inquiry of 1833,

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serving on committees on tithes, education and mortmain. He also played a role in the establishment of the Queen's Colleges in the late 1840s, a deeply divisive issue among Irish Catholics. Upon his death in January 1849, he left a substantial bequest to the national education system. 30. [BLARNEY] History of . Illustrated. Cork: Blair, 1934. pp. 11. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. €20 31. BODKIN, Thomas. Four Irish Landscape Painters: George Barret, James A. O'Connor, Walter F. Osborne, Nathaniel Hone. Illustrated. Dublin & London: Talbot & Unwin, 1920. Small quarto. pp. xxx, 236. Green cloth, title in black on upper cover and in gilt on faded spine. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. €175 Professor Thomas Patrick Bodkin (1887 -1961) Irish lawyer, art historian, art collector and curator. He was born in Dublin. He was Director of the National Gallery of Ireland from 1927 to 1935 and founding Director of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts in Birmingham from 1935 until 1952. 32. BOILEAU & BOYD. Two Hundred Years. A Record of Progress. Being the Bicentenary Souvenir of a Dublin Firm of Wholesale Druggists 1790 - 1900. Dublin: Wood Printing Works, [1900]. pp. 18. Stitched wrappers, printed in red and green. A very good copy. €150

33. BONNER, Gerald. ROLLASTON, D. W. & STANCLIFFE, Clare. Ed. by. St Cuthbert, His Cult and His Community to AD 1200. Illustrated. London: Boydell, 1995. First edition. pp. xxiii, [1], 484, [33 (Plates)]. Green papered boards, titled in gilt. A fine copy in dust jacket. €85 34. [YELLOW BOOK OF LECAN] The Yellow Book of Lecan. A collection of pieces in prose and verse in the Irish Language. Compiled at the end of the fourteenth century. With introduction, analysis and index by Robert Atkinson. Dublin: R.I.A. 1896. pp. ii, 30, 420 (of 468 plates). Large folio. Recent half blue morocco. A very good copy. Rare. €1,250 Written at MacFirbis's famous school of history at Lackan, on the east bank of the river Moy in County , chiefly by Giolla Iosa Mór son of Donnchadh Mór MacFirbis, who wrote the book in 1391, for Rory Mac Donal O'Dowda, Chieftain of Hy-Fiachrach, the ancient name for the collected clans who inhabited the territory of what is now most of counties Mayo and Sligo. The manuscript is in reality a collection of miscellaneous pieces, biblical, historical, romantic, and legal, which originally would have represented the collection at the bardic school of the MacFirbis's. There are at least thirteen separate books in the Yellow Book: Book of Tale; Táin Bó Flidais; Duanaire; Book of Proverbs; Cormac's Glossary; O'Mulconry Glossary; Book of Ollamhs; Rosa Anglica; Lives of Saints and the Dindseanchas or place lore giving the names of places. 35. [BOOK OF LECAN] The Book of Lecan. Leabhar Mór Mhic Fhirbhisigh Leacain. With descriptive introduction and indexes by Kathleen Mulchrone. Facsimiles in collotype of Irish Manuscripts. Dublin: Published for the Commission by the Stationary Office of Saorstát Éireann, 1937. Imperial folio. pp. lxiii, [1], 315. Half dark blue morocco over linen boards, title in gilt direct on spine. Marbled endpapers. Some minor rubbing. A fine copy. Scarce. €1,275 Written in Irish mainly by Giolla Íosa Mac Firbisigh, assisted by Adam Ó Cuirnín and Murchad Riabach Ó Cuindlis, at Lecan (Castleforbes), County Sligo, under the patronage of the O'Dowds, Chieftains of Hy-Fiachrach. It contains a large amount of genealogical material, especially relating to the families with which the Mac Firbisigh were associated, as well as historical, biblical and hagiographical material. Included are a Dindshenchas, Bansenchas, and versions of Lebor Gabála, Uraicept na nÉces, Cóir Anmann, and Book of Rights.

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See items 34 & 35. In 1612 the manuscript was in the hands of Henry Perse, who numbered the leaves, and in 1636 it was seen by Míchéal Ó Cléirigh. It was part of Archbishop 's library and was in Trinity College, Dublin in 1686 but was appropriated by Sir John Fitzgerald during James II's occupation of Dublin in 1698. It was removed to France and through the efforts of General Charles Vallancey the manuscript was presented in 1787 to the Royal Irish Academy by Abbé Kearney, Superior of the at Paris. 36. BRABAZON, Wallop. The Deep Sea and Coast Fisheries of Ireland, with Suggestions for the Working of a Fishing Company. Illustrated with twenty-one plates (many folding) by William Cooper, Esq. Dedicated by permission to the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland. Dublin: James McGlashan, 21, D'Olier Street, Simpkin, Marshall, London. Richardson and Sons, Dublin, London and Derry, 1848. pp. x, [1], 12-111. Modern brown buckram, title in gilt on upper cover. Previous owner's signature on bottom margin of titlepage. A very good copy. Scarce. €275

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Wallop Brabazon, a landowner, signs his dedication at Rath House, , September, 1847. The author in his introduction states that he wrote this short account of the Irish Fisheries "for the information of persons who wished to take Shares in any of the Fishing Companies projected, which cannot fail to be a most remunerating speculation if worked under proper management". He goes on to praise the ingenious West Coast Fishermen that "no men can understand the fishing hook better … and they supply themselves with excellent baits unknown to strangers. All they want is regular employment, which a Company would give them, by purchasing their fish at a medium price at their stores for Curing." 37. BRATTON, Robert. Round the Turf Fire. Humorous Sketches of Ulster Country Life. Foreword by Mat Mulcaghey. Belfast and Dublin: Talbot Press, 1931. pp. 123. Red cloth, titled in black on upper cover and spine. A very good copy in repaired pictorial dust jacket. €30 38. BREMER, Walther. Ireland's Place in Prehistoric and Early Historic . A translation of an essay by the late Walther Bremer, Keeper of Irish Antiquities in the National Museum of Ireland, published under the auspices of the Royal Irish Academy and the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Illustrated. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1928. pp. 38. Printed wrappers. A very good copy. €45 39. BRENAN, Rev. M.J. An Ecclesiastical , from the Introduction of Christianity into that Country, to the year 1829. Two volumes. Dublin: John Coyne, 1840. pp. (1) viii, 451, [1], (2) vii, 448. Publisher's diced brown cloth, title on printed labels on spines. Owner's signature on titlepage. Light foxing to prelims. Some wear and fading to binding. A good set. Scarce. €185 FROM DRAWINGS BY GEORGE PETRIE 40. BREWER, J.N. Esq. The Beauties of Ireland: being Original Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Biographical of each county. Illustrated with engravings by J. and H.S. Storer after original drawings, chiefly by Mr. Petrie of Dublin. Two volumes. London: Printed for Sherwood, Jones, & Co., 1825/26. pp. (1) xiii, cc, 493, [(plates)] (2) xx, 501, [12 (plates)]. Later green buckram, title in gilt on red morocco labels on spine. Usual foxing, mainly to margin of plates. A very good set. Scarce. €285

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COPAC locates only 4 copies. Not in Gilbert. Bradshaw 7887. James Norris Brewer (1799-1829), English topographer and novelist was the eldest son of a merchant of London. He wrote many romances and topographical compilations, the best of the latter being his contributions to the series called the 'Beauties of Ireland' and the 'Beauties of England and Wales'. Complete with 24 engraved plates by J. & H. S. Storer, after original drawings, chiefly by Mr. Petrie, of Dublin. Plates included Volume I: Dublin from the Phoenix Park; Carton; Castle; Glendalough; Ballyhige [Illustrated p.16]; St. Johns Abbey; Gracefield Lodge; Thomastown Castle; Kilmallock; Boyle Abbey; Ancient Buildings, Mouth of the Shannon, . Volume II: Tinnehinch; Balynastragh, [Illustrated p.17]; Mount Bellew; ; Mount Cashel; ; Abbey of Mullifernan; Edgeworths Town, Seat of Lovell Edgeworth; Carrickfergus; Parsons Town Castle; Ruins of Clonnacnois; Antiquities at Mount Cashel. 41. BRIGHT, John Hampden. What's Wrong with Ireland? Circa 1920. pp. 30. Modern marbled boards. A very good copy. €75 Carty 1037. Influential essay by a leading British liberal, criticising the policy of repression in Ireland including the Sack of Balbriggan, Tuam, Fermoy, Kilmallock, , Trim, Galway, Ballaghadereen and other places throughout Ireland. Meanwhile the English people as a whole keep up the pose of 'Not being able to understand Ireland.' The Bishops call them to 'prayer concerning Ireland.' Their newspapers tell them that it is a problem which all right-minded people are striving to solve. But these pretences cannot save them from becoming conscious of what is being done on their responsibility in Ireland." 42. BRUGHA, Máire MacSwiney. History's Daughter. A Memoir from the only child of Terence MacSwiney. Illustrated. Dublin: O'Brien Press, 2005. pp. 320. Green papered boards, titled in silver on spine. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. €45 43. BUDGELL, E. Esq. Memoirs of the Life and Character of the Earl of Orrery, and of the Family of the Boyles. Containing several curious facts, and pieces of history, from the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, to the present times: extracted from original papers and manuscripts, never yet printed. With a short account of the controversy between the late Earl of Orrery and the Reverend Dr. Bentley; and some select letters of Phalaris, the famous Sicilian Tyrant: translated from the Greek. The second edition. With engraved portrait frontispiece of Charles Boyle, Earl of Orrery, Baron Boyle of Marston & Baron Broghill. London: Printed for W. Mears, at the Lamb in the Old Bailey, 1732. pp. xl, 258, [(2 (advertisement)]. Contemporary full panelled calf. Spine and corners professionally rebacked. Name erased and cut from titlepage with paper repair. Occasional foxing and traces of old ink stain to margin of titlepage. See illustration on p. 18. A good copy. €275 ESTC T97291. Bradshaw 7332. Gilbert 97.

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44. BURGES, Ynyr H. A Plea for The "Irish Enemy". Dublin: Hodges, Smith and Co., Grafton Street, 1865. pp. 62. Stitched wrappers. A very good copy. €175 No copy located on COPAC. 45. BURKE, Sir Bernard. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland. Edited by L.G. Pine. Illustrated. London: Burke's Peerage Ltd., 1958. Fourth edition. pp. xxxvi, 778. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's signature on front pastedown. A very good copy. €235 46. BURKE, Edmund. Burke's Politics. Selected Writings and Speeches of on Reform, Revolution, and War. Edited by Ross Hoffman & Paul Levack. Portrait frontispiece. New York: Knopf, 1949. pp. xxxvii, 536, x, [1]. Blue cloth, title in black on upper cover and along spine. A very good copy. €45 47. BURKE, John, Esq. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of The Commoners of and Ireland, Enjoying Territorial Possessions, or High Official Rank: but Uninvested with Heritable Honours. Four volumes. Illustrated with numerous coats-of-arms. London: Published by William Coburn, 1836/1838. Publishers blind-stamped cloth, titled in gilt. From the library of Edward Westby, Esq., with his armorial bookplate. Spines professionally rebacked. A very good set. Scarce. €295 John Burke (1786-1848) genealogist, and the original publisher of Burke's Peerage. He was the father of Sir Bernard Burke, a British officer of arms and genealogist. He was the elder son of Peter Burke of Elm Hall, Tipperary, by his first wife, Anne, daughter and coheiress of Matthew Dowdall, M.D., of . In accordance with a family arrangement, his younger brother Joseph succeeded to the estate at the father's death on 13 January 1836. The Burke family were descendants of the Earl of Clanricarde via Dominick Burke (born 1664), of Clondegoff Castle, . Later generations have lived at Auberies, Bulmer, Essex. He married his cousin Mary O'Reilly (d. 1846), second daughter of Bernard O'Reilly of Ballymorris, . By his wife he had two sons: Peter Burke, a barrister and John Bernard Burke, genealogist and officer of arms. John Burke died at Aix-la-Chapelle in Germany on 27 March 1845. A scarce four volume set of this authoritative work on genealogy. Written by John Burke, known for initiating the long-running Burke's Peerage series. The present work takes a detailed and meticulous look at noteworthy men and women in the British and Irish Isles who weren't born into nobility, attaching a misplaced importance to such matters in the process. Each volume contains a frontispiece plate, and numerous coats-of-arms throughout the text. This work was subsequently published as Burke's Landed Gentry.

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48. BURNS, Robert. Poems chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Engraved frontispieces of Robert Burns. Two volumes. Dublin: Printed by N. Kelly, 6. Great Georges Street, 1803.16mo. pp. (1) xi, [2], 12-234, (2) 185, [1], 28 [Glossary]. Engraved title. Contemporary worn full calf. Wear to corners, lacking letterpieces, spine and joints starting. Extremely rare Dublin edition of the 1803 publication. Internally a very good copy. €950 No copy located on COPAC. WorldCat 1. NLI holds volume 1 only. Burns dedicated this collection to the noblemen and gentlemen of the Caledonian Hunt. 49. BURT, Edward. Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to his Friend in London; Containing the Description of a Capital Town in that Northern Country, with an Account of some Uncommon Customs of the Inhabitants; likewise an Account of the Highlands, with The Customs and Manners of the Highlanders. To which is added, a Letter relating to the Military Ways among the Mountains, begun in the year 1726. The fifth edition, with engravings and a large Appendix ... with an Introduction and Notes, by the Editor, R Jamieson ... and the History of Donald the Hammerer, from an authentic account of the Family of Invenahyle; a MS. communicated by Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Two volumes. London: Printed for Ogle, Duncan, and Co.; Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh; M. Ogle, Glasgow; and M. Keene, Dublin, 1822. pp. (1) lxxvi, 348, (2) xi, 370. Maroon cloth, titled in gilt. Armorial bookplate of F.L. Campbell on front pastedown; label of Caledonian Club Library on front endpaper. Light foxing to prelims, otherwise a very good copy. €150 50. BURTON, N.J. [Nathaniel Joseph] Letters from Harold's Cross. Dublin: Printed by John F. Fowler, 1850. 12mo. pp. vii, [1], 142. Modern quarter calf on cloth boards, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine; original wrappers bound in; stain to upper wrapper. Signature of W.W. Burton on upper wrapper and front endpaper. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €1,250 No copy located on COPAC or WorldCat 2. A series of letters from Nathaniel Joseph Burton to his friend Norman Wagstaff in Lancashire. In the Preface the author tells us: "From the title of this book, my readers may perhaps expect an account of the antiquities of this district; but, ancient as the place undoubtedly is, I believe there are few, if any, records respecting it worthwhile relating." He points out that these letters are written to a private friend and people should remember this if they appear objectionable. He concludes: "but I always feel disposed to celebrate the place in which I reside, and where I have experienced the kind attention of the inhabitants; and that person must be fastidious, who would not yield to Harold's Cross the tribute it deserves of being one of the most happy specimens of suburban simplicity, neatness, and tranquillity that now exists in the changing vicinity of so large a metropolis. The unostentatious appearance of the village reposing on its height - the abodes of piety that exist within it - the attention paid to the concerns of the poor, superintended by the illustrious Society of St. Vincent de Paul, male and female, render it a most favoured locality, and tend to keep in check those germs of vice, which, despite of the utmost vigilance, contend for growth." 51. BUSH, Andrew. A House in Ireland. Foreword by Mark Haworth-Booth. With 45 photographs in full colour. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989. Oblong quarto. pp. 13, [1], [82]. Black cloth gilt, title in gilt on upper cover and along spine. A fine copy in fine pictorial dust jacket. €150 One of the classic medium-sized early eighteenth century country houses in Ireland. Built in 1737 for Samuel Mathews, Mayor of Kilkenny. A subject that captivated photographer Andrew Bush and inspired him to create this book. This stunning volume displays forty-five colour photographs that are part of the intimate visual record he made there. A much sought after collector's item. 52. BUTLER, William F.T. Gleanings from Irish History. With nine maps and a pedigree of the House of Mac Carthy Mór. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1925. pp. xv, 335. Modern blue buckram, title in gilt on spine. Ex. libris Glenstal Abbey with neat stamps. Inscribed on half title "With the / author's compliments." A very good copy. €95 In this work the author describes from original contemporary sources the leading features of the organisation of the Gaelic portions of Ireland at the time when the old Gaelic order was passing away, and was being replaced by English institutions. The chapters include: The Lordship of MacCarthy Mór; The Lordship of MacCarthy Reagh; The Policy of Surrender and Regrant; The Cromwellian Confiscation in Muskerry, etc.

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53. [CABINET-MAKERS] Book of Prices of the Operative Cabinet-Makers of the City of Dublin. Unanimously agreed to at a meeting held on the 7th February, 1844. Dublin: Printed by Jolly & Mullany, 15 Anglesea-Street, 1844. pp. 46. Modern quarter calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Some browning and dusting to pages, old ink stain to final two leaves. A good copy of an extremely rare item. €675 No copy located on COPAC. A simplified list of Cabinet-Makers prices compiled by the committee "On the most simple scale, so as to render it easy of being understood by all; which will tend to set aside a recurrence of those numerous disputes that have heretofore arisen between the employer and the employed; which, when accomplished, will much gratify and fully reward." 54. CAHILL, Rev. Dr. Bound Collection of Thirty Tracts. (a) The Rev. Dr. Cahill's Celebrated Letter to the People of Ireland, for the Organization of a New Society of 500,000 Young Irishmen, to Defend Catholic Ireland against Lord John Russell's Aggression on their Religious Liberties. pp. 12. (b) The Rev. Dr. Cahill's Second Letter to the People of Ireland, for the Organization of a New Society of 500,000 Young Irishmen, to Defend Catholic Ireland against Lord John Russell's Aggression on their Religious Liberties. pp. 12. (c) The Rev. Dr. Cahill's Third Letter to the People of Ireland, for the Organization of a New Society of 500,000 Young Irishmen, to Defend Catholic Ireland against Lord John Russell's Aggression on their Religious Liberties. pp. 8. (d) Authorised and Correct Edition. The Rev. Dr. Cahill's Fourth Letter to the People of Ireland, for the Organization of a New Society of 500,000 Young Irishmen, to Defend Catholic Ireland against Lord John Russell's Aggression on their Religious Liberties. pp. 12. (e) Authorised and Correct Edition. The Rev. Dr. Cahill's Fifth Letter to the People of Ireland, for the Organization of a New Society of 500,000 Young Irishmen, to Defend Catholic Ireland against Lord John Russell's Aggression on their Religious Liberties. pp. 12. (f) The Rev. Dr. Cahill's First Letter to Lord John Russell, relative to His Lordship's Epistle to the Bishop of Durham. pp. 8. (g) The Rev. Dr. Cahill's Second Letter to Lord John Russell, relative to His Lordship's Epistle to the Bishop of Durham. pp. 8. (h) The Rev. Dr. Cahill's Third Letter to Lord John Russell, relative to His Lordship's Epistle to the Bishop of Durham. pp. 8. (i) The Rev. Dr. Cahill's Fourth Letter to Lord John Russell, Nominally, But Really Intended for the Courts of Russia, Prussia, Austria, France, Naples, Spain, Portugal, and the Glorious Republic of America. Prince Castelcicala's (Minister of the King of Naples) Letter to Lord Palmerston. pp. 12. (j) The Rev. Dr. Cahill's Fifth Letter to Lord John Russell. pp. 12. (k) The Rev. Dr. Cahill's First Letter to The Earl of Derry. pp. 8. (l) The Rev. Dr. Cahill's Second Letter to the Right Honourable The Earl of Derry. pp. 8. (m) The Rev. Dr. Cahill's Third Letter to the Right Honourable The Earl of Derry. pp. 8. (n) The Rev. Dr. Cahill's Fourth Letter to the Right Honourable The Earl of Derry. pp. 8. (o) The Rev. Dr. Cahill's Fifth Letter to the Right Honourable The Earl of Derry. pp. 8. (p) Authorised and Corrected. The Rev. Dr. Cahill's First Letter to the Right Honourable Lord Palmerston, on His Lordship's Late Extraordinary Calumnies against the Roman Catholics of Rome, Spain, Italy, and Switzerland. pp. 12. (q) Authorised Edition. The Rev. Dr. Cahill's Second Letter to Lord Palmerston. pp. 12. (r) The Rev. Dr. Cahill's Splendid Oration, at the Great Aggregate Meeting of the Citizens of Dublin, Held in Conciliation Hall, On Tuesday, April 22nd, 1851, To Protest against Lord John Russell's Attempt to Trample on the Liberties of the Catholics of England and Ireland. pp. 8. (s) Powerful Address of the Rev. Dr. Cahill to the Irish Catholics in England, on the Evil Consequences of Illegal, Societies, & the Danger to Peace and Order of Party Processions. pp. 4.

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(t) The Rev. Dr. Cahill's First Letter to His Grace Field-Marshal The Duke of Wellington. pp. 8. (u) The Rev. Dr. Cahill's Letter to the Irish Catholics in England. pp. 12. (v) Address to the Rev. Dr. Cahill from the Clergy & Laity of ; and The Very Rev. Dr. Cahill's Reply. Manchester: 1853. pp. 12. (w) The Rev. Dr. Cahill's End of Religious Controversy, in Two Letters in Reply to Challenges sent to Him By a Presbyterian Minister, and Five Clergymen of the Church of England. pp. 12. (x) [Authorised and Correct Edition] Great Catholic Demonstration and Grand Soiree To The Rev. Dr. Cahill, in Dublin, on Monday, August 8, 1853, Previous to his Department for America. The Rev. Dr. Cahill's Farewell Address to His Catholic Fellow-Countrymen. pp. 24. (y) Authorised and Correct Edition. [Second Edition] The Rev. Dr. Cahill's Reply to the Challenge given to, and Charges made against Him, By twenty-one Clergymen of the Established Church, in which is added The Correspondence on Both Sides. pp. 12. (z) Authorised and Correct Edition. The Rev. Dr. Cahill's Defence of the Doctrine of Transubstantiation. Being a Reply to the Charges made against The Church of Rome on this Particular Point of Doctrine, By the Rev. J. Burns, of Whitehaven. pp. 12. (aa) Authorised and Correct Edition. Important Letter from the Rev. Dr. Cahill, to His Royal Highness Prince Albert, on the Critical Social and Political State of the Empire. pp. 12. (bb) Authorised and Correct Edition. Reply of the Rev. Dr. Cahill to an "Oxford Convert", on the Question of the immoral course pursued by the students educated at Oxford University. pp. 12. (cc) Authorised and Correct Edition. Reply of the Rev. Dr. Cahill, to The Attack made upon him by the Catholic Journal, The "Rambler". pp. 12. (dd) Authorised and Correct Edition. Fidelity of the Irish Catholics to the True Faith. Important and Powerful Lecture, of the Very Rev. Dr. Cahill, on the Present and Past Religious State of Ireland, Delivered in the Concert Hall, Lord Nelson Street, Liverpool, On Wednesday Evening, February 1st, 1854. pp. 12. Manchester: Printed by T. Smith, Catholic Bookseller, n.d. (c.1853). Modern black buckram. A very good copy. €575 Daniel William Cahill (1796-1864) Roman Catholic preacher, lecturer, writer and educator in Ireland and the was born at Ashfield, Arless, County Laois, the third son of Daniel Cahill, a civil engineer, and Catherine Brett. He was sent to Carlow College as a lay student, and in 1816 entered , where he became proficient in natural philosophy and languages. He was ordained a priest after he had passed through the Dunboyne establishment. In 1825 he was appointed professor of natural philosophy (mathematic, physics, chemistry and astronomy) at Carlow College, where he taught for some years. He then opened a school at Seapoint, Williamstown, which he conducted from 1835 to 1841. Meanwhile, he wrote largely for the press, and for a time edited the 'Dublin Telegraph'. He became a distinguished preacher and lecturer, and his vigorous attacks on the government and the Established extended his reputation. In December 1859 he visited the United States, where he lectured on astronomy and other scientific subjects and preached in many American and Canadian cities. As he generally gave his services for religious and charitable purposes, large sums of money were raised by him for Catholic projects. He was of commanding presence, being six feet five inches in height, and handsome. He was buried in , but his body was exhumed in 1885 and taken to Ireland, where it was reburied in , Dublin, on his grave is a statute of him. His writings consist chiefly of lectures and addresses, with some letters to prominent Protestants. 55. CAIRNES, Thomas Plunket. Thomas Plunket Cairnes, J.P. A Memento of the Address and Presentation so kindly made to Thomas Plunket Cairnes by Clerical and Lay Members of the Church of Ireland in the Diocese of Meath, on the 14th day of March, 1894. Together with various Biographical Sketches and Pulpit References. London: Printed by Strangeways & Sons for Private Circulation only, n.d. (c.1894). Quarto. pp. viii, 56. Mauve cloth, title in gilt on upper cover within a gilt border. Pages with deckled edges. Soiling to cloth, internally a fine copy. €125 COPAC locates 2 copies only. WorldCat 3. INSCRIBED FROM THE AUTHOR ON TITLEPAGE 56. [CAMPBELL, Thomas] A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in a series of letters to John Watkinson, M.D. With six copper engraved plates, (2 folding). London: Printed for W.

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Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand, 1777. Sole edition. pp. xvi, 476 (including errata). Modern half brown morocco over brown cloth boards, title in gilt on black morocco label on spine. Inscribed from the author on titlepage. A very good copy. Very scarce. €175 Kress B.107. Bradshaw 5550. Woods 22. Thomas Campbell (1733-1795) was born in Glack, County Tyrone, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was curate of Clogher until 1772, when he was collated to the prebend of Tyholland, and in 1773 he was made chancellor of St Macartan's Cathedral, Clogher. In 1777 he published (anonymously in London) A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland in a series of letters to John Watkinson, M.D. (a second edition was published in Dublin in 1778). It recorded the tour of an Englishman in the south of Ireland, and gives a description of the major towns, remarks on the trade of the country are thrown in, and Campbell advocates a political and commercial union with England. A friend of Dr. Johnson, his 'survey' was regarded by Boswell as "a very entertaining book, which has, however, one fault - that it assumes the fictitious character of an Englishman." In the 'survey' Johnson's epitaph on Goldsmith appeared for the first time in print. The engraved plates includes: Ruins of Kilmallock; Round Tower at Kildare; Abbey of St. John in Kilkenny; ; The Crown - The Sword - A Tumulus near Tipperary; Collar of Gold. 57. [CAMPBELL, Thomas] The First Lines of Ireland's Interest in the year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty. Dublin: Printed and Sold by R. Marchbank, Cole-Alley, Castle- Street, 1779. pp. iv, 78, [1]. Original pale blue stitched wrappers, creased at corners. Name torn from top margin of titlepage. Untrimmed A very good copy. €285 COPAC locates 8 copies only. 58. CARD, Henry. Historical Outlines of the Rise and Establishment of the Papal Power; Addressed to the Roman Catholic Priests of Ireland. By Henry Card, of Pembroke College, Oxford. Margate: Printed by J. Warren, Marine Parade, For T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1804. With half title. pp. xix, [1 (errata)], 141, [1]. With errata. Stitched printed wrappers. Small hole to top margin of first section. A very good copy. €150 COPAC locates 8 copies only. Includes errata and bibliographical references. 59. CARDOZO, Nancy. . Lucky Eyes and a High Heart. Illustrated. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1979. pp. [x], 468. Maroon cloth, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. €30 60. CARLILE, Rev. James. The Claims of the Roman Catholic Priesthood Investigated. By the Rev. James Carlile, one of the Ministers of the Scots Church, Mary's Abbey. Second edition, with additions. Dublin: Westley & Tyrrell, 11, Lower Sackville-Street, 1828. pp. xxiii, [2], 26-118. Modern wrappers. Some foxing and dark staining. A good working copy. Extremely rare. €275 No copy located on COPAC or WorldCat. Not in NLI. James Carlile (1784-1854) Scottish clergyman was born in Paisley, educated at Paisley Grammar School and then at the universities in Glasgow and Edinburgh. He was licensed in 1811 by the Paisley Presbyterians and in 1815 was a joint minister of a Scots church in Dublin and an Irish Commissioner of Education. He introduced a different of education in Ireland whereby children of different denominations could go to the same school. In 1817 he made an important speech which changed Irish church policy: "Let us tell our people that we will never permit his Majesty's bounty to operate as a bribe to induce us to desert what we believe ... or whether we deserve that Lord Castlereagh should drive his chariot into the midst of us, and tread us down as the offal of the streets." This speech was in protest of Lord Castlereagh's suggestion that the synod should recognise the Belfast Academical Institution instead of a Scottish university to educate their ministers. Carlile was appointed resident commissioner to the new Irish board of national education in 1831. He devised and introduced a radical system of education. It was based on the idea of both Protestant and Catholic children being educated together, except for separate religious education. He sat on the school board with the Anglican Archbishop Richard Whately and the Roman Catholic Archbishop Daniel Murray. The two Dublin both regarded Carlile highly despite the objections they all received from less radical wings of both denominations. 61. CARR, John Esq. The Stranger in Ireland; or, A Tour in the Southern and Western Parts of that Country, in the year 1805. Philadelphia: Printed for Samuel F. Bradford, 1806. Octavo. xi, [1], 339, [1]. Contemporary full sprinkled calf, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine.

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Previous owner's signature on front and rear endpapers. Occasional mild foxing. A very good copy. €165 Sir John Carr (1772-1832), a native of Devonshire, was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple, but for health reasons found it advisable to travel and published accounts of his journeys in different European countries. Carr's Stranger in Ireland is a lively account of his impressions and experiences during his travels throughout the country in the year 1805. He supplemented his own experience with extensive reading of the works on this country available at that time. Of particular interest and value are his descriptions and accounts of , Killarney, Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Kilkenny, illustrated with sixteen magnificent hand-coloured aquatints. It was a very popular work and 1,500 copies were sold of the first edition, this was followed by French and American editions. So successful were his previous works that the publisher, Phillips, paid Carr £600 in anticipation of its success. He was knighted by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the Duke of Bedford. First American edition, published the same year as the London edition, but unfortunately issued without the plates. 62. CARROLL, F.M. Ed. by. The American Commission on Irish Independence 1919. The Diary, Correspondence and Report. Dublin: Published by Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1985. pp. vi, 154. Red arlen, title in gilt. A very good copy in lightly nicked dust jacket. €65 63. [CATALOGUE] Books on Ireland. Leabhra ar Éirinn. List compiled by National Library of Ireland. Dublin: Published for the Cultural Relations Committee of Ireland by Colm Ó Lochlainn, At the Sign of the Three Candles, 1953. pp. 45 [3]. Stapled printed wrappers. A very good copy. €25 De Búrca 197. 64. [CATHOLICS OF IRELAND] Defence of the Sub-Committee of the Catholics of Ireland, from the Imputations Attempted to be Thrown on that Body, particularly from the Charge of Supporting the . Published by Order of the Sub-Committee. Dublin: Printed by H. Fitzpatrick, 2, Upper Ormond-Quay, 1793. With half title. pp. [iv], 12. Original blue stitched wrappers. A fine copy. €275 COPAC locates 6 copies only. Denis Thomas O'Brien, Esq. in the Chair, resolved that this tract be published. Signed by the Secretary of the Sub-Committee, John Sweetman. The Sub-Committee was made up of the following members: Edward Byrne; Denis Thos. O'Brien; John Keogh; Thomas Braughall; Hugh Hamill; Thomas Fitzgerald; Thomas Warren; John Sweetman; Richard M'Cormick; Thomas Ryan, M.D.; M.F. Lynch and Randal M'Donnell. The first body established to give formal representation to Catholic interests in the eighteenth century was a (1795) composed of Dublin business interests and mainly concerned with commercial privileges. In 1760 Charles O'Conor of Belanagare and Dr. John Curry established a broadly based Catholic Committee, but prior to the 1790s this was only sporadically active. The year 1792, was the busiest in Theobold 's political career. In the course of a few months he journeyed three times to Belfast, to effect the union between the Catholics and Dissenters, in which he succeeded; besides several other journeys to Galway, Mayo and elsewhere to rally the Catholics in the common cause. During the same period he formed the first clubs of the United Irishmen. Towards the close of that year he had replaced Richard Burke (Edmund's son) as Secretary of the Catholic Committee, which was originally formed to give formal representation to Catholic interests. From 1791 a more militant group led by John Keogh and Edward Byrne seized control of the Committee provoking the secession in December, 1791 of a conservative faction led by Lord Kenmare. A Convention was held at the Tailors' Hall and opened on the 3rd of December, 1792, attended by 233 delegates from all over the country, with all the forms of a legislative assembly, popularly known as the 'Back Lane Parliament', and declared itself "the only power competent to speak the sense of the Catholics of Ireland." INSCRIBED FROM THE AUTHOR 65. CHATTERTON, Lady. Rambles in the South of Ireland during the year 1838. With eight lithographic plates and numerous engravings. Two volumes. London: Saunders, 1839. First edition. pp. (1) xi, 312, (2) iv, 305, 2. Contemporary blind-stamped cloth, spines neatly rebacked preserving original backstrip, titled in gilt. Ex libris Vincentian Fathers, with neat stamps. Inscribed on titlepage of volume one from the author. Occasional spotting. Spines professionally rebacked. A very good set. Extremely rare. €475

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COPAC locates 3 sets only of the first edition. Elmes and Hewson 2012. Henrietta, Lady 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, County Cork. The 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: Mitchelstown Castle; Kingston Caves; ; Part of St. Dominick's Friary. 66. [CHRISTIAN BROTHER] Flowers from many Gardens a New Anthology Senior Book by A Christian Brother. Dublin: M.H. Gill, n.d. (c.1935). Small octavo. pp. 300. Orange cloth, title and floral decoration in black on upper. From the library of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, with their stamp. A fine copy. €85 67. [CHRISTIAN BROTHERS] Christian Brothers Cork. To Commemorate the Centenary of the Christian Brothers, Our Lady's Mount, Cork. November 9th 1811, November 9th 1911. Profusely illustrated. Cork: Guy & Co., 1911. Royal octavo. pp. 201, + Adverts. Modern stiff wrappers with original upper pictorial cover. A very good copy. €125 68. CLARENDON Hon. Hugh of Windsor Esq. A New and Authentic History of England: From the Remotest Period of Intelligence to the Close of the Year 1767: Containing A particular and circumstantial Account of Every interesting Occurrence, and memorable Character relative to the Annals of Great Britain, both at Home and Abroad; Particularly, Its Origin; the Progress of its Empire; Laws; civil and religious Establishments; its various Operations naval and military; Anecdotes of the Transactions of the most celebrated Personages who have distinguished themselves in a political, ecclesiastical, or military Capacity: Interspersed with such Remarks as may be found necessary to elucidate any obscure Point, solve any Difficulty, and set any contested Circumstance in the clearest Light. Two volumes. London: Printed for J. Cooke, at Shakespear's Head in Pater-Noster Row, and sold by all Booksellers in Great Britain and Ireland [1770?]. Quarto. pp. (1) [12], vi, 593 (2) 572, [16 (Index)], [1 (Directions for the Bookbinder)].

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[72 (Plates)]. Contemporary full mottled calf, title in gilt on red morocco labels on spines, volume numbers in gilt direct. Minor wear to extremities and spine ends. A very good clean and tight set. Exceedingly rare. €475 COPAC locates 6 copies only. With a list of subscribers in volume 1. Complete with 72 plates and a folding map. Plates are mostly portraits of Monarchs, but include many detailed historical scenes, including: The Chief Druids gathering the Mistletoe; Landing of William the Conqueror; Death of William Rufus; Signing of the Magna Carta; Surrender of Calais to Edward III; Burning of Archbishop Cranmer; Crowds at beheading of Charles I (with text of the death warrant above image); Siege of Quebec; Naval Battles; First Translation of the Bible presented to Henry VIII.

See items 66, 67 & 68. 69. CLARKE, Aidan. The Old English in Ireland 1625-42. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1966. pp. 288. Blue papered boards, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's bookplate and signature on front pastedown and endpaper. A fine copy in dust jacket. €65 'The Old English' was the title given to the descendants of the Anglo-Normans who first came over to Ireland in 1169. They combined loyalty to England with a Catholicism that, since the Reformation, no longer attracted English support. They also controlled one-third of the land of Ireland at a time when political acceptability was becoming dependant on religious conformity. By 1625 religion had become a matter of conflict with their retention of political power and control over the land. Yet in 1641, the outbreak of the Civil War, they joined the Irish Catholic Confederacy. 70. CLARKE, Kathleen. Revolutionary Woman 1878-1972. An autobiography. Edited by Helen Litton. Illustrated. Dublin: O'Brien Press, 1991. First edition. pp. 240. Red papered boards, titled in gilt. A fine copy in fine pictorial dust jacket. €65 A TESTAMENT TO THEIR COURAGE AND BRAVERY 71. CLARKE, P.J. & FEENEY, Michael. Mayo Comrades of the Great War 1914 - 1919. Profusely illustrated with coloured and black and white illustrations. Ballina: Clarke, 2006. First edition. Folio. pp. xxiii, 360. Pictorial papered boards. Signed by the authors. A superb copy in pictorial dust jacket. €75 In 1914 those who volunteered were regarded as heroes, encouraged to go by churches of every denomination, but by 1916, after the and the executions which followed, attitudes hardened towards England. When the war was over those that survived returned to a changed society. In Ireland they were ignored and forgotten in all but the Northern counties. Since then amnesia set in and our history books don't give them a mention. Fortunately, things are changing and since the advent of television there is now a greater understanding of the sacrifice made by these men. We hope this book will help bring about a full and proper recognition of them. 72. CLIFFORD, Henry. Reflections on the Appointment of a Catholic Bishop to the London District. In a letter to the Catholic Laity of the said District. Dublin: Printed by W. Corbet, for P.

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Byrne, No. 108, Grafton-street, 1791. pp. [4], 60. With a half-title. Original pale blue stitched wrappers. Inside lower wrapper with advertisement for Henry Blackstone's 'Report of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Common Pleas', published by P. Byrne. Stain to upper cover and with some tears. Untrimmed. Internally a fine copy. Extremely rare. €245 COPAC locates 5 copies only. ESTC T122236. CLONBROCK COPY INSTRUCTIONS FOR COLOURING 73. [CLONBROCK] Easy Studies in Outline for Copying and Colouring. Series I. Landscape. London: W.J. & S., n.d. Oblong octavo. pp. [6], [12 (plates)]. Beige pictorial cloth, title in black on upper cover. Signature of E[dith]. Dillon, Clonbrock in pencil on front pastedown. A very good copy. Rare. €85

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74. [CLONBROCK] Sketches in Outline for Young Artists, with Full Instructions for Colouring. London: W.J. & S., n.d. Oblong octavo. pp. [12], [24 (plates)]. Beige pictorial cloth, title in black on upper cover. Signature of Edith Dillon, Clonbrock in pencil on front pastedown. A very good copy. Rare. €95 75. [ BOROUGH ELECTION] A Report from the Committee of Privileges and Elections, Touching the Election for the Borough of Clonmell in the County of Tipperary. Reported on Monday the 19th. of January, 1756: With the Resolutions of the Committee thereupon. Dublin: Printed by Abraham Bradley, Stationer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, and Printer to House of Commons, at the King's Arms and Two Bibles in Dame- street, 1756. pp. 87. Original worn blue stitched wrappers. Light stain to covers, otherwise a clean crisp copy. Extremely rare. €485 ESTC N66427 citing the Dublin Honourable Society of King's Inn copy only. In 1753 William Kellet was elected Mayor of Clonmel in accordance with by-laws introduced in 1748- 50. In April 1754, a vacancy was created in the borough by the promotion of Robert Marshall to a judgeship of Common Pleas. On the announcement of Guy Moore as candidate, Kellet at once threw in his weight with the Moores and summoned a meeting to repeal the 1750 by-laws. As strong opposition from the resident freemen was anticipated, he made out a Freemen's Roll of his own "without any regard," says a contemporary, "to the freemen on the books." The by-laws were repealed and a new law passed transferred the whole powers of the corporation at large to the common council alone. Two days later, on 12th June, 1754, the mayor and council created twenty four new freemen for the purpose of the election. But a strong rival candidate was found in William Bagwell, the son of a prosperous local merchant. A petition against Moore's return was lodged with the House of Commons. Opposing council fought for weeks together and incidentally discussed the local history of the preceding half century. At length on a vote, 106 members were for Moore, 106 for Bagwell, and the speaker by a casting vote declared Bagwell elected on 20th October, 1755. It was however the last

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struggle for municipal freedom. Within two years Bagwell died, Guy Moore succeeded and henceforward the Moore supremacy in Clonmel was unchallenged. In a later report on the "State of Borough Representation," appears the following summary, "Clonmel, a large and populous town; electors a mayor, recorder, town clerk, nineteen burgesses and seventy-two freemen mostly non- residents. Patrons, Lord Mountcashel and some of the Moores." THE UNFORTUNATE 76. [CODE, Henry Brereton] The Insurrection of the Twenty-Third July, 1803. Dublin: Printed by Graisberry and Campbell, 10 Back Lane, [1803]. First edition. pp. xiii, 110. Modern quarter morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on maroon morocco label on spine. A superb copy of this exceedingly rare book. €650 COPAC locates 6 copies only of The Insurrection of the Twenty-Third July, 1803. Preface signed: H.B.C., the NLI states it is Henry Brereton Code. Plowden in his 'History of Ireland' Dublin, 1811, says of this work: "Mr Marsden (an Under Secretary at ) procured a report of all those trials to be published in a very garbled manner, with a preface, introduction and conclusion, which bespeak the tendency of the politician." The Special Commission was set for Wednesday, 31st, August, 1803. Lord Norbury, Justice Finucane, and Barons George and Daly presiding, in Green Street Courthouse. Bills of indictment were found against the following: Felix Rourke, John Killin, John McCann, James Byrne, Walter Clare, John Donelly, Nicholas Farrel alias Tyrrel, Laurence Begley, Michael Kelly, Martin Bourke, Edward Kearney, John Begg, Thomas Maxwell Roche, Patrick Maguire, Joseph Doran, and Owen Kirwan. In the preface the author states: "The only man in the late conspiracy who possessed talents, and a capacious range of mind, has borne, against France, a testimony which should never be forgotten by his countrymen. So apprehensive was the unfortunate Robert Emmet, even of a limited and restrained alliance with her, that he commenced the insurrection with means the most disproportionate, and under a strong impression of despair, rather than seek, or wait for her assistance." Code, the author, a spy in the pay of the Castle, was editor and proprietor of the controversial Dublin Warder. Henry Brereton Code (c.1770-1838), journalist, dramatist, and government agent (whose real name appears to have been Cody), was educated in a seminary. He began his career as a retailer of hose at Skinner Row, Dublin (1793). After the failure of this business and other speculations, he turned his hand to writing and politics. Employed by the Freeman's Journal in the 1790s, he was dismissed for 'bad behaviour.' The proprietor, Francis Higgins, alleged in 1801 that Code had been a member of the United Irishmen, and had given public readings of Thomas Paine's The Rights of Man. Nevertheless, during the 1798 rebellion Code acted as a paid government spy and by 1801 was boasting of a £300 per annum 'place'. He soon joined the staff of the Dublin Evening Post, and influenced editorial policy in favour of the government; assuming full control in 1802, he transformed the paper into a conservative, pro-government mouthpiece. Faced with mounting criticism, he attempted to reassert a semblance of objectivity in the paper, but in the winter of 1803 he was sacked. Emmet's rebellion was the subject of Code's first major book, The Insurrection of 23 July 1803, in which he praised the government's humane response. Over the next few years Code struggled under the burden of mounting debts, and after numerous requests the Castle finally took pity on him and secured him a sinecure in the customs, from which he was later dismissed. In the 1810s he turned his versatile talents to the stage, where he achieved some notice, but little critical acclaim. "The Patriot" (1810), a musical drama, and "The Spanish Patriots" (1812), an historical drama, both contained barely disguised pro-government sentiments. In 1813 he produced a drama with songs entitled "The Russian Sacrifice, or, The Burning of Moscow". A number of compositions penned by Code, and set to music by Sir John Stevenson and others, achieved a lasting popularity, including "The Sprig of Shillelagh and so Green" and "See our Oars with Feathered Spray". He is also credited with authorship of "Donnybrook Fair". In 1821 he returned to journalism as proprietor and editor of an Orange, pro- government newspaper, The Warder. It was a failure at first, but was revived the following year and gradually achieved by c.1823/4 a subscription of almost 1,000 people, which had doubled by 1829; its anti-catholic sentiments occasionally led to rioting. There are few details about Code's personal life. He appears to have married: appealing to for aid for The Warder (1822), he made reference to supporting eight children. (It is possible that John Marsden Code (1805-75), the Brethren minister, was a son; his father's name is listed as 'Henry' in TCD records, and it is likely that he was named after Alexander Marsden, under-secretary at Dublin Castle when he was born. In 1824 Code co-authored, with Thomas Ettingsall, a book entitled Angling Excursions of Gregory Greendrake and Geoffrey Greydrake under a pseudonym. He ended his career

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with The Warder in 1830 and from there drifted into obscurity. He died 27 February 1838. For most of his life he resided at 13 Eccles Street, Dublin. 77. COGHLAN, Heber. The Woe of . Portrait frontispiece of the author. Cork: Purcell, 1898. pp. 52, [1]. Mauve cloth, titled in gilt. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €275 COPAC locates the BL copy only. O'Donoghue p.72. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION "IN MEMORY OF GALWAY AND A GAY DAY" 78. COLUM, Padraic. Ten Poems. With titlepage device designed by Liam Miller. Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1957. Small quarto. pp. 24. Titlepage printed in red, black and green. Quarter green linen on cream paper boards with device. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies. Signed presentation copy from the author: "To / My friend Liam [O'Brien] / In memory of Galway / and a gay day / " on front free endpaper. Top edge red. A very good copy. €135 Miller 27. "Padraic Colum offered us his new poems sometime in 1955 and in the two years before the book emerged, the title had gone from 'Eight Poems' to 'Ten Poems'. He came to see us while the book was at press and expressed his faith in what we were doing and his happiness at being able to identify with an Irish publisher, naming us his poetry publishers from then on" - Liam Miller. 79. COMERFORD, Maire. The First Dáil January 21st 1919. Illustrated. Dublin: Published by Joe Clarke, 1969. pp. 119. Pictorial wrappers designed by Joe Comerford. A fine copy. €50 The author was present at the first and other meetings of the first Dáil Éireann. She served on one of its committees and was a nominated member of the Irish White Cross, and also an active member of Cumann na mBan's Central Branch. She was employed as secretary by , the historian. She was one of the hundreds helping the Dáil to function as a government. 80. [COMMITTEE OF SECRECY] The First and Second Reports from the Committee of Secrecy of the House of Commons, to whom The Several Papers referred to in His Majesty's Message of Day of May, 1794 and which were presented (sealed up) to the House, by Mr. Secretary Dundas, upon the 12th and 13th Days of the said Month, by his Majesty's Command, were referred. To which is added, the First and Second Reports of the Secret Committee of the . With Appendixes. Dublin: Printed by P. Byrne, 1794. pp. [2], 24, 206. Original pale blue stitched paper wrappers. Untrimmed. From the Clements, Killadoon Library. A fine copy. €575 COPAC locates 5 copies only. 81. CONLON, Lil. Cumann na mBan and the Women of Ireland: 1913-25. Illustrated. Kilkenny: Printed by the Kilkenny People, 1969. First edition. pp. viii, [5], 312. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. Scarce. €150 This book was written "as a tribute to those Women, organised and unorganised, who rendered such gallant and heroic assistance during the years 1913-1925, and of whom little or no mention has ever been made." INTEREST 82. CONMEE, Rev. John S. Old Times in the . Illustrated. Dublin: Catholic Truth Society of Ireland, n.d.. (c.1910). pp. 36. Modern wrappers. A very good copy. €25 83. CONNELLAN, Owen. A Practical Grammar of the Irish Language. Dublin: Published by B. Geraghty, 11, Anglesea-Street, 1844. pp. [4], 120. Bound in olive green morocco by G. Bellew name in gilt on lower turn-in. Covers framed by a single gilt and blind fillet; harp in gilt in centre with a garland of shamrocks surrounded by gilt morocco tooling; board edges gilt; turn-ins with gilt shamrock roll; cream endpapers. Ex. libris William O'Brien Milltown Park Trust, with label on front pastedown and stamp on titlepage. All edges gilt. A superb copy. €850 IRISH - "THE FINEST AND LOFTIEST TONGUE IN THE WORLD" 84. [CONNELLAN, Thady] An English Irish Dictionary, intended for the Use of Schools; containing upwards of eight thousand English words, with their corresponding explanation in Irish. Dublin: Printed by Graisberry & Campbell, 1814. 12mo. pp. vii, [1], 144, + errata. Modern coarse linen, title in gilt on brown morocco label along spine. From the library of Patrick C.

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Power with his bookplate. Name erased from titlepage leaving a few holes. Traces of old stain. A very good working copy. Scarce. €125 Thady Connellan (1780-1854), Gaelic scholar, was a kinsman of Owen and from the same barony in County Sligo. Lady Morgan in her Patriotic Sketches (see item 324) recounts meeting with 'Thady O'Conolan', a schoolteacher, "a personage not only highly esteemed by his rural disciples, but looked upon by his less intelligent neighbours as a prodigy of learning, erudition and genius." In a brogue "that beggared description" he remarked to Lady Morgan that Irish was "the finest and loftiest tongue in the world." Thady invited Lady Morgan to visit his school-house and to her amazement she discovered that Thadys' 'seminary' was little more than "a miserable cabin" situated on the outskirts of a desolate wood. His 'seminary' was so ill-equipped with text-books that a class of seven had to read together from one copy of Homer, which was all the 'Corkhill lyceum', possessed. Thady embraced the Protestant faith when he was about thirty years of age, and from then on he worked for the Bible Societies, promoting the education of his countrymen through their native language. He worked tirelessly in 'converting' his fellow-Sligonians. Sir Robert Peel referred to Connellan as "a most efficient agent in communicating spiritual knowledge to the Irish peasantry." 85. CORCORAN, Moira. A Suggested Walking Tour of Drogheda. Illustrations by Ken Clerken. Dublin: Bord Failte, 1978. pp. [28]. Pictorial stapled wrappers. From the library of Terry Trench. A fine copy. €15 86. [CORRY, John] A Satirical View of London at the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century. By A Barrister. London: Printed for G. Kearsley, Fleet-Street; T. Hurst, Paternoster- Row; Ogilvy and Son, Holborn; R. Ogle, Turnstile; and Ogle and Aikman, Edinburgh, 1801. pp. [6], viii, 216. Contemporary stiff marbled wrappers. A very good copy. €375 COPAC locates 7 copies only. John Corry was born near Newry, , perhaps in Ravensdale, County Louth. He is said to have been educated by a village schoolmaster. He may have been distantly (or illegitimately) related to the prominent Corry family of Newry, one of whom was Isaac Corry. In 1792 John Corry visited London; in 1797 he published in Newry a volume of Odes and elegies, of interest for some local references and for the subscribers' list, which included supporters of the United Irishmen. Corry's Life of George Washington (Dublin, 1801) was very popular, appearing in many editions in Britain, Ireland, and America, with one edition in German. His works appeared in England after c.1801 and are sometimes anonymous. His many other publications include Memoirs of Arthur duke of Wellington (1815), a useful biography of Joseph Priestley, the first volume of a History of with biographical notices (1816), History of Lancashire (2 vols, 1825), and at least twenty novels, some of which appeared as chapbooks or as novelettes; Corry is regarded as being of some importance in the development of gothic fiction. A Satirical View of the City of London ran to four editions from 1801 to 1809; from November 1809 to March 1810. A Mr. J. Corry was the chief contributor to the Dublin Satirist, a scurrilous periodical that ridiculed the folly and corruption of society. John Corry is said to have worked as a journalist in Dublin as a young man, but it seems unlikely that he returned to Dublin in 1809 to write for the Dublin Satirist. His name might have been adopted as a pen-name by a Dublin hack, since it would have been familiar from works such as Corry's detector of quackery, which appeared in at least three editions. A John Corry married Elizabeth Sweeting in Essex, near London, c.1807, but it is not known if this is the same man. Nothing is known of Corry after 1825. 87. COSTIGAN, Arthur William Esq. Sketches of Society and Manners In Portugal In A Series of Letters From Arthur William Costigan, Esq, Late Captain of The Irish Brigade, in The Service of Spain to his Brother In London. Two volumes. There is no Publisher or Place of Publication [Sn] indicated. Date of Publication is 1787. First edition. pp. (1) vii, 358, (2) iv, 322, + errata. Contemporary full calf, title in gilt on red morocco letterpieces. Slight wear, occasional foxing. A very good set. Rare. €485 Editor's Advertisement dated: London, 1787. Costigan, described on the title page as "late captain of the Irish Brigade, in the service of Spain", was the pseudonym of Colonel Diego Ferrier, who came from Porto and served as first commander and organizer of the Algarve Artillery Regiment, raised in 1774, but was dismissed. The letters are dated between 1778 and 1779. ESTC's notes on the various editions of the book are in error.

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88. CRANE, C[harles]. P[aston]. Kerry. With illustrations from photographs by Geoffrey Parsons. Railway map of County Kerry on front endpapers. London: Methuen, 1914. Second edition, revised. pp. xi, [1], 244. Red cloth, titled in gilt. Wanting most of the large folding coloured map of county at end. A very good copy. Rare. €75 Charles Paston Crane was born in 1857. He joined the Royal Irish Constabulary in 1879 and served through the land agitation in Kerry. From 1897 to 1900 he was a Resident Magistrate in Donegal. A distinguished career in the South African War led to the DSO in 1901. He received an OBE in 1918 for his service to the Crown as Battalion Commander in the Great War. 89. CROKER, John Wilson, Esq. Substance of the Speech of John Wilson Croker, Esq. in the House of Commons on Monday, 4th May, 1819; on the Roman Catholic Question. London: John Murray, Albermarle-Street, 1819. pp. 86, [4]. Stitched printed wrappers. €285 Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 22652. Includes four pages of booksellers' advertisements. John Wilson Croker (1780-1857) Irish statesman and author, was born in Galway, the only son of John Croker, the surveyor-general of customs and excise in Ireland. After passing his early years in Newport, County Mayo, at the age of ten he attended a school run by French émigrés in Cork, and in 1792 he went to Willis's school and later to the Rev. Richmond Hood's school, both in Portarlington. He entered Trinity College, Dublin, and graduated in 1800. Immediately afterwards he entered Lincoln's Inn, and in 1802 he was called to the Irish bar. He attached himself to the Munster circuit, where he first encountered Daniel O'Connell. His father's influence got him briefs in many revenue cases; he seemed in the way of rising into a large practice, and in 1806 he married Miss Rosamond Pennell, daughter of Mr. William Pennell, afterwards British consul in South America. She proved to be a thoroughly congenial companion, and he always regarded his union with her as the chief blessing of his life. In the same year, he entered Parliament and was taken up by Canning, becoming a strong Tory supporter and was sympathetic to a measure of parliamentary reform. In 1807 he published this pamphlet on the state of Ireland, in which he advocated Catholic emancipation. He continued to support catholic emancipation, arguing that the abolition of outmoded anti-catholic legislation was the best way to secure the position of the established church in Ireland, a cause to which he was strongly committed. Although party loyalty precluded him from raising the issue, he seconded Grattan's emancipation motion in May 1819. He disapproved of the manner in which relief was finally conceded in 1829, believing that by then the government had lost catholic goodwill and appeared to be surrendering to the threat of force. 90. CROKER, Thomas Crofton. Original Drawing. Wooded river bank scene with Irish harp, book and wreath. Pen and ink vignette drawing on Whatman paper. Signed and dated by T. Crofton Croker, 10 June 1825. Signed and dated lower left. Image 120 x 130mm, sheet size 213 x 270mm. Framed and glazed. In fine condition. €375

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Thomas Crofton Croker (1798-1854) a native of Cork, was one of the most celebrated of Irish antiquaries, folklorists and collectors of ancient Irish airs. He had but little education and at sixteen was apprenticed to a firm of Cork Quaker merchants. Croker spent a number of years in London where he was clerk to the Admiralty, where a distant relative, John Wilson Croker, was his superior. He is best known for his antiquarian researches and from an early age he showed a great interest in literature and antiquities. Between 1812 and 1815 he rambled about the south of Ireland collecting the songs, legends, and traditions of the peasantry. He gave some ancient airs to , who afterwards invited him to England where he further developed in his literary career, as well as gaining employment with the Admiralty. 91. CROMWELL, Thomas Excursions through Ireland: comprising Topographical and Historical Delineations; together with Descriptions of the Residences of the Nobility and Gentry, Remains of Antiquity, and every other object of interest or curiosity. Forming a complete guide for and tourist. Illustrated with one hundred and twenty-six engravings plates after Petrie. With engraved and printed titles to each of the three volumes. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst ... and Brown: J. Greig, Backroad, Islington; and P. Youngman, Witham and Maldon, Essex, 1820. 12mo. pp. (1) [ii], 192, [31 (plates)], (2) [iv], 192, (3) [iv], 160, 4 (index). Contemporary half maroon morocco over marbled boards. Title and volume numbers in gilt direct on second and fourth panels of spines. All edges marbled. A very good set. €325

Thomas Kitson Cromwell (1792-1870), dissenting minister. At an early age he was employed by the literary department of the well known London publishing firm, Longmans. He was a notable antiquary, and member of the Society of Antiquaries in London. He contributed many historical articles to literary and periodical journals and wrote the text for his various travels throughout England, Scotland and Ireland. His Excursions Through Ireland, were originally planned as a twelve volume work for the whole country, to be published monthly, accompanied with 400 engravings. He succeeded only in publishing three. The present work covers in the first volume - Dublin and its Environs; the second - Counties Dublin, Meath, Louth, Westmeath, Longford and Kildare. The superbly executed and beautiful steel engraved plates are mainly from drawings by the famous Irish scholar and artist, George Petrie. When Petrie was about nineteen he began to make excursions through the country in search of the picturesque, and to examine and take careful notes of antiquities. His remarks upon them were even then characterised by a remarkable acuteness of observation. He was also interested in music and commenced at an early age his collection of Irish airs. One of his most profitable works was furnishing sketches for illustrated books relating to Ireland such as Cromwell's Excursions. Petrie's sketches are charming in their truthfulness and delicate execution, he was highly esteemed in his time and extravagantly praised by his friends. These illustrations exemplifies his curiosity in the history of the ancient remains, dismantled castles, ruined churches, round towers and crosses. Dr. Charles Graves said of him: "He was unsparing of his labour, and indifferent about reward. Petrie united qualities which are seldom possessed by the same individual; he had the enthusiasm and the imaginative power which are essential to the artist; he also possessed the sagacity and calmness of judgment which are commonly supposed to be characteristic of the man of science. There was in him a singular gracefulness, combined with masculine force." 92. CURRAN, C.P. The Rotunda Hospital: its Architects and Craftsmen. With photographs by E. Phyllis Thompson. List of subscribers. Dublin: At the Sign of the Three Candles, 1946. Second edition. Crown octavo. pp. [x], 50, xvi (plates). Blue papered boards, title in dark blue on

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See items 92, 94 &97. GALWAY GRAMMAR SCHOOL PRIZE 97. DARWIN, Charles. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries visited during the Voyage round the World of H.M.S. 'Beagle' under the command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N. With illustrations. London: John Murray, 1902. pp. xiv, [1], 16-521, [1

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(Advertisement)]. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on brown morocco label on gilt decorated on spine. and upper cover. Galway Grammar School Prize, awarded to F. W. Sullivan, with prize label on front pastedown. Also with bookplate of Dr. Sullivan, South Kirkby, on pastedown. All edges marbled. A very good copy. €225 98. DAVIES, John. Discovery of the True Causes why Ireland was never Entirely Subdued. Introduction by Professor John Barry. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1969. Reprint of 1612 edition. pp. xii, 287 + errata. Quarter vellum on boards with facsimile copy of the original titlepage printed on top cover. Signed by the binder Paddy Kavanagh. Top edge gilt. A fine copy. Rare. €265 This is a superb analysis in which Davies points out the various problems which had delayed the conquest of Ireland. Sir (1569-1626), political writer and historian, was born in Wiltshire and educated at Winchester and Oxford. He was called to the bar in 1595 but was disbarred in 1598 for beating a fellow-student in the public hall. He was author of a well-known poem Nosce Teipsum, and other writings flattering to the vanity of Queen Elizabeth, which restored him to favour. He was an active member of the English Parliament of 1601, and James I, in testimony of his admiration of Nosce Teipsum, appointed him Solicitor-General of Ireland in 1603, and Attorney General in 1606, in which capacity he was one of the first judges who administered the English law in Ulster. He spent his leisure in studying the history and institutions of Ireland, and thereby acquired the knowledge of the country and interest in her affairs that distinguish his writings. 99. DAVITT, Michael. The Boer Fight for Freedom. Profusely illustrated and with seven maps (one coloured folding). New York and London: Funk & Wagnalls, 1902. pp. xii, 603. Large octavo. Tan cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and on spine. Upper cover with green border. Light wear to spine ends. A very good copy. Scarce. €135 The two Boer Wars (1880-1902) pitched British colonial forces against the Dutch Boer settlers in the region of Africa today known as South Africa. "Boers" was the common term for Afrikaans-speaking settlers in southern Africa at the time. The conflict concerned the discovery of gold in the region which threatened to destabilize British control with Germany stalking in the wings; conditions were worsened with Dutch abusive treatment of immigrant gold miners. The British stepped in to regain control and the ensuing warfare took the lives of over 40,000 men, women and children. 100. DAY, Francis. British and Irish Salmonidae. Illustrated with nine colour and three mono plates, and with numerous other illustrations. London: Williams, 1887. pp. viii, 300, 12 (plates). Blue cloth, titled in gilt. Bookplate of W.P.D. on front pastedown. A fine copy. Scarce. €375 Francis Day (1829-1889) was one of the leading ichthyologists in England. He extensively wrote on Indian fishes and spent many years on the Malabar Coast. The fine plates in the present work are by Miss F. Woolward, made after drawings by the author. "The fish were coloured from nature by Miss Florence Woolward, whose accuracy in delineation needs no remark as it speaks for itself" (Preface). 101. [DEL VAL, Cardinal Merry] Réponse aux Prétendus Griefs des Catholiques Irlandais du Canada contre les Catholiques Français du Même Pays, ou, Réponse à un Mémoire Irlandais Adressé d'Ottawa, 17 Juin 1905 à Son Éminence le Cardinal Merry del Val, Secretaire d'Etat de sa Saintete Pie X. [Ottawa, 1909?]. pp. 47, [1], xlvii (appendices). Printed wrappers. Previous owner's signature on cover and on first page. A very good copy. €65 102. DELANY, Ruth. Ireland's Royal Canal 1789-1992. With numerous illustrations. Dublin: Lilliput, 1992. pp. vii, 216. Blue arlen, title in gilt along spine. Signed presentation copy from the author. A fine copy in fine pictorial dust jacket. €65 SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 103. DE LATOCNAYE, J.L.B. A Frenchman's Walk through Ireland 1796-7. (Promenade d'un Français dans l'Irlande). Translated from the French of De Latocnaye by John Stevenson. With an introduction by John A. Gamble. Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1984. pp. [iv], xii, 292. Quarter green papered boards on beige linen, title in printed label on spine. Edition limited to 50 copies (No. 14) signed and numbered by John Gamble. A fine copy in slipcase. €185 104. DE MOLEYNS, Thomas Esq. The Landowners and Agents Practical Guide. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. Dublin: E. Ponsonby, 1862. pp. xxiv, 503. Title printed in red and black. Bound by John Mowat of Dublin in lilac blind-stamped cloth. Title in gilt on upper cover

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See items 105 & 110. 106. DERMOT, James. The Gore-Booths of Lissadell. With illustrations and genealogy chart. Dublin: The Woodfield Press, 2004. pp. (11), 367. Pictorial wrappers. A fine copy. €45 The Gore-Booths of Lissadell charts the lives and works of nine members of the family over a period of almost 200 years. Lissadell is one of Ireland's most famous country houses and in it lived one of its most fascinating families. 107. [DE VALERA, Eamon] 's Broadcast to the Nation. Reprinted from "", Thursday 17th May 1945. Dublin: 1945. pp. 8. Quarto, with reproduced photograph of De Valera at the microphone. A very good copy. €65 Dev's celebrated reply to Churchill's complaint about Irish neutrality during the War - in terms of popular support, perhaps his finest hour. 108. DILLON, Myles. Celts and Aryans. Survivors of Indo-European Speech and Society. Simla: Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, 1975. First edition. pp. xxiii, [1], 153, [3], [24 (Plates)]. Tan papered boards, titled in blue. Inscribed presentation copy from the author's son, in repaired dust jacket. A very good copy. Very rare. €275 Dr. Myles Dillon was distinguished linguist. His mastery over Indo-European, Old Irish and Sanskrit and over Primitive Indo-European Social Usages and their survival in the extreme western tracts of the Indo-European speaking areas - India and Ireland - gives us a startling exposition of the similarities in the linguistics of Sanskrit and Celtic and in the customs and usages in the life of the people in ancient India and ancient Ireland.

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109. DOBBS, Francis. A History of Irish Affairs, from The 12th of October, 1779, to The 15th September, 1782, the Day of Lord Temple's arrival. Dublin: Printed by M. Mills, No. 135, Capel- street, 1782. pp. 172. Modern buckram. Paper fault to final leaf with minor loss to margin not affecting text. Ex libris Milltown Park Trust. A very good copy. Very scarce. €275 ESTC T108938 with 5 locations only in Ireland. (1750-1811) Barrister, politician and writer on political, religious and historical topics. He was second son of Richard Dobbs, Rector of Clougherny and , and his wife Mary Young of Lisnane, and nephew of Arthur Dobbs, the governor of North Carolina. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was in the 63rd Regiment of Foot for around five years, leaving in 1773. Dobbs entered the Middle Temple in London in 1773; and was called to the Irish bar in 1775. In Dublin he took a leading part in social life, but was noted for growing eccentricity. Dobbs joined The Monks of the Screw, a political drinking club. Together with other members (John Forbes, Joseph Pollock, Charles Francis Sheridan), he visited Ulster at the end of 1779 and beginning of 1780, to gather support for patriotic and nationalist plans. Dobbs was a leading Volunteer and friend of James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont. Dobbs was the representative of a Northern Volunteer corps at the Dungannon Convention in 1782. There he presented an ambitious plan of reform in Ireland, including a simplified liturgy. On the granting of the Constitution of 1782, at the prompting of , Dobbs wrote in this History of Irish Affairs "it was on the plains of America that Ireland obtained her freedom", attributing the legislative powers now given to the Irish Parliament to the outcome of the American War of Independence. Dobbs took a commission in a Fencibles regiment. In so doing he put himself in a minority in the , where the general opinion was that the Fencibles were being recruited to undermine them. For that reason he was not allowed to attend the Dungannon Convention held in September 1783. Dobbs was completely opposed to legislative union with England, and believed it was impious. Caulfield and others leaders decided to make use of him, and in 1797 he was returned to the for the borough of Charlemont. The , in May and June of that year, left the government holding many prisoners. In the middle of July, on his own account, of the United Irishmen decided to come to terms; and Dobbs was brought in to mediate, on 22 July. He reported to Lord Castlereagh the following day. Castlereagh wanted to wait for the outcome of the trial of , which was in progress. On the 27th Dobbs with sheriffs went round the prisons to try to get agreement for a settlement with the government. Despite an intervening execution, that of William Michael Byrne, agreement was reached on the 29th, saving Bond's life. Dobbs delivered a parliamentary speech, and submitted five propositions for tranquilising the country, which were published in 1799. His major speech was delivered against the Union Bill on 7 June 1800; supporting a motion to postpone the third reading of the Bill, he commented on the current state of Europe, in the light of the , to the effect that the Union would never be operative. With the passing of the Act of Union 1800. Dobbs sank into obscurity; he could not get any more of his books published, and his eccentricities increased to mental illness. He died in poverty in 1811. 110. DORMAN, Sean. Valley of Graneen. Sketches of Donegal. Illustrations by Elizabeth Rivers. London: Peter Davies, 1944. Second Impression of the first edition. pp. [vi], 170. Green cloth, titled in white. A very good copy in repaired dust jacket. €125 Graneen is a valley of scattered white-washed cottages, of bogland, of peat stacks, of black-faced mountain sheep, of black mountain lakes starred with pale water-lilies of bold rocks and a wild sky. Pictorial dust jacket also illustrated by Elizabeth Rivers. 111. DOWDALL, Raymund M. Memories of Recent Irish Dominicans 1930-1940. Dublin Dominican Publications. n.d. pp. 63, + Adverts. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Foxing to cover. €20 112. DOYLE, James Warren. Strictures on the Charge of Dr. Elrington to his Clergy, as Delivered by Him in 1827; By the Right Rev. Dr. Doyle. Dublin: Printed by R. Coyne, Bookseller and Printer to the Royal College of Maynooth, and Publisher to the R.C. Bishops, 1827. pp. 24. Blue stitched wrappers. A fine copy. €150 COPAC locates the QUB copy only. James Warren Doyle, O.E.S.A. (1786-1834) Roman Catholic Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin in Ireland, who used the signature "JKL", an acronym from "James Kildare and Leighlin." Doyle was active in the Anti-Tithe movement. A campaigner for Catholic Emancipation up to 1829, he was also an educator, church organiser and the builder of Carlow cathedral.

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RICHARD DOYLE'S MASTERPIECE 113. DOYLE, Richard and ALLINGHAM, William. In Fairy - Land: A Series of Pictures from the Elf World. With a poem, by . London & Sydney: 1981. Facsimile edition reproduced from The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books, Toronto Public Library, by Holp Shuppan, Publishers, Tokyo, 1981. Printed in Japan. Folio. pp. [4], 31. 16 leaves of plates. Green gilt stamped cloth, spine and upper cover with gilt design. Sixteen superbly colour-printed plates by Edmund Evans. Neat stamp of Trafford Library on front pastedown. All edges gilt. A superb copy in slipcase. €375 Richard Doyle was the son of the Irish born political caricaturist John Doyle ("H.B."). His brother was Henry Doyle, first Director of the National Gallery of Ireland, and he was the uncle of Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Richard Doyle has been described by Maurice Sendak as "probably the best of them all. He has all the accoutrements of the Victorian illustrator…one of the better draughtsmen…cleverest mind … most gorgeous sense of colour…a fantastic imagination." Ruari McLean in Victorian Book Design states that In Fairyland is Richard Doyle's masterpiece, containing " some of the most entrancing children's book illustrations ever made." As Gordon N. Ray expresses it: "Looking within himself, Doyle found a fantastic but consistently imagined world in which fairies and elves live in the open air among birds, butterflies, snails, and beetles as large as themselves." Unusually, the pictures came first: Allingham was commissioned by the publishers in 1869 to write verses to accompany Doyle's series of pictures. ONE OF 'S IMMORTALS 114. [DOYLE, Tommy] A Lifetime in Hurling. By Tommy Doyle as told to Raymond Smith. Foreword by Phil Purcell. Illustrated. London: Hutchinson, 1955. First edition. pp. 191. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in rare but slightly frayed dust jacket. €135 115. DRENNAN, Dr. Glendalloch and Other Poems, by the late Dr. Drennan. Second edition. With additional verses by his sons. Dublin: William Robertson, London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., Edinburgh: John Menzies, Belfast: H. Greer, 1859. 16mo. pp. xxii, [1 (including errata)], 119, [12 (Preface and Dedication)], 124-280. Modern blue buckram with original publisher's blind-stamped blue cloth overlaid, title in gilt on spine, harp and lyre in gilt on covers. Light water staining throughout, a sound but unsophisticated copy. €95 COPAC locates 5 copies only. William Drennan, a United Irishman, poet and writer, was born in Belfast, 1754. His father, Rev. Thomas Drennan, was a Presbyterian minister. William took his degree of M.D. at Edinburgh in 1778, and practised two or three years in Belfast, then for seven years at Newry, and ultimately removed to Dublin in 1789. He was convinced of the necessity of Catholic Emancipation, and Parliamentary reform, he organised the establishment of the society of the United Irishmen, and published a Prospectus in June 1791. Many of the most stirring addresses connected with the organisation were drawn up by him, and his were the beautiful lyrics 'When Erin First Rose,' 'Wake of William R,' and 'Wail of the Women after the Battle'. In 1794 he was tried for sedition, but was acquitted. Though depressed by the subsequent events, and by the Act of Union, his spirit was not subdued, and his principles remained unchanged. Relinquishing

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his practice about 1800, he returned to Belfast, where he established the Belfast Academical Institution, and in conjunction with the botanist, John Templeton, and John Hancock of Lisburn, he commenced The Belfast Magazine. He died in Belfast in 1820 and was buried there. He first applied to Ireland the epithet 'Emerald Isle'. By the mid-nineteenth century Drennan's poems had become very scarce, his eldest son also named William decided to republish this selection together with a Memoir of his father.

116. [DUBLIN BILLHEADS] Three Engraved Billheads: William Frazier Military & Army Printer, Military Stationer and Book-Binder, 37 Arran Quay, Dublin: Receipt for the purchase of Pay Book, Diary Book, Order Book, etc. to Captain Garrett of the 3rd Dragoon Guards, 1843-44 (180 x 220mm). Engraved Billhead: Royal Harmonic Saloon Westmorland Street. To Robinson Bussell & Robinson, Piano Forte and Music Warehouse. Undated c.1835, receipt for repairs to Captain Garrett (3rd Dragoon Guards). Some staining, loss to lower right corner, (190 x 160mm). Engraved Billhead: Military Musical Instrument Manufactory, 36 Ormond Quay, 1844 Billhead of Robert Bradshaw. Reinforced to rear for bill spike holes. (120 x 200mm). €225 117. [DUBLIN CIVIC WEEK] Official Handbook for Dublin Civic Week, . 7-14 1929. Edited by E.M. Stephens. With numerous illustrations. Dublin: Thom, 1929. 280 x 190mm. pp. 32 (adverts), 72, 33-71 (adverts). Pictorial stiff wrappers. A very good copy. €95 With decorative borders on each page specially made by the group of artists associated with the Dublin Book Studio. The artists included are: Maurice MacGonigal, Miss Kathleen Quigley, Harry Kernoff, Miss Hilda Roberts,William MacBride, Art O Murnaghan and Liam Megahey. The adverts are always fascinating and those included are for , Greene's Bookshop, Barnardo's Beautiful Furs, Electricity Supply Board, Kapp & Peterson, Findlaters, Alex. Thom, Marconi Ltd., etc. The contents includes: A Dublin Citizen of the XVth Century. By Edmond Curtis; Town Planning in Dublin. By Manning Robertson; An Ambassador of Ireland. By J.L. Synge; Foundations of Dublin Commerce. By Frank Stevens; The Historical Pageant. By Hilton Edwards. Bibliography of Books about Dublin. By Roisin Walsh. 'Some Dublin Ballads'. By Colm O'Lochlainn. Also included are notes on the decorations, lists of committees, Civic Week exhibitions, and index and an index to advertisers. 118. [DUBLIN GAS] Alliance and Dublin Consumers' Gas Company. Acts containing Clauses for the Protection of the Company. London: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1880. Small folio. pp. 42, 18, 14, 24, 20, 24, 48, 25, 58, 11, 36, 12. Title in manuscript. Contemporary full maroon morocco, title and solicitors 'D. & T. Fitzgerald' in gilt on upper cover. A very good copy. Rare. €150 The contents include: The Dublin Main Drainage and Purification of Liffey Act; The Great Southern and Western Railway Act; The South Dublin Railway Act; The Dublin Port and Docks Board (Bridges) Act; The Dublin (South) City Market Act; The Rathmines and Pembroke Main Drainage and Improvement Act; Drumcondra, Clonliffe and Glasnevin Township Act; London and North-Western Railway (Additional Powers) Act; Great Southern and Western Railway Act; Rathmines and Rathgar Water Act; Rathmines and Rathgar (Milltown Extension) Act. 119. [DUBLIN GRAND OPERA] The Dublin Grand Opera Society [in conjunction with Radio Eireann] presents The Hamburg State Opera in Don Giovanni and Cosi Fan Tutte. Spring Season. Gaiety Theatre Dublin .... April 24th-May 13th 1950. Souvenir Album. Illustrated. Dublin: Printed by Elo Press for D.G.O.S., 1950. Quarto. pp. [44]. Illustrated wrappers printed in green. A fine copy. €125 120. [DUBLIN PORT] Port of Dublin: Official Handbook of the Port of Dublin, issued by Dublin Port and Docks Board. Profusely illustrated (some in colour). Large folding map of Dublin Harbour. Dublin: By Wilson Hartnell & Co., n.d. (c.1935). Oblong octavo. Coloured pictorial stitched wrappers. A very good copy. Scarce. €135 "Dublin standing so commodiously, is a Port not to be overthrown" - Queen Elizabeth's letter to Lord Deputy Mountjoy, 1600.

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See item 120. 121. [ ANNUAL] Tempest's Dundalk Annual, 1941. Edited by H.G. Tempest. 80th Annual Issue. Illustrated. Dundalk: Printed and Published by the Dundalgan Press, (W. Tempest) Ltd., 1941. pp. 24 (adverts), 128. Printed wrappers. A very good copy. €135 A most useful and interesting compilation, covering Cambrick factory in Dundalk, Notes on the Down Survey maps, Motoring in 1905, Curious Epitaphs, Problem Parish of Ballymascanlon, Registered Freeholders 1820, Scots Folklore, Centenary of the Postage Stamp 1940, Meaning of Place Names, The Maid of Dunleer, The Oul-Rebel, List of Dundalk Deaths, 1940, Parish Vestry Minutes 1812, Calendar and Diary for 1941. 122. [EDUCATION OF THE POOR] Fifth Report of the Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor of Ireland: to which the accounts for the Year, ending the 30th April, 1817; an Appendix containing extracts of Correspondence, &c, &c.; and a list of donors and subscribers are subjoined. Dublin: Printed for the Society by John Jones, 40 South Great George's-Street, 1817. pp. 59. Original printed green stitched wrappers. A very good copy. €235 COPAC locates 1 copy only. The Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in Ireland was founded in Dublin in 1811, the founder members were Samuel Bewley of the Quaker family, William L. , John David La Touche, the banker, and Joseph Devonsher Jackson, an eminent barrister. It was commonly known as the Kildare Place Society from the location of its headquarters in the city. The aim of the Society was to provide a 'well-ordered education' for the poorer classes in Ireland. It was the most successful of all the voluntary educational agencies founded in the years before the establishment of the National Board of Education. In 1816 the society petitioned Parliament and was awarded 10,000 pounds, an amount that was greatly increased over the following decade; this money allowed it to spread across the country and to establish the rudiments of a national system of primary education. By 1825 it was supporting 1,490 schools which contained about 100,000 pupils, and 207 teachers. 123. [ENCYCLICAL LETTER] The Encyclical Letter of Pope Leo the XII. To His Venerable Brethren, The Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, and Bishops, of the Catholic Church, With an English Translation of the Same. To which are Annexed Pastoral Instructions by the R.C. Archbishops and Bishops, to the Clergy and Laity of their Communion Throughout Ireland. Dublin: Printed by Richard Coyne, 4, Capel-Street, 1824. pp. 59, [1]. Original brown stitched wrappers. A fine copy. €95 COPAC locates 5 copies only. Discusses the issues of clerical behaviour and the spreading influence of the Bible Society, which the encyclical claims " ... strolls with effrontery throughout the world."

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124. EVANS, E.E. CHART, D.A. & LAWLOR, H.C. Ed. by. A Preliminary Survey of the Ancient Monuments of conducted by the Ancient Monuments Advisory Council for Northern Ireland. Illustrated. With folding chart in rear pocket. Belfast: H.M.S.O. 1940. Small folio. pp. xxiv, 283. Maroon cloth, titled in gilt. Ex libris The British Library of Political and Economic Science with bookplate and blind stamp. A very good copy. Scarce. €75 A Comprehensive Survey of the Antiquities of the Six Counties. Profusely illustrated with 116 Photographs, 26 Plans, and two Maps, including a folding General Map of the Province in a pocket on inside lower cover. 125. FAHY, Francis A. The Ould Plaid Shawl and Other Songs. With an introduction by P.S. O'Hegarty. Portrait frontispiece. Dublin: Published at the Sign of the Three Candles, 1949. pp. xii, 98. Pictorial stiff wrappers, title in red on upper cover. A good copy in dust jacket. €35 Who that ever lived in, or ever loved Ireland can resist the appeal of Little Mary Cassidy, The Thief of the World or The Ould Plaid Shaw. Francis Fahy was born 'not far from old ' and though much of his life was spent in exile in England, Kinvara was forever in his heart. His songs have cheered many an exile, brought tears to longing eyes, and guided many a wanderer home. 126. FALKLAND [John Robert Scott]. A Review of the Principal Characters of the Irish House of Commons. By Falkland. Dublin: Printed for the Author, and Sold by all the Booksellers, 1789. pp. [6], 214, [2]. Contemporary worn half calf on marbled boards. Title in gilt on spine. Joints starting, occasional light foxing. A good copy. Very rare. €675 COPAC locates 7 copies only. No copy on WorldCat. With biographical notices of Sir John Blaquiere, Hon. Denis Browne, Thomas Burgh of Oldtown, Thomas Burgh of Bert, Hon. Thomas Conolly, Charles Henry Coote, , Hon. Denis Daly, Lord Charles Fitzgerald, Hon. John Fitzgibbon, Henry Flood, Hon. Henry Grattan, Robert Hobart, Sir Francis Hutchinson, , Sir Hercules Langrishe, Sir Nicholas Lawless, Sir Lucius O'Brien, Hon. George Ogle, Lawrence Parsons, Sir John Parnell, Col. Richard St. George, Charles Francis Sheridan, John & Arthur Wolfe, plus forty-eight others. 127. [FALLS HOTEL] Falls Hotel, Ennistymon, Co. Clare. Promotional booklet. With map and illustrations. Limerick: McKern Printers, [1940s]. pp. [8]. Pink printed wrappers. Enclosed is a typed latter signed presumably from the manager, dated 9. 12, 1945, on Falls Hotel headed paper to a client, giving instruction on the best means of getting to the hotel. A very good copy. €145 Nestled in its wooded vale beside the tumbling waters of the River Inagh, the distinctive building known today as the Falls Hotel conceals within its walls an eighteenth century mansion, a late medieval castle, and a formidable history of four and a half centuries embracing clans and warfare, landlords and tenants, poets, dreamers and entrepreneurs. The founding of the original Ennistymon Castle is somewhat unclear. One source suggests it may have been built c.1560 by Domhnall (Donald) O'Brien. However, there is evidence to suggest that he may have superseded Donough MacDonall O'Conor of Corcomroe who also built nearby in . Much of the surrounding area had long been in the possession of the O'Connors. For example, in 1574 the castle of Inysdyman was described as being held by an O'Connor under "Sir Domhnall O'Brien, Knight". In 1582, according to one source, all O'Connor properties in the area were officially transferred to Turlough O'Brien, with the possible exception of Ennistymon which may have remained - nominally at least - an O'Connor castle for some time after that. Domhnall is, however, credited with founding a branch of the O'Brien family at Ennistymon Castle.

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128. FAY, W.G. and CARSWELL, Catherine. The Fays of the . 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, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. Rare. €65 INSCRIBED FROM SIR TO EDWARD SULLIVAN Q.C., M.P. 129. FERGUSON, Samuel. On the Rudiments of the Common Law discoverable in the published portion of the Senchus Mor. From the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, Volume XXIV Polite Literature. Dublin: Printed by M.H. Gill, 1867. Quarto. pp. [i], 83-117. Stitched brown wrappers, title in ink on paper labels on upper cover. Inscribed on titlepage from the writer to Edward Sullivan, Q.C., M.P. Dublin, July, 1867. Rare. €385 Sir Edward Sullivan, (1822-1885), politician and lord chancellor of Ireland, was born in Mallow, County Cork, eldest son of Edward Sullivan (1795-1867), a wealthy merchant, and his wife Anne (née Lynch), widow of John Surflen. Edward was educated at Midleton College, County Cork, and entered TCD in 1841. A brilliant student, he obtained the classics scholarship (1843), was elected auditor of the College Historical Society in 1845, and graduated that year with a BA and the gold medal for oratory. After attendance at King's Inns and Lincoln's Inn he was called to the bar in Dublin (1848) and quickly achieved prominence. In 1858 he was made QC, two years later he was appointed third Serjeant, in 1861 he was law adviser to the crown, and in 1865 he was made solicitor general for Ireland in Lord Palmerston's administration. In this capacity he was instrumental in plans to stamp out the , which led to the arrest of the leaders Thomas Clarke Luby and John O'Leary and the suppression of the '' in September 1865. Erudite and eloquent, with a formidable grasp of detail, he was among the foremost barristers of the day and won particular acclaim as counsel for the plaintiff in the celebrated case of Thelwell v. Yelverton which turned on Major Yelverton's denial that he had ever married Teresa Longworth. Sullivan's masterly cross-examination exposed Yelverton as a liar, and restored the lady's honour. In December 1868 he was appointed attorney general for Ireland in Gladstone's first administration, where his loyalty, prudence, and intelligence soon made him invaluable. He resigned from parliament in 1870 on his appointment as master of the rolls in Ireland. As a member of the privy council, he continued to give political and legal advice to Gladstone and in 1881 was instrumental in the decision to arrest Parnell. On Gladstone's recommendation he was created a baronet (29 December 1881), and two years later (11 December 1883) was appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland, in which capacity he moved strongly against the Invincibles, the group responsible for the 1882 Phoenix Park assassinations. He married (1850) Bessie Josephine, daughter of Robert Baily of Cork; they had four sons and a daughter. According to the practice of the time, the boys were brought up protestant while their sister, Annie, was raised a Roman catholic, like her mother. Their youngest son, John Sullivan, later became a Roman catholic.

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130. [FINE BINDING] Blank Album. A finely bound album in full calf. Covers elaborately tooled in gilt with leaves, stars, dots and floral devices, enclosing in the centre a large lozenge made up of repeated small gilt circles with central onlays of red and green morocco. 'A. David' in gilt at foot of lower board. Spine gilt. Lime-green endpapers with gilt decoration. Quarto. pp. [164]. No date, circa 1880. Previous owner's signatures on first leaf, remainder of pages blank. All edges gilt. A very attractive binding in fine condition. €475 131. FINLAY, Rev. T.A. S.J. Foxford and the Providence Woollen Mills. The Story of an Irish Industry. Dublin: Fallon, 1932. pp. 28. Printed stapled wrappers. A very good copy. Rare. €25 132. FITZGERALD, Brian. The Anglo-Irish. Three Representative Types. Cork. Ormonde. Swift. 1602-1745. Illustrated. London: Staples Press, 1952. First edition. p. 369. Red cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €45 133. FITZGERALD, S.J. Adair. The Story of the Savoy Opera. A Record of Events and Productions. With introduction by The Rt. Hon. T.P. O'Connor, M.P. Illustrated. London: Stanley Paul & Co., 1924. Second edition. pp. xx, 240. Contemporary full blue morocco, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. €35 134. FITZGIBBON, Constantine. The Life and Times of Eamon de Valera. Illustrative material by George Morrison. Dublin: Macmillan Publishing, 1973. Quarto. pp. [x], 150. Blue papered boards, title in gilt along spine. A fine copy in dust jacket. €45 135. FITZMAURICE, Gerald. Biographical Sketch of Major General John Fitzmaurice K.H. Written for private circulation. 1908 The Centenary of the Formation of the 95th Rifle Corps now the Rifle Brigade. Anghiari: Tiber Printing Press, [1908]. pp. 102. Half morocco on cloth boards. Signed presentation copy from the author to V.B. Molteno dated January 1909 with the comment "Please excuse my Printers slips; He is a Tuscan, quite ignorant of English". Also loosely inserted is an autographed letter signed from the author to Molteno. A very good copy. €375 COPAC locates the University of Oxford copy. John Fitzmaurice (1792-1865 ) was born at Duagh near Listowel in County Kerry. He joined the 95th Regiment (the Rifle Brigade) during the Peninsular campaign and, while still a Lieutenant, was wounded at the Battle of Badajoz in 1812. He recovered and was later present at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815. In fact, he holds the distinction of being the first soldier to have fired a shot at that historic engagement. Once again he was shot in the leg but this time the bullet was never removed and went with him to the grave. Major John Fitzmaurice was awarded the Waterloo Medal and created a Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order. In May 1861 he became a Major-General. He died, in 1865 and was buried in the churchyard at Perivale in West London. 136. [FITZMAURICES] Origin of the Fitz Maurices by Goddard H. Orpen. With genealogical table. Bound with: 'A Handbook of County Kerry Family History, Biography, &c.' By The Rev. H.L.L. Denny. Compiled for the Archaeological Group of the County Kerry Society, 1923. London: The Genealogists' Magazine, April-September, 1925. pp. [13]. Mauve cloth, title in gilt on upper cover 'The Genealogists' Magazine / The County Kerry Society'. With original wrappers bound in, each cover with signature of R. Fitz Maurice. With manuscript notes and newspaper clippings on the Fitz Maurices. A very good copy. Very rare. €675 137. [FLETCHER, Mr. Justice] The Judgment Lately Pronounced by Mr. Justice Fletcher, in the Court of Common Pleas, On an Application made to that Court for a new Trial, in a Cause, in which the Hon. Frederick Cavendish was Plaintiff, and the Hope Insurance Company of London were Defendants; Together with the Argument of Charles Burton, Esq. One of His Majesty's Council at Law, In Support of Said Application. To which is added, An Appendix, containing "The arrogant and non sensical Proclamation" of the Jurors who tried said Cause; the Several Letters of the Plaintiff, addressed to those Jurors, requiring them, pursuant to their Voluntary Undertaking, to "proclaim to the World the indisputable and positive Facts and Circumstances upon which their Verdict was founded;" With Some Hints to "The Inquisitors." Dublin: Printed by A. O'Neill, at the Minerva Office, Chancery-Lane; and Sold by all the Booksellers, 1813. pp. 48, 4. Original blue stitched wrappers. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €275 No copy located on COPAC.

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138. FLOWER, Robin. The Western Island or The Great Blasket. With illustrations by Ida M. Flower. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1946. Third edition. pp. viii, 141. Grey cloth, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. €35 139. FOX, R.M. Rebel Irishwomen. Illustrated. Dublin and Cork: The Talbot Press, 1935. First edition. pp. 204. Green cloth title in red on upper cover and on spine. Signatures of William Roger. Some spotting, otherwise a good copy in pictorial dust jacket. Scarce. €65 The women who played an active and influential part in the struggle for Irish independence. An intimate account of their lives and characters. 140. [FRENCH, Right Rev. Nicholas, D.D.] The Unkinde Desertor of Loyall Men and True Frinds. [Paris]: Superiorum Permissu, 1676. 12mo. pp. [21], 22-442 [i.e. 242]. Nineteenth century full brown morocco, blocked in blind to a geometric design with a fleur-de-lys in gilt in centre of both covers. Spine in six panels, title in gilt direct in the second. Titlepage supplied in manuscript in a neat hand. Lacking three pages at end. Quote from Dibdin on front free endpaper. Ex libris William O'Brien, Milltown Park Trust with bookplates and stamps. All edges red. A very good copy of an extremely rare book. €1,250 COPAC locates 2 copies only. Wing F 2183. Sweeney 2022. (1604-1678), bishop of Ferns, was born in Wexford and trained for the priesthood at the Irish College in Louvain. Following his ordination he returned to Wexford as parish priest. During the rebellion he was "a violent enemy of the king's authority, and a fatal instrument in contriving and fomenting all the divisions which had distracted and rent the kingdom asunder." He took an active share in the deliberations of the first Supreme Council of the Confederates, and was a bitter opponent of the Marquis of Ormonde. After the Restoration, a long correspondence ensued between him and Fr. Walsh on behalf of Ormonde, relative to his return to Ireland, which ended in 1665, with the following words: "Seeing that I cannot satisfy my conscience and the Duke together, nor become profitable to my flock at home, nor live quietly and secure, his anger not being appeased, you may know hereby that I am resolved after dog-days to go to Louvain, and there end my days where I began my studies." He busied himself in writing a number of political tracts: A Narrative of the Earl of Clarendon's Settlement and Sale of Ireland (1668); The Bleeding Iphigenia (1674); and an attack on Ormond, The Unkinde Desertor or Loyall Men and True Frinds (1676). All three were published on the Continent and were reprinted and published by Duffy in 1846. The Bishop of Ghent seems to have provided for French reasonably well, for he was able to leave a small burse producing 180 florins a year to his old seminary, the Collegium Pastorale, preference to be given to the families of French, Rossiter, Browne and Devereux. Shane Leslie in his Rosenbach lecture attributed the great rarity of this work to it being "a tirade so bitter against Ormonde that the Butler family bought up and destroyed this libel against their head." Copies of what Ware termed "the calumnies of this foul mouthed author" evoked wild competition amongst 19th-century Irish collectors when it fetched prices higher than those being paid for good copies of the Shakspeare 4th Folio. It had a major literary and historical sequel prompting the earl of Clarendon to write his History of the Rebellion and Civil War in Ireland in which he justifies the various actions taken by the Duke of Ormonde. The quote from Dibdin is as follows: "But of all the smaller and more important pieces of this period, there is not one which can come within many degrees of rarity of that entitled The Unkind Desertor of loyall Men, 1676, 12mo. This Unkind Desertor was the Duke of Ormond ... The author was Nicholas French, Catholic Bishop of Ferns, an unprincipled politician, who repeatedly changed sides. He went to Brussels, and offered the crown of Ireland to the Duke of Lorrain; afterwards he proceeded to Paris, and requested an interview with Charles II, who refused to see him. This he attributed to the Duke of Ormond; became his inveterate enemy, and concentrated in this volume, every circumstance which he could collect injurious to Ormond's capitation." FIRST EDITION 141. FRY, Alfred A. Esq. A Lecture on the Writings, and Literary and Personal Character of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, delivered at several Metropolitan Literary Institutions. London: Henry Hooper, Pall Mall, East, 1838. First edition. pp. 56. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards. Title in gilt along spine. Inscribed in pen on titlepage "The Editor of the Eclectic / Review / With the author's / respectful complts." Some foxing, otherwise a very good copy. €125

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Edmund Burke (1729-1797), statesman, political essayist and brilliant orator was born in Dublin, the son of a Protestant father, and Catholic mother, Mary Nagle, direct descendant of Sir Richard Nagle, Attorney General for Ireland, tempore James II. Edmund's paternal ancestors originated in County Galway, thence to Limerick, where being dispossessed after the Rebellion of 1641, they eventually settled near Castletownroche, County Cork. Edmund was educated at Abraham Shackleton's Quaker School at Ballitore in who said of Burke: "Edmund was a lad of the most promising genius, of an inquisitive and speculative turn of mind, who read much. His memory was extensive, his judgement early ripe. He was affable, free and accumulative, as ready to teach as to learn." SIGNED BY MICK O'CONNELL 142. [GAA] A Kerry Footballer. By Mick O'Connell. Illustrated. Dublin and Cork: Mercier Press, 1974. pp. [v], 158. Green papered boards, title in gilt on spine. Signed presentation copy from Mick O'Connell, dated 29/4/74. A very good copy in pictorial dust jacket. €265 Michael "Mick" O'Connell (born 4 January 1937) is an Irish retired Gaelic footballer. His league and championship career with the Kerry senior team spanned nineteen seasons from 1956 to 1974. O'Connell is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the game. Born on , O'Connell was raised in a family that had no real link to . In spite of this he excelled at the game in his youth and also at Caherciveen CBS. By his late teens O'Connell had joined the Young Islanders, and won seven South Kerry divisional championship medals in a club career that spanned four decades and included a spell playing with Waterville. He also lined out with South Kerry, winning three county senior championship medals between 1955 and 1958. O'Connell made his debut on the inter-county scene at the age of eighteen when he was selected for the Kerry minor team. He enjoyed one championship season with the minors, however, he was a Munster runner-up on that occasion. O'Connell subsequently joined the Kerry senior team, making his debut during the 1956 championship. Over the course of the next nineteen seasons, he won eight All-Ireland medals, beginning with lone triumphs in 1959 and 1962, and culminating in back-to-back championships in 1969 and 1970. O'Connell also won twelve Munster medals, six medals and was named Footballer of the Year in 1962. He played his last game for Kerry in July 1974. RARE R.I.C. CONSTABLE'S BIOGRAPHY 143. GAUGHAN, J. Anthony. Memoirs of Constable Jeremiah Mee, R.I.C. With illustrations and folding map. Dublin: Anvil Books, 1975. First edition. pp. 397. Green papered boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in dust jacket. Very scarce. €125 The Royal Irish Constabulary was an outstanding body of men, and Jeremiah Mee from Glenamaddy, County Galway, was perhaps one of the most remarkable of all. The mere fact that this young constable kept a journal singles him out for distinction. It covers in detail that epoch in Irish history from the Rebellion to Free State. His early years saw service in Sligo and North Roscommon. By 1919 he was in Listowel and on the 17th of June the following year, the local R.I.C. were ordered to use terror methods against suspected 'Republicans' and to hand over their barracks to the British military. Fourteen constables decided not to obey orders. Mee acted as their spokesman to the commanding officer, saying "From your accent I take it you are an Englishman. Do you forget you are addressing Irishmen?" 144. GETTY, Edmund. The Round Towers of Ulster. Illustrated. S.n. [Belfast: Archer, c.1855]. Quarto. pp. 86, 7 (plates). Pictorial wrappers depicting in colour Clones Round Tower. Cover a trifle dusted and paper repair to lower cover. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €275 COPAC locates 5 copies only. WorldCat 2. Edmund Getty (1799-1857) was born and educated in Belfast. He became Ballast Master of the Belfast Ballast Board and, later, Secretary of the Belfast Harbour Board. He was responsible for the reclamation of slob-lands on the coast of County Down. A noted linguist and antiquarian, in addition to the present work he also wrote The History of the Harbour Board, Chinese Seals in Ireland, and a work on Tory Island. He was a founder member of the Belfast Natural History Society and one of the founders of Belfast Botanic Gardens. 145. GILBERT, J.T. History of the Viceroys of Ireland; With Notices of the Castle of Dublin and its Chief Occupants in Former Times. Dublin: Duffy, 1865. pp. xxxvi, 613. Publishers green blind-stamped cloth, titled in gilt. A very good copy. €175 In his preface the author states "In this volume, an attempt is made to embody, in narrative form, the results of a collation of printed and unpublished documents and chronicles, bearing on the chief

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administrators of the English Government in Ireland, from its establishment, to the termination of the reign of Henry VII, in 1509". 146. GILBERT, Sir John & SULLIVAN, Sir Edward. Facsimiles of National Manuscripts of Ireland, selected and edited under the direction of the Right Hon. Edward Sullivan, Master of the Rolls in Ireland, by J. T. Gilbert, secretary of the Public Record Office of Ireland; and Photozincographed by command of Her Majesty , by Major-General Sir Henry James, director-general of the Ordnance survey. Four parts in five volumes. Complete. Dublin: Public Record Office of Ireland, 1874, 1884. Elephant folio. With additional title pages, photozincographed. Quarter green morocco on cloth boards, title and royal in gilt on upper covers and spines. Occasional mild foxing, otherwise a very good set. Rare in this condition. €3,750

The volumes are photozincographed by command of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, by Major-General Sir Henry James, Director-General of the Ordnance Survey and processed by Vincent, Brooks, Day & Son. Several of the manuscripts reproduced here were destroyed when Free States Forces shelled the Four Courts, Dublin in 1922 to dislodge the Republicans, this makes this set of books the only extant record of those historic documents. With numerous coloured plates, coloured maps (some double), coloured plans (some double), charts (some double) facsimiles of historic documents and ancient Irish manuscripts, genealogical tables and armorial bearings. Texts in Latin, Gaelic, Anglo-Norman and English, transcriptions and translations in English.

Included are facsimiles of the earliest extant manuscript, The Domnach-Airgid, of the fifth century; Book of Durrow; Book of Kells; Illuminations from the Book of Kells; Book of Mulling; Book of MacRegol; Book of Armagh; Book of Leinster; Book of Hymns; Leabhar na H-Uidhri; Annals of Tighernach, , Inisfallen, Ulster, Loch Cé, Four Masters; Letters from Cathal O'Conor; Letter from Citizens of Dublin to Henry III; Topography of Ireland by Geraldus Cambrensis; Charter of William De Braosa; Letter from the Clergy of Tuam c.1250; Ormonde Red Book; Brehon Law; Letters from Richard II; Letter from Charles II; Cromwellian Roll of Account of Money; Charter of Dublin

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from James II; Letters from Patrick Sarsfield; Memoranda of Jonathan Swift; Map from Dublin to Carrickfergus 1580; Map of Ireland 1557; Maps of the Fort of Blackwater and the Defeat of the English army at Blackwater; Map of the defeat of Sir Henry Harrington near Wicklow; Gaelic Proclamation of Hugh O'Neill; Buildings and Plans of the Londonderry Company, etc. Complete sets of this splendid work in this condition are now of great rarity. 147. GLADSTONE, Right Hon. W.E. The Irish Question. I. History of an Idea. II. Lessons of the Election. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. pp. 57, [6] (Publisher's list). Printed wrappers. Owner's signature on upper cover. A very good copy. €135 COPAC locates 3 copies. (1809-1898), Liberal politician. In a career lasting over sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four separate terms. Gladstone's first ministry saw many reforms including Disestablishment of the Church of Ireland and the introduction of secret voting. After his electoral defeat in 1874, Gladstone resigned as leader of the Liberal Party, but from 1876 began a comeback based on opposition to Turkey's Bulgarian atrocities. His Midlothian Campaign of 1879-80 was an early example of many modern political campaigning techniques. After the 1880 election, he formed his second ministry, which saw crises in (culminating in the death of General Gordon at Khartoum in 1885), and in Ireland, where the government passed repressive measures but also improved the legal rights of Irish tenant farmers. The government also passed the Third Reform Act. Back in office in early 1886, Gladstone proposed Irish Home Rule but this was defeated in the House of Commons in July. The resulting split in the Liberal Party helped keep them out of office, with one short break, for twenty years. In 1892 Gladstone formed his last government at the age of 82. The Second Irish Home Rule Bill passed the Commons but was defeated in the Lords in 1893. He resigned in March 1894, in opposition to increased naval expenditure. He left Parliament in 1895 and died three years later aged eighty-eight. Gladstone is famous for his oratory, his religiosity, his , his rivalry with the Conservative Leader , and for his poor relations with Queen Victoria, who once complained, "He always addresses me as if I were a public meeting." Gladstone was known affectionately by his supporters as "The People's William" or the "G.O.M." ("Grand Old Man", or, according to Disraeli, "God's Only Mistake"). Gladstone is consistently ranked as one of Britain's greatest Prime Ministers. He said of Ireland before the Great Famine: "Ireland, Ireland! that cloud in the West, that coming storm, that minister of God's retribution upon cruel and inveterate and but half-atoned injustice! Ireland forces upon us these great social and great religious questions - God grant that we may have courage to look them in the face and to work through them." He was a champion of Irish grievances. On forming his first administration he stated: "My mission is to pacify Ireland." 148. GOEDHEER, A.J. Irish and Norse Traditions about the . Haarlem: H.D. Tjeenk Willink & Zoon, 1938. pp. xiii, 124. Beige printed stiff wrappers. A very good copy. Very scarce. €75

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149. [GONNE, Maud] The Coming of Lugh. A Celtic Wonder-Tale retold by . Illustrated by Maud Gonne. Dublin: Maunsel & Co., Ltd., 1909. pp. 16, + 4 leaves of colour illustration. Small quarto. Slate blue pictorial wrappers, lettered in silver. A fine copy. Very scarce. €475 Illustrated with four exquisite coloured illustrations by Maud Gonne, and dedicated to her son Seaghan (Sean MacBride). See illustrations on previous page. 150. [GORDON, Thomas] A Dedication to a Great Man, Concerning Dedications, Discovering, Amongst other Wonderful Secrets, what will be the Present Posture of Affairs a Thousand Years hence. The seventh edition corrected. With a preface. London: Printed for James Roberts, in Warwick-Lane, 1719. pp. 32. Disbound. €575 ESTC N368. Teerink-Scouten 894. Anonymous. By Thomas Gordon. Wrongly attributed at the time to Jonathan Swift, who disclaimed authorship and now considered to be the work of Thomas Gordon. A reissue of the sixth edition with the title-page partly reset. 151. [GORE-BOOTH, Eva] The Sinn Fein Rebellion. By Eva Gore Booth. Being an article in The Socialist Review August - September, 1916. A Quarterly Review of Modern Thought. Edited by Bruce Glasier. London: The Independent , St. Bride's House, Salisbury Square, Fleet Street, n.d. (c.1916). pp. [1], 202-296. Green wrappers. A very good copy. €125 The contents include: The "Socialist Review" Outlook. By The Editor and Others; Peace Talk By Statesmen. Philip Snowden; The Sinn Fein Rebellion. By Eva Gore Booth; The Crisis in the International. By Paul Azelrod; The Fabian Society. By J. Ramsay MacDonald; An International Post. By Lancelot Eden; J.M. Robertson and the Problem or Race. By R.E. Dick; Esperanto : A Discussion. By Paul Diz and Lancelot Eden; The Appreciation of Poetry. By Cedar Paul. ILLUSTRATED BY CASIMIR COUNT MARKIEVICZ 152. GORE-BOOTH, Eva. The Three Resurrections and The Triumph of Maeve. Frontispiece by Casimir Dunin De Markievicz. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1905. First edition. pp. [iv], 288. Original purple cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and on spine. Spine faded, small stain to margin of frontispiece, otherwise a nice copy. Scarce. €275 "The foamless waves are falling soft on the sands of Lissadell … And the stars come out of darkness and shine over Knocknarea I have seen Maeve of the Battles wandering over the hill" From 'The Triumph of Maeve'. 153. GROVE WHITE, James. Historical and Topographical Notes, Etc., on Buttevant, Castletownroche, Doneraile, Mallow, and Places in Their Vicinity. Volumes 2 & 3 only of Four. Cork: Guy, 1911/1913. Contemporary half morocco on cloth boards, title in gilt direct on spines. Ticket of Waterford News Printing and Binding Works on front pastedown. In very good condition. €750 Among the finest works of local history in Cork, or any other county, are the Grove White Notes on Places in North Cork published in four volumes between 1906 and 1925. Colonel James Grove White was an officer in the British army with an all-consuming interest in the local history of north Cork. He collected items on the history and antiquities of his chosen area in the field, from manuscripts, books, journals, gravestone inscriptions, and any other sources he found useful. The invaluable information he gathered was arranged in alphabetical order starting with Abbeyville and ending with Woodville (near Buttevant), and encompassing Buttevant, Doneraile and a host of other places in between. Among the entries you will find parish histories, family pedigrees, histories of the big houses and castles, notes on antiquarian relics and anecdotes gathered by Grove White himself. Added value is given to many of the entries by the inclusion of Grove White's transcriptions from manuscripts in the Four Courts which were later lost during the fire there in 1922. In his preface to the first volume Grove White wrote: "I trust that they [the notes] will be found to form a not unimportant contribution to the past history, antiquities, etc., of this portion of the County." Issued in instalments with the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society. 154. GWYNN, Edward. The Rule of Tallaght. Hermathena XLIV, Supplement Volume. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co., London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1927. pp. xxvii, 109. Printed stiff wrappers. €65

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155. GWYNN, Stephen. Memories of Enjoyment. : The Kerryman, 1946. First edition. pp. 148. Quarter green linen on brown paper boards. A fine copy in frayed dust jacket. €45 With chapters on: In Praise of Wine; What Did Shakespeare Drink?; The Best Temperance Drink; About Drinking; Salmon Fishing and Anno Domini; What Izaak Walton Liked better than Fishing; About Writing; Long John; Beauty in Action [Maud Gonne MacBride]; About Memory; A Galway Merchant; Digging for Pleasure; Looking Back in Donegal; About , etc. 156. [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. Brown stiff wrappers. New endpapers. A very good copy. €75 COPAC locates 2 copies only. 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 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." 157. HALL, Anna Marie. Boons and Blessings. Stories and Sketches to illustrate the Advantages of Temperance. Illustrated by engravings from designs by eminent artists. London: National Temperance Publication, n.d. (1875). pp. x, 282. Gilt decorated olive-green cloth, title in black on upper cover and on spine. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €575 COPAC locates 1 copy only of this edition. 158. HALL, S.C. A Memory of Thomas Moore. Illustrated. London: Virtue. Dublin: William McGee, 18 Nassau Street, n.d. (1879?). Quarto. pp. 32. Modern quarter black buckram on marbled boards, title on printed label on upper cover. A very good copy. €75 COPAC with 5 locations. WorldCat 1. Frontispiece portrait of Thomas Moore by Sir. Martin Archer Shee. The main purpose of this publication is to add to a fund the author intends to raise for placing a memorial window in the church at Broham, adjoining Sloperton, Wiltshire where the poet, his wife and three children, are buried. 159. HAMILTON, Rev. William. Letters Concerning the Northern Coast of the County of Antrim; containing Observations on the Antiquities, Manners and Customs of that County. With the Natural History of the Basaltes, illustrated by an accurate Map of the County of Antrim. And views of the most interesting Objects on the Coast. Belfast: Simms and M'Intyre, 1822. Crown octavo. pp. xxxvi, 265, [1]. Modern half green buckram on original marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Usual mild foxing to map and plates. Spine rebacked. A very good copy. €165

Not in Gilbert. Bradshaw 4901. William Hamilton (c.1755-1797) naturalist and antiquary, was born in County Derry. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and became a fellow there in 1779. Later he was Rector of Clondevaddock on the Fanad Peninsula in , where he did much to improve the area, though it is said by some that he abused his power. J. W. Foster in his Colonial Consequences [Dublin: 1991], remarks on William Hamilton, "Derry antiquarian whose Letters Concerning the Northern Coast of the County of Antrim professed a volcanic theory of the formation of basaltic rock in the Giant's Causeway." He was appointed as a magistrate and was assassinated on the shores of Lough Swilly.

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160. HANLEY, Brian. The IRA A Documentary History 1916-2005. Illustrated. Dublin: Published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd, 2010. First edition. pp. ix, 230. Black papered boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. €45 This book provides a politically balanced, clear, succinct and very well written account of the IRA in all its different guises and incarnations from the founding of its forerunner, the Irish Volunteers, in 1913 to the post Good Friday period. The book narrates the history of militant in the 20th Century using IRA internal documents, propaganda publications, posters and newspapers, many of which are previously unpublished. These give the reader an insight into the IRA's motivation, internal divisions and self image through the decades. The author states in the foreword that the book is not a definitive history of the IRA, nor a complete study of it in any era. However this book serves as an excellent pocket or concise history. It is a brilliant introduction to the novice and a great reference book, further educating and enlightening those already familiar with the subject. First edition and First printing with full number line 5 4 3 2 1 on the copyright page. 161. HANNA, Henry. The Pals at Suvla Bay. Being the record of "D" Company of the 7th Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Foreword by Lieut.-General Sir Bryan T. Mahon. With illustrations, maps and eight tipped-in coloured plates. Dublin: Ponsonby, n.d. (c.1917). First edition. pp. 244. Small royal octavo. With coloured frontispiece, 8 coloured plates and numerous monochrome plates including a large 'Who's Who' section of the 259 Pals at the end with 6 portraits per page and biographical details on the opposite page. Large paper copy. Original beige cloth, titled in gilt. Regimental badge in gilt on upper cover, with band of Regimental colours. A very good copy. Very scarce. €285 The 7th (Service) Battalion of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers was made up almost entirely of Dublin men, who were known as the Dublin "Pals". In his foreword General Mahon states: "no more gallant battalion ever left the shores of Ireland. They were well trained and disciplined, with a high and patriotic sense of duty. They covered themselves with glory on the 7th of , in their advance and subsequent successful attack with the bayonet on Chocolate and Green Hills, and on many other occasions, not only on the Peninsula, but later in Serbia. For these deeds their name will ever stand high in the annals of the British Army." Falls notes in his bibliography of war books "England had several battalions of middle class 'pals' or public schoolboys; Ireland, with its comparatively small middle class population only, so far as it is known - a single company of the Seventh Royal Dublin Fusiliers." The remarkable photo portrait section at the rear of the book contains 259 photographs of members of 'D Company.' THE DEFINITIVE WORK ON HIGH CROSSES 162. HARBISON, Peter. The High Crosses of Ireland. Three volumes Profusely illustrated. Volume one contains the text, volumes two and three the photographs and illustrations of comparative iconography. Bonn: 1992. Folio. Red cloth, titled in black. A fine set. Scarce. €375 The great stone High Crosses of Ireland, often bearing the characteristic 'Celtic' ring, are the most monumental artistic achievement of the old Irish monasteries. For the first time, the crosses, numbering over 200, are comprehensively catalogued and described in a single volume, and illustrated in a second volume comprising 411 pages of black and white plates. A third volume places a selection of the Irish figured panels beside relevant parallels in other media from elsewhere in Europe and beyond, placing the crosses in their broader artistic and religious context. 163. HARRINGTON, T. The Maamtrasna Massacre, Impeachment of the Trials. Bound with: Appendix containing Report of Trials and Correspondence between Most Rev. Dr. M'Evilly and the Lord Lieutenant. Dublin: Nation Office, 90 Middle Abbey Street, 1885. pp. ix, 48, 46 (Appendix). Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Very rare. €375 COPAC locates 7 copies only. Timothy Charles Harrington (1851-1910), a native of Castletownbere, County Cork, journalist, barrister, nationalist politician and M.P. for Kerry (1880), Westmeath (1883) and Dublin Harbour (from 1885 until his death). He founded 'The Kerry Sentinel' in 1877, using it to further Land League agitation in Kerry. He also owned the 'United Ireland' newspaper and was a member of a group of prominent nationalist politicians from the Bantry vicinity known as the 'Pope's Brass Band'. He wrote this work on the Maamtrasna Massacre highlighting the plight of the wrongfully accused in the horrific murder of five members of the family of John Joyce, Maamtrasna, County Mayo (now in County

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Galway). Harrington was secretary and chief organiser of the Irish National League, a supporter of and was largely responsible for devising the agrarian Plan of Campaign in 1886. He was on a fund-raising tour of the United States on behalf of the Plan with John Dillon when the split occurred in the Parnellite party. He supported his leader from America and continued his allegiance on his return. He was strongly identified with the Land Conference negotiations which led to the Wyndham Irish Land (Purchase) Act (1903). He served as Lord Mayor of Dublin three times from 1901-1904. He is celebrated by a statue erected in 2001 in the town of Castletownbere. BOOK STOLEN BY JAMES SISK OF CORK MILITIA 164. HARRIS, Walter. The History and Antiquities of the City of Dublin, from the Earliest Accounts: Compiled from Authentick Memoirs, Offices of Record, Manuscript Collections, and other unexceptional Vouchers. With an appendix containing a history of the cathedrals of Christ- Church and St. Patrick, The University, The Hospitals and other public buildings. Also two plans, one of the city as it was in the year 1610 … the other as it is at present, from the accurate survey of the late Mr. Rocque; with severall other embellishments. Complete with all maps and plates. Dublin: Printed for Laurence Flynn, in Castle-street; and James Williams, in Skinner-row, 1766. pp. [viii], 509, + errata. Contemporary full calf. Lacking most of the plates. Bookplate of E. Whitelaw on front pastedown. Written on verso of titlepage: "This Book was Stolen by / James Sisk of Cork Militia for / which he rec'd as reward 25 Stripes [Lashes]/ By Order of Captn. Rowland on / the 2nd July 1790 ---." A good copy. Remarkable association copy. Scarce. €275 165. [HARRISON, Conyers] An Impartial History of the Life and Reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne, of Immortal Memory, wherein all the Transactions of that Memorable Period are faithfully compiled from the best authorities. Adorn'd with several curious Cuts. [London]: Printed for R. Offtey, next St. Sepulchre's Church 1744. pp. 619, [1], plates. Contemporary full worn calf. Spine professionally rebacked, preserving original backstrip. Occasional foxing. Extremely rare. €350

COPAC with 2 locations. ESTC T32960. Anonymous. By Conyers Harrison. A few of the plates have been cropped in binding, as per BL copy 166. HART, Clive. A Concordance to . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1963. Quarto. pp. [xiii], 516 (triple column). Green linen, titled in gilt. A fine copy. €65 167. HAY, George. Right Rev. Dr. The Sincere Christian instructed in the Faith of Christ from the Written Word; by the Right Rev. Dr. George Hay. Revised and corrected by A Catholic Priest. Complete in one volume. Dublin: J. Duffy, 1839. 12mo. pp. [ii], vi, [1], 8-526, [2]. Modern brown buckram, titled in gilt. Occasional staining and browning. Extremely rare. €75

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No copy located on COPAC. This edition not in NLI. Dr. George Hay was a Scottish Catholic Bishop and author of many books of piety, was violently persecuted before and during the Gordon riots towards the end of the eighteenth century. An enterprising Dublin printer, Patrick Wogan, found that the bishop's books were very popular with Irish Catholics, and he began to use Dr. Hay's head as the sign over his printing house and bookshop in Bridge Street. It was more than a trade sign; it was a confession of faith, a sign of the times and a symbol of Catholic revival which came in the late eighteenth century when Catholic printers as well as merchants and landowners began to emerge out of the shadows of the Penal Laws and to assert their own social, civic and religious rights. 168. HAYMAN, The Rev. Samuel. Notes and Records of the Ancient Religious Foundations At Youghal, Co. Cork, And its Vicinity by The Rev. Samuel Hayman, B.A. Illustrated. Youghal: John Lindsay, 1858. pp. 36, 3 leaves of plates (2 folded). Recent brown wrappers, with original upper printed wrapper on upper cover. Ex libris Milltown Park Trust, with bookplate and stamps. A very good copy. Very rare. €165 COPAC locates 5 copies only. Rev. Samuel Hayman (1818-1886), was born in Youghal, educated locally, and at Clonmel, before he entered Trinity in 1835. He was ordained in 1842 and became curate at Glanworth, Glanmire, and from 1849 to 1863 in his native town of Youghal. The extensive list of works written by Hayman relating to his native town not only justly entitles him to be regarded as 'The Historian of Youghal', but also places him as one of the foremost topographical writers of Ireland. He wrote articles for numerous magazines and periodicals, including The Patrician, and Sir Bernard Burke described him as "One of the ablest contributors to its pp. and a constant contributor also to his (Sir Bernard's) genealogical works." THE HOUSE OF FITZGERALD 169. HAYMAN, Rev. Samuel. & GRAVES, Rev. James. Ed. by. Unpublished Geraldine Documents: The Earls of Desmond; The Fitzgeralds of Cloyne and Ballymartyr, Seneschals of Imokilly; Fitzgeralds Knight of Kerry; Pedigree of Fitz Gibbon, Mac an tSen Riddery, or, The Sept of the Old Knight; Lord Fitzgerald and Vesey; The Gherardini of Tuscany; The White Knight. With illustrations, folding genealogical charts, large folding plan of Youghal as in Elizabeth's Reign when sacked by the insurgent . Four volumes. Dublin: Gill, 1870/81. Original blue cloth with armorial badge of Fitz-Gibbon in gilt on upper covers, title in gilt along spines. Signature of John Fitz Maurice on all volumes; presentation inscription on volume 4 to John Fitz Maurice from Philip J. Fitz-Gibbon. Volume 4 rebound in matching blue cloth. A very good set. Rare. €765 COPAC locates 7 complete sets. A most invaluable reference work on the Fitzgerald family who were for centuries one of the most influential dynasties in Ireland. Their ancestors were among the very first of the Norman Lords to invade this island in May 1169. The Munster branch, headed by the Earls of Desmond, were destroyed as a great family by the devastating Elizabethan wars. Nevertheless two branches have survived and their descendents flourish in Ireland today, the Knights of Glin and the Knights of Kerry while another descendant bears the title of the White Knight, head of the Fitzgibbon clan. Every one of the sixteen Earls of Desmond who held that title between 1329 and 1601 is listed in Webb's Compendium of Irish Biography, so many of this illustrious clan have filled the pages of Irish history that it would be impossible to do justice to them here. Published at the expense of Maurice and Abraham FitzGibbon. 170. HEALY, T.M. The Planters' Progress. A Lecture delivered at the National Literary Society, Dublin, Dr. Sigerson, President, in the Chair, 2nd December, 1918. To which is appended: The Victims of 1615 by T.M. Healy. Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son Ltd., 1921. pp. 71. Recent brown paper boards with original printed wrappers laid on. A very good copy. €135 171. HEFFERNAN, Patrick. The Heffernans and Their Times. A Study in Irish History. London: James Clarke, n.d. (c.1955). pp. 200. Green cloth, title in gilt on faded spine. Inscribed on half-title. A very good copy. Very scarce. €175 COPAC locates 6 copies only. The sept of Heffernan were originally located in the Corofin area of County Clare. Very early,

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however, they established themselves in eastern County Limerick on the Tipperary border and were chiefs there of Owneybeg, but were eventually displaced by the Ryans. The principal families of the name did not migrate very far for Carew tells us they were among the most important clans in the barony of Clanwilliam in 1600. In the old Irish manuscripts, such as the Book of Rights, described the O'Heffernans as one of the "four tribes of Owney". The two most distinguished members of the sept were Aeneas O'Heffernan, Bishop of (1543-1553) and Liam Dall O'Heffernan (1715-1802), Gaelic poet. 172. [HELY'S LIMITED] Memorandum and Articles of Association of Hely's, Limited. The Companies Acts 1862-1893. Dublin: 1896. pp. 38 (inter-leaved). Manuscript index at end. Contemporary full maroon morocco, title in gilt on upper cover. Minor wear to extremities and spine. A very good copy. €175 LIMITED EDITION OF LAST WORK PUBLISHED BY I.U.P 173. HERITY, Michael. Irish Passage Graves. Neolithic Tomb-Builders in Ireland and Britain 2500 B.C. With maps and illustrations. Dublin: I.U.P. 1974. Folio. pp. x, 308. Quarter morocco on marbled boards. Special edition limited to 100 copies. Signed and numbered by Michael Herity on limitation page. Top edge green. A fine copy. Rare. €125 There are over 300 passage graves in Ireland and their remains can still be seen in such places as the top of Loughcrew, in , on Knocknarea in Sligo, in the Dublin mountains and in counties Down, Tyrone and Antrim. The ambitious ideals of the builders of these tombs, apparent in the magnificence of their architecture and their dramatic setting, are also revealed in the ornamentation on the walls of the tombs. The sophistication of the art is matched by the grave-furniture which is found with the cremated remains of the dead in the tombs. Dr. Herity's original and incisive survey gives a complete description of the Irish passage graves. 174. HINCKS, William. The Linen Industry: A set of twelve sepia printed and coloured aquatints. Mounted in a large oblong folio volume. London: Published as the Act directs by R. Pollard, Spafields, June 20, 1791. Early twentieth century half green morocco on cream linen boards. Title in gilt direct. Some minor tears and occasional browning. A very good set. Exceedingly rare. €3,570

No copy located on COPAC or WorldCat. The twelve plates are: I. View taken near Scarva in the County of Downe representing Ploughing, Sowing the Flax Seed and Harrowing; II. View taken near Hillsborough in the County of Downe, Representing Pulling the Flax when grown, Hooking or Putting it up to Dry, Ripling or saving the Seed and Boging or burying it in Water. III. Representing taking the Flax out of the Bog when it has been lain a sufficient time to separate the Rind which is the Flax from the Stem, & strengthen it, spreading it to dry, stoving, beetling, and breaking it. IV. Representing the common Method of Beetling, Scratching and Hackling the Flax. V. Perspective View of a Scutch Mill, with the Method of Breaking the Flax. VI. Taken on the spot in the County of Downe, Representing Spinning, Reeling with the Clock Reel, and Boiling the Yarn. VII. Representing Winding, Warping with a new improved warping mill and Weaving. VIII. The Brown Linen Market at Banbridge. IX. A Complete Perspective View of all the Machinery of a Bleach Mill. X. View of a Bleach Green taken in the County of Downe. XI. Perspective View of a Lapping Room. XII. Perspective View of the Linen Hall in Dublin. Each plate is dedicated to members of the Landed Gentry and Aristocracy.

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William Hincks was born in Waterford, and in early life was apprenticed to a blacksmith. Self-taught as an artist, his name first appears in 1773, when he was living in York Street, Dublin, and was an exhibitor of portraits in crayons at the Society of Artists in William Street. He made similar contributions the following year; and in 1775 he sent five works in oils and five in chalks. In 1777 he exhibited six portraits, including one of "A Siberian Cat", in possession of Lady St. George. In 1780 he went to London, and one of his first works on his arrival was a series of illustrations designed for an edition of Tristram Shandy. This remarkable work by Hincks representing the process of producing linen from preparing the ground and sowing, to the arrival of the finished material for exportation at the Linen Hall in Dublin. The depiction of an agri/industrial process is unique in Irish eighteenth century literature. The series consists of twelve plates, each plate measuring 13½ by 16½ inches. The whole series was issued in an oblong folio volume. The set was republished in 1791 by R. Pollard, Spafields, London. THE BARD OF THOMOND 175. HOGAN, Michael. Lays and Legends of Thomond. With historical and traditional notes. New, select, and complete edition. Dublin: Gill, 1880. pp. xii, 9-449, 2. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. All edges sprinkled. A very good copy. €135 "Lady Wilde presents her compliments and offers her best thanks to the 'Bard of Thomond', for his volume of varied and beautiful poems, which she has had the pleasure of perusing, every page of which affords brilliant evidence that the poet's ardour was kindled by that noblest of inspirations, 'love of country'. And while the past heroism and pathetic Legends of Ireland are cherished with such fervour and feeling as flash through the rich melody of Mr. Hogan's verse, the national spirit of her ancient chivalry can never die out. Lady Wilde is happy to add one more name to her rosary of Irish Poets, consecrated in her memory by the nobleness of their genius, and must once more express her pleasure and gratitude at being both remembered and honoured by so distinguished a bard of Erin". - Lady Wilde to the Bard of Thomond. 176. HOGAN, Robert & O'NEILL, Michael J. Ed. by. Joseph Holloway's Abbey Theatre. A Selection from his unpublished Journal Impressions of a Dublin Playgoer. Preface by Harry T. Moore. Southern Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967. First edition. pp. xxiii, 296. Quarter brown cloth on maroon papered boards, publisher device on upper cover, title in blue on spine. A very good in pictorial dust jacket. €35 177. HOLT, John. Characters of the Kings and Queens of England, Selected from Different Histories, with Observations and Reflections Chiefly Adapted to Common Life; and Particularly Intended for The Instruction of Youth. To which are added, Notes Historical. By J. Holt. Dublin: Printed by J. Moore, 1789. pp. xiv, 409. Contemporary full tree calf, title in gilt on spine. Spine professionally restored with original backstrip. Minor wear to extremities. All edges green. A very good copy in an attractive Irish binding. €125 Sole edition, although the work was later adapted and appeared with illustrations by Bewick; Holt intended it, "collected for a school exercise in a private seminary, to serve as a specimen of good writing ... to excite the rising generation to study the annals and history of their country." 178. HUDSON J. & MARES, F.H. Gems of Irish Scenery. With descriptive letterpress. Twelve albumen prints. Glasgow, London, & Dublin: Andrew Duthie; Simpkin, Marshall; W.H. Smith & Son, No date. [1868]. Quarto. pp. [56], [12 (leaves of plates)], [2 (Advertisement)]. Gold tooled

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COPAC locates the Cambridge copy only. Frederick Holland Mares was the well-known Dublin photographer who specialised in photographing various scenic spots throughout Ireland in the 1850s/60s and 1870s, and he was the first Irish commercial photographer specialising in topographical views. With views of Torc Lake; Old Weir Bridge; Meeting of the Waters; Queenstown; Glendalough; The Vale of Avoca; In the Dargle; The Vale of Clara; The Giant's Causeway; The Lady's Wishing Chair; Pleaskin Head; Lough Foyle. 179. IDE, John Jay. Some Examples of Irish Country Houses of the Georgian Period. Illustrated. New York: Printed for the author by Clarke & Way, Inc., 1959. pp. 66. Quarter linen on papered boards. Edition limited to 600 copies. With author's compliment slip loosely inserted. A fine copy in dust jacket. €150 180. INGOLDSBY, Thomas. The Ingoldsby Legends on Mirth and Marbles. Popular edition. With sixteen illustrations by Cruikshank, Leech, Tenniel, and Barham. London: Richard Bentley, 1887. pp. xi, [1], 468. Black morocco, title in gilt on upper cover and on spine. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. A very good copy. €75 181. [IRELAND] Ireland. The Catholic Question Considered: in a Letter Addressed to the Editor of the Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine. London: Printed by Sampson Low, No. 7, Berwick Street, Soho; Sold by E. Booker, New Bond Street; and T. Hurst, Pater-Noster Row, 1800. pp. 52. Stitched. A good copy. €150 COPAC locates 6 copies only. ESTC T18212. According to the author's Advertisement, this pamphlet was intended for publication in the Anti- Jacobin Magazine and Review, a Tory Publication started by George Canning (1770-1827) in 1797 to provide counter-revolutionary satire; it continued publication until 1821. The subject here is whether Roman Catholics should be excluded from the political process. 182. IRISH GENTLEMAN [Thomas Walford] The Scientific Tourist through Ireland: by which the traveller is directed to the principal objects of Antiquity, Art, Science, and the Picturesque; Arranged by Counties. To which is added an introduction to the study of the Antiquities of Ireland. Engraved frontispiece and additional vignette title, six engraved plates and two folding maps. Dedication to Grand Duke Michael of Russia. London: Booth, 1818. 12mo. pp. Unpaginated. [vii], 34, [2], [194]. Publisher's original blind-stamped cloth, titled in gilt. Bookplate of Joseph M. Gleason on front pastedown. Spine professionally rebacked. A very good copy. Rare. €395 COPAC locates 10 copies only.

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Thomas Walford (1752-1833) antiquary, an officer in the Essex militia in 1777, was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of the county the following year. Elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1788, the Linnean Society in 1797, and the Geological Society in 1825. Apart from the above work, Walford also published The Scientific Tourist through England, Wales, and Scotland in the same year. A few plates with a touch of watercolour. DONEGAL AUTHOR 183. [IRISH STUDENT] Letters from an Irish Student in England to his Father in Ireland. Frontispieces. Two volumes in one. London: Printed by W. Lewis, Paternoster Row for Cradock & Joy, 1809. pp. [iv], 330, [1], [ii], 327, [1], [6 (plates)]. Modern brown buckram, title in gilt on spine. From the Louisville Library with their perforated stamp. Scattered foxing especially to margins of plates and pages facing same, tape repair to two leaves. A good copy of an exceedingly rare item. €675 COPAC with 4 locations only. Trinity College only in Ireland. WorldCat 3. In the preface we are told: "The following Letters were written, as the titlepage imports, by an Irish Gentleman, who lately prosecuted his legal studies in this country [England] to qualify him for the Irish Bar; and they are now published, with the consent of the Author, at the particular request of a person of distinction, nearly related to the gentlemen to whom they are addressed. The reader will, doubtless, observe that the Original Letters must have undergone, for the sake of convenience and variety, some alterations in length and form." It would appear that the writer of these letters was a native of County Donegal for he states (p.11) after his arrival in Dublin, and prior to his departing for England: "Remember me to all friends in and near Donegal." On leaving Coleraine he tells us "I owe my uncle's munificent recollection of me; that I shall do no dishonour to the Irish Bar, and that I shall enjoy the respect and esteem of my neighbours, and the confidence and affection of my tenants." At Newry he was joined by an elderly gentleman, a large manufacturer from Lisburn, in his chaise to Dublin, who proved to be a great travelling companion. He talked of the ascendancy of Catholic interest in a British Parliament as "absurd in the highest degree." He spoke of the College of Maynooth: "an establishment honourable to the liberality and policy of the mother country." The remainder of the work is taken up with his sojourn in England: The Inner Temple, Lincoln's Inn, Gray's Inn, and the Middle Temple where the illustrious Henry Grattan studied. He visits noted places of interest in London and throughout the country, giving us picturesque and historical descriptions accompanied by interesting anecdotes. He tells us of his meeting with 'Anacreon Moore' at Lady ----- "Where we had some charming music. I was not a little proud, as an Irishman, to see the homage paid to our countryman, Anacreon [Thomas] Moore, whom I had never seen before. As soon as he entered the drawing-room, this minstrel of love was received with uncommon animation by the ladies, many of whom appear to know his amatory songs by heart: they pressed him to the piano-forte, and then, as if to prevent his escape, they formed round him a semicircular barrier with their beautiful figures. His style of singing is very singular; it is like melodious recitation, so sweet and so simple that its effect upon the mind is more powerful than of elaborate and profound execution ... ." 184. [IRISH WHITE CROSS] Report of the Irish White Cross to 31st August, 1922. Prepared by Mr. W.J. Williams. Illustrated. Dublin: Lester, n.d. (c.1923). pp. 142. Olive green cloth. Title and Celtic cross in gilt on upper cover. Fading to covers. Some foxing. A good copy. €85 The Irish White Cross was founded towards the end of 1920. Its main object was to cope with the distress of families of those who were caught up in the fight for against the British Armed Forces. The funds were also employed to aid expelled Catholic workers from the North. Active in its organisation were Michael Collins and (prior to their death), George Russell, Mrs Eamonn Ceannt, Mrs Sheehy-Skeffington, Maud Gonne MacBride, Madame O'Rahilly, Erskine Childers, Darrel Figgis, Brian O'Higgins, Edward MacLysaght, William T. Cosgrave, Erskine Childers, etc. etc. The major contributions came from private American sources (£1,250,000), John, Count McCormack (£35,000), with lesser amounts from private English, Scottish and Canadian sources. Pope Benedict XV gave £5,000. The accounts in this report show that it had collected £1,374,795. Contains obituary notices of Archbishop William J. Walsh, Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins. 185. [JAMES I] Irish Patent Rolls of James I. Facsimile of the Irish Record Commission's Calendar Prepared Prior to 1830. Foreword by M.C. Griffith. Dublin: Stationery Office for the Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1966. pp. [6], 397 (double column). Large folio. Maroon

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187. JOHNSON, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language: in which the Words are Deduced from their Origin and Illustrated in their Different Significations by examples from the Best Writers. To which are prefixed a History of the Language, and an English Grammar. Two volumes. London: G. and J. Offor [et al.], 1824. Quarto. pp. (1) [ii], 1028, [1], (2) 1084. Lexicon text in triple column. Later full diced russia, covers framed by a single gilt fillet and a gilt floral roll. Spines professionally rebacked, author and volume number in gilt direct in the second and fourth panels, the remainder with gilt tooling; wide bands; corners of board edges hatched in gilt. Brown marbled endpapers. Green and gold endbands. Light foxing to prelims. All edges marbled. A fine copy. €1,250

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COPAC locates 3 copies only. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Johnson. 's Dictionary of the English Language is one of the most famous dictionaries in history. First published in 1755, the dictionary took just over eight years to compile, required six helpers, and listed 40,000 words. Each word was defined in detail, the definitions illustrated with quotations covering every branch of learning. It was a huge scholarly achievement, a more extensive and complex dictionary than any of its predecessors. In all, there are over 114,000 quotations in the dictionary. Johnson was the first English lexicographer to use citations in this way, a method that greatly influenced the style of future dictionaries. He had scoured books stretching back to the 1500s, often quoting from those thought to be 'great works' such as Milton or Shakespeare. Thus the quotations reflect his literary taste and his rightwing political views. Dr. Johnson performed with his Dictionary the most amazing, enduring, and endearing one-man feat in the field of lexicography It is the dictionary itself which justifies Noah Webster s statement that Johnson's writings had, in philology, the effect which Newton s discoveries had in mathematics (PMM). To be sure, there had been dictionaries before his. As modern lexicographer Robert Burchfield has observed, "In the whole tradition of English language and literature the only dictionary compiled by a writer of the first rank is that of Dr. Johnson." Nonetheless, Johnson's Dictionary stands as an enduring achievement. "More than any other dictionary," Hitching says, "it abounds with stories, arcane information, home truths, snippets of trivia, and lost myths. It is, in short, a treasure house." 188. [JONES, David] The Life of William III. Late King of England, and Prince of Orange. Containing an account of his family, birth, education, accession to the dignity of Stadtholder and Captain-General of Holland, his marriage, expedition to England, and the various steps by which he and his princess ascended the throne, with the history of his reign, enterprizes, and conduct in peace or war. And a relation of his will, death, and funeral. Intermixt with very many original papers, letters, memoirs, his publick speeches, declarations, treaties, and alliances, several of which never before printed. Illustrated with divers cuts, medals, &c. London: Printed for S. and J. Sprint, and J. Nicholson ... James Knapton ... and Benj. Tooke ..., 1703. The second edition corrected. pp. [6], xiii, [1], 648, [8], 32. Later full calf with wear to edges of boards. Paper fault to a couple of pages without loss of text. Bookplate removed, tear to frontispiece. A good working copy. €145 ESTC N19816. With frontispiece portrait of William and Mary, nine numbered plates of medals, lacking folding plan. By David Jones; sometimes mistakenly attributed to Abel Boyer.

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189. JOYCE, James. Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922. First edition. Finely rebound in recent full blue morocco, double gilt rule to spine and boards, board edges and dentelles, top edge gilt, original blue printed wrapper bound in. No. 801 on hand-made paper numbered from 251 to 1000. Fine in matching morocco slipcase. €32,500 Slocum & Cahoon A23. Arguably the greatest of modernist writers, James Joyce was a comic genius, a formal innovator, and an unsentimental poet of Irish life and language. He pioneered the use of inner-monologue and stream- of-consciousness techniques, and made brilliant use of such devices as parody and pastiche. Ulysses, Joyce's mock-heroic epic novel, celebrates the events of one day (16 June, 1904) in the lives of three Dubliners and is modelled on episodes in Homer's 'Odyssey'. The central characters, Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom, and his wife Marian (Molly), correspond to Telemachus, Ulysses, and Penelope. This June day is known to Joyceans throughout the world as 'Bloomsday' . The first edition was published in Paris on Joyce's fortieth birthday (2 February, 1922). Ulysses is a landmark in twentieth-century literature, and one of the most famous and celebrated in modern literature. Written over a seven-year period in three different cities, it has survived legal action, bitter controversy and persistent misunderstanding. Literature, as Joyce tells us through the character of Dedalus is: "the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man". See illustration on previous page. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY JAMES JOYCE IN LONDON 190. JOYCE, James. Dubliners. London: Jonathan Cape, 1930. Seventh edition. 255, [1], [32 (Publisher's List)]. pp. 278. Blue cloth, title, author and publisher's device in gilt on spine. Corners a trifle bumped, usual wear to spine ends. Inscribed and signed to John Dulanty on front endpaper: To / John Dulanty / James Joyce / London / 17.7.931. A very good copy. €17,550

A collection of fifteen short stories written by Joyce over a three year period (1904-1907). Difficulties in finding a publisher and Joyce's initial refusal to alter any passage thought to be objectionable kept it from being published until 1914. In a letter to his publisher written in May 1906, Joyce clearly stated his overall purpose and design in writing the stories: "My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis. I have tried to present it to the indifferent public under four of its aspects: childhood, adolescence, maturity and public life. The stories are arranged in this order. I have written it for the most part in a style of scrupulous meanness and with the conviction that he is a very bold man who dares to alter in the presentment, still more to deform, whatever he has seen and heard". Provenance: From the Dulanty family. John Whelan Dulanty CB CBE (1883-1955), Irish diplomat, he represented Ireland in London for twenty years, first as High Commissioner and then as Ireland's first Ambassador to the . Dulanty was born in Manchester to a working-class Irish family. His father was from

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Tipperary and his mother from Limerick. He was educated at St. Mary's, Failsworth, and at Manchester University where he read law. In 1906 he supported 's campaign as a Liberal to win the Manchester North West seat. This connection with Churchill was to prove important in Dulanty's later diplomatic career as High Commissioner in London. In 1913 he entered the British civil service. He worked in the Ministry of Munitions during . He later served as Assistant Secretary in the Treasury. In 1920 he left the British civil service because of his opposition to British policy on Ireland. By the time he left he had been awarded C.B. and C.B.E. For the next six years he served as deputy chairman and managing director of the department store Peter Jones, Ltd. In 1926 he joined the Irish civil service and was appointed Commissioner for Trade in Great Britain. At that time he had not lived for any length of time in Ireland, but in the words of The Times, "There was no mistaking that he was an Irishman. He had been a leader of the United Irish League of Great Britain under and had been busy behind the scenes at the time of the treaty of 1922." In 1930 he became High Commissioner in London. On Ireland leaving the Commonwealth and becoming a republic, he became Ireland's first ambassador in London in 1950. He retired in September 1950. When Joyce was in London, he often enjoyed evenings with Irish-Londoners, including the High Commissioner John Dulanty, the musician Herbert Hughes, and the writers Robert and Sylvia Lynd. Among the restaurants they dined at was the Monico by Piccadilly Circus, a favourite haunt of London's Fin de siècle writers and Kettner's in Soho, frequented by . In 1994, an English Heritage blue plaque was placed on the wall of 28b Campden Grove in Kensington, London, to commemorate the fact that James Joyce had lived there in 1931. Even if Joyce's stay in London was short-lived, the blue plaque symbolizes how important the metropolis of the British Empire was to Joyce's goal of becoming a published writer. The marriage of James Joyce and Nora Barnacle, more than 25 years after they first met, caused a sensation in the press and scandal in Ireland. But when Joyce's father fell gravely ill, the writer's dread of returning to his home country would lead to terrible regrets. On June 29th, 1931, James Joyce was handed the lease on 28b Campden Grove, in Kensington in London, thus becoming a UK resident, a voter and a potential juror. The following day, on the advice of Fred Monro, his solicitor, he applied for a special licence to marry Nora Barnacle, his partner of more than 25 years, arranging the ceremony for July 4th (also his father's and brother George's birthdays). He and Nora dined with T.S. Eliot, Padraic Colum, John Dulanty, the Irish High Commissioner, and the Lynds, and they attended concerts and theatrical events. It is most likely that at such an occasion two weeks after his marriage that Joyce signed and inscribed this copy of Dubliners for John Dulanty. A week after the wedding, the writers Robert and Sylvia Lynd threw a great literary party at their Hampstead home, on Keats Grove, where the garden was festooned with fairy lights and night lights in coloured jars. Just after midnight everyone moved indoors, to the drawing room, where Joyce went to the piano and sang 'Phil the Fluther's Ball' and the sadly poignant 'Siúil a Rúin'. For the first time Joyce found himself among leading lights of English letters, including Goronwy Rees, J.B. Priestley, Victor Gollancz, Norman Collins, Max Beerbohm, Arthur Ransome, Humbert Wolfe and Isaiah Berlin, some of whom performed their own party pieces. But Joyce stole the show, as the Lynds' daughter recalled. "Against his own low accompaniment he recited . . . Anna Livia Plurabelle. He neither spoke it nor sang it: he used something like the [S]prechstimme, or pitch-controlled speech, familiar from Moses [u]nd Aaron, and other works by Schoenberg. And the sound of it was lovely beyond description." Priestley also recalled the evening, comparing Joyce's easy presence in Hampstead with the "heroic" Joyce he had found among his American idolaters in Paris. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 191. JOYCE, James. Finnegans Wake. London: Faber, New York: Viking, 1939. First edition. pp. [viii], 628. Edition limited to 425 numbered copies. Signed by James Joyce in green ink. Top edge gilt. Housed in a quarter burgundy morocco solander box. A near fine copy. €12,500

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Slocum & Cahoon 49. Joyce's last and most innovative work in a style which he referred to as "great part of every human experience is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wide-awake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot". Throughout the 'Wake' (as in a dream), the characters appear in many guises and undergo numerous transmutations that range from the mythological to the geographical. As to the exact identity of the dreamer (or dreamers), there is speculation and mystery. Possibilities are that the dreamer is Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker or one of his family members, or his mystic avatar, Finn MacCool; or the dreamer is Joyce himself, or the reader, or Joyce and the reader together. Any and all combinations may be possible. Joyce began writing Finnegans Wake in 1922, the same year 'Ulysses' was published. Compared to that book, Finnegans Wake "took longer to write, was conceived and executed under a greater range of symbolic and mythic guidelines, was dictated to more famous amanuenses, among them Samuel Beckett, was used as a weapon of revenge by Joyce, who mocked in it the people who had offended him in short, it was the inscription on the walls of eternity of James Joyce's feelings, his prejudices and his obsessions" ('The Scandal of Ulysses', 55). "Joyce insisted that each word, each sentence had several meanings and that the 'ideal lecteur' should devote his lifetime to it, like the Koran" (Connolly, 'The Modern Movement', 81). 192. JOYCE, P.W. Old Irish Folk Music and Songs. A collection of 842 Irish airs and songs hitherto unpublished. Edited, with annotations, for the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Dublin: Hodges Figgis, and London: Longmans, 1909. First edition. pp. xxxvi, 408, 4 (author's works). Green cloth decorated in gilt to a Celtic design, titled in gilt. Previous owner's bookplates on front pastedown and signature on half-title. Minor wear to corners and spine ends. A very good copy. €285 193. KAVANAGH, Patrick. Collected Poems. London: Martin Brian & O'Keeffe, 1972. pp. xv, [1], 202. Green cloth, titled in silver. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. A fine copy in lightly-frayed dust jacket. €150 194. KAVANAGH, Patrick. The Green Fool. London: O'Keeffe, 1973. Second edition. pp. 350. Black cloth, titled in gilt. A fine copy in lightly-frayed price-clipped dust jacket. €95 (1904-1967) farmer, shoemaker, poet and novelist was born at Iniskeen, County Monaghan and educated locally. His first book Ploughman & Other Poems was published in 1936. Today he is recognised as a major Irish poet with universal appeal and is the subject of numerous studies. Shortly after the publication of the first edition of The Green Fool in 1938, Oliver St John Gogarty brought and won a libel action against the publisher, Michael Joseph. Gogarty was still smarting from a libel action which he had lost the previous year (in a case in which Samuel Beckett had given evidence for one of the plaintiffs). The passage to which Gogarty took exception seems today innocuous enough. Kavanagh, on his first visit to Dublin, called on various literary figures, and he described his reception at Gogarty's house as follows - "I mistook Gogarty's white-robed maid for his wife - or mistress. I expected every poet to have a spare wife." The book was withdrawn and Gogarty was awarded damages of £100. Michael Joseph wrote a blurb for the first edition: "This is one of those rare books which it is difficult to describe with restraint. We are tempted to use superlatives, but content ourselves with saying that we consider it one of the best books which has yet appeared under our imprint." 195. KAVANAGH, Patrick. Tarry Flynn. A Novel. London: Martin Brian & O'Keeffe, 1975. pp. 256. Brown papered boards, titled in gilt. A fine copy in fine price-clipped dust jacket. €65 The author once wrote that this book was not only the best but the only authentic account of life as it was lived in Ireland this [20th] century: "a man should not be afraid to tell the truth, even when it is in favour of himself". Given the careful qualifications, that is not an idle brag. The first edition of Tarry Flynn was initially banned in Ireland but later, for unknown reasons, the ban was lifted. The Pilot Press was declared bankrupt before the ban was lifted, so copies are extremely rare. PREACHED IN STILLORGAN CHURCH 196. KELLY, Rev. James. National Education. A Sermon Preached in Stillorgan Church, Diocese of Dublin, on Sunday, May, 29, 1842, in behalf of the Stillorgan Scriptural Schools. By the Rev. James Kelly, M.A., incumbent of the Parish. Published by Request. Dublin: W. Curry, Jun. & Co., 1842. First edition. pp. 15, [1]. Modern wrappers. Ex libris Milltown Park Trust. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €375

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No copy of this, the first edition found in COPAC. Only 1 copy of the second (1844) edition located. WorldCat 1. IN A FINE BINDING THE ASTRONOMER POET OF PERSIA 197. KHAYYAM, Omar. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Translated into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald. Edited with introduction and notes by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson. Eight full page color illustrations by Gilbert James. London: A. & C. Black, 1933. pp. vii, [1], 135, [1]. Blue borders and blue designs on some of the text pages. Lavishly bound by Rivière & Son, London, in contemporary full red calf, covers framed by double gilt fillets and an inner panel with a single gilt fillet and dotted lines with gilt designs of Tudor roses and leaves in corners. Spine divided into six panels by five gilt raised bands, title and illustrator in gilt on contrasting red and navy blue morocco labels; the remainder with a goblet encircled by a coiled snake tooled in gilt; fore-edges and dentelles gilt; marbled endpapers; red green and gold endbands. All edges gilt. A fine copy. €575

Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883), poet and translator; educated at Bury St. Edmunds and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1830. He has been described by Benson as "a literary recluse of Irish origin, son of a member of Parliament of great wealth and position as a landowner." A great friend of Thackeray, Tennyson, Spedding and Carlyle, he first published his translation in 1859, which is the text reproduced here. Fitzgerald managed to convince Bernard Quaritch to put his imprint on the wrappered volume; finding he could not sell it, Quaritch relegated it to a stall in St. Martin's Lane. It came to the attention of Rosetti and Swinburne who bought them for a penny apiece. Having gone through four editions in the author's lifetime and thousands since his death, its immortality was ensured by its popularity with the public as one of the most quoted poems of all time. Omar Khayyam the eleventh-century mathematician, astronomer and poet was born at Naishapur in Persia. The political events of that time played a major role in the course of his life. A literal translation of the name Khayyam means 'tent maker' and this may have been the trade of Ibrahim, his father. Omar studied philosophy at Naishapur and one of his fellow students wrote that he was "endowed with sharpness of wit and the highest natural powers". Renowned in his own country for his scientific achievements, in the English-speaking world he is chiefly known for the collection of rubaiyat or quatrains translated by Edward Fitzgerald.

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Another copy of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, affectionately known as the Great Omar, executed at the renowned craft bookbinding firm of Sangorski and Sutcliffe, took over two years to create. Bound in full green goatskin and boasting 1,000 precious and semi-precious stones and 1,500 separate pieces of leather, it was lost when it went down with the 'Titanic' in 1912. It now lies at the bottom of the Atlantic in an oak casket. Pogany's artwork appears in full-colour inserted plates and green monochromatic decorative borders, initial letters and decorative devices. A remarkable work in a fine binding. 198. [KILLADOON LIBRARY SALE] Catalogue of A Selected Portion of the Well-known Library from Killadoon, County Kildare formed by the late H.J.B. Clements, Esq. The Property of Col. H.T.W. Clements. In two parts. Sold by Sotheby over five days: First part Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 4th - 6th July. Second part - Monday, 31st October and Tuesday, 1st November, 1966. At eleven o'clock precisely each day. Illustrated. London: Sotheby's & Co., 1966. pp. 132, 91. Printed stiff wrappers. A very good set. Rare. €385 Loosely inserted in both volumes is a listing of prices realised and the names of the purchasers. RARE CORK ITEM CROWN LANDS EXPERIMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS THE COUNTESS OF KERRY'S COPY 199. [KING WILLIAM'S TOWN] Improvements at King William's Town, in the Barony of Duhallow in the County of Cork, 1834. Crown Land Experimental Improvements, and Cork and Kerry New Roads; for the purpose of encouraging the Employment of the Labouring Poor in similar Improvements of the other Estates in Ireland. Illustrated with seven hand-coloured engraved plates, and one large folding, engraved, hand-coloured map. London: The House of Commons, 1834. Small folio. pp. 68. Bound in contemporary green moiré cloth, the upper board and spine lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, yellow endpapers. Inscribed in ink to the recto of the preliminary blank, "Countess of Kerry/ 35 Cavendish Square", the rubber ink stamp of the 'Woods, Forests & Land Revenue' to the front endpapers, the recto of the final blank leaf and the foot of the title-page. Minor fraying to head and tail of spine, otherwise a near fine copy. €1,250 Only two copies reported to OCLC; Cambridge University; University College, Cork. The land that became Kingwilliamstown, now Ballydesmond, in the north-west of the county of Cork was acquired by the Crown Estate in around 1830 and was named after the reigning British king. The area was intended to be an example to other landowners and an experiment in direct estate management, eradicating the influence of the middlemen, who leased land from estate owners and sublet it to tenants, thus reducing potential revenue for the owners while raising occupiers' rents. Kingswilliamstown was to be improved by new roads, especially one that linked Castle Island in County Kerry with Mallow in County Cork thereby opening up a previously impassable swathe of land (and certainly allowing the British army greater freedom in this inaccessible province). There was also to be the establishment of a model village at Kingwilliamstown, funded by the public purse. The report by James Weale, a government surveyor, on the practicality of the scheme includes descriptions of the types of buildings to be erected in the new village such as an inn, a school house, a model farm, and labourers' dwellings. The report also pays much attention to the social effects of the experiment. Weale's ultimate aim was for the tenants, who would be provided with paid employment, to become self-sufficient and, eventually, "be able to render, by the payment of increased rents, out of the soil, a full compensation for the costs of those improvements". The rationale behind this transfer of fiscal responsibility to the Irish tenants has as much to do with the establishment of social inclusion and control as it has with economics: "It startles an English ear to be told that there remain at this day, within the limits of the United Kingdom, in the cultivable mountains and wastes of Ireland, an immense and increasing population in a state of villainage…" The Countess of Kerry, to whom this copy belonged, was the wife of the 4th Earl of Kerry. Not only did Kingwilliamstown lie close to his lands, he was also a social liberal, favouring Catholic emancipation and popular education; he and his wife would have been in sympathy with the Commissioners' social aims. The long term success of Kingwilliamstown in binding the Irish population to its British rulers can be gauged by the fact that in the 1930s the town changed its name to Ballydesmond in memory of the legendary freedom fighter the Earl of Desmond. Nevertheless, the model town continues to thrive and the main street is still lined by buildings erected as part of the great experiment.

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THE FINEST BOOK OF ITS TIME 200. KINSELLA, Thomas & LE BROCQUY, Louis. The Tain. Translated by from the Irish Táin Bó Cuailgne. Brush Drawings by Louis le Brocquy. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1969. Small folio. First edition. pp. vi, [2], 294, [2]. Black buckram with illustration of a white bull by Le Brocquy on upper cover, title in white on spine. In repaired dust jacket. A very good copy. €350 The Táin Bó Cuailgne – The Cattle Drive of Cooley – is the central story in the great old-Irish saga- cycle featuring the Sons of Usnech, Cuchulain, Ferdia, Maeve and the rival bulls of Connaught and Ulster, culminating in the 'battle of the bulls'. The distinguished poet Thomas Kinsella began translating parts of the Tain while still a young man; short sections were published by Liam Miller's Dolmen Press in 1954 and 1960. This original limited edition of 1,750 copies, when first published in 1969 sold out within months. 201. KINSELLA,Thomas. Thirty Three Triads. Translated by Thomas Kinsella from the Irish. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1957. pp. 12. Half title, title printed in red and black. Quarter red linen on decorated papered boards. A fine copy. €195 Miller 18a. Demonstrating Kinsella's interest in early Irish, this proved to be one of the most popular of early Dolmen publications. Reset edition, the second after the first edition of 1955. 202. KIPLING, Rudyard. The Irish Guards in the Great War. Edited and compiled from their diaries and papers. Volume I. The First Battalion. Vol II. The Second Battalion and Appendices. With numerous maps. Two volumes. London: Macmillan, 1923. First edition. pp. (1) xvi, 344, (2) vi, 310, 2 (author's works). Red cloth, Regimental badge in gilt on upper cover, titled in gilt on spines. Previous owner's signature on pastedowns. New front endpapers. Top edges gilt. A very good set. €145 "The Irish Guards had been so fortunate as to find their historian in the greatest living master of narrative. No other book can ever be written exactly like this, and it seems likely to endure as the fullest document of the war-like record of a British regiment, compiled by a man of genius who brings to his task not only a quick eye to observe and a sure hand to portray, but a rare spirit of reverence and understanding ... ." John Buchan. In August 1914 Kipling's son John, not yet seventeen, volunteered for a commission in the Army but being under age and with poor sight, was initially refused. He next proposed to enlist in the ranks, but his father's friendship with Lord Roberts was used to gain him a commission in the Irish Guards, of which Roberts was Colonel-in-Chief. In 1915 he went to France and his Battalion was at once deployed in the costly battle of Loos. John Kipling, now aged only eighteen, was among the earliest casualties: the location of his grave was a mystery in 1992. Kipling was devastated. When he was approached about writing a regimental history of the Irish Guards, 'not on business terms but as a monument of his son's service', he accepted at once and started without delay. Five and a half years of intermittent but laborious research and toil were devoted to the work, which was based on official and private records, diaries and personal interviews with members of the regiment. 'This will be my great work' said Kipling, 'it is done with agony and bloody sweat.' CASTLEBAR AUTHOR 203. [KNIGHT, Olivia] Thomasine's Poems. Wild Flowers from The Wayside. With an Introduction by Sir Chas. Gavan Duffy. Dublin: James Duffy, n.d. (c.1883). 16mo. pp. xxiv, 130, 20 (Catalogue). Green linen, title in gilt on spine, harp surrounded by a cluster of Shamrocks in gilt on upper cover. A very good copy. €165 COPAC locates 3 copies only. The author of this work was Olivia Knight (1830-1908) an Irish-Australian poet and essayist. She was a native of Castlebar, and lived on Rathbawn Road. She was a teacher and a regular contributor to The Nation under the name Thomasine. Her work had strong Irish nationalist themes. After the death of her

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mother in 1860, she emigrated to Australia and married a journalist, Hope Connolly. She died in Queensland in 1908. Around 1844 Olivia began corresponding with the editors of The Nation, having already adopted the pen-name 'Thomasine', probably out of admiration for Thomas Davis. When she heard that Davis was preparing a new edition of John Philpot Curran's speeches, she sent him some reports from an old magazine. She corresponded with the 'old' Nation over several years, yet only becoming a prominent contributor after it was revived in 1849, publishing numerous poems, as well as several prose and verse translations, and became known as 'Thomasine of the Nation'. Her verses and their traditional nationalist images fitted the paper's overall national-patriotic tone, and she wrote tributes to a number of Irish nationalists. The dominant themes in her poetry include parting, exile and emigration, but also hope, perseverance and religious faith. 204. KNOX v. GAVAN. Authentic Report of the Highly Important Motion in the Court of Exchequer, in the Case of the Venerable Edmond Dalrymple H. Knox, Archdeacon, of Killaloe, Versus John Gavan and Others, on the 29th and 30th January and 1st February, 1836, with the judgments of the learned barons, awarding attachments against Major Miller, Inspector of Police, and Chief Constable Malone, for refusing to aid in arresting parties under a writ of commission of rebellion issued in a suit for recovery of tithes. Taken in short-hand by a barrister. Dublin: Milliken. London: Saunders and Benning, 1836. pp, 92. Original stitched wrappers. In fine condition. Extremely rare. €375 No copy recorded on COPAC. The case for non-payment of tithes against John Gavan of Eglish, Porrisokane, County Tipperary and others. Edmond Dalrymple Hesketh Knox was a 19th century Anglican priest, the son of Bishop Edmund Knox, he was born in County Down and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He held livings in Upper Badoney; Rathronan and Kilflyn. He became Archdeacon of Killaloe in 1832. In 1858 a wills and administration document records him as a lunatic yet he is recorded in the 1868 Crockford's as still being Archdeacon. 205. KNOX, William. A Letter to the People of Ireland, upon the intended application of the Roman Catholics to Parliament for the Exercise of the Elective Franchise. From William Knox, Esq. London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1792. First edition. pp. 29, [3 (publisher's list)]. Includes half-title. Stitched wrappers. Very rare. €375 COPAC locates 4 copies only. Not in Black, Bradshaw or Gilbert. A plea on behalf of the Roman Catholics of Ireland that having close on four million population, the vast majority of whom were Catholic, there was not one Catholic Member of Parliament returned on their behalf. The franchise to Catholics would be beneficial to all, and would avoid conflict such as occurred with the American Colonies. William Knox (1732-1810), official and controversialist, was born in Clones, County Monaghan. Educated locally, he may have entered TCD, but was soon involved in politics as a supporter of Sir Richard Cox during the political controversies of 1753-6. Deciding to seek his fortune abroad, in 1756 he was appointed provost marshal of the American colony of Georgia. There he built a large plantation worked by slaves, and served on the provincial council. Returning to London in 1762, he became an unofficial adviser to British ministers on imperial affairs. In 1765 he was dismissed as a colonial agent for Georgia because of his pamphlet The claim of the colonies, which defended the right of the British parliament to pass the controversial stamp act (1765), even though he questioned its efficacy. Knox's permanent search for financial security saw him accept office, and in 1770 he became under- secretary for the new American department. His pamphlets in defence of Lord North's administration widened the breach with the colonies, however. Always interested in Irish affairs, he pushed successfully for trade concessions (1778-80), even though he considered Ireland a colony. With the American war of independence he lost his Georgia plantation, and after the fall of the North ministry in 1782 was dismissed from office by a vengeful Rockingham government. Becoming a political adviser for hire, he was much in demand for his expertise on Anglo-American affairs. He frequently defended slavery on evangelical grounds, and argued that it allowed for the education and conversion of Africa. In 1790 he received compensation for the loss of his properties and decided to retire. He became a country farmer in England and Wales, but the lure of politics was frequently too great and he became an agent for the provinces of New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island as well as engaging in various public controversies. He urged a union between Britain and Ireland in the 1790s, but this was as much

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to threaten the Irish protestants into granting catholic rights as anything else. He died in 1810 at Great Ealing, Middlesex. He married (1756) Letitia Ford, from Ireland, who had a large fortune; they had seven children. His son Thomas was colonel in a volunteer regiment that Knox had founded in 1793, but was later dismissed. Knox is widely regarded as one of the most influential imperialist thinkers of the eighteenth century. A brilliant, but egotistical man, whose political thinking was largely paternalistic, he helped develop, and later defended, the system of policies that led to the American revolution. ENGLISH MEN OF LETTERS SERIES 206. LAWLESS, Emily Hon. Maria Edgeworth. London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd, 1904. pp. viii, 219, [4]. Red cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €35 207. LAWLESS, Hon. Emily. Ed. by. With Essex in Ireland. Being extracts from a Journal kept in Ireland during the year 1599 by Mr. Henry Harvey, sometime secretary to Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. With a Preface by Oliver Maddox, M.A. With folding map. London: Methuen & Co., 1902. New edition. pp. viii, 300, 40 (Methuen's catalogue). Maroon buckram, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. From the library of B. St.G. Lefroy with his signature on front endpaper. Spine evenly faded. A very good copy. €125 208. LAWSON, John Parker. The Gazetteer of Ireland: containing the latest information from the most authentic sources. Edinburgh: Fullerton. Glasgow: Smith. Dublin: Cumming, n.d. (c. 1870s). pp. xvi, 811, [1]. Modern maroon buckram, title in gilt on original black morocco label on spine. decoration on professionally rebacked spines. A very good copy. €165 Not in McVeagh. 209. LEA, Samuel Percy. The Present State of the Established Church, or, Ecclesiastical Registry of Ireland, for the year 1814. Dublin: J.J. Nolan, 1814. 12mo. pp. [6], 263, +errata. Later full calf gilt. Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Occasional foxing. A very good copy. €165 Samuel Percy Lea lived at Newbawn near Templeogue. The contents include: Orders and Subordinate degrees of the Clergy; Abbots, their Duties, Privileges, Dignity, &c.; Prebendaries & Parsons; Temporary Assistance employed by Clergy; Lecturers, Parish- Clerks and Sextons; School-masters; Church Revenues; Tithes; Diocesan Topography, Antiquity, History; Armagh, Dublin, Cashel, and Tuam Archdiocese and Suffragan; Parochial Registers; Lists of the Succession of the Prelates since the Reformation; An Alphabetical Index to the Names of Incumbents; An Alphabetical Index to the Names of Parishes, etc. 210. [LEAHY, David] A Review of the Principal Facts Connected with the Rise, Progress, Conclusions, and Character of the Recent State Prosecutions in Ireland: including an examination of the most important of the decisions and opinions of the Judges in both countries, and of the judgement of the House of Lords. By A Barrister. London: Printed for Longman, [et al], 1845. Large octavo. pp. 352. Modern brown buckram, title on printed label on upper cover. Stamp of an old library. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €295 COPAC locates 4 copies only. An extensive critical examination of the cases of prosecution (particularly in regard to matters of conspiracy) of those associated with the movement for Repeal, including O'Connell in the wake of his "Monster Meetings," those associated with the Young Irelanders, etc. The attribution of authorship above is based on the entry in the NSTC. 211. LE QUESNE, Charles Esq. Ireland and the Channel Islands; or, A Remedy for Ireland. London: Printed for Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster-Row, 1848. pp. iv, 138, 32 (publisher's list). Recent quarter red morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Neat library stamp on titlepage. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €475 COPAC locates 6 copies only. 212. LESLIE, Seymour. Of Glaslough in the Kingdom of Oriel and of the noted Men have dwelth there. Illustrated with two tipped-in coloured plates and other illustrations. Glaslough: The Donagh Press, 1913. pp. 110, [2]. Bound at the Oxford Bindery in contemporary half calf on pale green cloth sides. Edition de luxe limited to 100 copies only. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. Mild foxing to endpapers. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. A very good copy. Extremely rare €1,250

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COPAC locates 4 copies only. The contents includes: A Short History of Glaslough from the year 450 to the present; Memoir of John Leslie the "Fighting Bishop"; Memoir of John Leslie "Nonjuror"; Memoir of Sir John Leslie, Bart.; Miscellaneous - Including information about Monaghan, Tynan, The Lake, Glaslough Library, the Garden, Forestry, Shooting, &c., Wild Birds, Farming, the Herd, Local Improvement, Heights of the Hills, Meanings of Local Names, Rectors of Donagh, Church Records, etc. Among the beautiful illustrations is a print 'Autumn Evening at Glaslough' after a painting by C. J. Ovebden, 1899. 213. LEWIS, George Cornewall Esq. Local Disturbances in Ireland; and on the Irish Church Question. London: Fellowes, 1836. First edition. pp. xii, 458. Errata on p. xii. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on black morocco label on spine. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Previous owners signatures on front flyleaf. A very good copy. Very scarce. €285 George Cornewall Lewis was born in London. He was educated at Eton College and at Christ Church, Oxford, where in 1828 he earned a first-class in classics and a second-class in mathematics. He then entered the Middle Temple, and was called to the bar in 1831. After holding subordinate office in various administrations, Lewis became a poor-law commissioner, and was made a baronet in 1846. In 1833 he undertook his first public work as one of the commissioners to inquire into the condition of the Irish poor. In 1834 Lord Althorp included him in the commission to inquire into the state of church property and church affairs in Ireland. To this fact we owe this work on Local Disturbances in Ireland; and on the Irish Church Question, in which he condemns the existing connection between church and state, proposes a state provision for the Catholic clergy, and maintains the necessity of an efficient workhouse organization. This sociological study deals with the condition and character of the Irish peasantry from 1760 to 1835, viz., their disposition to organised crime and disturbance and the causes which have led to the existence of the Whiteboys, the Rightboys, the Oakboys, the Steelboys, Peep o' Day Boys, and the Orangemen and Ribbonmen movements. It still remains the best and most detailed investigation on the subject. 214. LINGARD, Rev. J. Observations on the Laws and Ordinances, which exist in Foreign States, relative to the Religious Concerns of their Roman Catholic Subjects. By the Rev. J. Lingard. London: Printed and Published by Keating, Brown and Co., No. 38, Duke-Street, Grosvenor-Square, 1817. pp. 39, [1], [2 (Books Printed and Published)]. Original blue stitched wrappers. A fine copy. €150 With advertisements on the final leaf. Ornamental head-pieces. With printed marginal notes. With footnotes. Includes bibliographical references. 215. LOEBER, Rolf. Irish Houses and Castles 1400 - 1740. Edited by Kevin Whelan and Matthew Stout. Illustrated. Dublin: Four Courts, 2019. pp. xii, [2], 317. Black papered boards, titled in silver. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. €55

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This volume assembles Rolf Loeber's groundbreaking articles on Irish houses and castles from the late medieval period to the mid eighteenth century. Read together, these articles, mainly from journals that are not widely available, become a coherent and fresh survey of the theme and the period, marked by Rolf's trademark archival depth and ability to bring together architectural and cultural history in a rewarding way. This richly illustrated work features one hundred maps, plans and illustrations, redrawn and updated to form a visual panorama of the period. 216. [LUCKOMBE, Philip] The Compleat Irish Traveller; containing A general Description of the most Noted Cities, Towns, Seats, Buildings, Loughs &c. in the , Interspersed with Observations on the Manners, Customs, Antiquities, Curiosities and Natural History of that Country. Illustrated with elegant copper plates and engraved titles. Two volumes bound in one. London: Printed for the Proprietors and Sold by the Booksellers, 1788. pp. (1) 189, (2) [ii], 263. Modern quarter morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. Armorial bookplate of Waldegrave Pelham Clay on front pastedown, with his signature on verso of frontispiece. A very good copy. Very rare. €875

COPAC locates 6 copies only. The TCD listing states 'Imprint false? - printed in Dublin?' Anonymous - by Philip Luckombe. Originally entitled: A Tour through Ireland. The views included are: The Lighthouse in Dublin Harbour; and Irishtown from Belmont near Miltown; Monument of Archbishop ; Clark's Skeleton; Powerscourt Waterfall; Large Panoramic View of Waterford City; Round Tower at Kildare; Abbey of Saint John in Kilkenny; Large Panoramic View of Dungarvan; The Exchange; Large Panoramic View of Lismore; North Prospect of Labacally & South Prospect of Labacally; Rock of Cashel; The Chapel of Cormac, King of Munster; Danish Trumpets / An Antient Irish Weapon / An Antique Spur; The W. Prospect of the Nave, Choir & Steeple of Buttevant Abbey; The Castle of Loghort; West View of the Castle of Kanturk; Dromona on the Blackwater; View on the Lake of Killarney; The Lough and Harbour of Belfast. The frontispiece illustration: 'The Proprietors of the Irish Traveller presenting a Copy of that Work into the hand of Futurity to be preserv'd from the devastation of Time.' 217. LUDLOW, General. Three Tracts Published at Amsterdam, in the years 1691 and 1692, under the name of Letters of General Ludlow to Sir Edward Seymour, and other persons, comparing the oppressive government of King Charles I. In the first four years of his reign, with that of the four years of the reign of King James II and vindicating the conduct of the Parliament that begun in November, 1640. London: Reprinted by Robert Wilks, 89, Chancery-Lane, and sold by White, Cochrane, and Co., Fleet-Street, London, 1812. Quarto. pp. xvii, 150. Separate title for each tract. Contemporary full calf, covers framed by single gilt fillet. Spine with raised bands and gilt decorations, title in gilt on maroon morocco label in the second compartment. All

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See item 220. 222. MACALISTER, R.A.S. Ancient Ireland. A study in the Lessons of Archaeology and History. With 24 plates and 18 other illustrations and maps. London: Methuen, 1935. First edition. pp. xii, 307, 8. Green cloth, cross in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Covers dull. A good copy. €20 The contents include a description of primitive settlements, leading up to the end of Medieval times. Many facts, usually ignored, are brought into prominence, and special attention is paid to the overwhelming influence of climate in shaping human destiny. 223. MACALISTER, R.A.S. Tara. A Pagan Sanctuary of Ancient Ireland. Illustrated. London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First edition. pp. 208. Green cloth, titled in gilt. Cloth faded. A very good copy. €25 224. MACALISTER, R.A.S. Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum. Illustrated with numerous plates and diagrams. Two volumes. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1945/1949. pp. (1) xvii, 515. (2) 213, lxvii (plates). Qtr. and full maroon linen. Two interesting letters from Padraig Ó Tailliúr loosely inserted. A very good set. Exceedingly rare. €375 This work includes copies of all known inscriptions in the Irish language, whether in or in the later Half-Uncial script, down to approximately 1200 A.D. Also dealt with are inscriptions found in South Britain and Wales. The author points out in his introduction that this collection "has been compiled in the hope that, when the time is ripe for such discussions, it will supply the epigraphic raw materials". There is also a bibliography for each of the inscriptions. Volume I is of the utmost rarity. 225. MacAMHLAIGH, Donall. Saol Saighdiúra. Baile Átha Cliath: An Clóchomhar Tta, 1962. An chéad chló. pp. vi, 231. Green buckram, title in gilt along spine. A very good copy in pictorial dust jacket. €30 226. MacBRIDE, Maud Gonne. A Servant of the Queen. Her Own Story. Illustrated. Dublin: Golden Eagle Books, 1950. New edition. pp. 319. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Owner's signature on front endpaper. A very good copy. €65 Maud Gonne was born on December 21, 1866 near Farnham, Surrey, England. She founded the Irish Nationalist group, The Daughters of Ireland. She had a relationship with poet, William Butler Yeats and was the inspiration for some of his poems. In 1903, she married Major John MacBride and the couple's son, Sean MacBride, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974.

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SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 227. McCARTHY, Cal. Cumann na mBan and the Irish Revolution.. Cork: The Collins Press, 2014. pp. ix, 310. Pictorial wrappers. With author's signature on titlepage. A fine copy. €75 228. McCOOLE, Sinéad. Guns & Chiffon, Women Revolutionaries and 1916-1923. Illustrated. Dublin: Published by Stationery Office, Molesworth Street, 1997. pp. 72. Pictorial wrappers, with double-fold covers. Presentation inscription "For Loreta and Gerard / A formidable woman and / a steadfast man / Best Wishes / Sinéad / May 1997."A fine copy. €45 The women involved in the struggle for Irish political independence 1916 - 1923 were part of the long tradition of Irish patriotism (over 300 women were imprisoned in Kilmainham Gaol during the Civil War). The author traced four of these prisoners and based a large part of this book on interviews with them and other descendents of their fellow prisoners, and on diaries, letters and unpublished accounts of their experiences. Book includes many photographic portraits. 229. McCOOLE, Sinéad. Passion and Politics: Sir John Lavery: The Salon Revisited. Illustrated. Dublin: Published by Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, 2010. pp 128. Pictorial wrappers, with double-fold covers. Presentation inscription "For Loreta / Who know all about Passion / and Politics / with love always /Sinéad / July 15 2010." A fine copy. €45 "In 1916 the Irish artist Sir John Lavery arranged sittings with the Unionist and Nationalist leaders, Sir and John E. Redmond, agreeing with them in advance that their portraits would hang together in a Dublin gallery. When Redmond heard of Lavery's plan he replied: 'I have always had an idea that Carson and I might someday be hanged side-by-side in Dublin'. As we approach the hundredth anniversary of the key events in Irish history through which Sir John and Lady Lavery lived - the Rising, the First World War, the War of Independence, the Civil War, the foundation of the Irish Free State, and the establishment of Northern Ireland - this exhibition itself is historic, as it brings both parts of Lavery's 'Island of Ireland' collection together for the first time." 230. MacCURTIN, Hugh. A Brief Discourse in Vindication of the Antiquity of Ireland. Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, at the Sign of the Printing-Press in Copper-Alley, for the author, 1717. Quarto. pp. xvi, [including 4 page list of subscribers], 313, [1 (errata)]. With half title. Modern quarter calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Ex libris with neat stamp. Minor old ink stain to Errata. A very good copy. Rare. €1,650

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COPAC locates 6 copies only. WorldCat 2. ESTC T90338. The dedication signed: H. MacCurtin. The author Hugh MacCurtin (Aodh Buí Mac Cruitin) was born in the parish of Kilmacrehy, County Clare c.1680. He received a general education as well as special instruction in Irish literature and history from his cousin Andrew MacCurtin whom he succeeded as ollamh to the O'Briens of Thomond. He went to Paris to complete his studies, where he was patronised by Lord Clare and Isabella O'Brien, wife of Sorley MacDonnell of . On his return to Dublin he was working with Swift on an Irish historiographical work, which did not appear. In the preface to this work he refuted some of the statements made by Sir Richard Cox, in his Hibernia Anglicana. This infuriated Cox who had him imprisoned in New Gate for one year. On his release he returned to Clare and wrote poems in honour of the O'Briens, and O'Loughlins of Burren. He left Ireland in 1727 to seek a publisher for his Elements of the Irish Language. Within a short time Mac Cruitín crossed into French Flanders, where he served from October 1728 to August 1729 as a private in the Régiment de Clare - a unit that contained many officers and men from his native county. In a song composed at Christmas 1728 (Is grinn an tsollamhain chím fén Nollaig seo) he looked forward to a successful invasion of Britain and the execution of George II. With the assistance of Fr. Morphy of the Franciscans, The Grammar was published in Louvain in 1728. Sometime after this he was invited to Paris by Conor Begley, where he assisted in the publication of the first English-Irish dictionary in 1732. He returned to Ireland and spent his final years as a schoolmaster in his native parish of Kilmacrehy and died there in 1755. 231. [MacDONAGH, Thomas] Disturbances Commission. Appendix to Report. Minutes of Evidence and Appendices. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1914. Folio. pp. 451, iii, 15. Half calf over boards, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. A very good copy. A rare and interesting item. €475 Full Minutes of the Commission Hearings into the 'Disturbances' when the union leader Big Jim Larkin addressed a banned meeting during the great Dublin Lock-out, from the balcony of the Imperial Hotel, and police then baton-charged the crowd. Of particular interest is the evidence of Thomas MacDonagh in which he describes the police action: "I saw sometimes three policemen attack a single individual. I saw them attack an old woman with a shawl over her head and baton her brutally." He said he had gone to Sackville Street to buy a newspaper, and knew nothing about Larkin's plan to appear. Counsel for the R.I.C. pointed out that Larkin, who had appeared in disguise, was accompanied by none other than MacDonagh's sister-in-law . He was extensively cross-examined, but maintained he was unaware of this. This evidence is not mentioned in Norstedt's biography of MacDonagh. Other witnesses included: Lennox Robinson; Sarah C. Harrison; various policemen, etc. THE PARNELL COMMISSION 232. MacDONALD, John. Diary of the Parnell Commission. Revised from "The Daily News". London: Fisher Unwin, 1890. pp. 365, 24 (publisher's list). Green cloth, title in black on upper cover and in gilt on spine. Spine rebacked preserving original backstrip. A very good copy. Scarce. €235 Sir Henry James traced the origin of this inquiry to a speech of Parnell's, made during the debate on the Address, February, 1887, warning the Government against the dangers of coercion. But the preface states that if a date must be chosen "why not make it thirty-five minutes to one of the morning of the 7th of June, 1886, when the House of Commons saw one of the most impressive scenes in its great history; when it had just reached the 'parting of the ways' ... with an impulsive characteristic of their race, the solid mass of Irish Nationalists sprang up with 'three cheers for the Grand Old Man', in the hour of his defeat". This Commission was set up to investigate Parnell's connection with terrorism. In letters supposedly written by him, the most damaging was a letter of 15th May, 1882, in which he allegedly expressed regret at having to condemn the Phoenix Park Murders. Parnell denounced the letters in the House of Commons and demanded a select committee to investigate their authenticity. They were shown to be fakes. 233. [MacDOUGALL, Henry] Sketches of Irish Political Characters, of the Present Day,: Shewing The Parts They Respectively Take on the question of the Union, What Places they Hold, their Characters as Speakers, &c. &c. London: Printed for the Author, by T. Davison, Lombard-Street, Fleet-Street, and Sold by all the booksellers in London and Westminster, 1799. pp. xi, [1], 312. Modern brown buckram, titled in gilt. A very good copy. €95

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234. MacEOIN, Uinseann. Survivors. The story of Ireland's struggle as told through some of her outstanding living people recalling events from the days of Davitt, through James Connolly, Brugha, Collins, , and Rory O'Connor, to the present time. With portraits of the Survivors by Colman Doyle, and numerous maps and other illustrations. Dublin: Argenta Publications, 1980. First edition. pp. xi, 466. Brown papered boards, title in gilt on spine. Bookplate of the Historian Patrick C. Power on front endpaper, with his signature on titlepage. A fine copy in frayed pictorial dust jacket. €75 SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 235. MacEOIN, Uinseann. The IRA in the Twilight Years 1923 - 1948. Illustrated. Dublin: By the Author, 1997. pp. x, 980. Red arlen, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Signed by the author. A fine copy in dust jacket with small repair. €165 236. M'GEE, Thomas D'Arcy. The Irish Writers of the Seventeenth Century. Dublin: James Duffy, 1863. 16mo. pp. 252. Green cloth. A very good copy. €75 With biographies of Florence Conroy, Philip O'Sullivan Beare, Geoffry Keating, James Usher, Ward, Colgan, and O'Clery a Triple Biography, Sir , John Lynch, Luke Wadding, Donald MacFirbiss, David Rothe, Peter Walsh, Nicholas French, Dominic O'Daly, Olvier Plunkett, Roderick O'Flaherty, Hugh O'Reilly, Bernard O'Connor, and William Molyneux. 237. McGUIRE, Maria. To Take Arms. A Year in the Provisional I.R.A. London: Macmillan, 1973. First edition. Orange papered boards, titled in gilt. A very good copy in dust jacket. €65 To Take Arms gives an inside picture of the Provincials' Army Council, the enclave of terrorist leaders who take on themselves the awesome responsibility for death and destruction in Belfast in the name of political ideals. 238. McHUGH, Roger J. Ed. by. Carlow in '98. The Autobiography of William Farrell of Carlow. Frontispiece. facsimile page of original handwritten manuscript. Dublin: Browne & Nolan, 1949. pp. ix, 235. Maroon cloth, title in gilt on spine. Repair to bottom of spine, otherwise a very good copy. €35 The author of this remarkable autobiographical record was a tradesman of Carlow and in his twenty- sixth year when the Rebellion broke out in 1798. He was a member of the society of the 'United Irishmen', but was only a half-hearted participant in its activities, which he secretly regarded as folly. When the Rising was about to break out in Carlow he left the organisation, but his membership was sufficient to effect his arrest and imprisonment, and it was by a hair's breadth that he escaped being hanged. He wrote these memoirs in his twilight years recalling in graphic detail all that he witnessed and encountered as a young man. 239. MacLIAMMHÓIR, Micheal. All For Hecuba. An Irish Theatrical Autobiography. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1947. Second edition. pp. vi, 390. Green faded cloth, titled in red. A very good copy in repaired pictorial dust jacket. €75 The author with his dynamic colleague Hilton Edwards, founded the Gate Theatre in Dublin in order to bring world drama to Ireland. In this work he records the many vicissitudes of that gallant and successful adventure.

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240. MacLYSAGHT, Edward. Irish Families Their Names, Arms and Origins. Illustrated by Myra Maguire with 234 coloured coats of arms and large folding clan map. Dublin: Hodges Figgis, 1957. First edition. Quarto. pp. 366. Blue buckram, titled in gilt. A very good copy in repaired dust jacket. €75 This is the most authoritative work on Irish family history which took the author more than twelve years to compile. It is complimented with artistic armorial bearings and large coloured clan location map. See illustration on previous page. 241. MacMANUS, Francis. This House Was Mine. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1932. First edition. pp. 253. Tan cloth, titled in brown. Some spotting to fore-edge and prelims. A fine copy in repaired rare dust jacket. €65 Story of an Irish family in which age tries to force its will on youth, with disastrous results. The tale is packed with action, and the characters have that unmistakably quality of throbbing life which marks the creations of the true imaginative artist.

See items 241, 244 & 245. 242. MacMANUS, Lily. White Light and Flame. Memories of the and the Anglo-Irish War. Portrait frontispiece. Dublin & Cork: Talbot, 1929. First edition. pp. viii, 228. Maroon cloth, title in gilt on spine. Some light fading to spine. A fine copy. Very scarce. €75 243. MacNALLY, Leonard. Fashionable Levities, A Comedy, in Five Acts. Dublin: Printed by William Porter, 1786. pp. [4], 74, 2. With a half-title and an epilogue. Modern marbled wrappers. A very good copy. €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.

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244. MacNEICE, Louis. Autumn Journal. A poem. London: Faber and Faber, 1939. pp. 96. Second impression. Orange cloth, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. A very good copy in repaired dust jacket. €65 A long poem written between August and December 1938. MacNeice wrote to T.S. Eliot that the work was: "not strictly a 'journal' it simultaneously represents the condition of a society in crisis, and formulates an emotional, social, political and 'ethical' response to that crisis." MacNeice's early masterpiece, in part an acutely observed and wry reflection on the political 1930s; Spain, Munich and the looming shadow of war; in part the record of a love affair and of its end. A passionate, didactic narrative which interweaves private and public identities. Marsack (1980) has described the poem as being: "Reportage, metaphysics, ethics, lyrical emotion, autobiography, nightmare." One of the great works of twentieth-century literature. 245. MacNEICE, Louis. Ten Burnt Offerings. London: Faber and Faber, 1952. First edition. pp. 95, [1]. Orange cloth, title in gilt along spine. A fine copy in dust jacket. €65 246. MacNEICE, Louis. Autumn Sequel - A Rhetorical Poem in XXVI Cantos. London: Faber and Faber, 1954. First edition. pp. 163. Purple cloth, title in gilt along spine. A fine copy in dust jacket. €65 247. MacNEILL, M. The Festival of Lughnasa. A Study of the Survival of the Celtic Festival of the beginning of Harvest. With illustrations and folding map of Ireland. Two volumes. Dublin: Bhéaloideas Éireann, 1982. pp. (1) x [2], 430, (2) 433-707, 19 (Illustrations). Pictorial wrappers. Signed presentation copy from the author, dated 1986. A very good set. €125 The Festival of Lughnasa was one of the four great festivals of ancient Ireland (the others were , and Beltaine), being the celebration of the first fruits of the harvest at the beginning of August, marking the autumn season. It is named after the god Lug, as noted in the ninth century 'Sanas Chormaic'. In the description of the celebration much emerges of the old life of the countryside, and this is a study of the festival as it was celebrated in Ireland in the last two hundred years. The author draws on the popular tradition of the country-people recorded by the Irish Folklore Commission, John O'Donovan's Ordnance Survey Letters and other antiquarian journals, etc. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY 248. McPARLAND, Edward. James Gandon, Vitruvius Hibernicus. With photographs by David Davison and numerous illustrations. London: Zwemmer, 1985. Quarto. pp. xv, 222. Blue buckram, title in gilt on spine. Signed presentation copy from the author. A very good copy in repaired dust jacket. Very scarce. €175 Eighteenth-century Dublin was a great European city. The best of its architecture reflects this, in scale, quality and sophistication. James Gandon, an Englishman of Huguenot descent and William Chambers' greatest pupil, was Dublin's most distinguished neo-classical architect. This is the first illustrated study of Gandon's life and buildings. 249. MacPIARAIS, Pádraic Íosagán agus Sgéalta Eile. Padraic Mac Piarais do Sgriobh. Beatrice Elvery do Mhaisigh. Baile Atha Cliath: Connradh na Gaedhilge, n.d. pp. 117, [1] including vocabulary. With four colour plates. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Previous owner's signature on titlepage. A good copy. €65 JOHN REDMOND'S COPY 250. MADDEN, R.R. The Life and Times of Robert Emmet, Esq. Dublin: Published by James Duffy, 1847. First edition. pp. xv, vii, 343, + errata. Recent green buckram, title in gilt on spine. John Redmond's copy with his signature on front fly leaf. A very good copy with a wonderful provenance. €375 251. [MAGEE, Archbishop William] The Evidence of his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, before the Select Committee of the House of Lords, on the State of Ireland. Dublin: Tims, Grafton-Street, 1825. pp. [iv], 143, + Errata. Modern buckram. Ex Milltown Park Trust. A very good copy. Very rare. €275 COPAC locates 4 copies only.

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William Magee (March 1766-1831) was born at Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, the third son of farmer John Magee. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he was elected fellow in 1788. Magee was ordained into the Church of Ireland in 1790. He was appointed professor of mathematics and senior fellow of Trinity in 1800, but resigned in 1812 to undertake the charge of the livings of Cappagh, County Tyrone, and Killyleagh, County Down. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1813 as "a gentleman of high distinction for mathematical and philosophical knowledge and Author of several works of importance." In 1813 he became Dean of Cork, six years later he was consecrated Bishop of Raphoe and in 1822 he became Archbishop of Dublin. He gained notoriety for prohibiting the Catholic inhabitants of Glendalough from celebrating Mass "as they had theretofore done in their ancient and venerated cathedral of St. Kevin." As archbishop, Magee actively engaged in controversy with other churches by encouraging public debates and the publication of polemical literature. His provocative primary visitation charge, preached from the pulpit of St Patrick's Cathedral on 24 October 1822, called the clergy to spiritual arms against the Catholic faith, inaugurating a new era of religious controversy in Ireland. Magee fully supported the 'Second Reformation' and sought to bolster the position of Protestantism in Ireland by opposing Catholic Emancipation, funding Bible societies, and in this pamphlet in 1825, he testified to a select committee of the House of Lords on the gains made by vigorous proselytism. He died in 1831 at Stillorgan, near Dublin. He had sixteen children, of whom three sons and nine daughters survived him. He was the grandfather of Archbishop William Connor Magee of York. KICKHAM ANTHOLOGY 252. 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. : Maher, 1941. pp. xx, 365. Red papered boards, title in black on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. €185 was born at Mullinahone, County 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. 253. [MARKIEVICZ, Constance] The Rebel Countess. The Life and Times of . By Anne Marreco. Illustrated. London: Weidenfeld, 1967. First edition. xiii, [1], pp. 330. Black buckram, title in gilt on green panel on spine. A very good copy. €30 Among her friends and colleagues can be found such figures as W.B. Yeats, Seán O'Casey, AE, Maud Gonne, Arthur Griffith, James Connolly and Éamon de Valera. A fascinating biography. 254. MARKIEVICZ, Constance. A Call to the Women of Ireland. Being a Lecture delivered to the Students' National Literary Society, Dublin, under the title of 'Women, Ideals, and the Nation'. Dublin: Fergus O'Connor, 1918. First edition. 16 pp. Printed green stiff stapled wrappers. Staples a little rusty. A fine copy of this scarce nationalist pamphlet. €350 CARTY 898. Constance Gore-Booth (Countess Markievicz, 1868-1927), revolutionary, was born to an Anglo-Irish ascendancy family, and was educated at the family seat in Lissadell, County Sligo. She is one of the most romanticised political figures of the early twentieth century. She studied painting in Paris, where she met her Polish husband Casimir Markievicz, whom she later amicably separated from. She became a follower of Sinn Féin but disagreed with the approach of its leader, Arthur Griffith. She founded a youth organisation, Fianna Eireann and joined Inghinidhe na hEireann for which she wrote A Call to the Women of Ireland and contributed also to the suffragette newspaper, Bean na hEireann. Later she worked closely with James Connolly, ran a soup kitchen in Liberty Hall during the Dublin lock-out of 1913. She became an officer in the Irish Citizen Army, this prompted the resignation of its general secretary, Sean O'Casey. During the Easter Rebellion of 1916 she served as second-in-command to at St.

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Stephen's Green, sentenced to death but was reprieved on account of her sex. She was the first woman ever elected to the House of Commons in 1918, but as a member of Sinn Féin did not take her seat. 255. [MASON, Wm. Shaw] A Reprint of the Statistical Account of the Town and Parish of Thurso, in Scotland and of the Parish of Aghaboe, in Ireland. With a short introduction containing a plan for the arrangement of the Statistical Account of Ireland. Statistical Account of the Town and Parish of Thurso, County and Presbytery of Caithness, and Synod of Sutherland and Caithness. By the Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair, Bart. Statistical Account of the Parish of Aghaboe, in the Queen's County, and Diocese of Ossory. By the Rev. Edward Ledwich. With two engravings and a folding map. Dublin: Re-printed by Graisberry and Campbell, for William Shaw Mason, Esq., 1813. pp. [1], 12, [3], 16-52, [5], 58-89, [1]. Each part with separate title. Original blue stitched wrappers. Inscribed presentation copy from the author to the Earl of Leitrim. A fine copy. Rare. €365 COPAC locates 3 copies only, Not in Black or Gilbert. Bradshaw 2196. Folding map of the Parish of Aghaboe, plates of the Abbey and Church of Aghaboe the Mote of Monacoghlan. 256. MATHESON, Robert E. Varieties and Synonyms of Surnames and Christian Names in Ireland, for the guidance of registration officers and the public in searching the indexes of births, deaths, and marriages. Dublin: Printed for His Majestys Stationery Office, By Alex. Thom, 1901. pp. 94, [1]. Contemporary full red morocco, covers framed by double gilt and dotted fillets, with shamrock fleurons, enclosing in the centre the title in gilt; turn-ins gilt; red and gold endbands; cream moiré silk endpapers. Wear to extremities. All edges gilt. Some spotting to endpapers. An attractive copy. €165 257. MEYER, Kuno. Learning in Ireland in the Fifth Century and the Transmission of Letters. A Lecture Delivered before the School of Irish Learning in Dublin on September 18th, 1912. Dublin: School of Irish Learning, 122a St. Stephen's Green, Hodges, Figgis, & Co., Ltd, 104 Grafton Street, 1913. pp. 29, [1]. Green stitched faded wrappers. A very good copy. Scarce. €65 258. MILLER, George. Judgment in the Consistorial Court of Armagh, Involving the Question of the Law of Marriage in Ireland. By George Miller, Principal Surrogate. Armagh: John M'Watters, 17, English-Street, 1840. pp. 18. Marbled wrappers. Very good copy. Very rare. €375 COPAC locates 1 copy only. No printed copy located on WorldCat. Judgement in the Lemon v. Lemon case. The object of the suit was to determine a claim to the administration of the effects of Thomas Lemon, the executors named by him in his Will having renounced. The administration was first claimed by Jane M'Quatty, as widow of the deceased; a caveat was then entered by Eleanor Lemon, as having being previously married to him. WILLIAM BLAKE ILLUSTRATED 259. MILTON, John. Paradise Lost. Illustrations by William Blake. Printed at the Lyceum Press Liverpool and Published by the Liverpool Booksellers' Co. Limited, 1906. Quarto. pp. pp. ix, [1], 397, [1], 12 coloured illustrations, each with tissue guard sheet containing text. Modern brown buckram, titled in gilt. Some light toning. A very good copy. €385 Paradise Lost is an epic poem in twelve books, in English heroic verse without rhyme, by John Milton, first published in 1667. The subject is the fall of man, and the expulsion from Paradise. William Blake illustrated Paradise Lost more often than any other work by John Milton, and illustrated Milton's work more often than that of any other writer. The illustrations demonstrate his critical engagement with the text, specifically his efforts to redeem the "errors" he perceived in his predecessor's work.

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See item 259. 260. [MITFORD, John Freeman. Lord Redesdale] Observations on the Remonstrance of the Rev. Peter O'Neil, Parish Priest of Ballymacoda, in the County of Cork. Dublin: Printed for John Millikin, No. 32, Grafton-Street, 1804. pp. iv, [1], 6-26. Original blue stitched repaired wrappers. A very good copy. €475 COPAC locates 6 copies only. Copies listed on COPAC have 16 pages, and are at variance of our copy of 26 pages. Peter O'Neil (1757-1846), Roman Catholic priest, was born in the parish of Coona, County Cork, a descendant of the O'Neil clan of County Tyrone. He attended a in Inch, studied classics at Kilworth, and then began ecclesiastical studies at the Irish College in Paris, eventually teaching Celtic language and literature there. He spent several years as a missionary in the diocese of Cloyne before receiving charge of the parish of Ballymacoda of which he had been an exceedingly popular curate. During the rebellion he was accused of sanctioning the murder of a United Irishman suspected of being a government spy; O'Neil refused, or was unable, to give information about it, was arrested, received 275 lashes without trial, and was threatened with another flogging unless he confessed. Distraught, he first wrote that he deserved his sufferings but later protested his innocence and decried the conditions under which he alleged that his confession had been extorted. He stated that he was allowed neither to be present nor to be represented at a court of inquiry on his case held in 1799 and that the court had failed to acquit him merely because of inaccuracies in his memorial. However, he was held in prison for two years before being transported in 1800 in the Anne which sailed from Cork a few days before an order arrived from the lord lieutenant to stop his departure. On the voyage he helped to prevent a mutiny and so earned the approbation of the surgeon. Soon after he arrived on 21 February 1801 Governor Philip Gidley King, who was then very disturbed by the Irish in the colony, sent him to Norfolk Island, as a priest 'of the most notorious, seditious and rebellious principles'. On the island he lived with Father James Harold. In August 1802 Hobart recommended that all the priests be conditionally pardoned and that O'Neil be employed as a schoolteacher, but before his dispatch was written, instructions for O'Neil's release had been sent from Ireland on 30 May after another investigation of his case there. He was released on 15 January 1803 after a Government Order of 19 November 1802 had reached Norfolk Island. He sailed directly to Ireland, was reinstated as

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parish priest of Ballymacoda on 29 July 1803, and remained there until his death on 30 June 1835. O'Neil's case provoked much controversy. His 'Humble Remonstrance' was published in The Catholic Question. Correspondence Between the Right Hon. Lord Redesdale, Lord High Chancellor of Ireland, and the Right Hon. the Earl of Fingall (Dublin, 1804). The official justification was that the extraordinary action of the Irish military authorities was dictated by the desperate situation of the time. One of the unfortunate innocent victims of measures which the British government took in the Irish crisis, O'Neil carried the marks of his torture to his grave. With an appendix of depositions from men of the Wexford Militia concerning the treatment of Father Peter O'Neil during the 1798 rebellion. 261. MONTGAILLARD, Maurice Comte de. Continuation of the State of France. Dublin: Printed by P. Byrne, 1794. pp. [2], vi, 70. Original stitched blue paper wrappers. Untrimmed. In fine condition. Extremely rare. €475 COPAC locates 4 copies only. Translation from the French of Suite de l'Etat de la France [au mois de mai 1794], Londres et Hambourg, 1794. Jean Gabriel Maurice Rocques, comte de Montgaillard (1761-1841) French political agent of the Revolution and First Empire era. After serving for some years in the French Caribbean, Maurice de Rocques returned to France and settled in Paris as a secret diplomatic agent in 1789, and, although he was an émigré to Great Britain after the 10th of August 1792 attack on the Tuileries, he returned six weeks later to Paris, where his safety during the Reign of Terror was most probably purchased by services to the French Republic. He was again serving the Bourbon princes when he met Emperor Francis II at Ypres (in the Austrian Netherlands) in 1794 and met with William Pitt the Younger in London, where he published his État de la France au mois de mai 1794, predicting the fall of Maximilien Robespierre and the start of the Thermidorian Reaction. After the 18 Brumaire coup, when he returned to Paris in the hope of recognition by , Rocques was imprisoned, and on his release he was kept under police supervision. Napoleon, who appreciated his real insight into European politics and his extraordinary knowledge of European courts, attached him to the Empire's secret cabinet in spite of his past intrigues. He received a salary of 14,000 francs, reduced later to 6,000, for reports on political questions for Napoleon's use, and for pamphlets written to help the imperial policy. He tried to dissuade Napoleon from his Habsburg matrimony plans with Marie Louise and the invasion of Russia, and warned against expansion of the Empire beyond the Rhine, the Alps and the Pyrenees. 262. [MOORE, Thomas] The Fudge Family in Paris. Edited by Thomas Brown, The Younger, author of the Twopenny Post-Bag. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1818. Fifth edition. 12mo. pp. viii, 168. Half red morocco, over marbled boards. Title in gilt direct on richly gilt spine. Ex libris William O'Brien Milltown Park Trust, with bookplate and stamp. A very good copy. €125 263. MOORE, Thomas, Esq. an Oriental Romance. Illustrated with six engravings. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Reeves ..., 1820. Tenth edition. pp. [4], 397, [1]. Bound in contemporary full straight-grained green morocco in the style of George Mullen. Covers blocked in gilt and blind to a panel design, title and author in gilt direct in the second and fourth compartment, the remainder tooled to a panel design with a floral motif in centre; fore-edges and turn-ins gilt; green endpapers. Early owner's signature 'A. V. Love, Birr' on front free endpaper. All edges gilt. A very good and attractive copy. €235 WITH ANNOTATIONS IN PENCIL BY SIR WILLIAM FRANCIS PATRICK NAPIER 264. MOORE, Thomas. The Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald. Engraved portrait frontispiece and folding map. Two volumes. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 39, Paternoster-Row, 1831. First edition. pp. (1) xi, [1], 307, [1], (2) [ii], 305, [1]. Contemporary half green morocco over marbled boards. Spine divided into six panels by five gilt raised bands, title and volume number in gilt direct in the second and fourth, the remainder ruled in gilt, library shelf number in white on fifth panel. Ex libris William O'Brien Milltown Park Trust, with bookplates and stamp. Also with armorial bookplate of Henry Lord Langdale, M.R. on front pastedown. Light foxing to prelims. Annotations in pencil by Sir William Francis Patrick Napier. Occasional light foxing. Top edge gilt. A very good set. €1,250

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Lord Edward Fitzgerald (1763-1798), United Irishman, was born at , County Kildare. He joined the Sussex Militia and saw active service in America. Returning to Ireland in 1781 he sat in the Irish Parliament as member for , voting with Grattan and Curran. In 1796 he accompanied Arthur O'Connor to Basle to negotiate with General Hoche for French help but the Directory would not deal with him because of his French wife's royalist connections. In May 1798 Fitzgerald was seized by Major Sirr in his room in Thomas Street. In the struggle that ensued he killed one of his attackers and was himself shot in the arm. He died of his wounds in Newgate Prison on 4 June. Sir William Francis Patrick Napier (1785-1860) Irish soldier in the British Army and a military historian was born at Castletown near Celbridge, County Kildare, the third son of Colonel George Napier and his wife, Lady Sarah Lennox, daughter of the Duke of Richmond. He became an ensign in the Royal Irish Artillery in 1800, but at once exchanged into the 62nd, and was put on half-pay in 1802. He was afterwards made a cornet in the Royal Horse Guards by the influence of his uncle the Duke of Richmond, and for the first time did actual military duty in this regiment, but he soon fell in with Sir John Moore's suggestion that he should exchange into the 52nd, which was about to be trained at Shorncliffe Army Camp. Through Sir John Moore he soon obtained a company in the 43rd, joined that regiment at Shorncliffe and became a great favourite with Moore. He fought in the Napoleonic Wars, particularly in the Peninsular War in Spain and Portugal; he wrote the popular History of the War in the Peninsula, based partly on his own combat experiences and partly on information supplied by two commanders in that conflict, the Duke of Wellington and the French marshal Nicolas-Jean de Dieu Soult. He devoted the rest of his life to historical writing, initially contributing an article to the Edinburgh Review in 1821. In this Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald Napier has written annotations in pencil on pages [Vol. I] 51, 54, 56, 72, 222, and 224. [Vol. II] pages 9, 13, 23, 24, 30, 36, 57, 69, 92, 100, 132, 136, 139, 141, 167, 231, 293, and 296. He identifies several persons in the text whose surname is given with only a capital letter. There are also several interesting historical comments: "Lady Edward in after times asserted that Charlie Duc de Feltre was in Pitt's pay and betrayed the Irish leaders" - [Vol. II, p. 9]. He comments on the spy: "Thomas Reynolds was by Lord Wellesley made Post Master and Pacquet Agent at Lisbon in 1810. And he there pursued his old trade of a spy" - [Vol. II, p. 13]. Lady Edward was in great peril and was refused any assistance from the Castle: "So great was the violence and cruelty of the Governing party at this period, that no medical man could be persuaded to attend on Lady Edward. Some refused from fear of the Ministers, others from fear of the Yeomanry, others from a natural hardship of heart which led them to express their joy at being able to refuse assistance to a rebel's wife" [Vol. II, page 69]. On the death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald he relates: "Mr. Stone was a good honest man he was kind and friendly in his manner to Lord Edward, he always said that when he left the prison Lord Edward was not worse but better, that his spirits were not depressed, and that he had every appearance of a man who was likely to recover. It was and is still thought by many that Lord Edward died from poison or from violence and that he did not as others said desire to die to escape a public execution, but was ready and even anxious to have his enemies .... ." [Vol II, p. 132]. There is a long footnote also on Lady Louisa Conolly's attempt to visit her dying nephew - her pleading with Lord Clare who accompanied her to the prison - Napier concludes " ... Lord Clare was a harsh and cruel man, but this fact proves that he was not to be ranked among the heartless monsters of that day ... ." [Vol. II, pp. 136-139]. Provenance: From the library of Henry Bickersteth, 1st Baron Langdale, PC (1783-1851) English law reformer and Master of the Rolls was born at Kirkby Lonsdale, three years before his brother Edward Bickersteth. It was he who encouraged Sir William Francis Patrick Napier to write the history of the Peninsular Wars. EXTREMELY RARE PHILADELPHIA PRINTING 265. MOORE, Thomas. Irish Melodies. Philadelphia: Published by M. Carey, 1815. 12mo. pp. [3]-148, possibly wanting a half title, a little foxed. Contemporary half calf repaired. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €850 No copy located on COPAC or WorldCat. Not listed in CBEL3. Extremely rare, this appears to be the true first separate edition of Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies. Moore had begun to write these lyrics - to be set to traditional Irish airs, arranged by Sir John Stevenson - as early as 1807, and they were published separately to great acclaim, in parts, over the years 1808-34. In the authorised editions the words were always published with the music - presumably as they could be sold more expensively that way - until the early 1820s, and no separate printing of the words only was permitted . This pirate edition by Matthew Carey of Philadelphia must have been based

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on imports of the music sheets, and appears to be extremely rare. We can trace no other copy. Carey, Irish born, was a friend of Benjamin Franklin. Provenance: Eric Quayle, Collector with his pencil note on endpaper 'A most rare and difficult first edition, unknown to Bibliographers, but the true first printing in book form of these famous Irish Melodies.' Recent bookplate of Jim Edwards on front pastedown. 266. MORE, Thomas Sir, Saint. Utopia: Written in Latin by Sir Thomas More, Chancellor of England. Translated into English, by Gilbert Burnet, late Bishop of Sarum. To this edition is added, a short Account of Sir Thomas More's Life and his Trial. Dublin: Printed by R. Reilly, for G. Risk, G. Ewing, and W. Smith, Booksellers, in Dame-Street, 1737. 12mo. pp. xxviii, 140. Contemporary full calf, title in gilt on black morocco letterpiece. New front endpaper. Early signature on titlepage. Traces of inoffensive old waterstain to lower margin at rear. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €785 COPAC with 6 locations only. Gibson 32. Thomas More is known for his 1516 book Utopia and for his untimely death in 1535, after refusing to acknowledge King Henry VIII as head of the Church of England. He was canonized by the Catholic Church as a saint in 1935. Thomas More wrote Utopia in 1516, which was the forerunner of the utopian literary genre. More served as an important counsellor to King Henry VIII of England, serving as his key counsellor in the early 1500s, but after he refused to accept the king as head of the Church of England, he was tried for treason and beheaded (he died in London, England, in 1535). More is noted for coining the word "Utopia," in reference to an ideal political system in which policies are governed by reason. He was canonized by the Catholic Church as a saint in 1935, and has been commemorated by the Church of England as a "Reformation martyr." 267. MORLEY, John. Burke. London: Macmillan and Co., 1907. pp. viii, 315. Maroon cloth, titled in gilt. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. A fine copy. €45 The life and times of the statesman Edmund Burke. 268. [MOUNT MELLERAY ALBUM] Amharc-leabhar Chnuic Mheilerí. Mont Melleray Album. Cork: Guy and Co. Ltd, n.d. (c.1920). Oblong octavo. pp. [22]. Thick white paper boards, title in gilt on upper cover, within a gilt border and Celtic interlacing in green. Badge of Mount Melleray Abbey, Celtic Shield, Harp of Eireann and Irish Scene (Wolfhound, Round Tower, Abbey and Celtic Cross) at corners. Artist name in gilt 'J.F. Maxwell.' Captions in Irish and English. A near fine copy. €195

Having obtained a large tract of unreclaimed mountain land from Sir Richard Keane, Bart., of Cappoquin, the religious set about building a Monastery and reclaiming the wild waste. Situated in the County of Waterford, amid the Knockmeldown Mountains, it commands a magnificent view of the surrounding country, the most picturesque and attractive feature of which is the Valley of the Blackwater. The Abbey was founded in the year 1833 by Irish Cistercian Monks, who had made profession in the Abbey of Melleray, in France, and who were expelled from that country during which accompanied the accession of Louis Phillipe to the throne. Including in the illustrations are: Distant View of Mount Melleray Abbey; Sammon Leap, in vicinity of

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Monastery; Approach to Monastery; Entrance Gate and Students Residence; Boys' Day School; The Seminary; The Great Hall, Seminary; The Chemical Laboratory; The Physical Laboratory; Visitors Reception House; East View of Monastery; The Cemetery; Court Yard; Abbey Church; Interior of Community Church; Secular Church; Chapter Room; Refectory; Dormitory Library; Cloister Garth; Range of Workshops and Farm Buildings; Guest House West Farm View. SIGNED BY RISTEÁRD UA MAOLCHATHA 269. MULCAHY, Richard. A postcard of General Richard Mulcahy, T.D., Commander-in- Chief National Army. Oval portrait in military uniform. Signed by Risteárd Ua Maolchatha and dated 3rd December, 1923. Photograph by Lafayette and published by Eason & Son of Dublin. 89 x 139mm. Small crease along head, otherwise in very good condition. Rare. €475 Richard James Mulcahy (1886-1971), politician, army general and commander-in-chief, leader of and cabinet minister, was born in Waterford. He fought in the 1916 Easter Rising, served as Chief of Staff of the during the War of Independence and became commander of the pro-treaty forces in the after the death of Michael. Around the time of signing this photograph, he was very busy building the National Army and sorting out the Liam Tobin affair. 270. MULDOON, Paul. Ed. by. The Faber Book of Beasts. London: Faber, 1997. pp. xvii, 295. Orange papered boards, title in black on spine. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. €35 271. [MUNSTER BANK] The Munster Bank (Limited) Liquidation Act, 1887. An Act to facilitate the winding up of the Munster Bank Limited to vest the remaining assets of the Munster Bank in the Munster and Leinster Bank Limited and for other purposes. London: Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1887. Royal octavo. pp. 11. Bound by Dollard of Dublin in contemporary full maroon morocco, title and 'D. & T. Fitzgerald' Solicitors in gilt on upper cover. A very good copy. Rare. €125 272. MURPHY, Rev. Denis. Ed. by. The Annals of Clonmacnoise being Annals of Ireland from the earliest period to A.D. 1408. Translated into English A.D. 1627 by Conell Mageoghagan. Dublin: University Press, 1896. First edition. Royal octavo. pp. ix, [3], 393, 4. Green cloth, titled in gilt. Spine professionally rebacked, new endpapers. A very good copy. Very scarce. €135 The original manuscript is lost and contrary to what the name suggests they were not compiled at Clonmacnoise. There were however three copies of an English translation made in 1627 by Conall or Conla Mageoghagan, of Lismoyne, County Westmeath, whom O'Clery calls "The industrious collecting Bee of everything that belongs to the honour and history of the descendants of Milesius, both lay and ecclesiastical, so far as he could find them". The only explanation for the name is that they deal at length with the history of that country and include a detailed account of St. Ciaran. These Annals begin with the Creation and end with the year 1408. The author tells us that he made use of Eusebius, the Venerable Bede, and the works of the Irish Saints and Chroniclers. These Annals are more comprehensive in the earlier periods than the Annals of Ulster or the Annals of the Four Masters. 273. MURRAY, John. A Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Ireland 1600-1720. London: John Murray, 1981. First edition. pp. [4], 127. Green cloth, title in gilt along spine. A fine copy in dust jacket. €65 274. [MUSGRAVES] Musgrave's Patent Stable Fittings. Showrooms: 75, Ann St. Belfast. 97, New Bond St. London, W. 40, Deansgate, Manchester. 240, Rue de Rivoli, Paris. Belfast: Adair, n.d. (c.1899). Quarto. p.p. [ii], 113. Pictorial wrappers. With a notice tipped in on the front free endpaper from St. Ann's Works and Cromac Foundry, Belfast announcing a 10% increase in prices in this catalogue commencing 1st May, 1899. Owner's signature on front free endpaper. Some damp staining to upper margin. Spine rebacked. A very good copy. Very scarce. €375 No copy located on COPAC. The firm of Musgrave & Co Ltd like many of the old established industrial undertakings of the age, grew from comparatively small beginnings as a family business to the peak of its status over the 120 years of its operations. The company first appears in the Belfast

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Directory of 1843 - 1844, where it is entered as Musgrave & Bros. Hardware Merchants, at 99 High Street. By the 1850's they were well established, not only as Hardware Merchants but also as manufacturers of their own patent slow combustion stoves and patent stable and cow-house fittings. Additional premises were a Warehouse and Offices in 99 and 63 High Street and an Engineering Works in Ann Street with a Foundry. In 1865 the machining side of the business was sold to Richard Patterson & Co who took over the High Street premises. Musgrave Bros. then relocated their offices to their Ann Street Works where they concentrated on manufacturing their own products. During this time the company received the careful attention of John and James, Robert dying in 1867. The business developed rapidly and in 1872 was transferred into a Limited Company. 275. NAPIER, Joseph, Right Hon. Sir. The College and the University. Communicated to the Governing Body of the College and to the Senate of the University. Dublin: Printed at the University Press by M.H. Gill , 1871. pp. 32. Grey boards, title in black on white label on upper cover. A fine copy. €125 COPAC locates the TCD copy only. RARE FIRST EDITION 276. NEILSON, Rev. Wm. An Introduction to the Irish Language. I - Original and Comprehensive Grammar. II - Familiar Phrases, and Dialogues. III - Extracts from Irish Books, and Manuscripts, in the Original Character. Three parts in one. With copious Tables of the Contractions. List of subscribers. Dublin: Printed for P. Wogan, 15, Lower Ormond-Quay, 1808. First edition. pp. xiii, [3], 159, [1], 88, 30. Modern quarter morocco on marbled boards. Ex Libris Milltown Park Library, with bookplate and stamp. A very good copy. €145 Rev. Neilson (1774-1821), a Presbyterian clergyman, was born in Rademon, County Down, and was educated in his father's school, Patrick Lynch's Irish school at Loughinisland, and Glasgow University. He often preached in Irish, and in this book which is an abridgement of Begley's and MacCurtain's English-Irish Dictionary, and gives us a unique record of the Irish spoken in County Down, at the turn of the nineteenth century. He was one of the first to recognise the value of 'caint na ndaoine' - the living speech of the people. In the revival of the Irish language, he was a hundred years before his time. Text and notes in English. Examples in Irish with English translations. With separate titlepage and pagination for each part. 277. NELSON, E.C. & BRADY, A. Irish Gardening and Horticulture. Profusely illustrated with coloured and mono plates. Dublin: Printed by Folens for the Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland, 1979. Folio. pp. [vi], 235, [12 (index)]. Tan arlen, titled in gilt. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €45 278. NEWMAN, John Henry. D.D. Sermons Preached on Various Occasions. London: Burns, Oates, & Co., 1870. Third edition. pp. xv, 319. Brown cloth, title in gilt on spine. Ex libris with stamps. A very good copy. €150 279. NEWMAN, John Henry. D.D. Discussions and Arguments on Various Subjects. London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1873. Second edition. pp. 8 (publisher's list), viii, 404, [1]. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Ex lib. with stamps. Spine faded, otherwise a good copy. €245 280. Ní DHUBHGAILL, C. Máire (Crissie M. Doyle). omen in Ancient and odern Ireland. Cover illustration by race lunkett, other illustrations from original sketches by aibh Treinseach. Dublin: The Kenny Press, 65 Middle Abbey Street, 1917. pp. 40. Pictorial wrappers. Small portion of lower right hand corner of upper wrapper missing. A very good copy. €175 COPAC locates the TCD copy only. With chapters on: Irishwomen in the Past; Education and Fosterage; Dowries and Marriage Customs; Disposal of Property, Rights of Married Women; Professions, Occupations, Etc.; Minor Occupations, Domestic Duties; Houses and Domestic Arrangements; Beauty of Irishwomen - Testimony of Foreigners and Others; Cleanliness, Dress, Personal Adornment, etc. Irish ink, Irish paper, Irish trade union labour - title page. 281. NORMAN, E.R. The Catholic Church and Ireland in the Age of Rebellion 1859-1873. London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1965. pp. xi, 485. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in dust jacket. €35

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282. [NORSE CHRONICLE] The Story of King Brian's Battle as it is told in the Norse Chronicles. With pictures by Seán MacManus. Dublin: At the Sign of the Three Candles, 1933. pp. xxxi. Pictorial stitched wrappers. Previous owner's neat signature and date on titlepage. Cover sun-tanned. A good copy. Scarce. €75 De Búrca 58. The Norse account, taken from the Njals Saga, of the Battle of Clontarf, with many strange tales of the signs and portents which came before and after. Seán MacManus has captured successfully the stark and simple epic style of the narrative in his illustrations. 283. O'BEIRNE, Thomas Lewis. A Letter to the Right Honourable George Canning, on his Proposed Motion in favour of Catholic Emancipation. Third edition. London: Printed; and Dublin Reprinted, by R. Napper, for M. Keene, No. 6. College-Green, 1813. pp. xiv, [1], 16-71. Original repaired blue stitched wrappers. A fine copy. €275 COPAC locates 2 copies only. Thomas Lewis O'Beirne, (c.1747-1823), pamphleteer, polemicist, and bishop, was born at Farnagh, County Longford, son of Lewis O'Beirne, a Roman catholic farmer, and Margaret O'Beirne (née O'Meagher). Educated locally, and at Saint-Omer in Flanders, he and his brother were intended for the priesthood, but he left the Irish College in Paris without completing his studies. O'Beirne's early career is obscure, with rumours and allegations that he had been ordained a catholic priest, or conversely that he was a 'mitred layman', a protestant bishop who had never been consecrated a minister. It does appear that he was expelled from the Irish College for failings that led its president to decide that O'Beirne would make a terrible priest. Ambitious for advancement, O'Beirne converted to Protestantism, studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, and became an Anglican priest (1773). With the outbreak of the American war of independence he was appointed chaplain to the British fleet under Adm. Howe. When Howe was criticised for naval failures, O'Beirne rushed to his assistance in print with a pamphlet defending his reputation. It brought him to the attention of whig leaders in England, and marked the beginning of a long and successful career as a propagandist. After his return home to recuperate from illness in 1768, a chance meeting with John Hinchcliffe, the Church of England Bishop of Peterborough, set O'Beirne on the journey that was to result in his making his recantation, taking orders, and entering Trinity College, Cambridge where he received a BD degree in 1783. When the Act of Union was being agitated, O'Beirne proposed that the Church of Ireland and the Church of England should also be unified. His contention that this would render the Church of Ireland 'unassailable to our adversaries' reflected his perception that his church was a 'persecuted church'. He contrived to defend its position in a number of controversial tracts - Letter to Dr Troy (1805), A Letter from an Irish Dignitary … on the Subject of Tithes (1807), A Letter to Canning on his Proposed Motion on Catholic Emancipation (1812), and A Letter to the Earl of Fingal (1813). Between his appointment as and his death in February 1823, fifty-seven churches and seventy-two glebe houses were built, and he produced three volumes of collected sermons (1799, 1813, and 1821). O'Beirne left the church in the diocese considerably stronger than he found it. He died in Navan, on 17 February 1823, and was buried in the local churchyard, in the same vault as Bishop Pococke. Canning became PM after the resignation of Lord Liverpool. Although he was a talented politician, cabinet ministers Wellington and Peel detested him and his views on Catholic Emancipation and therefore refused to work with him. Canning was seen as liberal minded but also flamboyant. He was well liked in the country and could command the commons. 284. O'BRIEN, Donal. The Houses and Landed Families of Westmeath. Illustrated. Athlone: Temple Printing, 2014. Folio. pp. 236. Green paper boards. Signed by the author. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €150 Although published in the fall of 2014, this work is now sold out. 285. NA gCOPALEEN, Myles [Flann O'Brien - Brian O'Nolan] Cruiskeen Lawn. Extracts from the daily labours of the wise man. In Irish and English. Illustrated. Dublin: Cahill, n.d. (c.1943). pp. 80. Original illustrated wrappers, title in red on upper cover. Notice from Tynan O'Mahony, Manager of the 'Irish Times', pasted on front endpaper. Previous owner's signature. Some minor wear to spine and lines in ink on upper cover. A good copy. Very scarce. €275 For twenty years Flann O'Brien contributed a humorous column Cruiskeen Lawn to the 'Irish Times'. Some of the material was simply humorous - puns, word games, fantasies, and anecdotes - satirically

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directed against politicians, bureaucrats, and mediocrities in office. A series of accidents and illnesses led to bouts of drunkenness, and when, in 1953, it was felt that his attacks on establishment figures in his column could no longer be ignored he was persuaded to retire from the Civil Service. 286. O'BRIEN, Flann [Myles na gCopaleen] At Swim-Two-Birds. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1960. Second edition. pp. 315, [1]. Black papered boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €275 Brian O'Nolan (1911-1966), novelist, journalist, short story writer, playwright and humourist was a native of , County Tyrone. He was better known by his pseudonyms Flann O'Brien, Myles na gCopaleen, but he also had other pseudonymic incarnations: Brother Barnabas, George Knowall, Count O'Blather, and John James Doe. His most celebrated novel At Swim-Two-Birds was published in 1939, was hailed critically, and much relished by James Joyce, but it sold poorly. In 1960, the re-issue of At Swim-Two-Birds brought tremendous success, restored his confidence, and he went on to produce more best-selling novels. 287. O'BRIEN, Flann. At Swim Two Birds: An Original Theatre Bill. The Abbeys Players in Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two Birds. Adaptation for the stage by Audrey Welsh. Peacock Theatre, 24 Abbey Street Lower, North City, Dublin 1. Opening Thursday 3 September 1981. Director Eamonn Morrissey, Design Wendy Shea and Lighting Leslie Scott. [280mm x 430mm]. In very good condition. €275

288. Ó BROIN, Leon. Michael Collins. Gill's Irish Lives. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1980. pp. [iv], 156. Pictorial dust jacket. A good copy. €20 289. O'CALLAGHAN, The Rev. A. Conciliatory Address to the Protestants and Roman Catholics of Ireland: with some Strictures on Orangeism. Dublin: John Cumming, 16, Lower Ormond-Quay, 1823. pp. [ii], 14. Original brown stitched wrappers. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €275 No copy located on COPAC. "They have not only irritated the Roman Catholics, but disgusted a great majority of the Protestants of Ireland, by their ostentatious pretentions to exclusive loyalty while they revile the Government ... All this, indeed, however notorious, is indignantly denied by Orangemen in their periodical publications." 290. O'CASEY, Sean. A Large Photograph of Sean O'Casey in pensive mood, with polo neck sweater and wearing spectacles. Signed and inscribed "For John Dulanty / from / Sean Ó Casey / With affectionate regards / New Year 1950." Sean O'Casey.' Signed and dated on mount by the photographer Douglas Glass, 1949. In mounted display. 208 x 258mm. (Size of photograph). In fine condition. €475 Sean O'Casey (1880-1964), playwright, born in Dublin into a working class family and christened John Casey. His father's death in 1886 plunged the family into poverty. Self-educated, he was deeply involved in the Labour Movement and took part in the 'Lock-Out' strike of 1913. He was secretary of the Irish Citizen Army under James Connolly, but left when it moved closer to a Republican position. Encouraged by , he began to submit plays to the Abbey Theatre; and after some years

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success came with the production of 'The Shadow of a Gunman' (1923), which marked him as the new great voice of . In 1926 he left for London to become a full time writer. His next play 'The Silver Tassie' was rejected by the Abbey. This was a bitter blow to O'Casey and estranged him from the directors. John Dulanty was Irish Commissioner in London during World War Two. 291. Ó CEALLAIGH, Seamus. The Story of the G.A.A. A History and Book of Reference for . Kilkenny: Printed by Wellbrook Press, 1977. pp. 188. Pictorial wrappers. A fine copy. €15 292. Ó CEALLAIGH, Seán T. Photograph of Sean T. Ó Ceallaigh, after a pastel drawing by Seán O'Sullivan. Signed and Inscribed by Seán T. "To my dear friend / John W. Dulanty, / Ireland's Ambassador in London, / With warmest regards, Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh." Mounted. 150 x 200mm. In fine condition. €375 Sean T. Ó Ceallaigh, second , joined the Gaelic League in 1898 and was active in the IRB and a founder member of Sinn Fein. He was manager of the Gaelic League newspaper , and in 1916 was Staff Captain to Pearse in the GPO. He was arrested and interned, but escaped court-martial; in 1919 he became Ceann Comhairle of the First Dail, and later a Republican envoy in Paris. A close associate of Eamon de Valera, he was Minister for Local Government and for Finance in successive Fianna Fail governments, and succeeded as President of Ireland in 1945, re-elected in 1952. 293. O'CONNELL, Catherine M. Excursions in Ireland during 1844 and 1850. With a visit to the late Daniel O'Connell, M.P. London: R. Bentley, 1852. First and only edition. pp. xiii, 295. Modern brown cloth, titled in gilt on original label on spine. A very good copy. Very rare. €475 COPAC locates 6 copies only. THE HONOURABLE MEMBER FOR CLARE 294. O'CONNELL, Daniel. A Letter to Members of House of Commons of Great Britain and Ireland by Daniel O'Connell, Member for Clare. London: Ridgway, 1829. pp. 29, [2]. Modern quarter leather over marbled boards. Title in gilt along spine. A fine copy. €295 In this pamphlet O'Connell states that he has already taken the oaths of allegiance and abjuration: "I intend to take the oath provided for Catholic members by the Relief Bill lately passed." His desire was that the House of Commons should leave any question of law on his right to sit and vote to be decided by the known legal tribunals. He goes on to state Let it be recollected that I have been regularly elected by the free and spontaneous choice of an overwhelming majority of the electors of the County of Clare. I say free and spontaneous empathically, because the only assertion of undue influence on the minds of the electors was that of the Catholic Clergy. Now it is a part of history that the highest in rank, and second to none in character, of the Catholic clergy in Clare, were to be found amongst the friends of my opponents: such an election as mine is one which will not, I trust I may say cannot, be nullified by any flippant vote or summary declaration of the House ... ."

"THIS TORY GOVERNMENT COUNTENANCES AND SUPPORTS THE ORANGE FACTION IN ULSTER 295. O'CONNELL, Daniel. Autographed Letter Signed to James Collins in Ship Street, dated 1st May, 1842, from London. Single sheet octavo, folded. Written on three sides. €1,250

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On a single 9x7 inch sheet folded to make two pages. Dated May 1, 1842, to a James Collins on Ship Street, (as best we can make out), the letter reads: "Sir, Will you pardon me for respectfully soliciting your vote and interest on behalf of Mr. Marford [?] at the approaching election. I would not do so if I were not concerned that the Irish people have the deepest interest in the success of every liberal candidate and in particular of Mr. Marford whose opinions are excellent on all the topics connected with civil and religious liberty. I need not tell you that the Tory government countenances and supports the murderous Orange faction in Ulster -- and that even the most moderate of the Tory party are from their position giving strength and motive to the enemies of Catholic Ireland whose cries of 'To hell with the Pope' resound through the Northern Provinces. Asking your forgiveness for giving you this trouble [?] I beg leave to subscribe myself your faithful servant, Daniel O'Connell." O'Connell (1775-1847) called The Emancipator and The Liberator is held in the same esteem among Irish Catholics as Abraham Lincoln is held by historians in America. Light separation at the fold else very good. 296. O'CONNELL, Daniel. Daniel O'Connell upon American Slavery: with other Irish Testimonies. New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860. 12mo. pp. 48. Disbound. €295 No printed copy on COPAC. WorldCat 1. Sabin 56652. The Preface Notes: Among all the distinguished and eloquent advocates of negro Emancipation, on either side of the Atlantic, perhaps no one has ever surpassed in earnestness of zeal, or potency of speech, the late Daniel O'Connell, the 'Irish Liberator.' Especially was his soul filled with horror and disgust in view of the existence and rapid growth of slavery in America. Whatever he heard our boasts of freedom and equality, and read our Heaven-attested Declaration of Independence ... and then saw us shamelessly putting millions of an unfortunate race under the lash of the slave-drive, trafficking in their bodies and soul, and depriving them of every human right, a mighty moral conflagration instantly kindled within him! ... ." In addition the extracts from O'Connell, contains "Address From the Members of the Cuffe-Lane Temperance Society to their Brethren in America." 297. [O'CONNELL, Daniel] An Oration on the Death of Daniel O'Connell Delivered at Castle Garden, New York, September 22, 1847. By William H. Seward. Buffalo: Published by John B. Collins, 1855. pp. 36. Disbound. Rust marks on a few pages at the end, otherwise a good copy. Extremely rare. €295 No copy of the Buffalo edition located on COPAC. "Let us show (said he) to every friend of Ireland that Catholics are incapable of selling their country; that if their Emancipation was offered for their consent to the Act of Union, (even if Emancipation were a benefit after the Union,) they would reject it with prompt indignation. Let us show to Ireland that we have nothing in view but her good, nothing in our hearts but the desire of mutual forgiveness and mutual reconciliation. Let every man who agrees with me proclaim that if the alternative were offered him of the Union, or the re-enactment of the Penal Code in all its pristine horrors, he would prefer the latter as the lesser or more sufferable evil: that he would confide in the justice of his brethren, the Protestants of Ireland, rather than lay his country at the feet of foreigners." 298. Ó CROHAN, Tomás. The Islandman. Translated from the Irish by . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974. pp. xvi, 245. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine price- clipped dust jacket. €25 299. O'CROLY, Rev. David. An Essay Religious and Political on Ecclesiastical Finance, as regards the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland. Cork: Barry Drew, Dublin: Curry, London: Groombridge, 1834. First edition. pp. [ii] 94, [2]. Recent grey wrappers, with title on printed label on upper cover. Signature of Richard Trench on titlepage. A very good, uncut copy. €195 The author was Parish Priest of Ovens and Aglis.

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A MONUMENT TO ONE OF OUR GREATEST SCHOLARS 300. 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: James Duffy, 1861. pp. xxviii, 722. Recent blue cloth, titled in gilt. Previous owner's signatures on titlepage and preface. A very good copy. Scarce. €185 Eugene O'Curry (1796-1862), Irish scholar and industrious copyist and translator of Old Irish manuscripts whose works had an important influence on the revival of the Gaelic language and literature and contributed to the late nineteenth-century Irish literary renaissance. O'Curry examined and arranged many of the Irish manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy and Trinity College library and compiled the catalogue of those in the British Museum. In 1854 he was appointed professor of Irish history and archaeology in the new Catholic University of Ireland. His lectures, which give a full account of the medieval chronicles, historical romances, tales, and poems, were published in this collection in 1861. 301. O'DOMHNUILL, Uilliam. An Tiomna Nuadh ar dTíghearna agus ar Slanuightheóra Iosa Criosd: Ar na Tharruing go Fíríneach as a nGhreigis Ughdarach. With abridged Irish-English dictionary. London: Printed by Bagster & Thoms, 14, Bartholomew Close, for the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1828. pp. [ii], 562. Modern full calf, covers ruled with double gilt fillets. Spine divided into six panels by five raised bands, title in gilt on red morocco label in the second, the remainder with gilt motif; wide doublures; red, blue, brown and black marbled endpapers; green and yellow endbands. A very attractive copy. €375 COPAC locates 2 copies only. Inscribed in pencil on front endpaper 'Printed in the type of Richard Watts probably under Edward O'Reilly's direction. O'Reilly considered it a beautiful example of Irish type.' Henry Monck Mason was very involved in the Hibernian Bible Society in the early part of the nineteenth century. He related that after much consideration the Society decided that it should publish all the Scriptures in the Irish language and character. The Report of the Committee examining this appear in the Appendix to their Annual Report for the year 1824, where the necessary funds were made available and the committee of the British and Foreign Bible Society subscribed £300. They lauded the new type from Mr. Watts of London which was the most correct and beautiful models from ancient MSS. A Footnote states "This type has been everywhere approved." Edward O'Reilly stated: In the year 1818 a new edition of the New Testament was published in London, by the British and Foreign Bible Society, on beautiful Irish types, but either through the ignorance or the negligence of the editor or perhaps through both, the errors of this edition are innumerable." The Watts type was extensively used both in England and Ireland during the remainder of the nineteenth century. It was also used by the Achill Mission Press to print Revd. William Neilson's An Introduction to the Irish Language. 302. O'DONNELL, Peadar. The Knife. London: Jonathan Cape, 1930. First edition. pp. 287, [1]. Green cloth, titled in gilt. Occasional mild foxing and spotting to fore-edge. Cloth a little marked from handling. A very good copy. €145 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. THE MARTYROLOGY OF DONEGAL 303. O'DONOVAN, John. REEVES, William & TODD, J.H. Ed. by. The Martyrology of Donegal. A Calendar of the Saints of Ireland. Translated from the original Irish by the late John O'Donovan. Edited, with the Irish text, by James Henthorn Todd and William Reeves. Dublin:

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Printed for the Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society, 1864. pp. lv, 566, 14. Modern green cloth, title in gilt on printed label on spine. A very good copy. Very scarce. €450 The Martyrology of Donegal is so called because it was "begun and finished", as the colophon at the end of the work tells us, in the Franciscan Convent of Donegal, on the 19th of April, 1630. The Chief of The Four Masters, Michael O'Clery was the compiler. He was a lay brother of the convent of the Order of St. Francis of Strict Observance in Donegal, and was called Michael in religion although his real name was 'Tadhg an tSleibhe', or Thady of the Mountain. This work unlike the Martyrologies of Tallaght, Oengus or Gorman concerns itself exclusively with Irish saints. Compiled by a scholar of the greatest eminence, who has condensed into its pages the substance of original records, some of them no longer extant, and all requiring the highest order of Celtic learning to read and interpret them correctly. The value of this work is greatly enhanced by the accurate and copious indexes. It is also of great topographical and historical interest. 304. O'DONOVAN, John. Ed. by. Letters Containing information relative to the Antiquities of the County of Dublin. Collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1841. Illustrated with maps and plans. Bray: O'Flanagan, 1927. First edition. Quarto. pp. iii, iv, 52, 23 (maps). Green cloth, titled in gilt. A very good copy. Rare. €175 305. O'DRISCOL, John. Review of the Evidence Taken Before the Irish Committees of Both Houses of Parliament. Dublin: Richard Milliken, Grafton-Street, 1825. pp. 90, xiv (Appendix). Printed stitched wrappers. A very good copy. €225 COPAC locates 5 copies only. John O'Driscol, a distinguished Corkman, barrister and historian, became Chief Justice of the Isle of Dominica in the West Indies and died at his post there on the 3rd June, 1828. His burial on the island was attended by the Governor and all the public dignitaries of the Colony. His son William Justin O'Driscol practised as a barrister in Dublin, and was residing at when he wrote the biography of his boyhood friend and fellow townsman Daniel Maclise. Concerned with the deplorable policies of previous administrations and the ignorance in Great Britain respecting Ireland, John O'Driscol decided to redress this situation by proposing radical changes and improvements for his country: "The destiny of Ireland has been singular. Voltaire thought she was fore- doomed to slavery: but this brilliant writer was mistaken. This fate is reserved for the willing slave only ... Never were there more turbulent and reluctant slaves than the Irish". John O'Driscol also wrote The History of Ireland in two volumes published in London in 1827. The author, endeavoured to create a history of Ireland that was impartial while chronicling the centuries old struggles between the Irish and the English. He also wrote Views of Ireland, Moral, Political, and Religious.

306. [OFFICER IN THE ROYAL ARMY] The History of the Wars in Ireland between Their Majesties Army and the forces of the late King James. Giving An Impartial Relation of all the Battles, Sieges, Rencounters, Skirmishes and other Material Passages, Revolutions, and Accidents, from the beginning of December 1688. (The Time of Tyrconnels Arming to the whole

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Body of the Irish Rebels), to the middle of August, 1690. (The Time of the French quitting of Lymerick). By an Officer in the Royal Army. Illustrated with the Lively Effigies of His Sacred Majesty, and the Great Commanders in the Army. Engraved frontispiece. London: Printed for Benj. Johnson, in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1690. 12mo. pp. [12], 144 (some pages at end mis- numbered), [1 (leaf of plates)]. Nineteenth century full calf, blind-stamped to a panel design, title in gilt on black morocco label on spine. Ex libris William O'Brien Milltown Park Trust, with bookplates and stamp. All edges marbled. Some mild foxing and browning, otherwise a very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €1,250 COPAC with 3 locations only. WorldCat 4. Wing H2190. Sweeney 2334. Includes Schonberg's Proclamation against Profane Cursing, Swearing, and taking God's Holy Name. A most detailed account of the Williamite Wars: Chapter eleven states: "Great Plunder taken by the English near Finagh and Kells, 27 of Dublin. Castle-Blany and several Villages burnt, The Rebels breakdown the Bridges between Newry and Dundalk. Duke Schonberg goes to Belfast the 14 June, expecting the King. June 15, The Kinglands at Carrickfergus. His great reception in all places, ... June 24 His Majesty goes to Newry. A Camp is there form'd. The King's Message to the Irish. The Irish quit Dundalk, and retires to Ardee. The whole English Army Encamps on the Plains of Dundalk. The Irish quit Ardee, post themselves on the Boyne. June 30th, The King Encamps within sight of the Irish Army. Is wounded with a Cannon Ball, viewing the Enemies Camp. July 1. Part of the English Army passes the Boyne. The whole Irish Army defeated, and retires after their King to Dublin. The condition of Dublin on the Approach of the English Army. King James retires to Waterford. The English Army Encamp at Finglass, from whence the King goes to Dublin ... ." The author is described as being "An Officer in the Royal Army", and the work is illustrated "with the lively effigies of His Sacred Majesty, and the great commanders." 307. O'HAGAN, Thomas. O'Malleys, Minors. Argument of Thomas O'Hagan ... on behalf of William O'Malley, before Lord-Chancellor Napier, in the court of Chancery : on Monday, the 16th day of November, 1858, in the matter of the O'Malleys, Minors. Dublin: James Duffy, 1858. pp. 16. Printed stitched wrappers. Minor spotting. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €275 COPAC locates 2 copies only. Argument by Thomas O'Hagan in the case of the children of William O'Malley who were brought up Catholics. On the death of William, the children's mother, a protestant, sought to deprive the paternal uncle, a Catholic, possession of the children in order to educate them in the Protestant faith. 308. [OLDHAM, C.H.] The Dublin Chamber of Commerce and the Bill, 1920. Report of the Special Committee and the Reports of the various Sub-Committees, together with a Memorandum on the Finance of the Bill, prepared by C. H. Oldham. Dublin: Printed by Sealy, Bryers & Walker, 1920. pp. [2], 54. Brown stapled wrappers. Crease to a corner of a few pages, otherwise a very good copy. €65 COPAC locates the London School of Economics copy only. IN FINE IRISH BINDING - INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 309. O'LEARY, Rev. Arthur. Miscellaneous Tracts: I - A Defence of the Divinity of Christ, and the Immortality of the Soul: in answer to the author of a work, lately published in Cork, entitled, 'Thoughts on Nature and Religion'. Revised and corrected. II - Loyalty Asserted: or, A Vindication of the Oath of Allegiance; with an impartial enquiry into the Pope's Temporal Power, and the present claims of the Stuarts to the English throne: Proving that both are equally groundless. III - An Address to the common People of Ireland, on occasion of an apprehended invasion by the French and Spaniards, in July 1779, when the United Fleets of Bourbon appeared in the Channel. IV - Remarks on a letter written by Mr. Wesley, and a Defence of the Protestant Associations. V - Rejoinder to Mr. Wesley's Reply to the above Remarks. VI - Essay on Toleration: tending to prove that a man's speculative opinions ought not to deprive him of the rights of civil society. In which are introduced, The Rev. John Wesley's Letter, and the Defence of the Protestant Associations. Dublin: Printed by Tho. M'Donnel at Pope's Head, No. 32, New- Row, Thomas-Street, 1781. pp. xvi, 87, [2], 107, 101, 24, 81, [1]. Bound by McKenzie in full red morocco, covers framed by a gilt floral roll. Flat spine elaborately tooled in gilt, title in gilt on

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312. O'NEILL, Marie. Grace Gifford Plunkett and Irish Freedom. Tragic Bride of 1916. Illustrated. Dublin and Portland, Oregon: Irish Academic Press, 200. First edition. pp. xx, 117. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. €135 Grace Gifford Plunkett, one of a family of talented sisters, married Joseph Mary Plunkett in Kilmainham Jail a few hours before his execution for his part in the Easter Rising of 1916. She was a well-known and successful artist with a very distinctive style. This work is richly illustrated with her cartoons and caricatures showing her strong views of both political and cultural events of the time. 313. Ó RÍORDÁIN, Seán P. Antiquities of the Irish Countryside. Illustrated by forty-seven photographs and four diagrams. Cork: University Press, 1943. Second edition. pp. vii, [iii], 57, [1]. Owner's signature on titlepage. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. €35 COPAC locates 4 copies only. 314. [ORMONDE, Duke of] The Conduct of His Grace the Duke of Ormonde, in the Campagne of 1712. London: Printed for John Morphew, near Stationers-Hall, 1715. Small quarto. pp. [iv], 64. Disbound. Rare. €375

ESTC T31143. Gilbert 161 Not in Bradshaw. Anonymous. Attributed to Mary Delariviere Manley. James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde was born in Dublin Castle in 1665 and was brought up by his grandfather the Great Duke. Educated in France and Oxford, he was married at seventeen to a daughter of Lord Hyde, but was left a widower three years later. He served at the siege of Luxembourg, and in suppressing the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion. Shortly afterwards he married secondly a daughter of the Duke of Beaufort. Upon the Great Duke's death he succeeded to the title, and was appointed Chancellor by the University of Oxford. He saw service at the battle of Landen where Patrick Sarsfield died, and later led the land forces in the attack on Cadiz. He was twice Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. In December 1711 Marlborough was dismissed from all his offices, and soon afterwards Ormonde was appointed to succeed him as Commander in Chief. He departed for the Flanders campaign in April 1712 and Burnet states that he was "well satisfied both with his instructions and his appointments, for he had the same allowances that had been voted criminal in the Duke of Marlborough". He met with a

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cool reception from the Dutch and Prince Eugene, having reviewed the allied troops near Douay, the orders arrived, which were afterwards known as the notorious restraining orders. These he was instructed to keep secret and forbade him joining in any siege or engagement. This resulted in great embarrassment for Ormonde and likewise his negotiations with the French did little to improve his standing. However on his return to England he was warmly received and made Warden of the Cinque Ports and Governor of Dover, his Duchess a Lady of the Bedchamber. Through his influence Swift was appointed Dean of St. Patrick's. The author endeavours to elucidate Ormonde's part in the campaign. 315. ORMSBY, Lambert Hepenstal. Medical History of the Meath Hospital and County Dublin Infirmary, from its foundation in 1753 down to the present time; including Biographical Sketches of the Surgeons and Physicians who served on its Staff; with the names of apprentices, resident pupils, clinical clerks and prizemen; also all students who studied at the hospital, from the year 1838. With numerous illustrations. Dublin: Fannin & Co., 1888. First edition. pp. 407, [4], 49. Red Cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and on spine, black endpapers. Spine slightly faded, mild soiling to covers. All edges red. A very good copy. Very scarce. €295 316. ORWELL, George Nineteen Eighty-Four. Illustrated. Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1992. First edition thus. pp. xiii, [2], 314. Printed on archival paper. Full black gilt decorated leather, title in gilt direct on spine; moiré silk endpapers; green and gold endbands; gold silk ribbon page marker. All edges gilt. A fine copy. €475 Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and essayist, journalist and critic, whose work is characterised by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism. The novel is set in an imagined future, the year 1984, when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism and propaganda. JAMES CARNEY'S COPY 317. OSKAMP, H.P.A. The Voyage Of Máel Dúin. A Study in Early Irish Voyage Literature Followed by an Edition of Immram curaig Máele Dúin from the Yellow Book of Lecan in Trinity College, Dublin. Holland: Wolters-Noordhoff Publishing, 1970. pp. xi, 202. Cream wrappers. James Carney's copy with his signature on titlepage, some underlining and notes by him. A very good copy. €195 Máel Dúin is the protagonist of Immram Maele Dúin or The Voyage of Máel Dúin, a tale of a sea voyage written in Old Irish around the end of the 1st millennium AD. He is the son of Ailill Edge-of- Battle, whose murder provides the initial impetus for the tale. The story belongs to the group of Irish romances, the Navigations (Imrama), the common type of which was possibly drawn in part from the classical tales of the wanderings of Jason, Ulysses, and Aeneas. The text exists in an 11th-century redaction, by a certain Aed the Fair, described as the "chief sage of Ireland," but it may be gathered from internal evidence that the tale itself dates back to the 8th century. Imram Curaig Mailduin is preserved, in each case imperfectly, in the Lebor na hUidre, a manuscript in the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin; and in the Yellow Book of Lecan, MS. H. 216 in the Trinity College Library, Dublin; fragments are in Harleian MS. 5280 and Egerton MS. 1782 in the British Museum. 318. O'SULLIVAN, Donal. Carolan. The Life Times and Music of an Irish Harper. In two volumes. I. The Life and Times and The Music. II. The Notes to the Tunes and The Memoirs of Arthur O'Neill. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, portraits and musical examples. Two volumes. London: Routledge, 1958. First edition. Quarto. pp.(1) xv, 285, (2) xiii, 200. Blue cloth with harp in gilt on upper cover and title in gilt on spine. Tipped in is a typed letter signed from the Publisher to Professor Myles Dillon; also with typed note signed by the author referring to the Stanford MSS in the Royal Irish Academy "The total number of tunes is 2167, including duplicates." A very good copy in dust jackets. Scarce. €295 Turlough O'Carolan (Toirdhealbhach Ó Cearbhalláin) was born in 1670 near Nobber, County Meath and died March 25, 1738 at the home of his patron Mrs. MacDermott Roe in Alderford, . He was the last Irish harper-composer whose pieces have survived in any significant

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number. Carolan's father, John, was either a farmer or a blacksmith. The family moved to Ballyfarnon where John Carolan was employed by the MacDermott Roe family. Mrs. MacDermott befriended the boy and gave him an education. In his early youth he was blinded by smallpox and he adopted music as a career. Carolan married Mary Maguire with whom he settled on a farm near Mohill, County Leitrim. They had seven children, six daughters and a son. His wife died in 1733. There is little record of Carolan's children. His daughter Siobhan married Captain Sudley and his son published a collection of Carolan's tunes in 1747. 319. O'SULLIVAN, Maurice. Twenty Years A-Growing. Rendered from the original Irish with a preface by Moya Llewelyn Davies and George Thomson. With an Introductory Note by E.M. Forster. With maps of West Dingle Peninsula and Blasket Islands on endpapers. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1939. First Penguin edition. No. 144 in the series. pp. xii, 13-246, [8 (Advertisement)]. Blue and white printed wrappers. A very good copy. €15 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." PRIVATELY PRINTED 320. O'SULLIVAN, Seumas. "This is the House" And Other Verses. Dublin: Privately Printed, 1942. pp. 11, [5]. Green printed stitched wrappers. Inscribed on titlepage to 'Liam O'Brien / from Seumas O'Sullivan,' dated 1942. Loosely inserted is an invoice to Prof. Liam O'Brien, University Road, Galway for his subscription to the Dublin Magazine on their headed paper with an illustration by Harry Clarke of a lady and gentleman walking down O'Connell Street, with Nelson's pillar in the background. A very good copy. €575 COPAC locates the Cambridge, Oxford and TCD copies only. WorldCat 1. Seumas or Seamus O'Sullivan, born James Sullivan Starkey, (1879-1958) was an Irish poet and editor of The Dublin Magazine. He was born in Dublin and spent his adult life in the suburb of Rathgar. In 1926 he married the artist Estella Solomons, sister of Bethel Solomons. Her parents were opposed to the marriage as Seumas was not Jewish. Terence de Vere White praised him as "a true poet", and was critical of W.B. Yeats for leaving him out of his anthology of Irish poets, which he thought a particularly strange decision since Yeats and O'Sullivan were friends, although they quarrelled from time to time. He had a great admiration for Patrick Kavanagh, and in the 1940s he was one of the very few Irish editors who was prepared to publish his poetry. His father William Starkey (1836-1918), a physician, was also a poet and a friend of . He was a friend of most of the leading literary figures in Dublin, including William Butler Yeats, and AE (). O'Sullivan's "at homes" on Sunday afternoons were a leading feature of Dublin literary life, as were Russell's Sunday evenings and Yeats's Monday evenings. He was inclined to be quarrelsome, due to his heavy drinking: on one occasion he insulted James Stephens publicly at a literary dinner. Even the kind-hearted Russell admitted that "Seumas drinks too much"; Yeats' verdict was that "the trouble with Seumas is that when he's not drunk, he's sober." SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF 100 COPIES ONLY

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321. O'SULLIVAN, Seumas. The Lamplighter and Other Poems. Dublin: The Orwell Press, 1929. First edition. pp. 13, [1]. White card with printed wrappers with flaps. Edition limited to 100 copies only, signed and numbered by the author. O'Sullivan's own copy with his decorative bookplate. A very good copy. €475 322. Ó TUAMA, Sean. Ed. by. An Duanaire 1600- 1900: Poems of the Dispossessed. With translations into English verse by Thomas Kinsella. Illustrated. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1981. pp. xxxix, 382. Printed stiff wrappers. A fine copy. €45 The author demonstrates in this anthology the nature and quality of the Irish poetic traditions during the troubled centuries from the collapse of the Gaelic order to the emergence of English as the dominant vernacular of the Irish people. 323. OTWAY, Caesar. Sketches in Erris and Tyrawly. With a map and other illustrations. Dublin: Curry, 1841. pp. xvi, 418. Olive green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Stamp of Patrick Traynor, Bookseller, Dublin, on lower pastedown. Spine lightly faded. Very good copy. Very scarce. €375

Rev. Caesar Otway (1780-1842) protestant clergyman, travel writer, and antiquary was born in Tipperary and educated at T.C.D. He became a Church of Ireland chaplain, and with Joseph Henderson Singer founded the Christian Examiner and Church of Ireland Magazine in 1825 and edited it for the following six years. With George Petrie he founded the Dublin Penny Journal in 1832 and wrote under the name of 'Terence O'Toole', beside his more frequent pseudonym 'O.C.' In the early summer of 1838, in order to visit the colony on Achill Island established by Edward Nangle, with support from Otway himself, he travelled to the west of Ireland and on his return published his Tour in Connaught, which contains descriptions of Clonmacnoise and of pilgrimages to Croagh Patrick and Achill. In his writings Otway is vehemently anti-Catholic while fascinated by Irish folk customs and warmly sympathetic to the Irish peasantry. In the preface to the present volume Otway relates that this is a continuation of his Tour in Connaught, and "a fulfilment of an engagement to my publishers to supply them with a description of Erris." He tells us that he received a lot of information from various people including Archdeacon Verschoyle, Lieutenant Henri who as commander of the coast-guard station resided in Erris for nineteen years and also from George Crampton, agent to Mr. Carter, one of the great landed proprietors of Erris. He also refers to William H Maxwell's Wild Sports of the West, and Mr. Knight for his wonderful work on the history of Erris.

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324. OWENSON, Miss [Lady Morgan]. Patriotic Sketches of Ireland, written in Connaught. Two volumes. London: Printed for Richard Phillips, No. 6, Bridge-Street, Blackfriars, By T. Gillet, Wild-Court, 1807. pp. (1) [iii], xii, 178 (2) [iii], 162, [163-168 (books recently published by R. Phillips)]. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine divided into six compartments by double gilt fillets, title in gilt on red morocco label in the second with volume number in gilt direct in the fourth. A very good set of an extremely rare item. €2,350 No printed version located on COPAC. WorldCat 2. Not in Woulf or Sadleir. Sydney Owenson, (Lady Morgan) (c.1783-1859), novelist and literary celebrity, was born in Dublin. Her father, the Mayo-born Robert Owenson (originally Mac Eóin), was an actor whose native command of Irish ensured his success with 'stage Irish' characters; her mother, Jane Hill, was from a Shrewsbury protestant family. Owenson was notoriously coy about her age; her date of birth may have been anywhere between 1778 and 1785. In her youth she imbibed the theatrical flamboyance and the Irish-patriotic politics of her father, who ran a 'national theatre' in Fishamble Street, Dublin. Her harp- playing, which became her trademark in later life, was already featured in the Irish-patriotic performances of this theatre. Owenson's early activities followed the recent Irish rediscovery of the harp as the national instrument. A small volume of verse, published in 1807, was titled The Lay of an Irish Harp; in 1805 she had published Twelve Original Hibernian Melodies, which foreshadowed Moore's Irish Melodies by three years. The topic of a harp-playing young woman as the spokeswoman of her nation was also central to her first and best-remembered novel, The Wild Irish Girl (1806). More romantic and romance-like than Maria Edgeworth's social satire Castle Rackrent (1800), The Wild Irish Girl became the prototype of a new kind of Ireland-related fiction: The National Tale. This genre, which flourished in the years between the Act of Union and Catholic Emancipation, and of which, besides Owenson, the main representatives are Charles Maturin and the brothers John Banim and Michael Banim, combines stirring incident and local-historical colour with the political agenda of disenchanted Grattanite patriotism, denouncing the exploitation and oppression of Ireland and its native peasantry. From 1798, when her father's fortunes as a theatre manager declined, Owenson held various positions as governess or lady companion. The last of these was with Marchioness Abercorn, who arranged her marriage to the family physician, Thomas Charles Morgan. A knighthood for Morgan seems to have been part of the deal. Following the wedding (1812), Owenson was known as Lady Morgan, and added to her literary reputation that of a headstrong and eccentric socialite in the style of Mme de Staël. Throughout her career, Owenson remained true to the whiggish principles of her early life. These were now increasingly unfashionable, and subject to much suspicion, scorn, and ridicule from a conservative press bolstered by anti-Jacobin and anti-Napoleonic sentiments. 325. PAINE, Thomas. Rights of Man: being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. Eighth edition. Bound with: Rights of Man. Part the Second. Combining principle and practice. Eighth edition. London: Printed for J.S. Jordan, No. 166, Fleet-Street, 1791/1792. pp. x, [1], 8-171, xv, [1], 178. Original worn quarter morocco with new marbled paper. Owner's signature on front endpaper. Minor traces of worming and small brown ink to titlepage. A very good copy. €225 ESTC N1631. Black 1780 lists the Dublin edition Not in Bradshaw or Gilbert. Thomas Paine (1737-1809), became a supernumerary excise officer at Thetford (his native place) in 1761. He was dismissed from that post after printing and distributing to Members of Parliament a statement of excise men's grievances for improved conditions and pay. He sailed for America, with an introduction from Franklin, and published in 1776 his pamphlet Common Sense, a history of the events leading up to the war with England, which made him famous. He became totally dedicated to an invention for an iron bridge, and in 1786 sailed for Europe to promote his idea. Four years later in London, the first part of his Rights of Man, was published, in reply to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution. With the appearance of the second part in 1792 Paine was compelled to flee to France to avoid prosecution, the book having become a manifesto in sympathy with the French Revolution. 326. PALEY, William, M.A. A Word in Season. Internal and External Reform Considered. By William Paley, M.A. Archdeacon of Carlisle. Dublin: Printed and Sold at No. 15, Parliament- Street, 1793. With a half-title. pp. [4], 20. Blue stitched wrappers. A very good copy. €150 ESTC N25239. COPAC locates 4 copies only.

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327. PALEY, William, M.A. Reasons for Contentment; Addressed to The Labouring Part of the Public. Dublin: Printed for J. Milliken, 32, Grafton-Street, 1793. pp. 22. Blue stitched wrappers. A very good copy. €150 COPAC locates 2 copies only. ESTC T215174. William Paley, (1743-1805) English Anglican priest, Utilitarian philosopher, and author of influential works on Christianity, ethics, and science, among them the standard exposition in English theology of the teleological argument for the existence of God. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 328. PARKER, Richard Dunscombe. Birds of Ireland. Paintings by Richard Dunscombe Parker (c.1801-81). Edited by Martyn Anglesea and designed by Wendy Dunbar. With forty coloured plates of the 'Birds of Ireland' and explanatory text, with bibliography. Belfast: Blackstaff, 1983. Large oblong folio. Bound in three quarter brown calf on marbled boards by Sydney Aiken. Edition limited to 250 copies. Signed by the editor and designer. Fine in matching slipcase. €765 Forty mounted colour plates reproducing the original watercolour paintings originally discovered in 1976 by the Editor in the recesses of the Ulster Museum, Belfast. Bound for over a century in a flat box, the original 170 watercolours measuring 24 1/2 x 30 inches were painted on white wove paper over pencil outlines. Besides the remarkable plates, Martyn Anglesea describes the history of Ornithological painting, it's place in history, as well as the little known, until now, history of Parker and his extended family. Anglesea states, "Parker's paintings are quite unique as a contribution to nineteenth-century Irish Ornithology and with their Irish topographical backgrounds, for a collection of great value." Including notes on plates and a complete list of original watercolours. 329. [PARLIAMENTARY GAZETTEER OF IRELAND] The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland, adapted to the new Poor-Law, Franchise, Municipal and Ecclesiastical arrangements, and compiled with a special reference to the lines of railroad and canal communication, as existing in 1844-45. Illustrated by a series of maps, and other plates, and presenting the results, in detail, of the Census of 1841, compared with that of 1831. Illustrated with eleven engraved plates (including three frontispieces), 11 maps (9 folding), hand-coloured arms of Ireland, Three volumes. Dublin: London, and Edinburgh: Fullarton, 1846. Royal octavo. pp. (1) clii, 560 (2) 840 (3) 715 Contemporary half calf on cloth boards. Repair to some folds of a few maps. Binding worn. A very good set. Scarce. €495 The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland was published at a critical point in Ireland's history, which is intimated in its typically verbose Victorian subtitle: 'Adapted to the new Poor-Law, Franchise, Municipal and Ecclesiastical Arrangements and Compiled with a special reference to the Lines of Railroad and Canal Communications as existing in 1844-5. Complete with maps and plates and presenting the results, in detail of the Census of 1841, compared with that of 1831'. Published the year before the first annual report of the Commissioners of the Poor Law in Ireland and the onset of the Great Famine, The Gazetteer in more than 2,000 pages presents in considerable detail a country on the cusp of huge and irrevocable administrative and social change. While Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, published in 1837, is for many a more accessible and identifiable topographical dictionary of Ireland, The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland provides more substantive statistical information and is perhaps a superior publication in both and breadth. Unlike Lewis, which treated on the cities, civil parishes and main post towns of Ireland in some 1,500 pages, The Gazetteer also treats on minor geographical features, such as small streams and manmade structures, such as bridges, harbours and ferries; some of the latter were only in their developmental stages and never actually came to fruition. The Gazetteer details many small villages and for each provides the statistical information as delineated in the 1831 and 1841 Censuses of Ireland abstracts, useful in tracing the demographic change - either growth or decline - of many of Ireland's smaller hamlets prior to The Famine. Without consulting the full Census of Ireland Abstracts, The Gazetteer provides the most comprehensive statistical analysis for Ireland to a general readership, which it happily combines with interesting anecdotal and topographical detail. For many of the larger urban areas, provinces and provincial towns and cities a brief history of the area's settlement and historical events of note are provided. Of importance are some of the more abstract detail provided, such as the derivation and location of Ireland's ancient principalities. An example of this is Dalriada, which The Gazetteer notes was situated on the east coast of the Province of Ulster. Although the name had fallen-out of usage by the mid-seventeenth-century, The Gazetteer deemed the history of the name and principality worth half

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a page of commentary, although it admits that its treatise raised more questions than it answered. The Parliamentary Gazetteer is presented in an alphabetical format and includes a thorough index. Complete with maps and plates. 330. PEASE, Z.W. The Catalpa Expedition. With illustrations. New Bedford: MA: George S. Anthony, 1897. pp. [vii], 215. Olive-green cloth. Lovely illustration of the Catalpa stamped in gilt on upper cover. Gilt lettering to spine. Armorial bookplate of J.E. Cassidy. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. Scarce. €175 The Catalpa was a whaling vessel that was bought by in New York and used to rescue six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle, Australia. The rescue was planned by and John Breslin and took place on 17 April 1876. On 19 August 1876 the Catalpa arrived safely back in New York harbour, having successfully completed its mission despite the attentions of a British naval cutter and many other dangers and difficulties. The story reads like fiction but it did much to encourage the growth of Clan na Gael and the reputation of John Devoy. The publisher, George S. Anthony, captained the whale ship Catalpa during the voyage. The story of the rescue is prefaced by a history of the Fenian conspiracy of 1867, and the subsequent court-martial held in Dublin. The six Fenians were Thomas Darragh, Martin Hogan, Michael Harrington, Thomas Hassett, Robert Cranston and James Wilson. A seventh Fenian, James Kiely, had been exposed as an informer by his fellow prisoners and left behind. 331. PENNANT, Thomas. The British Zoology. Class I Quadrupeds. II Birds. Published under the Inspection of the Cymmrodorion Society, Instituted for the Promoting Useful Charities, and the Knowledge of Nature, among the Descendants of the Ancient Britons. Illustrated with one hundred and seven copper plates. London: Printed by J. and J. March, on Tower-Hill, for the Society: And Sold for the Benefit of the British Charity-School on Clerkenwell-Green, 1766. Folio (395 x 560mm). pp. [xiv], 162, [4]. 132 hand-coloured etched plates. Titlepage and dedication printed in red and black. Divisional "Waterbirds" title to vol. II. Errata p. [13]. Near contemporary half calf over marbled boards, title in gilt on brown morocco label on spine. Complete with the four pages of index and Encouragers to this Undertaking [Subscribers] at end. Last four pages with mild foxing, otherwise a near fine copy. €16,750

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ESTC T154286. Of the three complete copies listed on COPAC there are two copies with 132 plates and one with 133. The first coloured illustrations of birds in a book which attempted to list and portray all of the British species, many of them life-size. Peter Paillou contributed most of the designs and coloured the prints, the colour being extended to the trees, branches and foregrounds. Thomas Pennant (1726-1798), Welsh naturalist and traveller, one of the foremost zoologists of his time. Pennant was a landowner of independent means. His books were valued for their highly readable treatment of the existing knowledge of natural history. His volume on British Zoology (1766) stimulated zoological research, particularly in ornithology, in Great Britain, and his History of Quadrupeds (1781) and Arctic Zoology, 2 vol. (1784–85), were also widely read. His travel books presented valuable information on the local customs, natural history, and antiquities of Scotland, Wales, England, and the European continent. Observing that naturalists in other European countries were producing volumes describing the animals found in their territories, Pennant started, in 1761, a similar work about Britain, to be called British Zoology. This was a comprehensive book with 132 folio plates in colour. It was published in 1766 and 1767 in four volumes as quarto editions, and further small editions followed. The illustrations were so expensive to produce that he made little money from the publication, and when there was a profit, he gave it to charity. For example, the bookseller Benjamin White, brother of the naturalist Gilbert White, received permission, on payment of £100, to publish an octavo edition, and the money thus raised was donated to the Welsh Charity School. Further appendix volumes were added later and the text, largely written from personal observations, was translated into Latin and German. The observations Pennant recorded in British Zoology were sufficiently detailed and accurate that it was possible to use them to recreate a modern ecological study that had used a decade's worth of laboratory-based molecular data. In 1767 Pennant was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. About this time he met the much-travelled Sir Joseph Banks and visited him at his home in . Banks presented him with the skin of a new species of penguin recently brought back from the Falkland Islands. Pennant wrote an account of this bird, the king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus), and all the other known species of penguin which was published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. These really splendid folio plates cost Pennant so much that the British charity school at Clerkenwell Green, for which the profits of the book were intended, came off rather badly, as did Pennant himself. Nevertheless they showed what could be done in the production of good, large pictures of British birds. Much of the credit must go to Mazell, the meticulous and tidy etcher, for his fidelity to Paillou's drawings" (Jackson). Mullens and Swann 465 mention copies with 133 plates, 'but these are not as originally published'. Anker 392; Fine Bird Books, p.99; Jackson, Etchings, p.106; Nissen IVB 710; Wood, p.515; Zimmer, p.487. 332. PETRE, Robert Edward. Letter from the Right Honourable Lord Petre, to the Right Reverend Doctor Horsley, Bishop of St. David's. Dublin: Printed for P. Byrne, and J. Moore, 1790. pp. 46. Original pale blue stitched paper wrappers. A fine copy. €95 The English Catholic Question. INSCRIBED FROM GEORGE PETRIE TO LADY JOHN RUSSELL 333. PETRIE, George. An account of an Ancient Irish Reliquary, called the Domnach-Airgid, now in the possession of the Hon. Henry G. Westerna.. With five engraved plates. Dublin: Printed by R. Graisberry, Printer to the Royal Irish Academy, 1838. Quarto. pp. 15, [5 (plates)]. Modern green papered boards, titled in gilt. Foxing to plates as usual. Inscribed presentation copy from the author to Lady John Russell. Signature of A. Russell Pollock on titlepage. A very good copy. Very scarce. €375 The Domhnach Airgid (silver church) is an ornate shrine, fashioned out of silver and bronze that was intended to hold a sacred text. When opened in the nineteenth century it was found to contain an ancient copy of the gospels and according to tradition this book was a gift from Saint Patrick to his disciple MacCartan. An important early church figure, Saint MacCartan founded Clogher church in County Tyrone and was also associated with Clones in County Monaghan. INSCRIBED FROM GEORGE PETRIE TO CHARLES HAMILTON, ESQ. 334. PETRIE, George. Remarks on the Book of Mac Firbis, an Irish Manuscript lately transcribed for the Royal Irish Academy. With engraved plates. Dublin: Printed by Graisberry for the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, 1838. Quarto. pp. 13. Original cloth, title on

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Charles Pigott was the youngest son of an old Jacobite family whose family seat was the manor of Chetwynd Park, Shropshire. His eldest brother Robert was a member of the exclusive Jockey Club, who became High Sheriff of the county in 1774, but two years later sold the family estates and moved to the continent. Charles was a man who had 'robbed his friends, cheated his creditors, repudiated his wife, and libelled all his acquaintance'. Nevertheless, he made one of the most influential contributions to the popular radical literature of the 1790s. The anonymous The Jockey Club (1792) rivalled Rights of Man, at least in the alarm it spread among the government's law officers. His books made great play with the politics of personality without making much of Pigott's own. He did publish some things under his own name, but never created a print personality after the manner of Merry. 'Louse' was the derisive nickname known to the relatively closed circle who shared his elite background. Generally, he proved as adaptive as the insect he was named after, thriving in the crevices of print culture, mixing political theory and French materialism with scandal and blackmail, unevenly espousing a radical politics while continuing to insist on his independence as a gentleman, until the government caught up with him and gaol fever killed him. 339. PILKINGTON, Matthew. A General Dictionary of Painters; Containing Memoirs of The Lives and Works of the most eminent Professors of the Art of Painting, from its Revival, by Cimabue, in the year 1250, to the present time. A New Edition, revised and corrected throughout, with numerous additions, particularly of the most distinguished artists of the British School. Two volumes. London: Printed for Thomas M'Lean, 1824. pp. (1) xxxvi, 543, (2) 568. Black buckram, title in gilt on red morocco labels on spine. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. A very good set. €150 340. PITT, William. Papers Relative to the Rupture with Spain, Laid before Both Houses of Parliament, On Friday, the Twenty-ninth Day of January, 1762. By His Majesty's Command. Dublin: Printed by Boulter Grierson, 1762. pp. 99, [1]. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Engraved titlepage. Slight staining, otherwise a very good copy. Extremely rare. €575 COPAC locates the British Library and Oxford copies only. No printed version on WorldCat. DOORY HALL COPY 341. PLANCHE, James Robinson. Descent of the Danube: from Ratisbon to Vienna During the Autumn of 1827. With Anecdotes and Recollections, Historical and Legendary, of the Towns, Castles, Monastaries Etc, Upon the Banks of the River, and Their Inhabitants and Proprietors, Ancient. London: Printed For J. Duncan, 1828. First edition. pp. xv, 320. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards. Title in gilt on brown morocco label on spine. From the library of Frederick T. Jessop, Doory Hall, County Longford with his armorial bookplate on front pastedown and library stamp on titlepage. A very good copy. €225 Includes index of names of towns and cities on the banks of the Danube. 342. [PLUNKET, Oliver] The Relation of the Tryals of Edvvard Fitz-Harris, and Oliver Plunket : who were Tryed at the Kings-Bench on the 8th. and 9th. of this instant June, 1681. And there found guilty and Condemned for High Treason: for conspiring the death of the King, and to Subvert the Protestant Religion and Government, by raising Rebellion and Leavying Warr. [London]: Printed by H[enry]. Brugis in the year 1681. pp. 8. Modern half green morocco on green cloth boards, title in gilt along evenly faded spine. Armorial bookplate of F. S. Bourke on front pastedown. Lower margin close shaved, affecting the odd catchword. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €875 COPAC locates the Oxford University copy only. Wing R 881B. Sweeney 4468. Note: Printer's name and place of publication from Wing. Saint Oliver Plunkett was Professor of Theology at Propaganda College, Rome from 1657 until 1676 when he was appointed Archbishop of Armagh. "Labours in his diocese were increasing and he never had a house of his own, and he was often glad to eat oatcake and milk". Arrested on the false depositions of Titus Oates he was tried at Drogheda but with no witnesses appearing, he was sent to London in 1680, put on trial without counsel or witness. MacMoyer, who pawned the Book of Armagh to pay his own expenses swore his life away and Oliver was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn in 1681. Fitzharris, Edward (c.1648-1681), soldier and conspirator, was the second son of Sir Edward Fitzharris

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of Kilfinane, County Limerick, and his wife, Ellen Fitzgerald. The Fitzharris family suffered great hardship when they lost their Irish estates, their name appearing on a list of dispossessed landowners presented to the duke of Ormond in May 1664. He was busily intriguing with influential Roman catholics, among others with the Duchess of Portsmouth. At length in February 1681 he wrote a libel, 'The True Englishman speaking plain English in a Letter from a Friend to a Friend' (Cobbett, Parl. Hist. vol. iv., Appendix, No. xiii.), in which he advocated the deposition of the king and the exclusion of the Duke of York. He possibly intended to place this in the house of some whig, and then, by discovering it himself, earn the wages of an informer. He was betrayed by an accomplice, Edmond Everard, and sent first to Newgate and afterwards to the Tower, where he pretended he could discover the secret of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey's murder. He was tried before the king's bench in Easter term, and entered a plea against the jurisdiction of the court on the ground that proceedings were pending against him before the lords. Fitzharris was executed on 1 July 1681, the concocted confession appeared the very next day, and Hawkins was rewarded for his pains with the deanery of Chichester. The justices and sheriffs in their reply, 'Truth Vindicated,' had little difficulty in proving the so-called ' confession ' to be a tissue of falsehoods. 343. PLUNKETT, Grace. Doctors Recommend It. An Abbey Theatre Tonic in 12 Doses. Illustrated. Foreword by T.C. Murray. Dublin: At the Sign of the Three Candles, 1930. Oblong quarto. pp. [29]. Cream coarse linen, title on green printed label on upper cover; green endpapers. Twelve full page illustrations by Grace Plunkett with name of the play title and cast on opposite. Edition limited to 500 copies. A fine copy. €950

Grace Vandeleur Plunkett (née Gifford), one of a family of twelve children, was born in Dublin in 1888; daughter of a Catholic father, Frederick Gifford, and a Protestant mother. Both her parents were Unionists. Together with her brother Gabriel she attended the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art where she studied under Sir , before moving to the Slade School of Fine Art in London. She returned to Dublin in 1908 and, with great difficulty, tried to earn a living as a caricaturist, publishing her cartoons in The Shanachie, Irish Life, and The Irish Review, which was edited from 1913 by . She considered emigrating but gave up the idea. Despite earning so little money, she enjoyed a lively social life; she was well dressed and mixed with the likes of Mrs Dryhurst, a journalist who worked in London, and George William Russell (Æ). During the same year, Mrs Dryhurst brought Grace to the opening of the new bilingual St Enda's School in . It was here that she first met Joseph Plunkett and came into direct contact with the future leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising, including Tomás MacDonagh, whom Grace's sister, Muriel, married. Her growing interest in the Roman Catholic religion led to the deepening of her acquaintance with Joseph Plunkett. She began to question him about his faith. He proposed to her in 1915; Grace accepted and decided to take instruction in the Catholic religion. She was formally received into the Catholic

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Church in . Having no knowledge of the plans for the Easter Rising, she planned to marry Joseph on Easter Sunday of that year in University Chapel on St Stephen's Green, in a double wedding with his sister and her fiancé. Her parents were not in favour of her marrying Plunkett, due to the precarious state of his health - he was extremely ill at this time. After the Rising, the leaders were condemned to death by firing squad. When Grace knew that Joseph was due to be shot on 4 May, she bought a wedding ring in a jeweller's shop in Dublin city centre. She and Joseph were married on the night of 3 May in the chapel of Kilmainham Jail, only a few hours before he was executed. Grace Plunkett decided to devote herself through her art to the promotion of Sinn Féin policies and resumed her artistic work in cartoons, posters and banner to earn a living. She was elected to the Sinn Féin executive in 1917. Her sister Muriel, widow of executed 1916 leader Thomas MacDonagh, died of heart failure while swimming in 1917. Grace died in 1955. 344. PLUNKETT, Joseph Mary. The Poems of Joseph Mary Plunkett. Frontispiece. Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1919. Fourth edition. pp. xvi, [4], 95. Quarter beige cloth on grey papered boards, title in red on upper cover and on printed label on spine. Library label on front pastedown and previous owner's stamp on front endpaper. Top edge green. A very good copy. €75 Frontispiece from a Memory Drawing by Mrs. Joseph Plunkett is in superior facsimile. DEDICATION: TO A BELOVED MEMORY 345. [PLUNKETT, Mrs. Joseph.] 'To Hold As 'Twere.' [Caricatures]. Dundalk: Published by Tempest, Dundalgan Press, n.d. (c. 1919). Unpaginated, pp. 40. With 17 caricature plates, plus title with vignettes. Small quarto. Pictorial stapled wrappers. Rusting to staples. A very good copy. Rare. €675 By Grace Gifford, who married Joseph Plunkett in Kilmainham Jail the night before his execution in . Dedicated To a Beloved Memory. By far the scarcest of her three books of caricatures, although the others are limited to a few hundred copies. The 17 subjects include: Edward Carson, about to rebel; Countess Markievicz takes her place in the Celestial Choir; De Valera as a tightrope-walker at the ; Lady Gregory sighing for new worlds to Kiltartanise; Culture and Agriculture! Robert Barton; Arthur Griffith; John MacCormick; George Moore; ; , etc. Grace had studied art at the Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin, and at the Slade in London before her marriage. She was a distinguished illustrator and caricaturist both before and after the Easter Rising. While imprisoned in Kilmainham during the Civil War she painted on her cell wall an image of the Virgin Mary, which may still be seen as the 'Madonna of Kilmainham.' A rare item by a talented artist and historical figure. 346. [POCOCKE, Richard] Pococke's Tour in Ireland in 1752. Edited with an introduction and notes by George T. Stokes. Dublin: Hodges Figgis. London: Simpkin Marshal, 1891. First edition. pp. [ii], 187. Green cloth over bevelled boards, titled in gilt on spine, publisher's device in blind on both covers. Bookplate of James J. Clarke, Rahins, Ballina, County Mayo on front pastedown. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. A fine copy. Very scarce. €365 COPAC with 6 locations only. Richard Pococke made extensive travels throughout Ireland from the 1740s to the 1760s, and kept a detailed written record of all his excursions. His Irish journals, never before collected, are here published complete for the first time and offer a fascinating insight into the life of mid-eighteenth century Ireland. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM MARGARET CLARKE 347. POE, Edgar Allan. Tales of Mystery and Imagination. Illustrated with sixteen plates in colour, twenty-four full-page line drawings, and numerous other vignettes by Harry Clarke. London, Bombay. Sydney: George G. Harrap, 1928. Large crown octavo. Fourth printing. Modern black buckram, original engraved title mounted on upper cover, original back-strip laid on spine. Signed presentation copy from Margaret Clarke to the diplomat John Dulanty, dated October 27th 1930. A very good copy. €285 Steenson A2.b This is a collection of twenty-nine spine-chilling tales by the master of mystery and suspense, Edgar Allan Poe. It includes such classics as The Fall of The House of Usher and The Murders in the Rue Morgue. These tales illustrated by the renowned Irish artist, Harry Clarke, transport the reader into a

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world of morbid fascination, fantasy and fear. In a letter dated October 10th 1919 to his early patron Laurence Waldron, Clarke wrote "I send you today the first copy I received of the ordinary edition of the Tales. I hope you may like it apart from the horror of the stories. I don't forget August 1914 when in the midst of all the trouble you helped me to retain the commission after Harrap cancelling it - it was kind." 348. [POOR IRISHMEN] A Kind Word for Poor Irishmen. Dublin: Printed by J. & M. Porteous, 19, Moore-Street, 1823. pp. 8. Woodcut title vignette. Disbound. A very good copy. Scarce. €85 COPAC locates 1 copy only. PRESENTATION COPY - PRIVATELY PRINTED 349. POWERSCOURT, Seventh Viscount. Muniments of the Ancient Saxon Family of Wingfield. Compiled by Mervyn Edward, Seventh Viscount Powerscourt, from the Archives in the British Museum, , and Records Office, Dublin, and from other sources. Illustrated with family portraits, monuments, tombs, castles, deeds, brass plates and genealogical

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(o) Roman Catholic Question. Speech of Michael Thomas Sadler, Esq., M.P. for Newark ... at the second reading of the Roman Catholic Relief Bill. (p) The Reformation a direct gift of Divine Providence: A Sermon, preached in Saint Paul's Cathedral, on Monday, October 8, 1838 ... by George Croly, LL.D. Fourth edition revised. (q) The First - Second - Third Annual Reports of the Protestant Association, delivered May 10, 1837; May 9th, 1838; May 8th, 1839. London: Published for the Protestant Association, 1838/1839. Publisher's mauve blind-stamped cloth. Spine professionally rebacked preserving much of original backstrip. Ex libris The Law Society with their armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Wear to corners. A very good copy of a rare collection of tracts. €765 352. [PROTESTANT] To Every Moderate Man in Ireland; The Following Ideas on the Relative Situation of Protestants and Catholics, are submitted. Dublin: Printed by White, 20, Dame-Street, 1792. pp. [iv], 55, [1]. Original blue stitched wrappers. A fine copy. Extremely rare. €375 COPAC locates 4 copies only. With a half-title. Signed at end: A Protestant. The author tells us "But I must here again confess, that I am not yet safe from the sweeping force of the philosophy if it be admitted, it is equally decisive here as in the former case ... Men have no right to be bound by any laws to which they did not actually give their consent. The Roman Catholics never gave their consent to the penal laws. Therefore, they have no right to be bound by them." He goes on to quote Mr. Paine: "Every age, and generation ... must be as free to act for itself, in all cases as the ages and generations which preceeded it." 353. [PUBLIC RECORDS] First Report to His Majesty's Commissioners, on the Public Records of Ireland. With appendixes. [Dublin]: Printed by Order of the Commissioners, 1811. pp. 80. Original brown printed wrappers. A fine copy. €275 COPAC locates 2 copies only. The Commission, under which the following Reports were made, derive its origin from a similar measure adopted in England in the year 1800, under the auspices of the present Speaker of the Imperial House of Commons. Sub-Commissioners under the English Record Commission were sent over to Ireland and were directed, in the course of their inspection and examination into Irish Records, to report whatever observations occurred respecting their condition, arrangement, and future preservation. That Report was afterwards transmitted to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, for the purpose of being acted upon. 354. REFAUSSÉ, Raymond and CLARK, Mary. A Catalogue of the Maps of the Estates of the Archbishops of Dublin 1654-1850. With an historical introduction by Raymond Gillespie. Dublin: Four Courts, 2000. Quarto. pp. 112. Full green buckram. With illustrated title inset on upper cover, title in gilt along spine. A fine copy. €45 355. REID, B.L. The Man from New York. John Quinn and his friends. Illustrated. New York, O.U.P. 1968. First edition. pp. xviii, 708. Original dark and light green cloth, with silver decorations. Titled in silver. A fine set in frayed dust jacket. Scarce. €75 BOUND WITH THE SPEECH OF SAINT OLIVER PLUNKETT 356. REILY, Hugh. Ireland's Case Briefly Stated; or, A Summary Account of the Most Remarkable Transactions in that Kingdom since the Reformation. In two parts. Bound with Bishop Plunket's speech. [Paris? or Louvain? S.n.] Printed in the year 1695. 12mo. pp. [xii], 132, [20 (Bishop Plunket's Speech)]. In two parts (lacking titlepage to second part) but with continuous pagination and signatures. Nineteenth century full calf, title in gilt on red morocco letterpiece on spine. Ex libris William O'Brien Milltown Park Trust, with bookplate. Some leaves with small tears, repairs, some pages soiled. Owner's signature 'Peter Hughs his book / December the 6th, 1776' on B1. A good working copy. Extremely rare. €575 No copy of this variant edition listed on COPAC. Sweeney 4453. Wing printing - R 767. Hugh Reily, also known as Hugh Reilly or Hugh O'Reilly (c.1630-1695) was M.P. for Borough in the Patriot Parliament of 1689 and a famous political author. Reily studied at the Irish Bar where he qualified as a barrister about 1650. He was legal advisor to Saint Oliver Plunkett, Archbishop of Armagh during his trial in 1681, after Plunkett's previous advisor Sir Nicholas Plunkett died. Plunkett said about Reilly "he took many risks for me". An important book which, according to the DNB, was for a long time "almost the only printed

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argument in favour of Irish Roman Catholics". This was a pioneering work asserting the rights of Irish Catholics under the Treaty of Limerick. Hugh Reily was Master in Chancery and Clerk of the Council in Ireland during the reign of James II. Subsequent to going to France with James II he was said to have been appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland at the exiled King's Court at St. Germains. He was dismissed, however, after offending the exiled monarch with the contents of this book which complains bitterly of the treatment of the Catholics in Ireland during the reign of Charles II. Possible places of publication from Wing. Our copy has a variant titlepage and does not contain By A True Lover of his King and Country. Bound in is 'Bishop Plunket's Speech', containing twenty pages. This work was translated into the Irish Language in 1941. 357. ROBINSON, Lennox. Pictures in a Theatre. A Conversation Piece. Illustrated. Dublin: Planned and printed by Colm Ó Lochlainn, at the Sign of the Three Candles, 1946. pp. 24. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. €25 De Búrca 157. A guided tour of the Abbey Theatre, commenting on the notable portraits which hang there. Compiled from a series of articles published in 'The Leader' in 1946. 358. RODEN, The Earl of. Progress of the Reformation in Ireland: Extracts from a Series of Letters written from the West of Ireland to a Friend in England in September, 1851. With folding map on rear pastedown. London: James Nisbet. William Curry, Dublin, 1851. First edition. pp. [iv], 88, 4 (Advertisement). Blue cloth, title in gilt along spine. Previous owner's signature on front pastedown. New front endpapers. A very good copy. €750

COPAC locates 2 copies only. WorldCat 2. Letter one was written from , the second from Tourmakeady and the third letter was written from the Achill settlement on September 7, 1851. The Earl of Roden arrived in the island on September 5th 1851, the very day it was visited by Archbishop John McHale, he stayed at a comfortable inn and was greeted by many people: "As the evening came on, I found the houses in the colony illuminated. Bonfires soon began to blaze and the children, as well as many adults, commenced walking in possession up and down opposite the door of the inn, singing 'God save the Queen', and afterwards continuing their melody in beautiful hymns during most of the evening." The following day the inhabitants of the colony assembled in the open air and the meeting was addressed by Mr Nangle, and Mr Holme, of Liverpool, a gentleman who had lately purchased some land on the island; then the Earl of Roden spoke and afterwards they went to the school-house for the examination of the training- school. The class consisted of forty-eight boys, from 10 to 15 years of age and Roden lists some of the questions put to them, together with their answers. There was also an interesting training-school for girls for work which was held near Mr Nangle's residence, Roden visits three other schools for boys and girls, making up the 209 scholars. From Achill he goes on to Belmullet and then to in County Galway. Robert Jocelyn, 3rd Earl of Roden, (1788-1870), styled Viscount Jocelyn between 1797 and 1820, was an Irish Tory politician and supporter of Protestant causes. Jocelyn was the son of Robert Jocelyn, 2nd Earl of Roden, and his first wife Frances Theodosia, daughter of the Very Reverend Robert Bligh, Dean of Elphin. An ardent conservative, Jocelyn was Member of Parliament for County Louth from 1806 to 1807 and again from 1810 to 1820, when he succeeded his father in the earldom. In March

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1812 he was sworn of the Privy Council and appointed Treasurer of the Household under Spencer Perceval, an office he retained when Lord Liverpool became Prime Minister in June 1812 after Perceval's assassination. In July 1812 he was made Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, a post he held until the Liverpool administration fell in 1827. Despite Lord Roden's political career, he is best remembered for his strong support for Protestant causes in the north of Ireland and elsewhere. He supported religious societies such as the Hibernian Bible Society, the Sunday School Society, the Evangelical Alliance and the Protestant Orphan Society, and also conducted service in the private chapel at Tullymore Park, Castlewellan, County Down, his chief residence in Ireland. He was an important leader in the , eventually rising to the rank of Grand Master. However, in 1849 a clash took part between Orangeman and Roman Catholics at Dolly's Brae, near Castlewellan, in which several people were killed after he had invited the Orangemen onto his estate and addressed them, urging them to "do their duty as loyal, Protestant men". A commission was set up to examine the event, and severely criticised Roden for his conduct. As a result of this he was removed from his position as a member of the Commission of the Peace. 359. ROE, Helen M. The High Crosses of Kells. Illustrated. Navan, Meath Archaeological and Historical Society, 1959. pp. 65. From the library of Terry Trench. Pictorial wrappers. A fine copy. €25 LIBRARY OF THE NORE - No. I 360. ROLLESTON, T.W. Imagination and Art in , being Notes on Some Recent Translations from the Gaelic. A Lecture delivered before the National Literary Society of Ireland on February 16th, 1900. Kilkenny: Printed at the Office of the Kilkenny Moderator, 1900. pp. 32. Repaired printed wrappers. A very good copy. Very scarce. €375 361. [ROMAN CATHOLICS OF IRELAND] Proceedings of the General Committee of the Catholics of Ireland, Which Met on Tuesday April 16, and Finally Dissolved on Thursday April 25, 1793. Published by Order of the Late General-Committee. Dublin: Printed by H. Fitzpatrick, 2, Ormond-Quay, 1793. pp. [ii], 12. Original blue stitched wrappers. A fine copy. €175 COPAC locates 5 copies only. ESTC T87740. Humble address to the King espousing their loyalty: "We your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Catholics of Ireland ... beg leave to approach your Majesty with our sincere and heartfelt thanks, for the substantial benefits, which, through your Majesty's gracious recommendation, we have received from the wisdom and liberality of Parliament." The committee publishes their accounts and expenditures in this pamphlet and voted the following sums to: Theobold Wolfe Tone - £1534. 2. 6.; To W. Todd Jones £1000; For raising a Statue to his Majesty £2000, etc. The following Gentlemen filled the Chair in succession: Harvey Hay, Esq. Co. Wexford; Thos. Fitzgerald, Jun. Esq. Co. Kildare; James Archbold, Esq. Co. Kildare; Owen O'Connor, Esq. Co. Roscommon; Francis Arthur, Esq. City of Limerick; Sir Thomas Esmond, Bart. Co. of Wexford; James Nangle, Esq. Co. Meath; James Joseph M'Donnell, Esq. Co. Mayo. Signed at end by: Richard McCormick & John Sweetman, Secretary on behalf of the General Committee of the Catholics of Ireland. 362. [ROMAN CATHOLICS] A Dissertation, addressed to A Friend, on the Propriety of Admitting the Roman Catholics of Ireland to a share in the Elective Franchise. Dublin: Printed by P. Byrne, No. 108, Grafton-Street, 1792. pp. [2], ii, 41, [1]. Original pale blue paper wrappers. Untrimmed. From the Clements Library, Killadoon, County Kildare. A fine copy. €375 COPAC locates 7 copies only. ESTC T34638. "What we ask is a participation in the benefits of the free , by an admission to vote at elections for knights of the shire to represent us in parliament; in this however we mean, it should be necessary, to submit to a modification, viz. That in addition to the qualifications of forty shillings, it should be permitted to a Roman Catholic freeholder to vote ... and with providing for the Roman Catholic tenantry a security against the oppressive, intolerable, and too frequent hardships, of being deprived of their tenant right and leasehold interest." 363. ROS, Mrs. Amanda M'Kittrick. Irene Iddesleigh. Belfast: Printed by W. & G. Baird, 1897. First edition. pp. 189, + errata. Red cloth with title and floral device in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's signatures and bookplate on front endpaper. Bookplate of D.M. Skelly, on front free endpaper. A very good copy. €125

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NSTC 0649836. Anna Margaret Ross (née McKittrick; 1860-1939), known by her pen-name Amanda McKittrick Ros, was a Northern Irish writer. She published her first novel Irene Iddesleigh at her own expense in 1897. She wrote poetry and a number of novels. Her works were not read widely, and her eccentric, over- written, "purple" circumlocutory writing style is alleged by some critics to be some of the worst prose and poetry ever written. The first edition in a variant binding. Also issued in grey, pale blue and blue green cloth. 364. [ROTUNDA HOSPITAL] Original large photograph Rotunda Hospital Dublin dates April, 1914. With medical students from various colleges in Ireland and throughout the world. Mounted 550mm x 450mm including mount. Produced by S.J. Carroll, late 16 years with J. Robinson & Sons, LTD, photographers to the viceregal court. 143 North Strand Dublin. The photograph has the following medical students - S.C. Das (Calcutta) Dr. W. D. Dixon (Univ. of Manitoba), Capt. T. T. H. Beckton, R.A.M.C. (Ext. Assistant), J.E. Jameson (Dublin Univ.) Dr. R. M. Allan (Assistant Master) Dr. Arthur Annesley Gomes (Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland), Dr. Henry

Jellett (Master), W.E. Tyndall (Dublin Univ.), Miss E.M. Ross (Dublin Univ.), Jas. S . Robinson (Dublin Univ.), Dr. J. M. Gilmore (Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland), Dr. Hassan Suhrawardy (Calcutta Univ.), Dr. D. JG. Madill (Asst. Master), N.M. Boyce (Dublin Univ.), Dr. Balwaut Rai (Purjan Univ.), Capt. F. Stevenson, I.M.S. (Ext. Assistant). €275 365. RYAN, Rev. John. Ed. by. Féil-Sgríbhinn Eóin Mhic Néill. Essays and Studies Presented to Professor Eoin MacNeill. On the occasion of his seventieth birthday, May 15th 1938. With illustrations, genealogical tables and large folding map. Preface by Dr. Douglas Hyde. Dublin: At the Sign of the Three Candles, 1940. pp. xv, 594. 34 (plates and figures). Blue buckram, titled in gilt, with Celtic ornaments in gilt on upper cover and spine. H.A. Wheeler's copy with his signature on front pastedown. A very good copy. Very scarce. €165 With a feast of articles by leading scholars of their day on Celtic Languages, Archaeology, Prehistory, Early and Medieval Irish History, and Folklore: Note on Cormac's Glossary; Glendalough; Magna Carta Hiberniae; Remains of Ancient Irish Monastic Libraries; The Hagiography of Leinster; Roadways in Ancient Ireland; Uí Bruicc; Feudal Charters of the De Burgo Lordship of Connaught; The Remains of Ancient Irish Monastic Libraries; Ríg na nDéssi; Meath in the 'Book of Rights', Uí Bruicc, Kings of the Deise, etc. The contributors included: Osborn Bergin, R.I. Best, D.A. Binchy, Myles Dillon, Robin Flower, Lambert McKenna, Tadhg Ó Donnchadha (Torna), Rudolf Thurneysen, R.A.S. Macalister, Joseph Raftery, Edmund Curtis, Dudley Edwards, Aubrey Gwynn, Colm Ó Lochlainn, Seamus Pender, Seamus Delargy, Sean Ó Suilleabháin; C.W. Von Sydow, etc. A major work in which the Colum Cille type was displayed most effectively, including the use of italics and small caps and everything it had to offer, with Baoithín on the titlepage. It was the largest and one of the most important works produced by the Three Candles at the time, and many proclaim this publication as his most important achievement in print. It contains at least seven languages, is well

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illustrated with half-tone and line material. It includes a fold out map of the Roadways in Ancient Ireland to illustrate O Lochlainn's own contribution of that title. It has two titlepages (in Irish and English), and two frontispieces (portrait of Eoin MacNeill and University College Dublin). 366. SADLIER, Mrs. J. The Blakes and Flanagans: A Tale Illustrative of Irish Life in the United States. Dublin: James Duffy and Sons, 14 and 15 Wellington Quay, n.d. (1855). pp. vi, 387. Recent purple buckram with original cloth laid on title in gilt on spine. Owner's signature on titlepage. A very good copy. €65 FOR THE CHILDREN OF DUBLIN'S POOR 367. [SAINT ULTAN] Leabhar Ultáin. The Book of Saint Ultan. A collection of pictures and poems by Irish artists and writers, compiled and arranged by Katherine MacCormack with numerous illustrations. Dublin: The Candle Press, and Sold for the Benefit of Saint Ultan's Hospital by Martin Lester, Ltd., 78 Harcourt Street, 1920. Quarto. pp. 32, 8 (plates). Brown stiff wrappers. A very good copy of a most attractive book. €175 Designed and printed under the direction of Colm O Lochlainn, and sold for the benefit of St. Ultan's hospital by Martin Lester (i.e. ). With eight tipped-in plates by Jack B. Yeats, A.E., Paul Henry, Grace Henry, , Mary Duncan, Estella F. Solomons and Cecil Salkeld. Illustrations in text by Maud Gonne, Anna Griffin, Evelyn Gleeson, Lily Williams, W. MacBride and Beatrice Elvery. Poems by An Craoibhín (Douglas Hyde), Susan L. Mitchell, Nancy Campbell, Seumas O'Sullivan, Beatrice Elvery, , Alice Milligan, Nell Byrne, Thomas Bodkin, Geraldine Plunkett, and Katherine MacCormack. St. Ultan's, in Charlemont Street, Dublin, was the hospital opened in 1919 and founded by Dr. , to cater for the children of Dublin's poor. Kathleen Florence Lynn (1874-1955) was an Irish Sinn Féin politician, activist and medical doctor. She was born in Mullafarry, County Mayo, to a Dublin Church of Ireland family and educated in England and Germany before graduating as a doctor in 1899 from the Royal University of Ireland. An active suffragette, labour activist and nationalist, Lynn was a member of the Irish Citizen Army and chief medical officer during the 1916 Easter Rising. For her part in the rising she was imprisoned in Kilmainham Gaol, with her friends Constance Markievicz, Madeline ffrench-Mullen and Helena Moloney. In 1923 Lynn was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála for the Dublin County constituency at the 1923 general election. She lost her seat at the June 1927 general election. Lynn's medical career was defined by her work at Saint Ultan's Hospital for Infants, which she established in Dublin in 1919, with a group of female activists. Colm Ó Lochlainn was on the organising committee. Lynn's work with Dublin's inner city poor had convinced her of the need for a hospital to provide medical and educational facilities for impoverished mothers and infants. Earlier in her career Lynn has experienced discrimination in applying for hospital position due to her gender, and Saint Ultan's was the only hospital in Ireland entirely managed by women. Saint Ultan's Hospital grew rapidly, and from 1937 became the centre for BCG vaccination in Ireland. The hospital closed in 1984. Lynn lived in Rathmines from 1903 to her death in 1955, sharing her home with her friend and confidante Madeline ffrench-Mullen. She died in September 1955, and is buried in the family plot at Deansgrange Cemetery. In acknowledgement of the role she played in the 1916 Rising and the Irish War of Independence, she was buried with full military honours. Lynn's personal diaries for the period 1916-1955, and the administrative papers of Saint Ultan's Hospital are held by the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland archive. 368. [SALE CATALOGUE] Town and Country Estates (Ireland) Ltd. Catalogue No. 82. Sale by auction of Military and other Medals and Military Equipment and Bronze, Silver and Gold Coins on Thursday, 17th July, 1958. With prices realised in pencil. Dublin: 1958. Quarto. pp. 9. Stapled printed wrappers. In very good condition. €65 WICKLOW AUTHOR 369. SANDFORD, Francis. A Genealogical History of the Kings and Queens of England, and Monarchs of Great Britain, &c. From the Conquest, Anno 1066 to the Year 1707. In seven parts or books. Containing A Discourse of their several Lives, Marriages, and Issues, Times of Birth, Death, Places of Burial, and Monumental Inscriptions. With their Effigies, Seals, Tombs, Cenotaphs, Devises, Arms, Quarterings, Crests, and Supporters, All Engraven in Copper Plates … And continued to this time, with many new sculptures, additions … descents of divers

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Catalogue 141 illustrious families … descended from the said monarchs, or from collateral branches of the Royal Blood of England; By Samuel Stebbing, Esq; Somerset Herald. London: Printed by M. Jenour, for John Nicholson at the King's-Arms in Little Britain, and Robert Knaplock at the Bishop's Head in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1707. Second edition. Large folio. pp. [12], 878, [25]. Title in red and black. Modern quarter sprinkled calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on maroon morocco letterpiece on spine with raised bands. A fine copy. €875 Francis Sandford (1630-1694), herald and genealogist, descended from an ancient family seated at Sandford, Shropshire, was born in the castle of Carnew, County Wicklow, in 1630, being the third son of Francis Sandford, Esq., by Elizabeth, daughter of Calcot Chambre of Williamscot, Oxfordshire, and of Carnew. Chambre had come to Ireland during the Stuart confiscations of the 1620s, and in 1636 gave 200 tons of squared oak timbers from his lands for the building of TCD. His father, according to Fuller, was a royalist who was "very well skilled in making warlike fortifications." In 1641, on the outbreak of the rebellion in Ireland, the son sought an asylum at Sandford. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated B.A. He was appointed rouge dragon pursuivant in the College of Arms on 6 June 1661. In 1666, when attending the king at Oxford, he studied in the Bodleian Library, and he was appointed Lancaster herald in 1676. Being conscientiously attached to James II, he obtained leave in 1689 to resign his tabard to Gregory King, rouge dragon pursuivant, who paid him 220l. for his office. He then retired to Bloomsbury or its vicinity. He died on in January, 1693-4, "advanced in years, neglected, and poor", in the prison of Newgate, where he had been confined for debt, and was buried in St. Bride's upper churchyard. By his wife Margaret, daughter of William Jokes of Bottington, Montgomeryshire, and widow of William Kerry, he had several children. The first edition of the magnificent work was published in 1677. It was compiled by the direction and encouragement of Charles II. During a severe illness with which the author was attacked, a part of the text was furnished by Gregory King, who assisted in preparing the work for the press. The plan of the performance is excellent, and the plates are by Hollar and other eminent artists. The present edition was brought out by Samuel Stebbing, Somerset herald. Everything in this edition beyond p. 615 is fresh material; there are fourteen new plates, and the index is greatly enlarged. 370. SANDYS, E.S. History of the family of Sandys of Cumberland, Afterwards of Furness in North Lancashire, and its Branches in Other Parts of England and in Ireland. For private circulation only. Frontispiece, illustrations (including coats of arms) plates, portraits, plans, facsimiles, folded genealogical tables. Part I only. Barrow-in-Furness: Barrow Printing Co., Ltd., 1930. pp. xiii, [1], 320. Half maroon on cloth boards, title in gilt on upper cover and on morocco label in spine. All edges sprinkled. A very good copy. €100 COPAC locates 5 copies only. 371. SCULLY, Denys. An Irish Catholic's Advice to his Brethren, how to estimate their present situation, and repel French Invasion, Civil Wars, and Slavery. Dublin: Printed by H. Fitzpatrick, 4, Capel-Street, 1804. pp. xliv, 72. Green pebbled cloth, title in gilt on spine. Some marginal corrections in ink possibly by the author. Some foxing to prelims. All edges gilt. A very good copy. €275 Denys Scully (1773-1830), political writer and champion of Catholic emancipation, was the eldest surviving son of James Scully, a landed proprietor of Kilfeacle, County Tipperary, and his wife Catherine Lyons, of Croome House, Limerick. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1794, and seems to have been the second Catholic student admitted for two hundred years. After a short residence he left without graduating, and studied for the Irish bar, of which he became a member in 1796. He practised on the Leinster circuit and was very successful until delicate health compelled him to retire. He became known as one of the leading Catholic agitators, and joined the important deputation which was appointed in February 1805 to wait upon Pitt with a petition to the House of Commons for emancipation. Pitt declined to present the petition, but Fox and Granville consented, and laid it before the house on 25 March. Scully prepared a famous 'Statement of the Penal Laws,' which appeared in 1812, and resulted in the prosecution of the printer, Hugh Fitzpatrick, who was fined £200 and imprisoned for eighteen months. During the French wars Denys Scully served in the Lawyers' Corps of Yeomanry. He was critical of the rebellion of Robert Emmet and published this pamphlet urging his fellow countrymen to oppose the French.

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372. SENIOR, Nassau William. Journals, Conversations and Essays Relating to Ireland. Two volumes. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1868. pp. (1) xix, 313, (2) 318. Green cloth, title in gilt on rebacked spines. Stamp of Rotherham Book Society on titlepage, with withdrawn stamp on verso. A very good set. €250 Nassau William Senior, the first professor of Political Economy at Oxford visited Ireland on numerous occasions over the period 1819 to his last visit in 1862. Born in 1790, he was the son of a vicar and the eldest of ten children. Educated at Eton and Magdalen, Oxford, he qualified as a barrister but soon turned to political economy - apparently he was much impressed by the evils of misdirected charity in his father's parish and resolved to reform the English poor law system. In 1862 his daughter published some of his Irish material in Journals, Conversations and Essays relating to Ireland. Included in this work are accounts of visits to Ireland in 1852, 1858 and 1862 including on each occasion, visits to Lord Rosse at (the astronomer third Earl). Senior writes in an introduction to the essays he had prepared in 1861: "Though the aspect of Ireland is somewhat changed since 1852, and much since 1844, I doubt whether any great real alteration in the habits to feelings of the people has taken place. They still depend mainly on the potato. They still depend rather on the occupation of land, than on the wages of labour. They still erect for themselves the hovels in which they dwell. They are still eager to subdivide and to sublet. They are still the tools of their priests, and the priests are still ignorant of the economical laws on which the welfare of the labouring classes depends. They are still the promoters of early and improvident marriages; they still neglect to preach to their flocks the prudence, parsimony, industry, cleanliness, and other self-regarding virtues, on which health and comfort depend; they are still the enemies of emigration; they are still the enemies of every improving landlord; they are still hostile to a Government which has seized the property of their Church - which refuses, or at least neglects, to provide for the spiritual instruction of the great mass of the people, and everywhere, except in its workhouses and in its gaols, ignores the existence of a Roman Catholic clergy." Nassau Senior was as critical of the Catholic Clergy as he was of the Established Church of Ireland in a country where the vast majority were Catholic. In his views he anticipated Disestablishment in 1869. In his journal he records the conversations with the owners or managers of land, "They tell us what is the conduct which our Irish tenant approves - what he will tolerate, what he will resent, and what he will punish. 373. SEVERN, Bill. Irish Statesman and Rebel: The Two Lives of Eamon De Valera. Folkestone: Bailey Brothers, 1971. First edition. pp. viii, 184. Green papered boards, title in gilt along spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €65 ARAVON SCHOOL PRIZE 374. SHACKLETON, E. Shackleton in the Antartic; Being the Story of the British Antartic Expedition, 1907-1909. London: William Heinemann, 1923. pp. x, [1], 12-255, [1]. Bound in contemporary half calf over cloth boards, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. Badge of Aravon Preparatory School in gilt on upper cover. Prize label awarded to A.L. Hollinshead, dated March 1933 on front pastedown. Signed by the Head Master A.B. Craig. A very good copy. €95 375. SHAKESPEARE, William. A Midsummer-Night's Dream. With illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: Heinemann, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1911. Second impression. pp. [2], 134, [40 (Plates)]. Beige cloth, titled in gilt, illustration in gilt on upper cover. Some light wear to spine ends, toning of some pages, spine evenly faded. A very good copy. €275 SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM GEORGE BERNARD SHAW 376. SHAW, Bernard. Saint Joan. London: Constable, 1924. Folio. pp. vi, 183. Quarter beige cloth over blue and white patterned boards, with paper title labels. Edition limited to 750 copies only. Sixteen tipped in plates by Charles Ricketts (13 in colour). Inscribed on half-title: "Inscribed for / Aislinn Dulanty / G. Shaw / Ayot Saint Lawrence / 28th August 1946." Spine ends frayed and usual wear to board edges. Understandably, lacking the original dust wrapper. A very good copy. €775 A deluxe presentation beautifully printed on fine paper. Also a beautifully illustrated, limited edition of George Bernard Shaw's historical play, Saint Joan. The first edition of this work with the Charles Ricketts illustrations, complete with sixteen tipped in illustrations. Ricketts was a versatile artist and illustrator. He was a book designer and typographer for the Vale Press for many years and had a great

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understanding of the theatre, having also been a set and costume designer. His illustrations to this work are informed by a wealth of knowledge and creative vision. Saint Joan, is an historical play regarding Joan of Arc. The work is biographical, and dramatises what is known about her life based on her trial records. It premiered three years after her canonization by the Roman Catholic Church. The dramatist George Bernard Shaw, who was born in Dublin in 1856, was a collateral descendant of Sir Robert Shaw, M.P. In 1876, G.B. Shaw moved to London, where he established himself as a leading music and theatre critic and became a member of the Fabian Society. While his earliest literary career was as a novelist, he began to write plays from 1898. His many plays include: Candida, Back to Methuselah, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles and the Lion, Major Barbara and Saint Joan. Shaw received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.

See items 375 & 376. FREEMAN OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN 377. SHAW, George Bernard. G.B.S. A Freeman. Photograph of George Bernard Shaw signing the Roll of Freemen of the City of Dublin at his home in Ayot, St. Lawrence. Present for the occasion were (left to right) Mr. P.J. Hernon, Dublin City Manager, G.B. Shaw and Mr. John W. Dulanty, High Commissioner for Eire in London. 254 x 206mm. In fine condition. €485 Shaw was a recipient of the Honorary Freedom of the City of Dublin in 1946. It is the highest honour the City Council may bestow and it is conferred very rarely. The recipient becomes an Honorary Citizen of Dublin and although no financial or other benefits are attached to the award, the prestige which it carries is immense. The Honorary Freedom of Dublin was instituted under the Municipal Privileges Act, 1876 and is currently conferred under the provisions of the Local Government Act. 378. SHAW, George Bernard. Dublin's New Freeman Goes For a Stroll. Photograph of George Bernard Shaw in the grounds of his home at Ayot, St. Lawrence, with Mr. John W. Dulanty, High Commissioner for Eire in London, after signing the Dublin City Roll of Freemen. 206 x 253mm. In fine condition. €385 379. SHEILS, W.J. and WOODS, Diana. Ed. by. The Churches, Ireland and the Irish Papers Read at the 1987 Summer Meeting and the 1988 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society. Oxford: Basil Blackwell for the Ecclesiastical History Society, 1989. pp. xiv, 418. Navy blue papered boards, title in gilt along spine. A fine copy in dust jacket. €65 Ireland's experience of Christianity and its influence on other Countries has been of wonderful richness and diversity. Celtic Christianity with its Monasticism and its role in Evangelization and Cultural Renaissance abroad, the conversion of the Hiberno-Norse, the establishment of a Colonial Church, the stresses of the Reformation give distinctiveness to the Irish Medieval past.

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RARE FIRST EDITION SIGNED FROM THE AUTHOR 380. SHIRLEY, Evelyn Philip. The History of the County of Monaghan. With coloured frontispiece and other illustrations and genealogical tables. London: Pickering, 1879. Folio. pp. xvi, 619. Celtic design bookplate of Stephen J. Richardson on front paste down. Also with the bookplate of the Royal Archaeological Institute Great Britain and Ireland. Contemporary quarter vellum parchment (rebacked) on original blue paper boards. Title on worn printed label on spine. Signed on front free endpaper 'From the Author'. A very good copy. Very rare. €2,350 Undoubtedly one of the best county histories ever written, with extensive delineations of the baronies, topography, and genealogy of the principal families of the county. The author was fortunate to have the assistance of the great Irish scholars, O'Donovan and O'Curry, and access to the State Papers which at that time warranted the sanction of the Secretary of State. Dedicated to the noble and gentle Men of Monaghan, this work in illustration of the country of the Little Hills, is respectfully inscribed by the author. 381. [SHIRLEY, James ?] The True Impartial History and Wars of the Kingdom of Ireland, Describing Its Situation, Division into Provinces, Shires, &c. Its Ancient Inhabitants, Manners, Customs, and the State it was in at its being first Invaded and Conquer'd by the English, in the Reign of K. Henry II. With the Several Revolts and Rebellions of the Natives, and by what means they have been reduced to Obedience in the Reign of our several Kings and Queens. But More particularly relating to all the Memorable Skirmishes, Battles, Sieges, and other extraordinary Transactions, since the Grand Revolution under the Reign of their Present Majesties K. William and Q. Mary, to the Siege and Surrender of Lymerick, Octob. 4. 1691. and many other things that have since happened: Being a History full of Variety, and worthy the Perusal of the Ingenious Reader. Licensed and Entered according to Order. London: Printed for Nicholas Boddington at the Golden Ball in Duck-Lane, 1692. First edition. 12mo. pp. [10], 179. Nineteenth century full brown morocco, title in gilt direct on spine. Ex libris William O'Brien Milltown Park Trust, with bookplate and stamp. Traces of old worming to lower margin, not affecting text. All edges red. A very good copy. €1,250 ESTC R28865 with 10 locations. COPAC locates 3 copies only of this printing. WorldCat 4. Wing S 3489. Sweeney 4704. Tipped in at titlepage by way of errata with the following text: "See Ireland rising from a bed of war receiving peace from her kind conqueror with arms unfettered she her King receiues whos fivord protects whilst heaven plenty gives." This work is attributed by Wing and NUC pre-1956 imprints to the dramatist, James Shirley, although he died a quarter of a century before the events described.

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PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION 382. SIGERSON, Dora (Mrs. Clement Shorter). The Sad Years. With a Tribute by . Illustrated. London: Constable and Company, 1918. pp. xv, [2], v-xii, 86, [2]. Black morocco. Top edge gilt. A fine copy. Very rare. €750 One of a limited edition of 50 copies, printed for private circulation. Dora Sigerson, daughter of the scholar and writer Dr. George Sigerson, married the English liberal journalist Clement Shorter, and lived in London for most of her life. She had many Irish friends, and never lost touch with Irish affairs. She was deeply affected by the executions after the 1916 Rising, and in her introduction Katharine Tynan attributes her death in 1918 largely to grief. She and her husband issued the first, highly limited editions of Yeats' great 1916 poem 'A Terrible Beauty' and of George Russell's 'Requiem', and she herself executed a monumental sculpture in memory of and his 1916 comrades (a photograph is included in this book). Her poem 'Sixteen dead men' is included in many 1916 anthologies. 383. SIGERSON, George. The Collected Poems of Dora Sigerson Shorter. With an Introduction by George Meredith. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1907. pp. xvi, 292. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €125 384. [SILK-MANUFACTURE] Orders and Regulations for the Silk-Manufacture; agreed to by the Dublin Society, on Thursday, the third day of March, 1796. Dublin: Printed by T,M. Bates, 89 Coombe, 1796. pp. [vi], 111. Errata facing title. Inter-leaved copy. Contemporary full straight- grained morocco. Covers ruled in gilt with drawer- handle tool in corners; in centre in gilt 'REGULATIONS / FOR THE / SILK / MANUFACTURE.' Flat spine divided into six panels by triple gilt fillets, gilt devices in centre of all panels; board-edges ruled in gilt; red, pink, green, yellow, white and black splash marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Early notes on front endpaper. Minor wear to extremities. Fine. €1,250 No copy located on COPAC. Not in NLI. The Dublin Society came to the aid of the weavers by establishing a silk warehouse in Parliament Street in 1764, and a woollen warehouse in Castle Street in 1773, for the sale of home produced goods. For a time these measures were a help but the decline had set in. When war was declared against France and raw materials were difficult to obtain, the silk weavers suffered greatly. The rebellion of 1798 completely ruined them. They are described as descending from the Liberties to the lower parts of the city 'with a certain wildness of aspect, pallid faces and squalid persons.' Dedicated to Joshua Pim, Esq., by the Silk Weavers, signed in their name, Nathaniel Watson, John Kennedy, Peter Leech. 385. SKELTON, Robin. An Irish Gathering. Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1964. First edition. Square octavo. pp. 22. Pictorial boards, title in red on spine. Edition limited to 500 copies. A very good copy in dust jacket. €35 Miller 69. 386. [SLANE AUCTION] Catalogue of silver, glass, furniture and paintings at , Co. Meath, by kind permission of The Earl and Countess of Mount Charles. To be sold by Sotheby's on Monday, 11th and Tuesday, 12th May, 1981. Illustrated. London: Sotheby, 1981. pp. 102. Stiff wrappers, printed in green. A fine copy. €45

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387. SMITH, Charles. The Ancient and Present State of The County of Kerry. Containing a natural, civil, ecclesiastical, historical, and topographical description thereof. Embellished with a portrait frontispiece of the author; a large folding map of the County; a panoramic view of the Lakes of Killarney taken from the North; Inny Bridge; Scelig; Plan of Traly and Galerus near Smeriwick. Dublin: Printed for the Author, n.d. [1756]. First edition. pp. xxi, [1], 23-419, 5 (index). Contemporary full sprinkled calf, spine professionally rebacked, preserving the original elaborately gilt decorated backstrip; board-edges hatched in gilt; splash-marbled endpapers. All edges yellow. A very good copy. €875 Charles Smith (1715?-1762), apothecary, topographer and writer, was born in County Waterford. Details of his life remain obscure, but he was educated in medicine and worked as an apothecary in Lismore and Dungarvan. He is remembered as a pioneer of Irish topography and local history. His first work, The Antient and Present State of the County of Down (1744), was produced in collaboration with Walter Harris and dedicated to Hans Sloane, and was the first thorough history of an Irish county. The work was intended as the first of a series of such surveys and led to the foundation in 1744 of the Physico-Historical Society in Dublin. Under the auspices of this body Smith proceeded to publish accounts of counties Waterford (1746), Cork (1750), and Kerry (1756). Information was gathered by corresponding with local residents, and the books were marketed to an educated upper and middle-class readership keen to improve their knowledge of the Irish countryside and economy. His work remains an invaluable source for Irish historians. In 1756 he was a founding member and first secretary of the Medico-Philosophical Society in Dublin. He died in Bristol in July 1762. 388. SMITH, Stuart. How to Study Birds. Illustrated. London: Collins, 1945. First edition. pp. 192. Recent quarter calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on black morocco label on spine. A very good copy. €45 Study of birds' behavioural patterns and answers such questions as: how birds find their way when migrating, how young birds learn to sing, the significance of territory to birds, etc. 389. SPICER-SIMSON, Theodore. Men of Letters of the British Isles Portrait Medallions from the Life. By Theodore Spicer-Simpson. With critical essays by Stuart P. Sherman and a preface by G.F. Hill. Illustrated. New York: William Edward Rudge, 1924. Small folio. pp. [2], 124. With half-title and title page vignette. Quarter cream linen on brown paper boards, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Edition limited to 520 copies (512) on Rives paper. A fine copy. €145 Celebrities portrayed includes: Arnold Bennett, J.D. Beresford, Laurence Binyon, Robert Bridges, G.K. Chesterton, Padraic Colum, Joseph Conrad, William H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, Charles M. Doughty, John Drinkwater, Lord Dunsany, St. John Ervine, John Galsworthy, Thomas Hardy, Ralph Hodgson, A.E. Housman, W.H. Hudson, Douglas Hyde, James Joyce, John Masefield, George Meredith, Sir Henry Newbolt, George Russell A.E., George Bernard Shaw, James Stephens, Hugh Walpole, H.G. Wells, and W.B. Yeats. Plates in sepia photogravure, each with facing tissue guard. 390. STEELE, Thomas. Practical Suggestions on the General Improvement of the Navigation of the Shannon, between Limerick and the Atlantic, and more particularly of that part of it named by pilots the Narrows. With some remarks intended to create a doubt of the fairness of not keeping faith with the Irish Roman Catholics, after they had been lured into a surrender of

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Limerick (their principle fortress), by a Treaty. With large folding chart of the River Shannon. London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1828. pp. vii, [1], 15, [1]. Errata precedes text. Modern green buckram, titled in gilt. Neat faded stamp of old library. A very good copy. €475 COPAC locates 3 copies only. Two of those copies calls for a plate!. Goldsmiths'-Kress 25615. Includes bibliographical references. OCLC 17999110 Thomas Steele (1788-1848), Irish politician, was born at Derrymore, County Clare. He belonged to an old Somerset family which had settled in Ireland in the seventeenth century. His father, William Steele, who died while he was an infant, was the younger brother of Thomas Steele of Cullane, the owner of a very considerable property in County Clare, to which Steele succeeded at an early age. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated B.A. in 1810, and subsequently at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he graduated M.A. in 1820, after being incorporated B.A. in the same year. A man of ardent and even quixotic disposition, his whole life was one of action and adventure. In the Spanish war of 1823 against Ferdinand VII, he joined the patriot army, and impoverished his estate by raising 10,000l. on mortgages to provide military stores for the insurgents. He was present at the battle of the Trocadero, and it was not until the evacuation of Cadiz by the French that he abandoned a hopeless contest. In 1824 he published an account of his share in the struggle entitled Notes of the War in Spain. On his return to Ireland Steele threw himself with fervour into the agitation for catholic emancipation. Although a protestant, he was one of the earliest members of the revived Catholic Association. He seconded O'Connell's nomination for Clare in 1828, and it was largely by his advice that the great agitator was induced to stand on that occasion (Wyse, History of the Catholic Association, i. 373). Steele opened the electoral campaign in Clare by expressing his readiness to fight any landlord who should conceive himself aggrieved by his interference with his tenants. His position as a protestant landlord made him peculiarly valuable to O'Connell, and Sheil considered that he contributed more largely than any other individual to the return of O'Connell on 5 July (Sheil, Sketches, ii. 108). He was appointed by his leader to the position of 'head pacificator,' an odd post for a man of his character; and was often instrumental in preventing outrages among his followers. John O'Connell, being asked 'Why did Dan make a semi-lunatic his head pacificator?' is said to have replied 'Why, indeed! Pray, who the devil else would take such a position?' (Duffy, Four Years of Irish History, p. 399). After the passing of catholic emancipation Steele took a less prominent part in politics, though he remained a staunch adherent of O'Connell, to whom he was personally devoted, declaring that if the latter ordered him to sit on a mine he would obey the mandate. He was one of those arrested and tried with O'Connell in 1843. In the dissensions between O'Connell and the Young Irelanders, he took the side of his old chief. Shortly after O'Connell's death Steele, who was much distressed by that event, and whose fortune had been completely wasted by his sacrifices for the causes with which he was associated, attempted suicide by throwing himself into the Thames off Waterloo Bridge. Though rescued from drowning, he died at Peele's coffee-house, Fleet Street, a few days later, on 15 June 1848. Lord Brougham was among those who attended his deathbed. His remains were brought to Ireland, and buried beside O'Connell's in Glasnevin cemetery. Steele's is one of the most picturesque figures in the history of Irish popular movements. Though his actions were often wild and his principles extreme, he appears to have been a man of absolute sincerity, and was known through his career as 'Honest Tom Steele.' He took much interest in his property and in the condition of the people, and in 1828 published the present work, in which there are passages of vivid, if florid, descriptions. It marks the oddity of Steele's character that in the same volume he published an animated essay on the widely different subject of the treatment of the Irish Catholics after the treaty of Limerick. 391. STEWART, Alexander and Donald. Cochruinneacha Taoghta de Shaothair nam Bard Gaeleach, A Choice Collection of the Works of the Highland Bards collected in the Highlands and Isles. Duneidin: Clodh-Bhuailt Le T. Stiuart, 1804. First edition. pp. viii, 304, 305-592, 7 (Index). Two volumes bounds in one but only one distinct title page. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. Armorial bookplate of James Dewar on front pastedown. €185 P.W. JOYCE'S COPY 392. STOKES, Whitley. Ed. by. Cormac's Glossary. Translated and Annotated by the late John O'Donovan. Edited, with notes and indices by Whitley Stokes. Calcutta: Printed by O.T. Cutter for the Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society, 1868. Quarto. pp. [2], xii, 204. Brown blind-

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Thomas M'Lean, 26 Haymarket, 1824. Oblong quarto. pp. 25 (plates), 28. Half red morocco on original grey papered boards, title in gilt on original red morocco label on upper cover. Pencil inscription on front endpaper 'Bought in Cork in / 1889 by W.H.P. / £32.10.0.' A very good copy of this exceedingly rare topographical work. €5,750

COPAC locates 2 copies only. WorldCat 1. Elmes and Hewson 2109 Abbey 460 Tooley 469. The author/artist notes in his introduction that "few parts of the British dominions are so little known to the English as the highly interesting sister-kingdom, of whose beauties we have given a small sketch in the following pages. Whatever may tempt the tourist, or man of fortune, to visit and explore the romantic, and beautiful, and often highly-cultivated scenery of Ireland". Diverting somewhat he castigates the absentee landowners for neglecting the country like faithless shepherds, deserting their posts, and consigning their tenantry to the gripping hand of a middle man ... Provided he can wring out of them the fortune he generally makes in a few short years. Sullivan then returns to the core reason for this work with a description of Ireland as: "a country possessing an infinity of wealth in its agricultural and commercial resources". He goes on "In Ireland the antiquarian may find full employment for the most active mind ... The artist will find, among the lakes and mountains of Erin, an inexhaustible store of subjects that are not surpassed in any other part of the world, either in romantic grandeur, or beautiful and pastoral simplicity". Perhaps one of the finest collections of coloured Irish aquatint views. The magnificent views depicted are as follows: The Mountains of Mome (Mourne); Irish Cottages, Wicklow; Stone Cross at Kilcullen; Wicklow Gold Mines; Mountains of Luganaquilla; , and Isle of Devenish; Abbey of Monaincha; Principal Lake at Killarney; Abbey of Aghaboe; ; Giant's Causeway; Ballrichan Castle; Roche Castle; Belfast; Lough of Belfast; View of the River Shannon; Downpatrick; Loch Neagh; Carlingford Castle; Waterfall near Bantry; Salmon Leap at ; ; Bray Head; View of the River Blackwater; and Limerick. 396. SULLIVAN, Robert. A Dictionary of Derivations; or, An Introduction to Etymology, on a New Plan. Fifteenth Edition. Portrait frontispiece. Dublin: Sullivan Brothers, 1875. 16mo. pp. [ii], 304. Recent black cloth, title in gilt on spine. Owner's signature on titlepage. Ex. lib. with stamps. A very good copy. €85 397. SWAN, Harry P. Twixt Foyle and Swilly. Panorama of Ireland's wonderful peninsula. A guide book and conspectus of information relating to the Barony of Inishowen, County Donegal. Companion Volume to Romantic Inishowen Ireland's Wonderful Peninsula. With illustrations and maps. Dublin, Hodges Figgis, 1949. pp. xix, 247. Red cloth, titled in gilt. A very good copy in frayed repaired dust jacket. €145 398. SWEENEY, R. Mingo. Sween. Clan of the Battle-Axe. Clann na d'Tua Abu. A Brief History of the MacSweeney (MacSuibhne) Galloglass. With genealogical charts and coats of arms. Typescript. Torrance, California: Printed by The Augustan Society for R. Mingo Sweeney, Prince Edward Island, Canada, 1968. Quarto. pp. xii, 112. In ring-binder as published. A very good copy. €75 IRISH STUART SILVER 399. 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,

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William III & Queen Anne 1603-1714. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 1995. Folio. pp. 272. Green buckram, title in gilt along spine Limited edition of 400 numbered and signed copies of which 360 are for sale. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. €135 Compiled from records of holdings by Cathedrals, Churches, Religious Houses, Colleges, Municipal Corporations, Museums & Art Galleries. Further information has been obtained from those who deal in, and those who collect, Antique Silver, with special regard to Auction Sales. The author has meticulously explored, not only over half a million catalogue entries of silver offered for sale at public auction, but every other source available. He has recorded every piece of Irish Stuart silver which he has been successful in locating; commencing with the accession of James I in 1603 and closing with the death of James's great grand-daughter Queen Anne in 1714. 400. [SYNGE, Edward. Bishop of Elphin] The Pedlar's Letter to the Bishops and Clergy of Ireland. Dublin: Printed in the Year 1760. pp. 30, [1]. With a final leaf of advertisements. Recent quarter calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Slight water staining, otherwise a very good copy. Very scarce. €265 COPAC locates 7 copies only. Black 428. In the Lambeth Palace copy a manuscript note states: "Said to be written by Dr. Synge, bishop of Elphin". ILLUSTRATED BY JACK B. YEATS 401. SYNGE, J.M. The . With drawings by Jack B. Yeats. Dublin: Maunsel, London: Mathews, 1907. pp. xii, 190. Blue cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. A fine copy. Extremely rare in this condition. €575 (1871-1909), was born in Rathfarnham, Dublin, educated at T.C.D. and was a founder of the new Irish theatre with Lady Gregory and W.B. Yeats. Synge first met W.B. Yeats in Paris in 1896, where he was studying French literature and living in poverty. According to Yeats he advised Synge in lofty terms: "Give up Paris. You will never create anything by reading Racine and Arthur Symons will always be a better critic of French literature. Go to the Aran islands, live there as if you were one of the people themselves; express a life that has never found expression". He followed this sound advice and two years later Synge spent some months there. The book on offer here The Aran Islands, is a poetic and compelling account of life on the lonely, barren and windswept islands off the Galway coast. Synge recalled his first impression of them: "I have never seen anything so desolate. Grey floods of water were sweeping everywhere upon the limestone, making at times a torrent of the road, which twined continually over low hills and cavities of the rock or passed between a few small fields of potatoes or grass." It was here that Synge obtained the material for Riders To The Sea, the short tragedy that made his name. The present work is further enhanced with the enchanting drawings of Jack B. Yeats. Frontispiece and 11 other plates. The drawings depicting Island life including: The Island Man, The Pier, The Hooker's Owner, Kelp-making, Carrying Seaweed for kelp, The Evictions, A Four-oared Curragh, Thatching, Porter, An Island Horseman, The Man Who Told Stories. 402. TALBOT-CROSBIE, Bligh. A Western Wakening. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1911. First edition. pp. viii, 166. Blue cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. €125 403. [TAYLOR, Emily] The Irish Tourist; or, the People and the . Engraved frontispiece and folding itinerary map. London, Darton, 1837. pp. xi, 271, 20 (publisher's list). Green cloth, titled in gilt. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Spine expertly rebacked. Very good in original ribbed cloth. Inscribed to "Miss Stokes June 14th 1837 / With Mrs. Worthington's love." Armorial bookplate. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €675 COPAC locates 3 copies only. Emily Taylor (1795-1872) was an English schoolmistress, poet, children's writer and hymnist. She wrote numerous tales for children, chiefly historical, along with books of instruction and some descriptive natural history. In the preface the author espouses the great qualities of Ireland as a destination for tourists and aims to present juvenile readers with a lively and graphic description of the country, its legendary lore, local curiosities, the scenery, situations of the towns and the general state of the country. She deals with each province individually starting with the province of Connaught whom she tells us is: "well governed, its people furnished with means and motives to industry, and its oppressions taken away, will not, perhaps, be less civilised a few years hence than Wales is now ... Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole

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earth, the greenest, the gayest, the softest, at times the most majestic of countries; there she still is, full of sorrow, and crime: her widows and orphans die of want in the midst of abundance". Taylor retained an interest in children's education throughout her life, not least in her prolific writings for children. Her earliest books, Letters to a Child, on the Subject of Maritime Discovery (1820) and Letters to a Very Little Girl (1821), charted this course, although she also published books for wider audiences, including The Vision of Las Casas, and Other Poems (1825), A Memoir of Sir Thomas More (1834), and Help to the Schoolmistress, or Village Teaching (1839). Irish Travels (1839), designed for children, bespeaks her wide ranging reading, in which travel writing played an important role. She wrote frequently for periodicals. Provenance: From the library of Capt. Hugh Henry Robertson-Aikman, JP (1819-1882), of The Ross and Broomelton, Lanarkshire. With his armorial bookplate [Frank (F230]. 404. TEMPLE, Sir Richard. Palestine Illustrated. London: W.H. Allen & Co., 1888. First edition. Small folio. pp. xx, 296. 4 maps (2 double-page). 2 lithographed and 32 chromolithographed plates (including frontispiece). Original gilt-stamped cloth, top edge gilt, all others uncut. Light foxing mainly to margins. Top edge gilt. A fine copy. €250

A description of the author's 1883 travels in Palestine with reproductions of his thirty-two oil studies of the Holy Land. ONE OF THE EARLIEST PRINTED BOOKS BY AN IRISH WRITER THOMAS HIBERNICUS 405. THOMAS HIBERNICUS Flores Doctorum penè omnium, tam Graecorum, quam Latinorum, qui tum in Theologia, tum in Philosophia hactenus claruerunt, per Thomam Hybernicum, olim summa cum diligentia collecti, ac ordine Alphabetico digesti. Tyrnaviæ, Typis Academicis Soietatis Jesu, 1746. pp. 944, [4] (index). Title in red and black with printer's device. Fine copy in near contemporary full sprinkled calf. All edges sprinkled. Very rare. €575 No copy of this edition located on COPAC. WorldCat 4. This work consists of extracts from classical and patristic literature arranged in alphabetical order according to subject (from 'Abstinentia' to 'Usura' and finally, 'Exceptiones Sanctorum Patrum'). 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, (1st 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

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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 cross-reference 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 or 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. This work was published by the Jesuits at Tyrnaviæ (Trnava Tyrnau Nagyszombat) Trnava, a city in western Slovakia, 47 km to the north-east of Bratislava. It is the seat of a Roman Catholic archbishopric (1541-1820 and then again since 1977). The city has a historic centre. Because of the many churches within its city walls, Trnava has often been called "parva Roma", i.e. "Little Rome", or more recently, the "Slovak Rome". In the 16th and especially the 17th century, Trnava was an important center of the Counter- Reformation in the Kingdom of Hungary (at the time largely identical with the territory of present-day Slovakia and a strip of western Hungary). The Archbishop Nicolas Oláh invited the Jesuits to Trnava in 1561 in order to develop the municipal school system. Subsequently, he had a seminary opened in 1566 and in 1577 Trnava's priest Nicolas Telegdi founded a book-printing house in the town. The first Catholic Bible translation into Hungarian (based on the Latin Vulgate) was also completed in the town by the Jesuit György Káldi who was born there in 1573. The Jesuit Trnava University (1635-1777), the only university of the Kingdom of Hungary at that time, was founded by Archbishop Péter Pázmány. Founded to support the Counter-Reformation, Trnava University soon became a center of Slovak education and literature, since most of the teachers, one half of the students and the majority of the town's inhabitants were Slovaks. FIRST EDITION IN 406. [TIOMNADH NUADH] Tiomnadh Nuadh ar Tighearna agus ar Slanuigh-Fhir Iosa Criosd. Eidir-theangaicht' o'n Ghreugais chum Gaidhlig Albannaich, etc. Dun-Eudain: Balfour, Auld & Smellie, 1767. Unpaginated. Text in double columns. Modern quarter calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. Old small ink stain to inner gutter of first eight leaves. Occasional traces of old mild water staining. A very good copy. €485 ESTC T214080. The New Testament was first published in Scottish Gaelic in 1767 and the whole Bible (Am Bìoball Gàidhlig) was first published in 1801. Prior to these, Gaels in Scotland had used Irish translations. It was not until after the final defeat of the Jacobite warriors at Culloden in 1746, that the Scottish branch of the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge began serious work on a published Bible in Scottish Gaelic and initiated a translation project in 1755. The result of this was the New Testament of James Stuart (1701-1789), minister of Killin, and poet Dugald Buchanan, published in 1767. Stuart worked from the Greek, Buchanan improved the Gaelic. This was followed in 1801 by a full Bible translation with an Old Testament largely by Stuart's son John Stuart of Luss. BEST EDITION WITH RARE SUPPLEMENT 407. [ INDEX] Census of Ireland, 1901. General topographical index consisting of an alphabetical index to the and towns of Ireland, and indices to the parishes, baronies, poor law unions ... district electoral divisions, dispensary ... districts, county districts, county electoral divisions, and parliamentary divisions of Ireland. Bound with: Census of Ireland, 1911. Supplement to the General Topographical Index of Ireland. Dublin: Printed for H.M.S.O. by Cahill & Company, 1904/1913. Folio. pp. ix, [3], 1049, [3], 42. Contemporary half linen over worn marbled boards, title in gilt direct on spine. Titlepage creased with dusting to corner. Repair to corner of three leaves at end, with minutest loss of text to final page. A very good copy. €495 COPAC locates the TCD copy only which is lacking the Supplement.

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408. TOWNSHEND, Thomas. A Summary Defence of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke. In Two Letters. Letter I. Addressed to the Rev. Gilbert Wakefield, in Refutation of all His Positions. Letter II. Addressed to the Hon. Somerset Lowry Corry, including Strictures upon a Late Virulent Pamphlet, Written by Mr. William Miles. London: Printed for the Booksellers, 1796. pp. 60. In recent blue wrappers. In very good condition. €225 COPAC locates 9 copies only. Thomas Townshend of County Cork attended Trinity College, Dublin (1792) and Gray's Inn (1794). He corresponded with Edmund Burke in 1796, and published pamphlets on Ireland, where he was a member of the Irish parliament. In some catalogues his General Opinions on the Conduct of the Ministers is attributed to Thomas Townshend "barrister at law" and in others as "Member of the Irish Parliament"; they appear to be by the poet. 409. [TRAVELLER'S NEW GUIDE] The Traveller's New Guide Through Ireland: Containing A New and Accurate Description of the Roads, with Particulars of all the different Towns, Villages, Noblemen and Gentlemen's Seats, Churches, Monastic Buildings, Antiquities and Natural Curiosities. Also, The Present State of Agriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce: With a Complete List of all the Fairs Throughout the Kingdom. Illustrated with a new and accurate Map of Ireland; Plan of the Lakes of Killarney, Views of the Giant's Causeway, Waterfall at Powerscourt, Delineations of the Principal Post-Roads ... . Dublin: Published by John Cumming, 1815. pp. 4, 574. Modern half green morocco over marbled boards. Spine divided into six panels by five gilt raised bands, title in gilt direct in the second; the remainder tooled with a gilt device. Previous owner's inscription on titlepage. Usual occasional foxing. A very good copy. Very scarce. €425 COPAC with 8 locations. Goldsmiths'-Kress 21116.21. 410. TRENCH, C.E.F. Slane. With drawings by Bea Orpen. Dublin, An Taisce, 1976. pp. 48. Pictorial stapled wrappers. Presentation copy from the author to his son, Patrick. From the library of Terry Trench. A fine copy. €25 411. TRENCH, Richard Chenevix. Richard Chenevix Trench, Archbishop. Letters and Memorials. Edited by the author of "Charles Lowder" [Maria Trench]. Two volumes. Engraved frontispiece to each volume. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1888. pp.(1) xviii, 346, (2), vii, 234, [2 (publisher's list)]. Maroon cloth, titles in gilt on maroon morocco labels on spines. A very good set. €275 Richard Chenevix Trench (1807-1886), Archbishop of Dublin and biblical scholar was born in Dublin, the son of a barrister-at-law and educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He left Cambridge in 1829 and after a period of depression and despondency, which he relieved by writing poetry, was ordained in 1832. After brief curacies, he became professor of divinity in King's College, London (1846-1858), dean of Westminster (1856-1863), and finally archbishop of Dublin (1863-1884). In the latter position he opposed Prime Minister W F. Gladstone's proposals for the disestablishment of the Church in Ireland. His efforts failed. His many theological writings were eclipsed by his works in philology and poetry, which include The Study of Words (1851), English, Past and Present (1855), and Collected Poems (1865). 412. [TRINITY COLLEGE] The Book of Trinity College, Dublin 1591-1891. Profusely illustrated and with folding map. List of subscribers. Belfast: Ward, & Dublin: Hodges, 1892. Quarto. pp. xii, 317. Title in red and black. Original quarter vellum on green cloth boards. Title and crest of Trinity College in gilt on upper cover. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. Scarce. €275 The chapters include: From the Foundation to the Caroline Charter; From the Caroline Reform to the Settlement of William III; The Eighteenth Century up to 1758; From 1758 to the Close of the Century;

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During the Nineteenth Century; The Observatory, Dunsink; The Library; The Early Buildings; Distinguished Graduates; The College Plate; The Botanical Gardens and Herbarium; The University and College Officers, and Tercentenary Ode. 413. TROLLOPE, Anthony. The Macdermots of Ballycloran. London: Ward, Lock & Co., Warwick House, Salisbury Square, n.d. (c.1880). New edition. pp. iv, 364. Green cloth, decorated to a floral pattern in black and green, title in gilt on upper cover and spine; floral patterned endpapers. Occasional light foxing. A very attractive copy. €75 COPAC locates only 3 copies of this edition. The purpose of Trollope's first visit to Ireland in 1843 was to investigate irregularities in the Post Office at Drumsna, County Leitrim, then managed by William Allen. After a weary journey he arrived late in the village and stayed in a small public-house. His bedroom was approached by a flight of steps, half stairs, half ladder, not far from perpendicular. The room had little in the way of furnishings, except two beds close together, a table, chair and basin-stand. He retired to bed early, could not secure his room door, after some time he fell into an uneasy restless sort of sleep, and was suddenly awoken by the trod of footsteps approaching his bed. Frightened and half awake he leapt from his bed, caught the intruder by the throat, in the ensuing struggle, the door opened and his antagonist stumbled and fell down the stairs. Aroused by this noise, the late night drinkers rushed into the room and struck a light. That very moment, Trollope heard the landlady cry out: "Oh, boys, that murderin' villain upstairs has killed his raverance! ... We'll soon settle the damned Sassenach." But for the intervention of the half- strangled priest, it would have been curtains for Trollope. When peace was established apologies were made all around. Trollope found out in actual fact that he had assaulted the local parish priest, who was out on a late call and had decided to stay at the inn that night. Fortunately he was none the worse for his encounter and afterwards he and Trollope became very good friends. Trollope featured this kindly gentleman in this novel. The Macdermots of Ballycloran was set in County Leitrim among the Macdermot Clan recalling their vicissitudes. The most interesting aspect of this novel is the background on Irish social and rural life as seen by a sympathetic Englishman, although anti-nationalist. 414. TROLLOPE, Anthony. Phineas Finn the Irish Member. Three volumes. New York: Dodd Mead, 1893. pp. (1) vi, 308 (2) vi, 315 (3) vi, 310. Purple cloth, titled in gilt. Top edges gilt. A fine set. €295 Loeber T135. The title character is Irish, but the story mainly concerns Finn's romantic involvements in London and his political life at Westminster - which he eventually gives up because of his views on tenant rights in Ireland. He returns home to Ireland and marries his Irish sweetheart Mary Flood Jones, and becomes a Poor Law Commissioner. Phineas Finn first appeared as a serial in Saint Paul's Magazine from October 1867 to May 1869, and was published by Virtue in March. The inexperienced publisher paid £3200 for the copyright, marking "the summit of Trollope's achievement as a novelist-earner", though his gamble was not a successful one, and "shortly after the book was published, James Virtue went out of general publishing altogether [B]efore he had time to sell many copies, he disposed of the copyright and was consequently debarred from putting the balance of his printed sheets on the market" (Sadleir, pp. 290-91). 415. TURNER, Samuel B. Turner Genealogy. Illustrated with coloured coats of arms, pedigrees, facsimiles, monuments and engravings. London: Privately Printed for the author's widow, 1884. Quarto. pp. [8], 88, 39 (plates), + errata. Mauve cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and on rebacked spine. Loosely inserted is an autograph letter signed from the author's wife Marian Turner to Emily Turner. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €275 COPAC locates 2 copies only. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY 416. TYNAN, Katharine. The House of the Crickets. London:: Smith, Elder, 1908. First edition. pp. viii, 308, [4 (Advertisement)]. Blue cloth, title in black on upper cover and in gilt on spine. Signed presentation copy from the author 'H.T.H.', dated October 1908. Some spotting and fading. A very good copy. €95 417. TYNAN, Patrick J. The Irish National Invincibles and Their Times. English edition, with appendices and index. Illustrated. London: Chatham, 1896. pp. xxxi, 591, + addendum. Red cloth, title in black on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. €145

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The 'Invincibles' were an extremist organisation in Ireland during the . They were terrorists who assassinated the Police Chief, John Mallon, the Chief Secretaries, Forster and Cavendish and Under-Secretary Burke. They were opposed by the Fenians for their extremist activities. Following the trial and execution of five of their members for the Phoenix Park murders the organisation disappeared. EXTREMELY RARE SIX VOLUME SET 418. VALLANCEY, Charles. Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis. Published from Original Manuscripts. Illustrated with numerous plates and folding maps. Seven volumes. I. A Chorographical Description of the county of West-Meath. Written A.D. 1682. By Sir Henry Piers, of Tristernaght, Baronet with folding map of the County of West-Meath; A Letter from Sir John Davis to the Earl of Salisbury; Original and first Institution of Corbes, Erenachs, and Termon-Lands. By Archbishop Usher; An Account of two ancient Instruments lately discovered, illustrated by a drawing; A Critico-Historical Dissertation concerning the Antient Irish Laws, or National Customs, called Gavel-Kind, and Thanistry or Senior Government. In two parts. II. Of the Literature of the Irish Nation in Heathenish times; An Essay of the Study of Irish Antiquities; Druidism Revived; An Essay on the Antiquity of the Irish Language; The History and Antiquities of Irishtown and Kilkenny adorned with copper plates. III. A Continuation of the Brehon Laws, in the original Irish, with a Translation into English; The Chinese Language collated with the Irish; The Japonese Language collated with the Irish; On the Round Towers of Ireland; An Account of the Ship-Temple near Dundalk by Governor Pownall in a Letter to Lieut. Col. Vallancey, with some Remarks; Reflections on the History of Ireland during the Times of Heathenism, with Observations on some late Publications on that Subject. By Charles O'Conor; A Letter from Curio, with a further Explanation of the silver Instrument engraved and described in No. II of the first Volume of this Collectanea. With folding plates. IV. The Iodhan Morain, or, Breast-Plate of Judgement (From Keating's History of Ireland); The Meisicith; The Charter Horn; The Harp of Brien Boiromh; The Irish Crown; Brass Swords; Tuagh Snaighte (Chip Axes); Orneis Ghriom (Implements of War); The Cead Rai Re, etc. Ring- Money; Third Letter from Mr. Charles O'Conor; Advertisement; Proposals for Collecting Materials for publishing the Antient and present state of the several ; A Vindication of the Ancient History of Ireland; Notes. With numerous plates. V. The Uraikeft, or, Book of , a fragment, with a Translation and Explanation; An Essay on the Origin of Alphabet Writing; Terms of the Brehon-Amhan Laws explained; Origin of the Feudal System of Government. VI. A Further Vindication of the Ancient History of Ireland; An Essay on the Language of Gypsies of Bohemia, England, etc.; A Second Essay on the Round Towers of Ireland; An Account of several Ogham Inscriptions; An Essay on the Money of the Ancient Irish. With plates. Six volumes. Dublin: Thomas Ewing, Luke White, R. Marchbank, S. Powell, Graisberry and Campbell, 1774/1804. Five volumes bound in contemporary full tree calf, title and volume numbers on contrasting morocco labels on spines. Volume six bound in original boards with rebacked spine. A very good set. Rare. €2,650

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Charles Vallancey, (1721-1812), General and antiquarian, was born in England of French Huguenot parentage. He came to Ireland in 1761 to assist in a military survey of the island and made this country his adopted home. He was one of the founder members of the Royal Irish Academy and had a great interest in Irish history, philology and antiquities, at a time when their study was totally neglected by the establishment. During the Rebellion of 1798 he furnished plans for the defence of Dublin. 'MOST UNMANAGEABLE REVOLUTIONARY' 419. VAN VORIS, Jacqueline. Constance de Markievicz. In the cause of Ireland. Illustrated. Massachusetts: University Press, 1967. First edition. pp. 384. Pictorial wrappers. Fine copy. €65 Constance de Markievicz is remembered as the wildest and best loved of the Irish rebels. She inspired Eamon de Valera to comment "women are at once the boldest and most unmanageable revolutionaries." After the rebellion she escaped execution only because of her sex and, while incarcerated became the first woman elected to the British House of Commons. Later in De Valera's cabinet, she became the first woman cabinet minister in western Europe. 420. VILLANUEVA, Doctor J.L. Observations on the Answers of the Right Rev. James Doyle, of Kildare and Leighlin, to the Committee of the House of Commons. London: Published by F.C. Westley, 1825. pp. 43. Stitched. In fine condition. €275 COPAC locates 4 copies only. James Warren Doyle, O.E.S.A. (1786-1834) Roman Catholic Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin in Ireland, who used the signature "JKL", an acronym from "James Kildare and Leighlin." Doyle was active in the Anti-Tithe movement. A campaigner for Catholic Emancipation up to 1829, he was also an educator, church organiser and the builder of Carlow cathedral. He was a close ally of Daniel O'Connell in the political campaign for Catholic Emancipation which was finally passed in 1829 by the Wellington government. His books and pamphlets on pastoral, political, educational and inter- denominational matters provide a rich source of material for social and religious historians. Doyle was invited to give evidence on the state of Ireland to parliamentary enquiries in London in 1825, 1830 and 1832. Asked at one such inquiry to explain his urging his countrymen to resist the tithes, and why he should not feel himself responsible for the violence that accompanied the , he replied: "[N]o man ought to be condemned for exhorting people to pursue justice in a certain line, though he may foresee that in the pursuit of that justice the opposition given to those who are proceeding in a just course may produce collision, and that collision lead to the commission of crime; but our duty, as I conceive, is to seek for the injustice, and there to impute the crime … It is to that injustice, and not to those who pursue a just course for the attainment of a right end, that the guilt is to be ascribed". 421. WAGSTAFFE, Jeoffry Esq. [Pseud. for Robert Jephson] Select Essays from the Batchelor; Or, Speculations of Jeoffry Wagstaffe, Esq. Folding engraved frontispiece and folding plate. Dublin: J. Hoey, Jnr, 1772. 12mo. pp. viii, 359 pages, folded frontispiece & plate. Modern full brown buckram, titled in gilt. Condition: Very Good (Plus). No Jacket. First Edition. €350 COPAC locates 6 copies only. WorldCat 1. ESTC T110919 Robert Jephson (1736-1803) dramatist and politician was born in Ireland, a younger son of John Jephson, Archdeacon of Cloyne. He entered Trinity College, Dublin in 1751, but left without a degree. He then joined the British Army, with a commission in the 73rd Regiment of Foot (1758), and served in the Caribbean. He left, for health reasons. Jephson then lived in England, at Hampton Court, with . There he was the friend of , , Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, and . His appointment as master of the horse to the lord-lieutenant of Ireland took him back to Dublin. He published, in the Mercury newspaper, a series of articles in defence of the lord-lieutenant's administration which were afterwards collected and issued in book form under the title of The Bachelor, or Speculations of Jeoffry Wagstaffe. A pension of £300, later doubled, was granted him, and he held his appointment under twelve succeeding viceroys. Jephson entered the Irish House of Commons in 1773 and sat for St Johnstown (County Longford), he also served as Member for Old Leighlin and subsequently represented Granard from 1783 to 1790. He died at Blackrock, near Dublin. This collection of essays on Irish life and politics was written by Robert Jephson, John Courtenay, the Rev. Mr. Boroughs, and others. Many of the essays relate to Lord Townshend's administration in Ireland, 1767-1772. After the success of "The Batchelor," Jephson turned to the theatre and his dramas had some commercial success.

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See items 421 & 422. 422. [WAGSTAFFE, William] The Story of the St. Alb-ns Ghost, or The apparition of Mother Haggy. Collected fron the best Manuscripts. London: Printed in the Year, 1712. pp. 16. Disbound. Titlepage offset. A good copy. €950 Teerink 861. This is variously attributed to William Wagstaffe, Jonathan Swift or John Arbuthnot. Published in "Miscellaneous Works of Dr. William Wagstaffe" under title: The Story of the St. A--n's Ghost. 423. WALKER, Joseph C. Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards; an Historical Essay on the Dress of the Ancient and Modern Irish; and a Memoir on the Armour and Weapons of the Irish. Two volumes. Dublin: Printed by J. Christie, 170, James's-Street, 1818. Second edition. pp. (1) xiv, [1], 400, [34 (Lamentations with music), 6 (plates)], (2) xii, 435, 14 (plates). Recent half morocco over cloth boards, title, author and volume in gilt on double labels on spine. Occasional foxing. A very good set. €375

Walker's Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards, along with his friend Charlotte Brooke's Reliques of published three years later, are "Important milestones in the later cultural history of the country ... Both authors break new ground in that they direct attention away from the contemplation of the remote past to observation of the contemporary Irish cultural scene and from historical speculation to literary appreciation of vernacular Irish poetry ... the two authors acted upon the spell of the romantic movement and their works may be regarded as its first literary fruits in Ireland." [R.A. Breatnach, Stud. Hib. 1965]. The six-page list of patrons includes: The Earl of Charlemont; Mrs. Canavan; Miss Cooper; Mr. Curry; Justice Day; Mr. Delany; Miss Farrell; Rev. T.P. Le Fanu; Mrs. Leland; Lady Morgan; L. Mansergh; Mr. Maddock, Four Courts; Sir Richard Nagle; Daniel O'Connell, Merrion Square; Lady Harriott Ponsonby; Hon. B. Yelverton, etc.

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424. WALLACE, Lew. An Finn-Dia. ("The Fair God"). Mícheál Ó Gríobhtha d'aistrigh. Baile Átha Cliath: S.O., 1935. pp. 723. Blue cloth, title in black on upper cover and spine. A very good copy in frayed illustrated dust jacket. €35 425. WALLER, John Francis. Poems. Dublin: James McGlashan, 1854. pp. vii, 278, 2. Recent buckram, with original gilt decorated cloth laid on. A very good copy. €145 John Francis Waller (1809-1894) poet and editor was born in Finnoe, County Tipperary, the son of Thomas Maunsell Waller and Margaret Vereker. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin (BA, 1831) and was called to the Irish Bar in 1833. Under the pseudonym of "Jonathan Freke Slingsby" he wrote for the Dublin University Magazine and became its editor in 1845. He held the position of vice-president of the Royal Irish Academy from 1864 and was appointed Registrar of the Rolls Court in 1867. Besides editing the Dublin University Magazine, he also edited the Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography and contributed articles to Cassell's Biographical Dictionary. Waller published several volumes of poems and also wrote the words to many popular songs, including Cushla Ma Chree, The Spinning Wheel and Song of the Glass. 426. WALSH, Laurence. Richard Heaton of Ballyskenagh. 1601-1666. Illustrated. Roscrea: Parkmore Press, 1978. pp. 111, [2 (map)]. Pink wrappers. A fine copy. €35 The land of Mount Saint Joseph Abbey, Roscrea, officially called Mountheaton, was formerly part of Ballyskenagh in the territory of Ely O'Carroll. After 1640 it became the property of Richard Heaton, the subject of this book. Heaton was a Royalist from Yorkshire who came to Ireland as chaplain with the army of the King. He was appointed Rector of Birr and Dean of Clonfert after the Reformation. Having loaned money to the last of the O'Carrolls with the lands of Ballyskenagh as security, he eventually gained possession of those lands. Richard Heaton is regarded as the first Irish botanist. He was a devoted husband and father, a devout cleric, and a wealthy man at the time of his death in 1666. 427. WALSH, Maurice. Thomasheen James, Man-of-no-Work. London: W. & R. Chambers, 1941. First edition. pp. 352. Cream cloth, title in green on spine. A very good copy in rare illustrated dust jacket. €45 428. WALSH, Rev. Michael. The Apparition at Knock. A Survey of Facts and Evidence. With preface by Joseph, Archbishop of Tuam. Illustrated. Naas: The Leinster Leader, 1955. pp. [vii], 136. Navy blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Owner's signature on front free endpaper. A very good copy in repaired dust jacket. €65 With chapters on: Knock and its People in 1879; The Apparition; The 1879 Commission; After the Apparition; The Nun of Kenmare; Archdeacon Cavanagh; Attitude of the Clergy. 429. [WALSH, William J.] Archbishop of Dublin. Statement of the Chief Grievances of Irish Catholics in the Matter of Education, Primary, Intermediate, and University. By the Archbishop of Dublin. Dublin: Browne & Nolan, n.d. (c.1890). pp. xvi, 421. Quarter blue linen on printed papered boards. Mild foxing to prelims. A very good copy. €125 430. [WALSH, William J.] Archbishop of Dublin. The Irish University Question, with special reference to Trinity College, Dublin, and its Medical School. Addresses by the Archbishop of Dublin, With Some Newspaper Correspondents. Dublin: James Duffy, 1906. pp. [iv], 111. Modern marbled boards, title on printed label on upper cover. Original upper printed wrapper bound in, compliment slip tipped onto titlepage. Ex libris Franciscan Library, Church Street with two neat stamps. A very good copy. €150 COPAC locates 1 copy only. 431. WARD, Margaret. Hanna Sheehy Skeffington A Life. Illustrated. Cork: Attic Press, 1997. pp. xii, 368. Pictorial wrappers. A fine copy. €45 432. WARD, Margaret. Maud Gonne. Ireland's Joan of Arc. Illustrated. London: Pandora, 1990. pp. xii, 211. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. €35 433. WEBBE, George. The Practice of Quietnes. Directing a Christian how to Live Quietly in this troublesome World: the 9th Edition, Profitably amplified by the Author before his death. London: Printed for John Saywell and are to be Sold at the Signe of the Grey-hound in Little Brittaine without Aldersgate, 1657. pp. [34], 278, [21]. Later full vellum, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. Name clipped from top margin of A2 and lower margin of final leaf, not

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ESTC T119463. "The most comprehensive work on the theory of landscape design developed by the natural school before the time of Humphrey Repton is Whately's Observations on Modern Gardening (1770). The popularity of this work is attested by the number of times it was published. It was issued several times in London and once in Dublin. It was translated into French and German versions were issued in Paris and Leipziz." [Henrey II p. 509]. Anonymous. By Thomas Whately. An Essay on Design in Gardening has a separate titlepage and pagination; Letters Describing the Lake of Killarney, .. has a separate titlepage and continues the pagination of the Essay; register is continuous throughout. REPRINTED AT DUBLIN BY S. POWELL 441. [WHITE CHAPEL SERMON] The White Chapel Sermon. The true Method of Propagating Religion and Loyalty: A Sermon Preach'd in the Parish Church of St. Mary in White Chapel, on Sunday the 24th of October, 1714 in the afternoon. By Joseph Acres, Vicar of Blewberry in Berkshire. [Dublin]: London Printed: and Reprinted in Dublin, by S. Powell, for G. Risk, Bookseller at the London in Dame-street, over-against, the Horse-Guard, 1714. pp. 16. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Some dusting to title and margins. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €485 COPAC locates 3 copies only. 442. WILDE, Oscar. The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. Fourteen volumes. London: Methuen, 1908. First Edition. First Collected Edition thus. Bound in original publisher's cream cloth, titled in gilt, with gilt decorations on covers. One of an unnumbered edition of 1000 on hand-made paper. Some toning to spines, trace of cup on one volume. Top edges gilt, others deckled. Generally a fine clean set. €1,450 All volumes published by Methuen, except Pictures of Dorian Gray. Published by Charles Carrington. Paris. 1. The Picture of Dorian Gray. 2. The Importance of Being Earnest. 3. A House of Pomegranates; The Happy Prince, and Other Tales. 4. De Profundis, with Additional Matter. 5. Lady Windermere's Fan. 6. Intentions, and The Soul of Man. 7. The Duchess of Padua. 8. A Woman of No Importance. 9. An Ideal Husband. 10. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, and Other Prose Pieces; 11. Salome; A Florentine Tragedy; Vera. 12. Reviews. 13. Miscellanies. 14. Poems. 443. WILDE, Oscar. The Happy Prince and Other Stories. Illustrated by Charles Robinson. London: Duckworth, 1913. First edition with Robinson illustrations. pp. 134. Lavender cloth, title and gilt decoration on upper cover and spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front free endpaper. Top edge gilt. Light fading to spine. A very good copy. €475 Numerous in-text black and white illustrations. Colour frontispiece and 11 additional colour plates, all with tissue guards, illustrated by Charles Robinson. This is the first edition with the Robinson illustrations 444. WILDE, Sir William R. Lough Corrib, Its Shores and Islands: with notices of Lough Mask. Illustrated with numerous wood engravings. Dublin: MacGlashan & Gill, 1872. Second edition. Small quarto. pp. x, 306. Green blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine. Bookplate of J. Murray Bligh on front pastedown. Stamp of Clayton, Bookseller, Galway on front endpaper. Minor wear to extremities. A very good copy. €245 In 1867 his Lough Corrib and Lough Mask was first published. Classic descriptive tour of Lough Corrib and its neighbourhood by the distinguished physician and antiquarian. There is a light- heartedness in his open lines: "Westward Ho! Let us rise with the sun and be off to the land of the West." Nevertheless there was a serious purpose behind his book or he tells the reader that it is "to illustrate the past and to benefit the future." His intimate association with this region of Connacht over the years

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enabled him to write a book full of anecdotes, topographical descriptions and archaeological detail. Many of the drawings are the work of his teenage son, Willie. Whatever acrimony may have existed between Petrie and Wilde over the Royal Irish Academy Catalogue and other disagreements in their relationship over the years, seems to have evaporated at this stage. He refers to Petrie as "our great ecclesiologist" and the work of the men of the Topographical, Historical and Antiquities Division of the Ordnance Survey as "unsurpassed by anything of its kind in the world." His book sold well and a second edition was printed in 1872. Three further editions came out, such was its popularity. 445. WISEMAN, H.E. Cardinal. The Religious and Social Position of Catholics in England. An Address delivered to the Catholic Congress of Malines, August 21, 1863. Translated from the French. Engraved frontispiece. Dublin: James Duffy, 1864. pp. 61. Publisher's blind-stamped green cloth. Cardinal Wiseman's arms and title in gilt on upper cover. Spine professionally rebacked. A very good copy. €175 446. WOLLE, Francis. Fitz-James O'Brien. A Literary Bohemian of the Eighteen-Fifties. Boulder: University of Colorado Studies, 1944. pp. xi, [1], 309, [4]. Grey cloth, titled in black. Inoffensive stain to lower cover. A very good copy. €125 Fitz James O'Brien (1826-1862) was an Irish American Civil War soldier, writer, and poet often cited as an early writer of science fiction. He was born Michael O'Brien in County Cork, and was very young when the family moved to Limerick. He attended the and is believed to have been a soldier in the British army at one time. On leaving college, he went to London and in the course of four years spent his inheritance of £8,000, meanwhile editing a periodical in aid of the World's Fair of 1851. About 1852 he emigrated to the United States, in the process changing his name to Fitz James, and thenceforth he devoted his attention to literature. While he was in college he had shown an aptitude for writing verse, and two of his poems - Loch Ine and Irish Castles - were published in The Ballads of Ireland (1856). His earliest writings in the United States were contributed to the Lantern, which was then edited by John Brougham. Subsequently, he wrote for the Home Journal, the New York Times, and the American Whig Review. His first important literary connection was with Harper's Magazine, and beginning in February 1853, with The Two Skulls, he contributed more than sixty articles in prose and verse to that periodical. He likewise wrote for the New York Saturday Press, Putnam's Magazine, Vanity Fair, and the Atlantic Monthly. When the American Civil War began in 1861, O'Brien joined the 7th regiment of the New York National Guard, hoping to be sent to the front. He was stationed at Camp Cameron outside Washington, D.C. for six weeks. When his regiment returned to New York he received an appointment on the staff of General Frederick W. Lander. He was severely wounded in a skirmish on 26 February 1862, and lingered until April, when he died of tetanus at Cumberland, Maryland. 447. WYNNE, George Robert. The Light of the City. Short Chapters on some Principles, Duties and Trials of Spiritual Life. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers and Walker, 1897. Octavo. pp. viii, 182, [1]. Cream cloth, with decoration in gilt on upper cover. Owner's inscription on half-title. A fine copy. Exceedingly rare. €165 COPAC locates 3 copies only. WITH AN ORIGINAL SKETCH 448. YEATS, Jack B. Sailing Sailing Swiftly. With over 30 illustrations by Jack B. Yeats. London: Putnam, 1933. First. pp. vi, 170. Original yellow cloth, titled in gilt. With a charming original sketch by Jack B. Yeats of a horse and two gentlemen elegantly attired with hat and long coats, and inscribed below: 'Jack B. Yeats / Dublin November 6 1941.' A very good copy. €2,250

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Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957), undoubtedly Ireland's most famous painter, a committed nationalist and brother of one of Ireland's greatest poets, W.B. Yeats, was born in London and at the age of eight returned to Sligo where he was brought up by his grandparents, the Pollexfens. "Sligo was my school and the sky above it" - so wrote Jack B. Yeats to a friend. He lived in Sligo during his boyhood and all his life he went back to people and events in the west for inspiration in his paintings. He began his life as an artist with black and white illustrations for books and magazines. At this time photography was not widely used and many artists made a living in this way. In 1910 he returned from England where he lived for several years and began to paint seriously in oils. In his paintings the love of the common people shines through. It was the everyday life of Ireland which sparked his genius. His favourite subjects included the fairs, circuses, horses, race meetings, sailors and farmers, tramps and beggars, trams and city streets, shop keepers, coachmen, boxers and ballad singers, etc. His early paintings and drawings are distinguished by an energetic simplicity of line and colour, his later paintings by an extremely vigorous and experimental treatment of often thickly applied paint. He frequently abandoned the brush altogether, applying paint in a variety of different ways, and was deeply interested in the expressive power of colour. Despite his position as the most important Irish artist of the 20th century (and the first to sell for over £1m), he took no pupils and allowed no one to watch him work, so he remains a unique figure. The present work has numerous illustrations [31] in text by the author. The vignette illustrations are vintage Yeats. The third in his series of writings for adults. 449. YEATS, W.B. Stories of Red Hanrahan and The Secret Rose. Illustrated and decorated by Norah McGuinness. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited St. Martin's Street, 1927. pp. vii, 182. Maroon cloth, with a design in gilt on front cover, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €75 Wade 157.

See items 449 & 450. 450. YEATS, W.B. Later Poems. London: Macmillan and Co., 1926. pp. xiii, [1], 363, [2]. Contemporary full red morocco, flat spine with gilt decoration and title; covers framed by a thin floral roll; turn-ins gilt; red, pink, maroon, brown and green endpapers; red and gold endbands. A very good and attractive copy. €475 The contents includes: The Wind Among the Reeds, The Old Age of Queen Maeve, Baile and Aillinn, In the Seven Woods, The Shadowy Waters, From The Green Helmet and Other Poems, Responsibilities, The Wild Swans at Coole, Michael Robartes and the Dancer.

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451. YEATS, W.B. The Winding Stair. New York: The Fountain Press, 1929. First edition, first printing. pp. xii, 28. Dark blue cloth, covers with parallel gilt floral chain-link rolls, title stamped in gilt along spine, two small red morocco labels, lettered in gilt 'Yeats' and 'Fountain Press' at head and foot; purple endpapers, flecked with gold. Edition limited to 642 copies, of which 600 numbered copies, signed by the author are for sale. Housed in a custom half blue morocco clamshell box. A handsome copy. €1,950 Includes the well-known poem 'In Memory of Eva Gore-Both and Con Markievicz': 'Two girls in silk kimonos, one a gazelle ...'. Proceeds the U.K. edition by four years. There was no Cuala edition. 452. YOUNG, Arthur. A Tour in Ireland; with General Observations on the Present State of that Kingdom: made in the years 1776, 1777, and 1778. And brought down to the end of 1779. Engraved frontispiece. London: Printed for T. Cadell, Strand; and J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall, 1780. Quarto. pp. [5], ii-xi, [1], [4 (list of subscribers)], 384, 168, [4 (index and advertisement)]. Recent half brown morocco on marbled boards, spine divided into six panels by five thick gilt bands, title in gilt on green morocco label in the second, the remainder with device in blind. Edge of frontispiece lightly foxed. A very good and attractive copy. €485 ESTC T80849. Includes list of subscribers. Arthur Young toured Ireland in 1776, 1777 and 1778, observing all classes, from titled lords to casual labourers, and all areas, from the semi-industrial North to the dairy country of Wexford and Waterford. As an agriculturalist of European repute, he had no difficulty in securing introductions to the most prominent members of the Irish aristocracy and gentry, giving him a framework for his astonishingly comprehensive tour of the island. Unlike most travellers of his time, Young's attitude was that of scientific observer rather than sentimental tourist, and his accounts of Irish life are thus more detailed and more vivid than the descriptions of his contemporaries. He was particularly interested in the conditions of the peasantry, believing with Dr. Johnson that "a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation", and condemned the management of the 'lower classes', who "are much worse treated than the poor in England, are talked to in more opprobrious terms, and otherwise very much oppressed." Young's account of urban and rural life, of farming practice, industry, and the political atmosphere of the country remains one of the chief authorities for Irish economic conditions in the late eighteenth century. This work is the most valuable examination ever undertaken of agricultural and social conditions in Ireland.

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BEST Bibliography of Irish Philology & of Printed Irish Literature, 1913. BLACK Catalogue of Pamphlets on Economic Subjects 1750-1900 in Irish Libraries. The Printed Maps of Ireland 1612-1850, Dublin, 1997. BRADSHAW Catalogue of the Bradshaw Collection of Irish Books. 3 vols. 1916. COPAC Online Public Access Catalogue. CRAIG Dublin 1660-1860. CRAIG Irish Bookbinding. 1954. CRONE The Irish Book Lover. 1910 - 1952. DE BURCA Three Candles Bibliographical Catalogue. 1998. DIX Early Printed Dublin Books, 1601-1700. New York, 1971. D.I.B. Dictionary of Irish Biography. Cambridge, 2009. D.N.B. The Concise Dictionary of National Biography. 1973. ELLMAN James Joyce. Oxford, 1983. ELMES & HEWSON Catalogue of Irish Topographical Prints and Original Drawings, Dublin 1975. E.S.T.C. Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue. FEDERMAN & FLETCHER Samuel Beckett His Works and His Critics. FERGUSON, Paul Map Library, TCD. FRIEL, Patricia Frederick Trench (1746-1836) and Heywood, Queen's County. 2000. GILBERT Catalogue of Books and Mss. in the library of Sir John Gilbert. HALKETT & LANG A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain. HERBERT Limerick Printers & Printing. 1942. HICKEY & DOHERTY A Dictionary of Irish History Since 1800. Dublin, 1980. HOGAN Dictionary of Irish Literature. Dublin, 1979. KELLY, James Irish Protestants and the Experience of Rebellion. 2003. KENNEDY, Máire Printer to the City: John Exshaw, Lord Mayor of Dublin 1789-90. [2006] KEYNES A Bibliography of Sir William Petty F.R.S. 1971. KINANE A History of the Dublin University Press 1734-1976, Dublin, 1994. KRESS The Kress Library of Business and Economics in Harvard. 4 vols. 1940-67. LOEBER A Guide to Irish Fiction 1650 - 1900. Dublin, Four Courts, 2006. LYNAM The Irish Character in Print. Dublin 1969. McCREADY A William Butler Yeats Encyclopædia. McDONNELL & HEALY Gold Tooled Bookbindings Commissioned by Trinity College in the 18th Century. McGUINNE Irish Type Design. Dublin, 1992.. McGEE Irish Writers of the 17th Century. 1974. McTERNAN Here’s to their emory, & ligo ources. 1977 & 1988. MELVIN Estates and Landed Society in Galway. 2012. MILLER Dolmen XXV Bibliography 1951-1976. MUNTER A Dictionary of the Print Trade in Ireland 1550-1775. New York, 1988. N.S.T.C. Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue. NEWMAN Companion to Irish History, 1991. O’DONOGHUE The Poets of Ireland. Dublin, 1912. O’FARRELL ho’s ho in the Irish ar of Independence. ublin, 1980. O’HIGGINS A Bibliography of Irish Trials & other Legal Proceedings. Oxon, 1986. O’REILLY Four Hundred Irish Writers. PATERSON The County Armagh Volunteers of 1778-1993. PHILLIPS Printing and Book Production in Dublin 1670-1800. POLLARD ublin’s Trade in Books 1550-1800. POLLARD Dictionary of Members of the Dublin Book Trade 1550-1800. PYLE The Different Worlds of Jack B. Yeats. His Cartoons and Illustrations. Dublin, 1994. SLATER Directory of Ireland. 1846. SLOCUM & CAHOON A Bibliography of James Joyce. London, 1953. STC A Short-Title Catalogue. 1475-1640. SWEENEY Ireland and the Printed Word 1475-1700. Dublin, 1997. WADE A Bibliography of the Writings of W.B. Yeats. 1968. WALL The ign of octor Hay’s Head. ublin 1958. WARE The Works - Harris edition. Dublin 1764. WEBB A Compendium of Irish Biography. Dublin, 1878. WIKIPEDIA Online Encyclopaedia. WING Short Title Catalogue of Books Published in England and English Books Published Abroad.

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B1. BÉASLAÍ, Piaras. Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland. Two volumes. A new introduction by Brian P. Murphy, O.S.B. With two portraits in full colour by Sir John Lavery, and other illustrations to each volume. This major work on Michael Collins is by one of his closest friends. An item which is now commanding in excess of four figures in the auction houses. Dublin: De Búrca, 2008. pp. (1) xxxii, 292, (2) vi, 328. The limited edition in full green goatskin gilt with a medallion portrait and signature of Collins also in gilt. Housed in a fine slipcase. It includes the list of subscribers. Last few copies. €475 The general edition is limited to 1,000 sets superbly bound in green buckram, with a medallion portrait embossed in gilt on the upper covers, and in slipcase. €95 Michael Collins (1890-1922), was born at Woodfield, Clonakilty, County Cork, the son of a small farmer. Educated locally, and at the age of sixteen went to London as a clerk in the Post Office. He joined the I.R.B. in London. During Easter Week he was Staff Captain and ADC to James Connolly in the O. ith The O’Rahilly he led the first party out of the GPO immediately before its surrender. Arrested, imprisoned and released in December 1916. After the victory of Sinn Féin in the 1918 general election and the establishment of Dáil Éireann as the Irish parliament he was made Minister of Home Affairs and later Minister for Finance, and organised the highly successful National Loan. A most capable organiser with great ability and physical energy, courage and force of character, he was simultaneously Adjutant General of the Volunteers, Director of Organisation, Director of Intelligence and Minister for Finance. He organised the supply of arms for the Volunteers and set up a crack intelligence network and an execution squad nicknamed Twelve Apostles. He was for a long time the most wanted man in Ireland but he practically eliminated the British Secret Service with the Bloody Sunday morning operation. Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland is the official biography of a great soldier-statesman and the first authentic history of the rebirth of a nation. Written with inner knowledge by an intimate friend and comrade-in-arms who served with Collins on Headquarters Staff and who shared in many of his amazing adventures and hairsbreadth escapes. SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION OF 15 SETS IN FULL LEATHER B2. BORLASE, William G. The Dolmens of Ireland. Their distribution, structural characteristics, and affinities in other countries; together with the folk-lore attaching to them; supplemented by considerations on the anthropology, ethnology, and traditions of the Irish people. With over 800 illustrations (including 3 coloured plates), and 4 coloured folding maps. Three volumes. Bound in full green morocco title and gilt Celtic design on upper cover, titled in gilt on spine; red and green endbands; yellow silk marker. Special edition limited to 15 sets in full morocco, signed and numbered by the publisher. With 'List of Subscribers'. Housed in a fine slipcase. €1,250 B2A. 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.

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Three volumes. Full buckram decorated in gilt to a Celtic design. With slipcase. Edition limited to 300 sets and 15 Special sets. With 'List of Subscribers'. €295. The first comprehensive survey of each of the counties of Ireland. With sketches by the author from drawings by Petrie, Westropp, Miss Stokes, Windele, Wood-Martin, Wakeman, etc. The third volume contains an index and the material from folklore, legend, and tradition. A most attractive set of books and a must for the discerning collector.

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

LIMITED EDITION B5. COLGAN, John. Triadis Thaumaturgae, seu Divorum Patricii, Columbae et Brigidae, trium veteris et maioris Scotiae, seu Hiberniae Sanctorum Insulae, Communium Patronorum Acta, a Variis, iisque pervetustis, ac Sanctis authoribus Scripta, ac studio R.P.F. Joannis Colgani, in

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Conventu FF Minor, Hibernor. strictior. observ. Louanii, S. Theologiae Lectorius Jubilati. Ex variis Bibliothecis collecta, Scholiis et commentariis illustrata, et pluribus Appendicibus aucta: complectitur Tomus Secundus Sacrarum ejusdem insulae Antiquitatum - Louvain 1647. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, 1997. e have republished ‘one of the rarest of all Irish books’, with a new introduction by Pádraig Ó Riain. The edition is limited to 300 copies, and handsomely bound in blue quarter morocco, title on spine, top edge gilt, red silk marker. Fine in slipcase. €190 Lecky described this volume: “as one of the most interesting collections of Lives of the saints in the world. It is very shameful that it has not been reprinted”. The new introduction by Pádraig Ó Riain, contains the first published account of Colgan’s recently discovered manuscript notes to the Triadis. This reprint should stimulate further the growing interest in the history of the Irish saints.

B6. COSTELLO, Willie. A Connacht an’s Ramble. Recollections of growing up in rural Ireland of the thirties and forties. With an introduction by Dr. Tom Mitchell. Illustrated by Gerry O’ onovan and front cover watercolour by James acIntyre. ap on end-papers. Dublin: De Búrca, 2002. Fourth edition. pp. xii, 211. Fine in French flaps. €15 A deeply personal collection of memories and a valuable account of Irish history including cattle fairs, threshing, rural electrification, interspersed with stories of the matchmaker, the town crier, the chimney sweep and the blacksmith. Over two thousand copies sold in the first week of publication.

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

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B8. CUSACK, M.F. A History of the Kingdom of Kerry. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 1995. pp. xvi, 453, 6 (extra maps), lxxxiii. Fine in full buckram, with illustrated coloured dust jacket depicting Jobson’s manuscript map of Kerry 1598. €45 argaret Cusack’s History of the Kingdom of Kerry is an excellent work treating of the history, topography, antiquities and genealogy of the county. There is an excellent account of the families of: The O’ ullivans and acCarthys; eraldine enealogies; The Knights of Kerry and lyn; opulation and Religion; Agricultural Information; St. Brendan; Dingle in the Sixteenth Century; Ardfert; The Geology and Botany of Kerry; Deep Sea Fisheries; Kerry Rivers and Fishing etc.

LIMITED EDITION B9. DALTON, Charles Ed. by. King Charles The Second’s Irish Army Lists, 1661 - 1685. Dublin: De Búrca, 2000. Second. pp. xxxiv, 176. Fine facsimile limited edition in quarter morocco gilt, head and tail bands, in slipcase. Signed and numbered by the publisher. €90 The original edition was published for private circulation and was limited to twenty copies only. The editor states that he made extensive use of the manuscripts of the Marquis of Ormonde, preserved at , the calendared and uncalendared Irish tate papers, the King’s Letter Books and Entry Books at the Public Record Office for the names of Officers serving on the Irish Establishment, 1661-1685. In December 1660, Sir Maurice Eustace, Lord Chancellor, Roger, Earl of Orrery, and Charles, Earl of Mountrath were appointed Lord Justices. Under the able rule of Orrery and Mountrath the Army in Ireland was reduced and remodelled. King Charles’s new army dates from 11th ebruary, 1661 and when the Irish parliament met in ay the Lord Chancellor informed the House that “there were twenty months” arrears due to the army. The patrons of military history while glancing at the list of officers appointed to command this army, will recognise the names of many Cromwellian field officers who had served in Ireland during the Commonwealth. One may wonder how these ‘renegades’ found their way into the new Royalist levies. The answer is that these same officers not only supported the Restoration but were eager in the King’s service afterwards. It transpired that many Cromwellians were retained in the Army of Ireland and had equal rights with those Royalists who had fought for Charles I and had shared the long exile of Charles II. From a purely military point of view they had learned the art of war under the most successful soldier of his time. LIMITED EDITION B10. DE COURCY IRELAND, John. History of Dun Laoghaire Harbour. With numerous illustrations and maps. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, for Edmund Burke Publisher, 2001. First edition. pp. xiv, 184. Limited edition of 50 copies, signed by the author and publisher. Bound in full maroon levant morocco, covers with a gilt anchor and sailing ship. Spine divided into five compartments by four gilt raised bands. Top edge gilt. A fine binding from the Harcourt Bindery, Boston. €500 Dun Laoghaire harbour, recognised as one of the most picturesque in Europe, was built early in the 19th century as the consequence of an explosion of popular anger at the continuous deaths from

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shipwreck in Dublin Bay. The most competent and experienced navigators at that time described the port of Dublin as the most perilous in the whole world for a ship to leave or approach in certain circumstances.

Thanks largely to the efficiency and foresight of Captain Hutchison, the first Harbour Master, the port built as an ‘Asylum’ harbour or port of refuge, became with the introduction of steam-driven passenger and mail carrying ships the busiest port on the eastern shore of the Irish Sea, also a leading fishing port and popular yachting centre. B11. DE COURCY IRELAND, John. History of Dun Laoghaire Harbour. With numerous illustrations and maps. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, for Edmund Burke Publisher, 2002. Second edition. pp. xiv, 184. Fine in fine dust jacket. €45 B12. DONOHOE, Tony. The History of Crossmolina. Foreword by Thomas Gildea Cannon. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 2003. Roy octavo. pp. xviii, 627. Buckram gilt in dust jacket. Almost out of print. Very scarce. €90 The author Tony Donohoe, farmer and keen local historian has chronicled in great detail the history his ancestral parish from the early Christian period to the present. This authoritative work is the result of thirty years of meticulous research and is a most welcome contribution to the history of County Mayo. In the foreword Thomas ildea Cannon states “Tony Donohoe has brought it all vividly to light in his impressive history. Using his treasure trove of published and unpublished materials, patiently accumulated over the decades, he has told the story of an ancient parish with a scholar’s eye for the telling detail ... has made effective use of the unpublished Palmer and Pratt estate papers to help bridge the dark gap between seventeenth-century documents detailing the changeover in land ownership from native to settler, and nineteenth-century sources”. B13. [FAMINE IN IRELAND] Transactions of the Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends during the famine in Ireland, 1846 and 1847. With an index by Rob Goodbody. Dublin: De Búrca, 1996. pp. xliii, 529. Fine in buckram gilt. €35 It is difficult to read unmoved some of the detailed testimony contained in this volume of the reports of the envoys sent out by the Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends, who found out for themselves what was really going on during the Famine in remote country areas. B14. GLEESON, Rev. John. Cashel of the Kings. A History of the Ancient Capital of Munster from the date of its foundation until the present day. Including historical notices of the Kings of Cashel from the 4th century to the 12th century. The succession of bishops and archbishops from St. Ailbe to the present day. Notices of the principal abbeys belonging to the territory around Cashel, together with items of local history down to the 19th century. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 2001. pp. [ii], xix, 312. Fine in fine dust jacket. €40 Cover design by courtesy of Mr. Patrick Meaney, Cashel, County Tipperary. An important and scholarly work on one of the most celebrated places of historic interest in Ireland. In medieval times it was the ecclesiastical capital of Munster. Conquered by the Eoghanacht tribe

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

B15. HARRISON, Alan. The ean’s riend. Anthony Raymond 1675-1726), Jonathan Swift and the Irish Language. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 1999. pp. xv, 175. Fine in fine illustrated dust jacket. €35 The book introduces us to 17th and 18th century Ireland and to the interface between the two languages and the two cultures. It is a fascinating study of the troubled period after the Battle of the Boyne, encompassing historiography and antiquarianism; contemporary linguistic study and the sociolinguistics of the two languages in contact; Swift and his friends in that context; and the printing and publishing of books in Stuart and early-Georgian Ireland.

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

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

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ANNALS OF ULSTER B17. HENNESSY, William M. & MacCARTHY, B. Ed. by. The Annals of Ulster, otherwise Annala Senait. A chronicle of Irish Affairs from A.D. 431 to A.D. 1540. With translation, notes, and index. New introduction by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. Dublin: De Búrca, 1998. Four volumes. Full buckram gilt in slipcase. €285 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. ichael O’Clery, Chief of the our Masters, for his masterpiece.

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. Limited edition in full green morocco. Fine in slipcase. €500 These Annals were compiled under the patronage of Brian MacDermott, Chief of Moylurg, who resided in his castle on an island in Lough Key, near Boyle, County Roscommon. They begin with the Battle of Clontarf and continue up to 1636 treating on the whole with Irish affairs, but have many entries of English, Scottish and continental events. They are a primary source for the history of North Connaught. The compilers were of that noted learned family of O’ uignans. The only original copy of these Annals known to exist is a small vellum manuscript which was presented to Trinity by Dr. Leland in 1766. B19. HENNESSY, William M. Ed. by. The Annals of Lough Cé. A chronicle of Irish affairs from A.D. 1014 to A.D. 1590. Edited and with a translation by W.M. Hennessy. With folding coloured plate of the TCD Ms. Two volumes. Dublin: De Búrca, 2000. Third. pp. (1) lix, 653, (2) 689. Superb set bound in full buckram gilt and in presentation slipcase. €110 HIS NEVER-FORGOTTEN COUNTRYSIDE ABOUT GLENOSHEEN B20. JOYCE, P.W. Irish Names of Places. With a new introductory essay on the life of P.W. Joyce by Mainchín Seoighe. Dublin: De Búrca, 1995. Three volumes. pp. (1) xl, 589, (2) viii, 538, (3) x, 598. Fine. €165

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This scholarly edition is enhanced with a new introductory essay on the life of that noted scholar from County Limerick, . . Joyce by the late ainch n eoighe, who states: “P.W. Joyce followed in the footsteps of Bunting and Petrie, of O’Donovan and O’Curry, reaching, however, a larger public than any of these four had reached, for the fields he laboured in were more numerous and, as well as that, he principally wrote not for scholars but for the ordinary people of Ireland, people such as he had known in that lovely and never-forgotten countryside round about Glenosheen”. B21. KILROY, Patricia. Fall of the Gaelic Lords. 1534-1616. Dublin: By Éamonn De Búrca for Edmund Burke Publisher, 2008. pp. x, 192. Illustrated. Fine in illustrated dust jacket. €29.50 No period in Irish history is quite so full of drama, heroism and tragedy as the eighty-odd years from the mid 16th to the early 17th centuries: the age of the fall of the Gaelic lords. This intriguing and moving narrative recounts the passing of when the Tudor Crown sought to subdue the island and the Irish chiefs defended their ancient territories and way of life. Beginning in 1534 with young ilken Thomas’ defiant stand at the gates of ublin Castle, it tells the story of Red Hugh O’ onnell’s capture and escape, the rise of the reat Hugh O’ eill and the bloody Nine Years War culminating in the Battle of , and finally, the Flight of the Earls. Animated with details from The Annals Of The Four Masters and other contemporary accounts, Fall Of The Gaelic Lords is a lively intelligent book aimed at both the historian and general reader. Patricia Kilroy was born in Ireland in 1925. As one of the daughters of Seán Lester, who would become the last Secretary-General of the League Of Nations, she spent most of her childhood in The Free City Of Danzig and in Geneva. She studied Modern History and Political Science in Trinity College Dublin. She then worked with the Irish Red Cross, settling refugees from Eastern Europe who had been displaced during World War II. After marrying and while raising her four children, her interest in history continued to grow. Family holidays in Connemara sparked her interest in local history, and talking with the people of the area, as well as academic research, led to the publication in 1989 of The Story Of Connemara. That book focused on a small part of Ireland, and covered from the Ice-Age to the present day; after which she felt she would like to cover the whole of Ireland, whilst focusing on one period in time. And so Fall Of The Gaelic Lords was researched and written. Patricia lives in Dublin. B22. KNOX, Hubert Thomas. The History of the County of Mayo to the Close of the Sixteenth Century. With illustrations and three maps. Castlebourke: De Búrca, 2000. Roy. 8vo. pp. xvi, 451. Fine in fine dust jacket. €45 Prime historical reference work on the history of the County Mayo from the earliest times to 1600. It deals at length with the De Burgo Lordship of Connaught. Illustrated with a large folding detailed map of the county, coloured in outline. There are 49 pages of genealogies of the leading families of Mayo: O’Connor, ac onnell alloglass, Bourke ac illiam Iochtar, ibbons, Jennings, hilbin, Barret, Joyce, Jordan, Costello, etc.

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LIMITED TO 200 COPIES B23. LOEBER, Rolf & Magda. Ed. by. Irish Poets and their Pseudonyms in Early Periodicals. Dublin: Edmund Burke Publisher, 2007. pp. xxii, 168. Fine in illustrated dust jacket. €65 Many Irish poems remain hidden in the periodicals and were published under pseudonyms. Therefore, the identity of hundred of Irish poets often is elusive. The discovery of a manuscript of pseudonyms of Irish poets made this volume possible. It lists over 1,200 pseudonyms for 504 Irish poets whose work appeared in over 500 early periodicals published in Ireland, England, North America, and Australia. Rolf Loeber and Magda Loeber are researchers at the medical school of the University of Pittsburgh. They have both extensively published on Irish history and literature. Their most recent book is A Guide to Irish Fiction (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006). B24. LOHAN, Máire. An ‘Antiquarian Craze’. The life, times and work in archaeology of Patrick Lyons R.I.C. (1861-1954). Dublin: By Éamonn De Búrca for Edmund Burke Publisher, 2008. pp. xiv, 192. Illustrated. Fine in coloured illustrated stiff wraps. €19.50 Born in 1861, gt. atrick Lyons, ‘The Antiquarian oliceman’, served with the Royal Irish Constabulary from 1886 - 1920. While stationed in the West of Ireland, he developed a keen interest in documenting the field-monuments he noticed on his patrols. His discovery of four ogham stones led to a correspondence with Hubert Knox, a renowned Mayo Antiquarian; Lyons provided Knox with important descriptions of field monuments, contributing to 19 published papers. Out of modesty, and fear that the R.I.C. would frown on his ‘antiquarian craze’, he preferred not to be acknowledged by name, although he was much admired for his fine mind and dedicated antiquarian ‘policework’ by those few with whom he shared his interest. To bring to light his remarkable work, this book draws on Lyons’ own notes and photographs (preserved by N.U.I. Galway and the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland), archived local newspapers and an overview of the social and political history of his times. A quiet, unassuming man, Lyons died in 1954 and lies buried in an unmarked grave in his native Clonmel. His major contribution to Irish archaeology deserves to be acknowledged in print at last. Máire Lohan (née Carroll) was born in Belmullet, County Mayo and now lives in Galway city. While researching for an M.A. in Archaeology at U.C.G. she became aware of the Lyons Photographic Collection there and also of the Knox/Lyons Collection at the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, around which this book is based. She has worked with the O.P.W. in the Archaeological Survey of County Galway, lectured in archaeology at R.T.C. Galway and excavated in Galway city. She has published articles in the Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society and Cathair na Mart. This is her first book. B25. MacEVILLY, Michael. A Splendid Resistance. A Life of IRA Chief of Staff Dr. Andy Cooney. Foreword by Sean O Mahony. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 2011. pp. xix, 427. Paperback in coloured illustrated French flaps. €20 Hardback in coloured illustrated dustjacket. €50 Limited edition of 50 copies in full green morocco gilt, in slipcase. €225 The appointment of Andy (Andrew) Cooney as Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) while still a medical student was the highpoint of a military career which began in 1917 and was not to

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end until 1944. Prior to this he had served as a Volunteer, GHQ Officer, Brigade Commander and Divisional Commander before being appointed to the IRA General Staff with the rank of Quartermaster-General in 1924 and Chief of Staff in 1925, at which time he was elected as Chairman of the IRA Executive. Cooney was to retain this post until 1927. Afterwards, he remained close to the IRA General Staff until he emigrated to the USA. Michael MacEvilly’s meticulously researched life of Dr. Andy Cooney sheds valuable light on a chapter of Irish republicanism which has hitherto been seriously neglected. No student of Irish republican history can afford to ignore this book, which is also to be commended for its selection of many hitherto unpublished photographs. - . Michael MacEvilly narrates the life story of Andy Cooney in compelling fashion. Readers will be fascinated by the manner in which a young man combined his studies to be a doctor with his duties as an IRA Volunteer from 1917 onwards. In terms of the wider historical narrative of the period, the book, using much original source material, makes an important new contribution. It makes clear the command structure of the IRA, at both a national and local level, during the War of Independence, the Civil War and beyond. The strengths and weaknesses of individuals are also delineated with remarkable clarity. In particular new information is provided on ‘Bloody Sunday,’ November 1920; the role of the IRB and Michael Collins at the time of the Treaty; and the differences between the IRA and de Valera when Fianna Fail was founded. Above all the book is extremely well researched and eminently readable. - Brian Murphy OSB. Michael MacEvilly was born in Castlebar, Co. Mayo. He was educated at t. Jarlath’s College, Tuam, Co. Galway and subsequently studied Arts and Commerce at University College, Galway. He worked as an accountant and auditor in his own firm located in Dublin, and had a long association with and an interest in the Irish Judo Association and the Olympic Council of Ireland. Irish history and the Irish language were ichael’s major interests. This primarily stemmed from his detailed research of the history of the MacEvilly family, especially their involvement in the War of Independence of which he was particularly proud. Irish republican history was an enduring passion and he became a keen scholar and book-collector on the area. He was an active member of the Committee of the 1916-21 Club and was President from 2000 to 2001. Michael passed away in 2009. He is sadly missed by his family and friends.

EDITION LIMITED TO 10 SIGNED SETS B26. MacFHIRBHISIGH, Dubhaltach. The Great Book of Irish Genealogies - Leabhar Genealach. Edited, with translation and indices by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. List of subscribers. Five volumes. Dublin: De Búrca, 2003/4. Quarto. Bound in quarter green morocco on cloth boards. Spine divided into six compartments by five raised bands. Title and author/editor on maroon morocco letterpieces in the second and fourth, the remainder tooled in gilt to an interlacing Celtic design. White endbands. Top edge gilt. Edition limited to ten sets only, signed by the Publisher and Editor. €1,650 The great Connacht scholar Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh (c.1600-1671), from Lackan, County Sligo, compiled his monumental Great Book of Genealogies in Galway at the height of the Cromwellian Wars in the mid-seventeenth century. The work has long been recognised as the most important source for the study of Irish family history, and it is also of great importance to historians of pre-17th century Ireland since it details the ancestry of many significant figures in Irish history - including: Brian Boroimhe (d.1014); Ulick Burke, Marquis of Clanricarde (d.1657); James Butler, Duke of Ormonde (d.1688); Somhairle Buidhe (Sorley Boy) MacDonnell (d.1589); Randal MacDonnell, Marquis of Antrim (d.1683); Garrett Óg Fitzgerald, Earl of Kildare (d.1536); Diarmuid Mac Murchadha (d.1171); yler agrath, d.1622), urrough O’Brien, Baron of Inchiquin d.1674); eagh acHugh O’Byrne d.1597); Rory O’Conor. d.1198); Red Hugh O’ onnell d.1602); Hugh O’ eill, Earl of Tyrone d.1616); Owen Roe O’ eill d.1649), and many, many more.

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Both in terms of size and significance the Great Book of Genealogies is on a par with that other great seventeenth century compilation, the Annals of the Four Masters; and O’ onovan did edit a thirty-page extract from the book, making it the centrepiece of his second greatest work, The Genealogies, Tribes and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach (1844). But while quite a few other (almost invariably brief) extracts from the work have appeared in print over the past century and a half, some 90% of the Book of Genealogies has never hitherto been translated or published. B27. MacFHIRBHISIGH, Dubhaltach The Great Book of Irish Genealogies - Leabhar Genealach. Edited, with translation and indices by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. List of subscribers. Five volumes. Dublin: De Búrca, 2003/4. Quarto. Full buckram gilt. Over 3,600 pages. In presentation box. €635 The original text, both prose and poetry, of both works is accompanied by a painstaking English translation. But, perhaps most important of all, the edition includes, in addition to several valuable appendices, a comprehensive series of indices which provide a key to the tens of thousands of personal names, surnames, tribal names and place-names that the work contains. In fact, the portion relating to personal names is the largest Irish language names index that has ever been compiled. B28. MARTIN, Edward A. A Dictionary of Bookplates of Irish Medical Doctors. With short biographies. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 2003. pp. xiv, 160. Illustrated boards in dust jacket. €36 B29. MELVIN, Patrick. Estates and Landed Society in Galway. With a foreword by Desmond Fitzgerald, Knight of Glin. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, December, 2012. pp. 512. Full buckram gilt. And a limited edition of 50 copies only in full goatskin. Standard edition €75 Limited edition €255 This work is based on a Trinity College Dublin Ph.D. thesis prepared under the direction of Professor L.M. Cullen. It investigates and describes the varied origins and foundation of estates and proprietors in Galway and how that process was affected by the political turmoils and transplantations of the 17th century. The aftermath of these turmoils in England and Ireland saw the establishment of a core number of successful estates founded largely by ambitious families able to trim their sails to changing times and opportunities. Alongside these estates there remained at the same time a fluctuating mass of smaller proprietors whose lands frequently fell to more able or business-like landowners. Penal laws and poor land quality resulted in exile – sometimes temporary - for many of the older Catholic landowners. The book describes how, by the 19th century, the variously rooted strands of proprietors became bound together by the common interest of property, security and class and survived with their social if not political influence largely intact through the 19th century. The role of this large and diverse gentry class in local administration, politics, social life and as landlords is described in some detail. The

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size of the county and complexity of changing estate history prevents the book from being exhaustive or a complete history of all estates and gentry families. These Anglo-Irish families (the term is unsatisfactory) became largely sidelined, irrelevant and forgotten by the modern nationalist Irish state. Their numbers and variety in Galway is made clear through a large range of house illustrations. Many of the old landed class and nobility embodied values worthwhile in society. The wealthiest were patrons of much of the culture and art of old Europe. They stood for continuity, tradition, a sense of public duty, standards and refinement in manners. Many of them fostered the pursuit of outdoor sports and horseracing. They linked their frequently remote places to the wider world and they were at the same time cosmopolitan and local without being parochial. Although a declining social force they frequently held liberal attitudes against the power and dominance of state, church, and the ever expanding bureaucracy in modem society and government. Some, of course, did not always live up to ideals. - Knight of Glin. B30. NELSON, E. Charles & WALSH, Wendy F. An Irish Flower Garden Replanted. The Histories of Some of Our Garden Plants. With coloured and Chinese ink illustrations by Wendy F. Walsh. Second edition revised and enlarged. Dublin: Edmund Burke Publisher, 1997. pp. x, 276. €65 “This book has been out of print for almost a decade, and in the intervening years many things have happened both in my own life and in the interwoven lives of my friends and colleagues, and gardens and their plants. I have also learnt more about the garden plants that we cultivate in Ireland. A new edition was required, and I have taken the opportunity to augment the original text. I have added a chapter on roses, based on my address to the ninth World Rose Convention held in Belfast during 1991, and I have drawn into this book, in edited form, a scattering of essays that were published elsewhere and the unpublished scripts for talks which I gave on Sunday Miscellany broadcast by Radio Telefis Eireann. I have also made corrections, and altered a few names to bring them up-to-date. In a few instances, the previously published history has been revised in the light of my more recent research” - Dr. E.C. Nelson. The book is lavishly illustrated by Wendy Walsh, with 21 coloured plates (including ten new watercolours for this edition), eighteen figures in Chinese inks and nine vignettes in pencil. A MONUMENT TO ONE OF OUR GREAT CELTIC SCHOLARS B31. O’CURRY, Eugene. On The Manners and Customs of The Ancient Irish. A series of lectures delivered by the late Eugene O’Curry, .R.I.A., rofessor of Irish History and Archaeology in the Catholic University of Ireland. Edited, appendices etc, by W.K. Sullivan. With a new introduction by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. Three volumes. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, for Edmund Burke Publisher, 1996. Bound in full green buckram, with harp in gilt on upper covers. Head and tail bands. pp. (1) xviii, 664, (2), xix, 392 (3) xxiv, 711. Fine. €235 His thirty-eight lectures On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, delivered at the University between May 1857 and July 1862 (the last one only a fortnight before his death) were published in Dublin in three volumes. These were edited with an introduction (which takes up the whole of the first volume), appendices and other material by r. .K. ullivan. O’Curry’s works stand to this day as a monument to one of our greatest Celtic scholars. r. ollaig Ó ura le states: “This, the single most substantial work produced by one of the great pioneering figures who laid the foundations of modern Irish scholarship in the fields of Gaelic language and literature, medieval history and archaeology, has been exceedingly difficult to come by (even in some reputable libraries) for the best part of a century. It is therefore greatly to be welcomed that it is now being made available again, by De Búrca Books - not just for the sake of present day scholars but also for the general reader who will derive from its pages much enjoyment and enlightenment about the lifestyle and general culture of our ancient forebears”.

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

This is the third and best edition as it contains the missing years [1334-1416] of the now lost Annals of Lecan from Roderic O’ laherty’s transcript. To enhance the value of this masterpiece a colour reproduction of Baptista Boazio’s map of Ireland 1609 is included in a matching folder. The Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland, Annála Ríoghachta Éireann or the Annals of the Four Masters to give them their best known title are the great masterpieces of Irish history from the earliest times to 1616 A.D. The work was compiled between 1632 and 1636 by a small team of historians headed by Br. ichael O’Clery, a ranciscan lay brother. He himself records: “there was collected by me all the best and most copious books of Annals that I could find throughout all Ireland, though it was difficult for me to collect them in one place”. The great work remained, for the most part, unpublished and untranslated until John O’ onovan prepared his edition between 1847 and 1856. The crowning achievement of John O’ onovan’s edition is the copious historical, topographical and genealogical material in the footnotes which have been universally acclaimed by scholars. ouglas Hyde wrote that the O’ onovan edition represented: “the greatest work that any modern Irish scholar ever accomplished”. ore recently Kenneth icholls says: “O’Donovan’s enormous scholarship breathtaking in its extent when one considers the state of historical scholarship and the almost total lack of published source material in his day, still amazes one, as does the extent to which it has been depended on by others down to the present. His translations are still superior in reliability to those of Hennessy, MacCarthy or Freeman to name three editor-translators of other ... his footnotes are a mine of information”. A superb set of this monumental source for the history of Ireland. B33. SWEENEY, Tony. Catalogue Raisonné of Irish Stuart Silver. A Short Descriptive Catalogue of Surviving Irish Church, Civic, Ceremonial & Domestic Plate dating from the Reigns of James I, Charles I, The Commonwealth, Charles II, James II, William & Mary, William III & Queen Anne 1603-1714. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 1995. Folio. pp. 272. In a fine buckram binding by Museum Bookbinding and printed in Dublin by Betaprint. Signed and numbered limited edition of 400 copies, 360 of which are for sale. Fine in illustrated dust jacket. €135 Compiled from records of holdings by Cathedrals, Churches, Religious Houses, Colleges, Municipal Corporations, Museums & Art Galleries. Further information has been obtained from those who deal in and those who collect Antique Silver, with special regard to Auction Sales.

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DE-LUXE LIMITED EDITION B34. SWEENEY, Tony & Annie, & HYLAND, Francis. The Sweeney Guide to the Irish Turf from 1501-2001. Owners, Trainers, Jockeys, Sires, Records, Great Races, Flat & Jumping, Places of Sport, Past & Present, The Dish Spiced with Anecdotes, Facts, Fancies. Profusely illustrated with coloured plates. Dublin: De Búrca, 2002. Folio. pp. 648. Edition limited to 25 numbered copies only, signed by the partners, publisher and binder. Bound in full green niger oasis by Des Breen. Upper cover tooled in gilt with a horseshoe enclosing a trefoil with the heads of ‘ adler’s ells’, ‘Arkle’ and ‘ ijinsky’, above lake waters A -LAKE). Splash-marbled end-papers; green and cream head and tail bands. All edges gilt. With inset CD carrying the full text of the work making it possible for subscribers to enter results subsequent to 2001. In this fashion it becomes a living document. This is the only copy remaining of the Limited Edition. €1,650 Apart from racing enthusiasts, this is a most valuable work for students of local history as it includes extensive county by county records of race courses and stud farms, with hitherto unfindable details. The late Dr. Tony Sweeney, Anglo-Irish racing journalist and commentator, was Irish correspondent of the Daily Mirror for 42 years. He shared RTE television commentary with ichael and Tony O’Hehir over a period of thirty-five years. Dr. Sweeney was also a form analyst with , and author of two previous books Irish Stuart Silver, (1995) and Ireland and the Printed Word (1997), for which he was awarded a Doctorate of Literature by the National University of Ireland. B35. SWEENEY, Tony & Annie, & HYLAND, Francis. The Sweeney Guide to the Irish Turf from 1501-2001. Owners, Trainers, Jockeys, Sires, Records, Great Races, Flat & Jumping, Places of Sport, Past & Present, The Dish Spiced with Anecdotes, Facts, Fancies. Profusely illustrated with coloured plates. Dublin: De Búrca, 2002. Folio. pp. 648. Bound in full buckram gilt. €95 B36. TALBOT, Hayden. ichael Collins’ Own tory. Told to Hayden Talbot. ith an introduction by Éamonn de Búrca. Dublin: De Búrca, November, 2012. pp. 256, plus index. Full buckram gilt. And a limited edition of 50 copies only in full goatskin. Standard edition €45 Limited edition €375 The American journalist Hayden Talbot first met Michael Collins at the Gresham Hotel in Dublin, shortly after the signing of the Anglo-Irish treaty in December 1921. In the course of his working career Talbot had met many important people, but he soon realised that Collins was one of the most remarkable. He admits he had underestimated Collins before he got to know him, but Collins quickly earned his respect - not least by his habit of treating everyone, from Arthur riffith to the “lowliest of his supporters”, with equal consideration and politeness. Talbot made it his business to meet Collins as often as possible and during months of close association Collins impressed him as “the finest character it had ever been my good fortune to know”. He valued their friendship more than any other. This work contains an invaluable insight into Collins’ thinking and actions during this epic period of Irish history. It deals at length with Easter Week, The , The Murder of Francis Sheehy Skeffington, the Treaty negotiations and his vision for the resurgent nation

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which, unfortunately he was given too little time to develop in practice. Rare interviews with Arthur Griffith and Eoin MacNeill further enhance this book, which has long been out of print and hard to find in the antiquarian book market. Originally published in 1922, our edition has a new introduction and an index which was not in the first edition. B37. WALDRON, Jarlath. Maamtrasna. The Murders and The Mystery. With location map and engineers map of the route taken by the murderers in 1882, depicting the roads, rivers, mountains, and houses with names of occupants. With numerous illustrations and genealogical chart of the chief protagonists. Dublin: De Búrca, 2004. Fifth edition. pp. 335. 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. OUR LATEST PUBLICATION LIMITED TO 300 COPIES B38. YOUNG, Amy Isabel. Three Hundred Years in Innishowen, being more particularly an account of the family of Young of Culdaff. With a foreword by David Dickson. Dublin: De Búrca, November 2018. Second edition. 412 pages. Green buckram titled in gilt. Limited to 300 copies. A fine reprint. €75 Amy Young's 300 Years in Innishowen is a vast and richly illustrated history of a Culdaff, County Donegal landed family and of a wider social world that spanned much of north Ulster. The book was originally published in 1929 in a short print- run. It was based on extensive archival research, using collections that had recently been destroyed in 1922 (both in Donegal and in the PROI). Apart from ten generations of Youngs, the families that feature prominently include the Gages, the Harts, the Harveys, the Knoxes, the Lawrences, the McLaughlins and various branches of the Stuarts. The author Amy Young (1885-1949) was both a passionate genealogist of her husband's ancestors and kin, and a pioneering historian of the Inishowen peninsula. The book has remained one of the most sought-after books on Ulster local and family history ever since.

NEW EDITION OF THE ANNALS OF CLONMACNOISE B39. Ó MURAÍLE, Nollaig. Ed. by. The 'Annals of Cluain Mhic Nóis' translated in 1627 by Conall Mag Eochagáin (Annals of Ireland from the Earliest Period to AD 1408 – based on BL Add. MS 4817, with some variants from TCD MS 673). Edited by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. Dublin: De Búrca, 2020. Royal octavo. pp. circa 285. Green buckram, titled in gilt on spine. With slipcase. Price approximately €75 The so-called Annals of Clonmacnoise - an inaccurate title bestowed in the 17th century by Sir James Ware - are a collection of Irish annals that purport to extend from the earliest times (Adam and Eve!) down to the year AD 1408. The text - an English translation completed in 1627 - is the work of Conall Mag Eochagáin, a Gaelic gentleman from Lismoyny, County Westmeath. The early portion of the text (about one-sixth of the whole) is based on the medieval work of pseudo-prehistory called Lebar Gabála Érenn (the Book of the Taking of Ireland, the so-called 'Book of Invasions'), while much of the remainder is closely related to other collections of Irish annals, especially those of Ulster, Loch Cé and Connacht. The Irish text from which Mag Eochagáin worked is now lost, as indeed is the original manuscript of his translation. The entire work survives in a number of manuscript-copies penned in the later 17th century, as well as in some later copies. The only edition produced to date, that by Fr Denis Murphy, SJ, was published 120 years ago and is a sadly inadequate production, being based on one of the less satisfactory manuscripts. Among its many shortcomings is the deletion/censorship by the editor of some passages he deemed 'offensive'.

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

B40. WOODS, C.J. Ed by. Charles Abbot's Tour through Ireland and North Wales in September and October 1792. With a foreword by David Dickson. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 2018. Circa 190 pages. €20

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