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Catalogue 140

Catalogue 140

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Catalogue 140

Autumn

2019

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COVER ILLUSTRATIONS: Our front cover illustration is taken from item 430, a fine, signed photograph of . Inside covers are illustrated by items 8, Baldoyle Races and item 93, Dublin Fusiliers. The lower cover is illustrated with a watercolour of Anne McGarahan from item 281, James Mongan's Report of the Trial.

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NANGLE AND THE ACHILL MISSION 1. [ACHILL MISSION] The Achill Mission, and the Present State of in Ireland: being The Statement delivered by Rev. , at a meeting of the Protestant Association, in Exeter Hall, December 28, 1839. pp. 28. Together with: Statement of Views and Objects, Fundamental Resolutions, and Rules, 21 other pamphlets, 4 handbills and First-Third Annual Report, 1837-1839 [of various reissued editions] of the Protestant Association, Volume 1. Includes papers by the Bishop of Exeter, the Revd's Dr. Crolly, Dr. Holloway, H. Melvill, R. Monro, Hugh McNeile, R.J. McGhee, and Edward Nangle, J.C. Colquhoun, Esq. M.P., and G.H. Woodward, Esq. A.B. London: Published by the Protestant Association, 1839. Original cloth rebacked A very good copy. €575 The contents include: The Uses of the Established Church to the Protestantism and Civilisation of Ireland; Statement of the Circumstances attending the Publication of the with the Rhemish Notes, in Dublin, 1813-16 and in , 1818; The Doctrines promulgated by the Romish Bishops in Ireland, touching the power of the Romish Church over heretics - etc.; Roman Catholic Oath. Speech of the Bishop of Exeter - on presenting a petition from certain inhabitants of Cork; A Letter to the Duke of Wellington; The Popish College of , etc. The Protestant Association [later the British Society for Promoting Religious Principles of the Reformation] was founded in 1827, publishing vehement Anti-Catholic propaganda from the radically conservative wing of Anglican . Edward Nangle the 'Apostle of Achill' (1799-1883), founded a Protestant Colony in 1831. The land on which the Achill colony was built was leased from the island’s landlord, Sir Richard O’Donnell, and was located near the village of , under the shadow of Achill’s highest mountain, Slieve Mór. His settlement flourished and he founded there a school, a church, a hospital and a printing press from which flowed numerous tracts, pamphlets and articles for his propagandist newspaper, the Achill Missionary Herald and Western Witness, in which he attacked the 'superstition and idolatry of the Church of Rome'. This incurred the wrath of both the Catholic and Protestant clergy. The Colony flourished and numbers flocked to his congregation. The was soon reminded of its neglect of the West of Ireland, and the early successes of the mission spurred it into action. The turning point came in 1837 when the Catholic of , John MacHale, visited the Island and stirred up the populace against what he called ‘these venomous fanatics’. The Achill Herald recounts an incident during MacHale’s visit to neighbouring when a scripture reader and a schoolmaster from the mission were beaten and pursued ‘almost to the death’ by the locals, and had to flee the island by night to save their lives. The arrival of Father John Dwyer, appointed by John MacHale, as of Achill, heralded a sustained attack on the colony, its staff and supporters. Caesar Otway’s biased but evocative description of these early attacks on the mission give us a feel for the passions aroused on both sides. In A Tour in Connaught (1839), he relates a sermon preached against the mission by Fr Dwyer: "Have nothing to do with these heretics - curse them, hoot at them, spit in their faces - cut the sign of the cross in the air when you meet them, as you would against devils - throw stones at them - pitch them, when you have opportunity, into the bog holes ... don’t take any medicine from their heretic doctor [Neason Adams], rather die first." 2. ANDREWS, C.S. Dublin Made Me. An Autobiography. Dublin & Cork: Mercier Press: 1979. First edition. pp. 312. Green papered boards, titled in gilt. Signed presentation copy from Todd Andrews, with one date correction by the author (1921 crossed out - should read 21 Nov. 1920). A fine copy in fine dust jacket with a few nicks. €95 In this work Andrews describes the surge of nationalism and the making of a revolutionary. He participates in street fighting against the British, is jailed and escapes from internment. His stance against the Treaty and his experiences of the Civil War make as fine an account of this period. RARE CORK PRINTING 3. ANON A Chronological Epitome of the Most Remarkable Events that have occurred during the from 1789-1796. Cork: Printed by Daly and Travers, No. 16 St. Patrick Street. 12mo. pp. [2], 134. Modern half calf on cloth boards, titled in gilt on upper cover. Paper repair to margin of titlepage and first leaf. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €875 ESTC T218016 with 2 locations only. WorldCat 1. Price on titlepage: Price One Shilling & Seven-pence Halfpenny.

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A HAPPY PARSON'S BOOK WITH HAND-COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS 4. AN OXONIAN [S. Reynolds Hole]. A Little Tour in Ireland. Being a Visit to Dublin, , , Athlone, , , Glengarriff, Cork, etc. With coloured frontispiece and hand-coloured illustrations by John Leech. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1859. Small quarto. pp. viii, 220. Bound in the of Birdsall of Northampton and London in full dark green calf. Covers decorated with double gilt fillets. Spine divided into six panels by five gilt raised bands, title and illustrator in gilt in the second and third, the remainder blocked in gilt with a floral device in centre; corners of board edges hatched in gilt; turn-ins gilt; red and gold endbands; splash-marbled endpapers. With an exquisite bookplate depicting a Tudor-style library with a view of a church and rectory from an open door, with the legend: 'This is the book of Charles Lewis Slattery a happy Parson'. All edges gilt. Superb copy in pristine condition. €1,250 Woods 147. Samuel Reynolds Hole (1819-1904) Anglican priest, author and horticulturalist was born at Ardwick, near Manchester (where his father was then in business), was only son of Samuel Hole, of Caunton Manor, Nottinghamshire, by his wife Mary, daughter of Charles Cooke of Macclesfield. After attending Mrs. Gilbey's preparatory school at Newark, he went to Newark grammar school. Of literary tastes, he edited at sixteen a periodical called The Newark Bee. Educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, he was ordained in 1844 and spent 43 years at his father's parish of St. Andrew's Church, Caunton, firstly as and from 1850 as its vicar. A prebendary of and an honorary chaplain to Edward Benson, the then , he became in 1887. Noted for his expertise with and an inaugural recipient of the Royal Horticultural Society's Victoria Medal of Honour.

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In 1858 Hole came to know John Leech, and a close friendship followed. In the summer of 1858 the two, who often hunted together, made a tour in Ireland, of which one fruit was Leech's illustrated volume, A Little Tour in Ireland (1859), with well-informed and witty letterpress by Oxonian (i.e. Hole). A reprint of 1892 gives Hole's name as author. Of Limerick Hole recollected: "Limerick is divided into three parts, the Irish town, the English town, and Newtown Perry (so called after a Mr. Sexton Perry, who commenced it); and these are connected by bridges, of which the old , hard by King John's , and new Wellesley, said to have cost 85,000l, are interesting. The eccentricities of the workmen must have added materially to the costliness of the latter structure, inasmuch as they seem to have been Odd Fellows as well as very Free Masons, who, instead of cementing stones and friendships, only turned the former into stumbling blocks for the latter, by throwing them at each other's heads. Every day an animated faction-fight, between the boys of Clare and the boys of Limerick, was got up (instead of the bridge), until at length it was necessary to bring out an armed force, to keep order on this Pons Asinorum. The main street of Newtown Perry, in which is Cruise's Hotel, is a long and handsome one; and what's more, you may buy some good cigars in it, a rare refreshment in Ireland." In Galway they met a waiter who gave them a first-hand account of the famine: "Ah, but we felt almost ashamed of being so full and comfortable, when our conversational attendant began to talk to us about the . 'That's right, good gentleman,' he said, 'niver forget, when ye've had your males, to thank the Lord as sends them. May ye niver know what it is to crave for food, and may ye niver see what I have seen, here in the town o' Galway. I mind the time when I lived yonder' (and he pointed to Kilroy's Hotel), 'and the poor craturs come crawling in from the country with their faces swollen, and grane, and yaller, along of the arbs they'd been atin.' We gave them bits and scraps, good gintlemen, and did what we could (the Lord be praised!), but they was mostly gone too far out o' life to want more than the priest and pity. I've gone out of a morning, gintlemen,' (his lip quivered as he spoke), 'and seen them lying dead in the square, with the green grass in their mouths.' to hide the tears which did him so much honour." 5. ARENSBERG, Conrad M. & KIMBALL, Solon T. Family and Community in Ireland. Illustrated with figures, tables & maps. Cambridge: Harvard U.P. 1968. Second edition. pp. xxiii, 417. Beige buckram, title in black on spine. Signature of the Historian, Ronan Fanning on front free endpaper. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €75 This edition includes six new chapters on the behaviour of Irish townsmen and the distinctions between urban and rural life, even as the two remain intimately linked. THOSE WHO SUFFERED FOR THE PROTESTANT FAITH INCLUDING THE MASSACRE OF THE PROTESTANTS IN IRELAND IN 1641 6. [ARMY OF MARTYRS] The Noble Army of Martyrs. Broadside. Illustrated with engraved vignettes. 375 x 500mm. London: Catnach, n.d. (c.1830). Creased from folding. In very good condition. Extremely rare. €375 No copy located on COPAC. WorldCat 1. In his notice to the reader the anonymous author states: "Popery is not only the worst religion, but the greatest evil that can possibly come into any country. Should any endeavour to persuade thee, reader, that popery now is different from it was in the reign of Q. Mary thou mayest answer, Yes, there is the same difference as between a lion chained up, and a lion let loose. Popery does not burn Protestants to death in Smithfield now, because it hath not power. Be assured that popery is always the same, and so will continue, until it shall cease out of the earth ... ." The engraved vignettes around the border depict: The Martyrdom of Dr. Thomas Cramer at Oxford, March 21, 1556; The Burning of Dr. John Hooper, at Gloucester, Feb. 9, 1555; The Burning of Dr. Robert Farrar, at Carmarthen, Feb. 22, 1555; Martyrdom of The Rev. R. Drakes, Rev. W. Tyms, or Spunge, T. Spunge, J. Cavel, and G. Ambrose, in Smithfield; Horrible Martyrdom of a Mother and her two Daughters; Burning of Mrs. Agnes Bangeor, and Mrs. Margaret Thurson, at Chichester; Martyrdom of the Rev. Rowland Taylor, at Hadley, Suffolk, Feb. 9, 1555; Burning of W. Coker, W. Hopper, H. Laurence, R. Colliar, R. Wright, & W. Steer; Martyrdom of St. Laurence; Massacre of the Protestants in Ireland in 1641. In the centre are three large vignettes: The Noble Army of Martyrs Praise Thee O God; The Bishops who suffered Martyrdom for the Protestant Faith, Under the Persecution of Queen Mary - Thomas Cranmer, Nicholas Ridley, John Hooper, Hugh Latimer and Robert Farrah; The Martyrdom of Bishop Latimer and Bishop Ridley at Oxford, Oct. 16th 1555.

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See item 6. 7. [AUSTEN, Jane] FITZGERALD, Percy. Autograph Letter, Signed, About a Bust and Pedestal of Jane Austen the novelist. [London]: "Monday" [no year but no earlier than 1905]. Three pages quarto written in ink on Atheneum stationery. Folded for mailing, offset along two quarter edges of the blank verso of the lower page from old mounting tape. Very good. €275 Percy Fitzgerald (1834-1925) Anglo-Irish critic, biographer, painter and sculptor. "Mr Mayor You will recollect our project for setting up a bust and pedestal of Jane Austen the novelist in the Pump Room. It is now virtually completed and is to be packed up and will be with you in about a fortnight. I think you will say it is a handsome ornate object of yellow jaspar marble - gold bronze ..." He follows with suggestions for placement in relation to the bust of Dickens and includes a rough diagram. He continues: "Were you thinking of a little ceremonial about an hour long with three or four speeches - I would ask my friend Austin Dobson (the best authority on Jane Austen) - some other names may occur to me ..." Signed expansively and in full. The reference is to a bust of Austen destined to be displayed in the Pump Room in Bath, which occurs as a setting in both 'Persuasion' and 'Northanger Abbey'. Fitzgerald presented the bust of Dickens to the Pump Room in 1905, thus suggesting the earliest possible year for the letter. 8. [BALDOYLE RACES] Great Northern Railway Co. (Ireland). Exhibition Race Meeting over the Balydoyle course, Wednesday, 16th August, '82 (Day after the opening of the Irish Exhibition and Unveiling of the O'Connell Monument). Notice to rail goers of travel and ticket arrangements from Baldoyle to Dublin. Single sheet printed on both sides. 220 x 193mm. Small nick to lower margin, otherwise in very good condition. €145 "As the public have being inconvenienced on previous occasions by the disorderly conduct of persons

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travelling without Tickets, of Drunken Persons, Gamblers, &c., the directors have given strict instructions that the By-Laws of the Company shall be enforced; and the Police have being instructed to arrest any Persons attempting either to travel without a Ticket or to interfere with the comfort of the Passengers, or to obstruct the Company's Officers in the performance of their duty. August, 1882." 9. BALL, F. Elrington. A History of the County Dublin. The people, and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century. With maps and illustrations. Six volumes. Dublin: Greene's Bookshop, 1975. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A fine set. €135 10. [BALLADS] Twine Weel the Plaiden. Beadle of the Parish. O Jeanie there's naething to fear ye. The Irish Fisherman. Meeting of the Waters. The Deer Hunter. Native Land. : Printed for the Booksellers, n.d. (c.1825). Single sheet folded to 8 pages. Uncut and Unopened. Woodcut device on titlepage. In good condition. €165 "There is not in this wide world a valley so sweet, As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet, O! The last ray of feeling and life must depart, Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart! Yet it was not that Nature that shed o'er the scene, Her purest of chrystal and brightest of green: 'Twas not that soft magic of streamlet or hill; Oh' No-it was something more exquisite still" 11. BANIM, Michael. The Mayor of Wind-Gap and Canvassing. By the O'Hara Family. A New Edition, with introduction and notes, by Michael Banim, Esq. Dublin: James Duffy, 1865. pp. [i], iv, [i], 395. Two volumes bound together in one, continuously paginated. Contemporary half morocco on marbled boards, spine divided into five panels by four gilt raised bands; title in gilt on spine. New endpapers. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €145 COPAC locates 3 copies only. Loeber B 34. A story of morality with melodrama in an idyllic evocation of rural Ireland in a past age. Set in County in 1779, it tells a sensational story of stolen inheritance involving jealousy, revenge, and murder, and featuring a mysterious villain who is in fact an ex-pirate. DEDICATED TO THE FARMING SOCIETY OF IRELAND 12. BARBER, William. F. Farm Buildings; containing Designs for Cottages, Farm- Houses, Lodges, Farm-Yards, &c. &c. With appropriate scenery to each. Dedicated, by permission to the Farming Society of Ireland. Also a description of the mode of building in Pisé, as adopted in several parts of for many ages; which would be attended with great advantage if practised in this country, particularly in cottages and farm-buildings. London: J. Harding, n.d. (c.1805). Quarto. Second edition. (iv), 12 pages, 6 engraved aquatint plates, 8 pages of advertisements. Publisher's wrappers. Some soiling to the publisher's wrappers and light foxing to the text leaves only. A very nice copy of an exceedingly rare book. €1,350 COPAC locates only 2 copies. WorldCat 1. Archer, 12.2; Abbey, Life, 5J. First published in 1802, Barber's designs for Irish workman's cottages, a popular theme at the turn of the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries, emphasized simplicity, economy, and compactness. He was an adherent of using Pisé, a compacted earth process popular in France, for the exterior walls, giving his designs a clean,

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stucco-like look, reminiscent of much early twentieth century architecture. The aquatint plates, by Barber, were published by the author in Dublin (W. Pickett, sculp.). They show elevations and floor plans for three plain worker's cottages, another in a gothic style, a Neoclassic hunting lodge, and a lodge for a small family. Barber estimates the designs could be built for between thirty-four to three hundred and fifty pounds. A final plate illustrates his design for Sir Francis Hopkins' Irish farmyard. An eight page catalogue of books on and rural affairs by Harding is bound in the rear. 13. BARRY Sebastian. Tales of Ballycumber. London: Faber, 2009. Pictorial wrappers. Signed by members of the cast including Stephen Rea, Lisa Hogg, Aaron Monaghan and Derbhle Crotty. A very good copy. €125 THE RED PATH TO GLORY 14. BARRY, Tom. BEASLAI, P., BREEN, Dan & Others. With the I.R.A. in the Fight for Freedom, 1919 to the Truce. With location maps. Tralee: The Kerryman, n.d. (c.1930). pp. 238. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. €95 The chapters include: Monaghan Men's Baptism of Fire at the Ballytrain R.I.C. Post; The Ambush at Rineen; The R.I.C. at Ruan; A Tipperary Column Laying for R.I.C. at Thomastown; Lord French was not Destined to Die by an Irish Bullet; Auxiliaries Wiped out at Kilmichael; The Sacking of ; Dromkeen Ambush; Scramogue Ambush; Action by the West Connemara Column; Tourmakeady Ambush, etc. 15. BARTON, Sir D. Plunket. Bart. Links Between Ireland and Shakespeare. Dublin: Maunsel and Company, 1919. pp. xii, 271, 2 (author's works). Quarter vellum parchment on green papered boards. Presentation inscription from the author on front pastedown. Very good. Very scarce. €65 16. BEAUFORT, Daniel A. Memoir of a Map of Ireland; Illustrating The Topography of that Kingdom, and containing A Short Account of its Present State, Civil and Ecclesiastical; with a complete index to the map. With list of subscribers, glossary of Irish words, and folding map of Ireland, coloured in outline. London: Sold by W. Faden, Geographer to the King, 1792. Quarto. pp. [12], xvii, [1], xvii, 146, 71, [1]. Bound by Bellew of Dublin in half red morocco over marbled boards, binder's ticket on front pastedown. Spine divided into six panels by five gilt raised bands, title and year in gilt direct in the second and at heel; marbled endpapers; maroon endbands. Inner joint strengthened. All edges gilt. A fine copy. Very scarce. €465 ESTC T144852. Not in Gilbert. Daniel Augustus Beaufort (1739-1821), educated at Trinity College, Dublin, succeeded his father as rector of Navan, and in 1790 was presented by his friend the Right Hon. John Foster to the vicarage of Collon, . He was a keen geographer, and is best remembered for his Map' and Memoir of Ireland. Lowndes describes the latter as: "An exceedingly valuable work, containing a succinct account of the civil and ecclesiastical state of Ireland, and an index of all the places which appear on the author's map". The author was the father of Sir (1774-1857), the renowned hydrographer, who gave his name to the Beaufort Scale of wind force. The subscribers included: Thomas Burgh, M.P., Richard L. Edgeworth, John Foster, Richard Griffith, Rev. Samuel Johnson, Rev. Michael Kearney, Edward Ledwich, Rev. Henry Leslie, Edmond Malone, William Pitt, John Quin, Rev. Joseph Stock, Edward Synge, Most Rev. Dr. Troy, Rev. John Vignoles, Rev. James Whitelaw, etc. 17. [BEAUFORT, Louisa Catherine] Dialogues on entomology : in which the forms and habits of insects are familiarly explained. London: Printed for R. Hunter, 1819. pp. xii, 408, [25 (leaves of coloured plates)]. Original pink paper boards, title on printed label on rebacked spine. Edges of leaves uncut. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €245 COPAC locates 4 copies only. Opie F 61. Attributed to Louisa Catherine Beaufort in Wellcome Library. Illustrated with twenty-five engravings. Plates dated 1818. Includes index. Louisa Beaufort (1781-1863), writer on architecture was the daughter of Daniel Augustus Beaufort, geographer, who is best remembered for his Map of Ireland and Memoir of Ireland. She was also a sister of Sir Francis Beaufort the renowned hydrographer, who gave his name to the Beaufort Scale of wind force.

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INSCRIBED FROM THE AUTHOR TO THE REV WILLIAM PALMER

18. BEAUFORT, Louisa C. An Essay upon the State of Architecture and Antiquities, previous to the landing of the Anglo- in Ireland. With numerous lithographs from drawings by the author. Dublin: Printed by Graisberry for the Transactions of the , 1828. Quarto. pp. 101-243, 15 (plates). Modern quarter green morocco over marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Paper repair to titlepage and two leaves at end. Final leaf with minute loss of text. Old inoffensive water stain to some margins. A clean crisp copy. Exceedingly rare. €375 COPAC locates 2 copies only. 19. BEST, R.I. Intro. by. The Commentary on the Psalms with Glosses in Old-Irish preserved in the Ambrosian Library (MS. C 301 inf.). Collotype facsimile. Dublin: Published by the Royal Irish Academy, 1936. Large folio. pp. viii, 39, 146 (plates), 14 (plates), plus erratum. Quarter black arlen blue papered boards. A fine copy. €375

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This codex together with other precious Irish Manuscripts, including the Antiphonary of Bangor, passed to the Ambrosian Library from the monastery of Bobbio in the year 1606, as is recorded in an entry inserted by the first prefect of the Ambrosiana, Antonio Olgiato. The ancient library of the monastery founded by St. Columbanus in the year 608 having survived the vicissitudes of the middle ages, was in that year laid under contribution by Pope Paul V for the benefit of the Vatican Library and by Cardinal Borromeo for the Ambrosiana, then in course of formation. The final dispersal of the library took place in 1803, when by order of 's French Republican Government all that remained of the books and manuscripts, including '21 fragmens d'antiques mss.', were sold by public auction. Some of these were acquired through the Abbate Amadeo Peyron for the University Library of Turin. The Psalter volume was ascribed to Jerome in an Inventory of the Library drawn up in 1461. However Domenico Vallarsi threw out the suggestion that the commentary was certainly not by Jerome, and might well be that of Columbanus. Vallarsi's conjecture was based on the statement of Jonas, the biographer of Columbanus, that the Saint in his youth had written a commentary on the Psalms, and that there was a marked similarity in the latinity to that of Columbanus; that the manuscript was the work of an Irish scribe, and came from Bobbio, and further, that in a ninth-century catalogue of the library of St. Gall such a work was actually recorded, viz. 'Expositio sancti Columbani super omnes psalmos'. The attribution of the commentary to Columbanus, so plausible on the face of it, was accepted without question by Peyron, Zeuss, Nigra, Ascoli, and others though rejected by Bruno Krusch, the editor of Jonas's life of the Saint. 20. [BILL RECEIPT] The Dye-Stuff, Oil, Paint, Glass and Lead Ware-House, At the Sign of the Golden-Key, No. 9, North Main-Street, Cork, 8 Month, 7th 1800. Bought of Jane Harris & Co. Receipt for raw oils etc. 155 x 100mm. In very good condition. €75 21. BINNS, John. An Oration Commemorative of the Birth-day of American Independence, delivered before the Democratic Societies of the City and County of Philadelphia, On the 4th of July, 1810. Philadelphia: C. and A. Conrad & Co., and M. Carey, 1810. pp. 11, [1]. Uncut, partially opened copy, stitching holes present. A fine copy. Rare. €125 OCLC records only five holdings. Shaw & Shoemaker 19567. No printed copies located on COPAC. Binns was the Irish-born publisher of Democratic Press in Philadelphia and one-time follower of Joseph Priestley. This oration was "Published at the request of the [Democratic] Societies." DUBLIN IRONMONGERS 22. [BINNS & PASLEY] Trade Card for the firm of Binns and Pasley, Manufacturing & Furnishing Ironmongers. Dame Street, Dublin. Engraved card depicting the Smiths Arms, Fireplaces, Safes, Stoves, Lamps, Gates, Kitchen Range. W.H. Pasley Del. T. Badge Sot. Royal Arcade. 160 x 120mm. In fine condition. €250

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23. BLANSHARD, Paul. The Irish and Catholic Power. An American interpretation. With a foreword by H. Montgomery Hyde. London: Verschoyle, 1954. pp. 368. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in price-clipped and lightly stained dust jacket. €45 Many of the controversial features of the are discussed in this book. One chapter deals with the Censorship Board which in twenty-three years has banned more than 4,000 books, many of them by prominent Catholic authors. The author also discusses the control of the Church over education and over sex, a control which is exercised unofficially by the Catholic clergy and officially sanctioned by legislation. 24. [] Come and Kiss the Blarney Stone. Guide to the Irish Industrial Village. A four page illustrated guide to the Irish exhibit at the World's Fair of 1893. Chicago: Printed by Rand McNally & Co., Printers, 1893. pp. 4 (single leaf 304 x 226mm folded in two). Small tear to top of upper leaf, otherwise very good. €45 The Chicago World's Fair or Columbian Exposition of 1893, is often called "the fair that changed America". It covered 600 acres and introduced fairgoers to wonders of electricity such as lifts (or "elevators") and the first electric chair; products we now take for granted like the zip; included George G.W. Ferris's new Wheel; presented viewers with a look at Edison's kinetoscope and a listen to the first voice recording. It was held at Midway Plaisance. This guide was published to promote the Irish Industrial Village at the fair, and it included whitewashed cabins, cottage kitchens, a model of the , lace and crochet work, bog-oak carving, and a model of with its famous stone. 25. [BOARD OF GUARDIANS] General Order of the Local Government Board for Ireland for Regulating The Meetings and Proceedings of Boards of Guardians in Ireland, and the Appointment and Duties of Union Officers. 18th December, 1882. Dublin: Printed by Alex Thom, 87, 88 & 89 Abbey-Street, [1882]. Printed stitched wrappers. A very good copy. €65 FIRST EDITION WITH PARALLEL ENGLISH TEXT 26. [BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER IN IRISH] Leabhar na Nornaightheadh Ccomhchoitchionn, agus Mhiniostralachda na Saceaimeinteadh, agus Resadh agus Dhearghnath na Heaglaise, do reir usaide Eaglaise na Sacsan; Maille ris an Tsaltair no Psalmuibh Dhaibhidh. In Irish and English. London: Eleanor Everingham, at the Seven-Stars in Ave-Mary-Lane, near Ludgate, 1712. First Irish edition, with parallel English text. Bound in modern antique style panelled calf, title in gilt on maroon morocco label on spine. Occasional light toning. A very good copy. €3,750

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This edition of Leabhar na Nornaightheadh Ccomchoitchionn was translated by John Richardson (1664-1747), the son of Sir Edward Richardson, from , (see Griffiths' The Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer 1549-1999). Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he graduated B.A. in 1688. After ordination he was appointed in 1693 to the rectory of Annagh, a parish in County , which included the town of Belturbet. He was single-mindedly determined to convert the Irish Roman Catholics by means of the Bible and liturgy in the native language: "And as our happy Constitution stands, both in Church and State, we are ... oblidged to publish the 'Common-Prayer-Book' in Irish, that the Ordninances of Religion may be administered to them in a known Tongue." In 1711 he published A Proposal for the Conversion of the Popish Natives of Ireland to the Established Church at the New Post-office Printing House in Essex Street. Richardson was appointed chaplain to James, Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and in 1710 visited London to obtain help in printing religious books in Irish: Contemporaries give us a vivid picture of this energetic clergyman. Swift in his Journal to Stella for March 6th 1710-11, wrote: "I presented a Parson of the 's, one Richardson, to the Duke of Ormonde today; he is translating prayers and sermons into Irish." Richardson advocated the ordination of Irish-speaking ministers, the distribution of Irish , common prayer books, and catechisms, and the establishment of charity schools. He was grant-aided by the new Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in his project of printing with the provisio for distribution in also. The main body of the text was printed in Moxon's Irish type. He incurred huge money losses in his printing operation, and although recommended more than once for a benefice he received only the small deanery of Kilmacduagh. He was a friend of Philip MacBrady, Vicar of Innishmacgrath, County Leitrim and John O Mulchonry, from whom he received much information on , language, and history. In contradistinction to Daniel's (O Domhnaill) translation of the first edition, published in 1608, Richardson's version is complete. The Thirty-nine Articles of Religion, together with a note on 'Elements of the ' are at the end. The Everinghams father and daughter were well accomplished in printing in Irish, Robert printed the first edition of The Old Testament Leabhuir na tSean Tiomna in Irish in 1685. This was followed by the 1690 edition for the Gaelic-speaking Highlanders. Eleanor also published Seanmora ar na Priom Phoncibh na Creideamh, translated into Irish by Philip MacBrady and John O'Mulchonri in 1711. 27. BOUCICAULT, Dion. Autograph Letter from Dion Boucicault, signed at Cavendish Square, to D. Wilkie, Esq. dated Sunday February 6th 1842. Four pages octavo written on two sides. The letter refers to leaving a ticket for the Theatre at the Box Office for D. Wilkie. In very good condition. €175 Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot (1820 (or 1822)-1890), commonly known as Dion Boucicault, Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas. By the later part of the nineteenth century, Boucicault had become known on both sides of the Atlantic as one of the most successful actor- playwright-managers then in the English-speaking theatre. The New York Times heralded him in his obituary as "the most conspicuous English dramatist of the 19th century." Boucicault died in 1890 in , and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Hastings, Westchester County, New York. THE BIBLE WAR IN MAYO 28. BOURKE, Charles. The Rev. Popish Episcopal Tyranny Exposed: Dedicated to the Right Rev. Dr. Waldron, R.C. Bishop of . By The Rev. Charles Bourke, R.C. Priest; Collegian of the Royal Irish College at Salamanca; Parish Priest for the King of Spain, in the Province of Louisiana, N. America; R.C. Chaplain to the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Selkirk, and the Honourable Hudson's Bay Company of London; now in the Parish of Templeboy, in the Diocese Killala, Ireland. London: Printed for W. Whitemore, 56 Pater-noster Row, 1817. 48. Original stitched printed wrappers. Mild foxing to title and final leaf. Neat oval stamp of Martin Keene, Bookseller & Stationer of Dublin on top margin of titlepage. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €785 COPAC locates 4 copies only. WorldCat 1. A complaint against Waldron's action in suspending Bourke from his priestly functions. Includes some documents in Latin and English parallel texts. Charles Bourke was born in Carrowcubick, near Ballycastle, , about 1765.

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Hoban states that he "was of that branch of the Bourke family that became known as the 'Heathfield' Bourkes, whose base was at Heathfield House, in the townland of Gortatoor, a few miles from what is now the village of Ballycastle." He was a descendant of Oliver fitz Richard Ruadh Bourke, and a brother of Walter Kittagh Bourke; Oliver's nephew, Tiobóid Mac Walter Ciotach Bourke (died c. 1606) was the 21st Mac William Iochtar. Oliver second wife, Mary, was a sister of Tiobóid, and Mary's son, Ulick, had a son, Oliver, who married Elizabeth Rutledge. From this marriage came the Bourkes of Heathfield, the Palmer- Bourke and Paget-Bourke families. Descendants include , from 1990 to 1997, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, from 1997 to 2002, whose great-great grandfather was John Bourke of Heathfield, a brother of Charles. Little seems to be known about Charles's parents beyond their names, Rowland Bourke and Mary Cormick, and that they were of a branch of the Heathfield family known as the Crotty Bourkes, as they had property in the townland of Crott, Carrowcubick. Among their family were John, Charles, and Ulick, a Franciscan. However, Bourke's family possessed enough wealth to have Charles educated at the Irish College, Salamanca in Spain following being taught at a local . He was ordained in 1792. He volunteered for service in Spanish Louisiana, becoming the first priest of Baton Rouge in 1792. Following an investigation into his conducted by the Bishop of New Orleans, he left Louisiana, returning to County Mayo in 1800. In 1811, he became chaplain for a proposed colony of Irish Catholics and Scottish Presbyterians at what is now Red River, Manitoba, Minnesota and North Dakota, initiated by Lord Thomas Selkirk. However, he left without permission of his bishop, Dominick Bellew. he returned home in 1812 having never reached Red River. In 1812, Bourke became involved with a dispute over the appointment of a priest from the Diocese of Tuam, Peter Waldron, who was to succeed Bishop Bellew. Upon Waldron's appointment, Bourke continued his opposition. In 1817 he published this pamphlet, Popish Episcopal Tyranny Exposed, which led to his suspension and - according to his own account - excommunication. He appealed to Pope Pius VII. In this forty-eight page pamphlet, Bourke gave his reasons for his opposition to Waldron's appointment, but also pondered on wider questions: "That the lives of the Roman Catholic clergy, at this day in Ireland, as well as on the continent, are not much more correct than those of the clergy at the time of the Reformation, which Martin Luther inveighed against them, is a melancholy truth, which cannot be denied; and which ought to make a serious impression on the minds of those who justly appreciate our most holy religion, which may suffer at present, as it did formerly, from the severe scourge of one of its own members." (p. 172, Hoban, 2008) According to his biographer, Brendan Hoban: "Bourke could hardly set himself up as a model of priesthood and his disloyalty to the who stood up for him does him no service. ... The key ... to understanding Bourke's comprehensive denunciation of his fellow clergy ... is that Bourke had conformed to the Established Church and the main readers of his writing were his now fellow Protestants ... So Bourke's comments have to be placed in the context of the cut and thrust of the Bible War, what Desmond Bowen called the 'Protestant Crusade in Ireland', the evangelical campaign organised by fundamentalists in the to convert Catholics in a '.'"(p. 173, Hoban). DONEGAL EXCOMMUNICATION 29. [BOYLE, Philip] A Report of the Trial of an Action of Slander, wherein P. Boyle was Plaintiff and the Rt. Rev. Peter McLoughlin, Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Raphoe, was Defendant. Taken in Short Hand by Randall Kernan, Esq. Barrister at Law. Dublin: Graisberry and Campbell, 10 Back-Lane, 1810. pp. 101. Original pale blue stitched wrappers. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €875 COPAC locates 2 copies only. WorldCat 1. Trial of an action for slander brought by P. Boyle against Peter McLoughlin. Peter McLoughlin (1760-1840) was born in in the valley of the Finn in East Donegal. Educated locally and at the Irish College in for his seminary studies. He returned to Ireland in 1791 after his ordination the previous year. He taught in the diocesan seminary, became principal from 1790 to 1802. He became parish priest of Drumragh (Omagh) for the same period and . He was consecrated in 1802 and resided at Kilbarron (Ballyshannon). The previous bishops had resided at Conwal (). It is not known why McLoughlin decided to live at Kilbarron. Here, he ran into trouble over fund raising. One of his most outspoken opponents was Peter Boyle a local businessman. The bishop erected a gallery in the nave of the church in 1803 and two others in the

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transepts in 1804. To cover the expense McLoughlin decided to auction the pews to parishioners who could afford it. Philip Boyle objected offensively to this method of fundraising: "I will stand up for Kilbarron as long as I have a button on my coat," he said, describing a statement by Fr. Joseph Hanigan, a curate in the parish, as a lie. Rioting broke out in the church amid scenes of chaos and shouting. A detachment of the Limerick Militia attending Mass quelled the disturbance, fearing an attack on the bishop. Bishop McLoughlin gave Boyle the opportunity to apologise publicly, but, not complying he was excommunicated. Boyle took the bishop to Lifford Assizes, claiming damages for slander before Judge McClelland and a jury of Plantation stock. The Judge made his position clear. Only the Established Church possessed such a power as excommunication, he announced, and added that Roman Catholic prelates had no legal right to inflict censures on people, that the time had gone by when Popes and prelates exercised dominion over the Christian world. The jury found in favour of the plaintiff Boyle awarding him damages against the bishop of £125. 30. BUCKLAND, Patrick. Irish Unionism: One. The Anglo-Irish and the New Ireland. 1885- 1922. With extensive appendices and bibliography. Irish Unionism 2. Unionism and the Origins of 1886 to 1922. Two volumes. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1972/ 1973. pp. (1) xxvii, 363 (2) xxxvi, 207. Green and brown papered boards, titled in gilt. Loosely inserted on three octavo pages are some historical jottings by the Historian Ronan Fanning. A fine copy in repaired dust jackets. Very scarce. €75 31. [BUNBURY, Selina] The Captive Children. By the author of 'Little Dora Playfair', 'The Seven Churches of Asia' &c., &c. [Selina Bunbury]. London: Printed for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1846. pp. 23. Green paper wrappers with engraving on lower cover. Extremely rare. €245

COPAC locates 1 copy only. Selina Bunbury (1802-1882) was born at Kilsaran, County Louth. She was a prolific author, writing nearly a hundred works between 1821 and 1869. She lived near and died in Cheltenham. 32. [BURKE, William. Translated by] J. P. Brissot, Deputy of Eure and Loire, to his Constituents, on the Situation of the National Convention: on the Influence of the Anarchists, and the Evils it has caused; and on the Necessity of annihilating that Influence in order to save the Republic. Translated from the French. With a preface and occasional notes by the translator [William Burke]. Dublin: Printed by P. Byrne, Grafton-Street, 1794. pp. [2], xxiii, 84. Early owner's signature on titlepage. Small water stain to margin of titlepage and on page 21, some scattered spotting. Disbound. A good copy. Extremely rare. €150 COPAC locates 2 copies only. The translation is by William Burke, revised and with a preface by . Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville (1754-1793), was a leading member of the Girondins during the French Revolution and founder of the abolitionist Society of the Friends of the Blacks (an abolitionist movement). He was charged with being an agent of the counter-revolution and of foreign powers, especially Britain. Brissot, who conducted his own defense, attacked point by point the absurdities of the charges against him and his fellow Girondins. He was unsuccessful and in 1793 the death sentence was delivered to himself and the 28 other Girondins. Brissot died by the guillotine at 39, and his corpse was buried in the Madeleine Cemetery. This work, completed just a few months before Brissot's execution, is an interesting view of the state of

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France in 1793, "the second year of the French Republic." William Burke (1730-1798), the son of barrister John Burke was born in London. He was admitted to Westminster School and elected to Christ Church, Oxford in 1747 where he took the degree of B.C.L. in 1755. He and Edmund Burke were travelling companions in 1752, and worked together on the Account of the European Settlements in America. 33. BURNET, The Rev. John. A Vindication of the Deity of the Lord Christ, being the Substance of a Discourse delivered in Cork, at Cook-Street Chapel, September 8, 1816. Cork: Printed and sold by Richard Tivy, Grand-Parade, opposite Patrick-Street, 1816. pp. iv, 5-51, [1 (errata)]. Blue torn stitched wrappers. Extremely rare. €145 No copy located in COPAC. John Burnet (1789-1862) was born in Perth in 1789 and originally joined the army before becoming a pastor to an independent congregation in Cork. A neat Grecian chapel was raised in Cork due to his efforts. He went to and took up a position as pastor to another Independent congregation at the Mansion House Chapel in Camberwell. He was a leading member of both the Congregational Union of England and the Bible Society, Peace Society the Liberation of Religion from State Control Society the Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishments. He spoke against the Corn Laws and for Anti-Slavery. He attended the 1840 and 1843 Anti-Slavery conventions and spoke at the Freemasons Hall concerning anti-slavery. 34. BURY, Brother James A. Essay on Leisure Hours &c., read before the Mutual Improvement Association in connexion with The Orange Institution by Brother James A. Bury, 1738. Published by desire of the Members. Dublin: Printed by Brother John T. Kirkwood, 28, Lower Ormond-Quay, 1863. pp. 32. Some foxing, otherwise a good copy in frayed printed wrappers. Extremely rare. €275 No copy located in COPAC. 35. BUTLER, Dean Richard. Some Notices of the Castle and of the Ecclesiastical Buildings of Trim. With in addition a short life of Richard Butler by C.C. Ellison. Illustrated. Naas: Leader, 1978. pp. [xxx], 312. Blue papered boards, titled in gilt. A very good copy. €45 36. CAHILL, Rev. Dr. The Case of the Madiais. Letter of The Rev. Dr. Cahill to the Earl of Carlisle. Manchester: T. Smith, 1853. pp. 8. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy. €145 COPAC locates 1 copy only. Cahill's response to a letter written by Carlisle about religious persecution in Italy. 37. CALLANAN, Helena. Verses Old and New. By Helena Callanan, Asylum for the blind, Cork. [Cork]: Printed at the Eagle Works, South Mall & Smith Street, 1899. pp. 108. Printed stiff boards. A very good copy. €65 COPAC locates 3 copies only. Helena Callanan, a blind poetess was a frequent contributor of verse to Irish and Catholic periodicals, notably to the Irish Monthly. She was born in Cork around 1864. Dedicated to the editor, Matthew Russell, S.J. 38. [CARRIAGE TAX] Carriage Tax Receipt. Lord Carrick, Mount Juliet, , , 9th November, 1778. Parchment, printed in red with manuscript entries. 105 x 110mm. In good condition. €75 Henry Thomas Butler, 2nd Earl of Carrick (1746-1813), styled The Honourable from birth to 1748 and then as Viscount Ikerrin between 1748 and 1774, was an Irish peer and politician. He was the son of Somerset Butler, 1st Earl of Carrick and Lady Juliana Boyle. Butler held the office of Member of Parliament for Killyleagh in the Irish Parliament between 1768 and 1774. He married Sarah Taylor, daughter of Colonel Edward Taylor and Anne Maunsell, in 1774 and he succeeded to the title of 2nd Earl of Carrick in the same year. He died in 1813 at Mount Juliet, County Kilkenny. 39. CARROLL, Francis M. American Opinion and the Irish Question 1910-23. A study in opinion and policy. Dublin: Gill, 1978. pp. xi, [1], 319. Blue papered boards, title in gilt along spine. A fine copy in dust jacket with fading to spine. €40 This work is a pioneering study of the links between Ireland, Britain, and the during a period of political upheaval and revolutionary crisis for the Irish nationalist movement.

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FETHARD AUTHOR - EDUCATED AT OXFORD 40. CARVE, Thomas. Lyra Sive Anacephalaeosis Hibernica, In qua De Exordio, seu Origine, nomine, moribus, ritibusque Gentis Hibernicae Succincte tractatur; cui quoque accessere Annales Ejusdem Hiberniae, Nec non Rerum gestarum per Europam ab Anno 1148. Usque ad Annum1650. Editio secundo ... Authore R.D. Thoma Carve, de Mobernan Tipperariensi, Sacerdote & Notario Apostolico. With seven plates, including one additional portrait of Charles I. Sulzbaci: Typis Abrahami Lichtenthaleri, 1666. Quarto. pp. [46], 455, [1], 6 (plates). Errata on verso of final leaf. Includes index. Bound by Bedford in full green morocco, covers decorated in gilt, spine divided into six panels by five gilt raised bands, title, place of publication and year in gilt direct in the second and third, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner design; board edges ruled in gilt; turn-ins gilt; comb-marbled endpapers. Minor rubbing to joints and extremities. All edges gilt. A fine copy of an exceedingly rare book. €6,750 COPAC locates 10 copies only. WorldCat 6. Sweeney 856 lists the first edition. Thomas Carve [Carew] (c.1590-1672), was born at Mobarnan, Fethard, . He was proud to claim lineage with his famous Anglo-Norman namesake who in the fifteenth century held high office and great influence in Munster. He stated that his brother Sir Ross Carew was married to Clarendon's sister, Lady Hyde. Carve's claim to this distinguished family was questioned by his opponent the Irish-born Franciscan, Anthony Bruodin, who believed his surname was Carran - Carve acknowledged that the Irish for his name was O Carrain. His sympathies were in many respects anti- Irish, and, though skilled in his native tongue, professed his preference for English. His mother was probably a Butler of Ormond, and his early years were spent among the Butlers, to whom, he says, he owed everything. Walter Harris in his edition of Ware's Writers of Ireland asserts that Thomas was educated at Oxford. Following his ordination for the diocese of Leighlin, he left Ireland around 1624 and went to Germany as Chaplain to Walter Butler, Colonel of a Scotch and Irish regiment in the army of Frederick II of and saw service in the many campaigns of the Thirty Years War.

Carve returned to Ireland to visit his friends. In 1630 he rejoined Butler this time for two years, leaving around the time of the death of Gustavus Adolphus at the Battle of Lutzen. On Colonel Butler's death in the autumn of 1634 he became chaplain to his successor Col. Walter Devereux who was the 'honoured' murderer of Wallenstein. Carew accompanied Devereux and his regiment throughout Germany and following Devereux's death in 1640, he was appointed Chaplain General of all the English, Scots and Irish forces. This work was first published in 1661 when Carew was in his sixties. As a piece of book production, this later edition is much more desirable than the first edition. Not only does the text extend the narrative which commenced in the year 1148 on beyond 1650 but it is surely one of the very finest printings of any Irish-authored seventeenth century book. It conjured up a lyrical response from Dibdin. It is also illustrated, and amongst the six engravings is an evocative depiction of

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the author in old age, all the more valuable because we so seldom get a good likeness of the author in Irish books of this era. The others show the harp, the national symbol; an allegory of Ireland; Charles I; Donatus O'Brien on horseback against a Limerick background; and an adaptation of Hollar's plan of St Patricks' , i.e. Lough Derg. 41. CAREW [CARVE], Thomas. Rerum Germanicarum Ab Anno M.DC.XVII Ad Annum M.DC.XLI. Gestarum Epitome. Auctore Thom. Carvæo Hyberno. Anno Christi: 1641. 12mo. pp. 149 [146]. Old vellum. Ex libris William O'Brien Milltown Park Trust, with bookplates. Ink inscription on titlepage 'Monasterii / S. Urbani.' A very good copy. Extremely rare. €1,375 COPAC locates the BL copy only. WorldCat 2. Walsh Printing 101. Sweeney 853. Pencil inscription on front endpaper states that this work "Contains curious particulars of some of the families of Lesley Gordon". It also goes on to state that this work is excessively rare. Provenance: Early inscription on titlepage 'Monasterii S. Urbani' may refer to a Cistercian house of that name in Switzerland, in the canton of Lucerne. 42. CECIL, Rev. Richard, M.A. A Friendly Visit to the House of Mourning. Woodcut vignette on titlepage. Dublin: Printed by John Jones, 40, South Great George's-Street, n.d. (c.1790). pp. 32. Disbound. Stitched. A very good copy. Extremely rare. Dublin printing. €285 COPAC locates 1 copy only of a later Watson imprint. Rev. Richard Cecil (1748-1810) was born in London and became a leading Evangelical Anglican priest of the 18th and 19th centuries. He was associated with the Clapham Sect whose best known member was William Wilberforce. 43. [CERTANI, Giacomo] Il Mosé dell' Ibernia vita del glorioso S. Patrizio ... Apostolo, e Primate dell' Ibernia / descritta dall' Abb; D. Giacomo Certani .... In Bologna: Nella Stampa Camerale 1686. Quarto. pp. [16], 519, [27], [1 (folding plate)]. Contemporary full vellum, titled in ink on spine. Ex libris William O'Brien Milltown Park Trust, with bookplates and stamps. Early Latin inscription on front free endpaper 'Ad usum Jacobi Canalli'. Inscription on titlepage 'Ex Libris / Ja: Surdeville / 1704'. Some browning to a few leaves, also old worming at gutter to a section. A very good copy of an exceedingly rare book. €1,275 COPAC locates 5 copies only (two are defective). WorldCat 2. Sweeney 953. Jacob (Giacomo) Certani was Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Bologna. He was reader of philosophy and master of to Brescia, Milan and Bologna for five years. He preached in the main Italian pulpits and in particular in the Basilica of Saint Petronio in Bologna. The noted Italian hagiographer has here synthesised all that was factually known about St. Patrick. For his lives of St Patrick and St Brigid, the Italian author drew largely on Colgan's Triadis Thaumaturga. 44. CHAMPNEYS, Arthur C. Irish Ecclesiastical Architecture. With some notice of similar or related work in England, Scotland and elsewhere. Illustrated. London: Bell, 1910. First edition. pp. xxxiii, 258, 112 (plates). Quarto. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine and blind-stamp on upper cover. Pervious owner's signature on front endpaper. A fine copy in rare frayed dust jacket. €145 45. [CHAPBOOK] Cure for Ennui. Dublin: Printed by M. Goodwin, 29 Denmark-street, 1820. pp. 8. Drop-head title. Disbound. In fine condition. Extremely rare. €145 COPAC locates the BL copy only. Ennui: a feeling of being bored and mentally tired caused by having nothing interesting or exciting to do. Tract for children on boredom - with religious aspects. Text in English and with the odd sentence in French. 46. [CHAPBOOK] Jack the Giant-Killer: being the History of all his Wonderful Exploits against the Giants. Embellished with neat Wood-Cuts. : Published by Simms and M'Intyre, Donegall-Street, n.d. (c.1845). pp. 12. Edges and covers worn, otherwise a good copy. Scarce. Extremely rare. €125 COPAC locates 1 copy only.

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47. [CHURCH OF IRELAND] Church of Ireland. United Diocese of Cork, Cloyne & Ross. Financial Report of the Diocesan Council, and Statement of Diocesan and Parochial Accounts, For the Year ending 31st December, 1882, together with ... Accounts and Lists of Subscribers. Cork: Steam Printing Company (Guy Brothers), [1882]. pp. 56. Modern stiff marbled wrappers. Title on printed label on upper cover. A very good copy. €95 48. CLARKE, Isabel C. . Her Family and Friends. With 11 illustrations. London: Hutchinson, 1949. pp. 208. Black cloth, wear to extremities. A very good copy. €25 49. CLEMENTS, R.N. & ROBBINS, J.M. The ABC of Irish Locomotives. Illustrated. London: Allan, 1949. pp. 56. Pictorial stapled wrappers. A very good copy. Scarce. €35 THE UNFORTUNATE ROBERT EMMET 50. [CODE, Henry Brereton] The Insurrection of the Twenty-Third July, 1803. Dublin: Graisberry & Campbell, 10 Back Lane, [1803]. First edition. pp. xiii, 110. Contemporary full tree calf, titled in gilt on maroon morocco label. A superb copy of this exceedingly rare book. €650 COPAC locates 6 copies only. Preface signed: H.B.C., the NLI states it is Henry Brereton Code. Plowden in his 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 George and Daly presiding, in . 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 , 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'. Code, Henry Brereton (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 . 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. 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Marsden Code (1805-75), the Brethren , 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 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 St., Dublin. 51. CODY, Bryan A. The River Lee, Cork, and The Corkonians. London: Chas-Mitchell, Red- Lion Court; Fleet-St. Dublin: W.B. Kelly, Grafton-St, 1859. 12mo. pp. [4], 139. Green printed wrappers. Spine professionally rebacked, some soiling to covers and some small ink stains to lower margins of a few leaves. Extremely rare. A very good copy. €275 No printed copy located on COPAC or WorldCat. Originally appeared as a series of articles in the Irish Literary Gazette. Printed in Cork by Samuel M. Peck at the Cork Herald office, 40 South Mall. 52. COIMÍN, Micheál. Laoi Oisín ar Thír na n-Óg: The Lay of Oisín in The Land of Youth. Edited with revised text, literal translation, new metrical version, notes and vocabulary by Tomás Ó Flannghaile (Thomas Flannery). Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son, 1896. pp. xvi, 186. Green cloth, title in black on upper cover. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. Name cut from top margin of titlepage. A very good copy. Scarce. €35 53. COLBY, Thomas. Ordnance Survey of the County of Londonderry. Volume the first. With illustrations and maps. Dublin: Published for her Majesty's Government. Hodges and Smith, 1837. First edition. Crown quarto. pp. 9, [3], 336, 16. Blind-stamped cloth. Spine professionally rebacked. Paper repair to margin of one plate. A very good copy. €275 The great project for the large-scale mapping of the whole of Ireland by the Ordnance Survey of the Royal Engineers was authorised in 1824, and became recognised as the Ordnance Survey. The man given the responsibility for its execution was Colonel Thomas Colby, whose energies brought this huge task through to a successful conclusion. He was also assisted by Lieut. Thomas Larcom of the Royal Engineers. "Colby House" today is the headquarters of the Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland. Colby's Memoir contains a wealth of information collected by the officers of the Ordnance Survey treating the natural features, buildings and antiquities of Londonderry, trade and commerce in the days long before the coming of the railways. Its historical section covers a period of 1,300 years from the time of Saint Columkille. Superbly illustrated with a coloured geological map of the parish of Templemore, one folding map of the city of Londonderry, five engraved plans of Londonderry (1600- 1835), an engraved view of the city; three engravings of the , a plan of Donalong and the Fort of Coolmore, and seven plates of fossils and grasses (some coloured).

See items 49 & 53 54. COLUM, Padraic The Big Tree of Bunlahy. Stories of My Own Countryside. Coloured frontispiece and black and white illustrations by Jack B. Yeats. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933. First edition. pp. viii, [2], 166. Green cloth, title in brown on upper cover and on faded spine. A very good copy. €175

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Padraic Colum (1881-1972) poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer, collector of folklore and one of the leading figures of the Celtic Revival. He was born in a County Longford workhouse where his father worked. In 1911, with Mary Gunning Maguire, a fellow student from UCD, and David Houston and Thomas MacDonagh, he founded the short-lived literary journal The Irish Review, which published works by Yeats, , Oliver St John Gogarty, and many other leading Revival figures.

See items 54 & 55. 55. COLUM, Padraic. The King of Son. Illustrations and decorations by Willy Pogany. London: Harrap, 1920. First edition. pp. [viii], 316. Green cloth, titled in dark green on upper cover and spine. Rebound with original cloth mounted. A very good copy. Scarce. €75 56. COLUM, Padraic. Images of Departure. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1969. First edition. pp. 35. Green papered boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in price-clipped dust jacket. Scarce. €45 57. COMERFORD, Rev. M. Collections relating to the Dioceses of Kildare and Leighlin. Illustrated. Three volumes. Dublin and London: James Duffy, (1883/86). pp. (1) viii, 340, (2) vi, 356, (3) iv, 419. Bound at the Freeman's Journal Limited Bookbinding Works (with their ticket on front pastedown) in mauve blind-stamped pebbled cloth, titles in gilt on spines. Light fading to spine of volume one. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper, neat stamp of Whitehall House, Graig-na-Managh. A fine set. €295 58. [COMYN, David] A Catalogue of Books and Mss. on the Language, History & Archaeology of Ireland, from the library of the late David Comyn, M.R.I.A. presented to the National Library of Ireland, as the Comyn Bequest. Dublin: 1907. pp. [ii], 98. Blue cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. A very good copy. Scarce. €375 David Comyn, Gaelic scholar, born in Clare in 1853, was the first editor of the Gaelic Journal, founded in 1882. He published Irish Illustrations to Shakespeare 1894, and translated the first volume of Keating's History of Ireland for the . 59. [COPPINGER, William] Polemic Catechism of John James Scheffmacher. Translated by William Coppinger Roman Catholic Bishop in the Diocese of Cloyne & Ross. Cork: John Hennessy, French-Church Street Press, 1830. pp. xii, 180, + errata. Quarter green cloth over grey papered boards, title on paper label on spine. Paper repair to titlepage. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €375 COPAC locates 4 copies only. WorldCat 1. The appendix: Ancient Religious and Literary Establishments in Ireland, pp. 161-180, is by Eneas M'Donnell. Errata slip tipped in after p. 180. 60. [CORK'S FIGHTING STORY] Rebel Cork's Fighting Story from 1916 to the Truce with Britain. Illustrated. Tralee: Kerryman, n.d. (c.1947). pp. 208. Pictorial wrappers. A fine copy. €85 61. COSGROVE, Art. & McCARTNEY, Donal. Ed. by. Studies in Irish History Presented to R. Dudley Edwards. Dublin: University College Dublin, Dublin, 1979. pp;. [8], 253. Red arlen,

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Catalogue 140 title in gilt on spine. With notes on rear endpaper by the Historian, Ronan Fanning. A fine copy in dust jacket. €95 With chapters on: Hiberniores Ipsis Hibernis; 'Manus the Magnificent': O'Donnell as Renaissance Prince; Confusion abounding: Bernard O'Higgin, O.S.A, ; The Social and Cultural Background of a Counter-Reformation Episcopate, 1618-60; Rural Society in Post-Cromwellian Ireland; The Church of Ireland and the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688; The Development of the National School System, 1831-40; Fr. Mathew: Apostle of Moderation; Gallicanism at Maynooth; Archbishop Cullen and the Royal Visitation of 1853; National Politics and Local Realities in Mid- Nineteenth Century Ireland; Charles Bradlaugh and the Irish Question; Gladstone, Irish Violence and Conciliation; The Irish Policy of Asquith's Government and the Cabinet Crisis of 1910; De Valera's Mission to the United States, 1919-20, etc. 62. COSTELLO, Nuala. John MacHale. . Portrait frontispiece. Dublin: Talbot, 1939. pp. 159. Red cloth, titled in gilt. A very good copy in pictorial dust jacket. €45 63. [COSTER, Lourens Janszoon] The Haarlem Legend of The Invention of Printing by Lourens Janszoon Coster, critically examined by Dr. A. Van Der Line. From the Dutch by J.H. Hessels, with an introduction, and a classified list of the Costerian incunabula. London: Blades, East, & Blades, 1871. pp. xxvii, 170. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards with original wrappers bound in, title in gilt on spine. Armorial bookplate of Lindsay on front pastedown. Top edge gilt. A fine copy. Scarce. €175 THE ABOMINATIONS OF DERRYCOOSH 64. COULTER, Henry. The West of Ireland: its Existing Condition, and Prospects. Illustrated with thirty-four lithographic plates (some coloured) and one folding map. Dublin: Hodges & Smith, 1862. pp. xii, 372, 20 (Adverts). Pebbled green cloth, title in gilt on spine, and Britannia in gilt on upper cover and in blind on lower. Some light spotting to a few plates. Lacking the telegraph map, as usual. Stamp of Patrick O Gorman Tullaroan, Kilkenny on front and rear flyleaves. A very good copy. Scarce. €475

Woods 151. This work contains the letters of the special correspondent of 'Saunders' News-Letter from the West of Ireland, in relation to the condition and prospects of the people, consequent upon the partial failure of agricultural produce. Travelling extensively throughout the western seaboard counties from Clare to Galway, Mayo through and up to Donegal Coulter gives a graphic description of the social condition of the peasantry, state of the country, workhouses, distress of the small-holders, liberality of the local gentry and landlords, and 'Gombeen' Men, emigration, fisheries, etc. On his way from Westport to Castlebar he passed through the village of Cloonkeen: "There are many instances,

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however, of lands being held in rundale on joint lease where the tenants have been comfortable and prosperous … Cloonkeen, a village on Lord Lucan's estate, is an example of this kind. It goes by the soubriquet of 'Cabbage Town', from the immense quantity of that excellent vegetable cultivated there; but the inhabitants are not pleased at the name, and any stranger who ventured to utter aloud the obnoxious epithet in the hearing of the villagers would probably find himself assailed with a shower of cabbage-stalks." The tenant farmers here kept a large number of milch cows, and carry on a most profitable trade by supplying the towns with milk, butter, and cabbage. "There is another rundale village, called Derrycoosh, about three miles from Castlebar, on the Newport road, which exhibits in an exaggerated form all the characteristics of the village I have just described. The cottages are built most irregularly, here, there, and everywhere – some parallel with the road, others at right angles with it. The walls are black, green, and brown – in short, every colour but white; there is scarcely a clean thatch to be seen; every cabin has its pond of liquid and its heap of solid manure directly opposite and within a few feet of the door; the road through the village is ankle deep in mud; and pigs, poultry, and children are to be seen running about in every direction. Words fail to convey an adequate idea of the filthy and disorderly appearance which this village presents. So bad it is, that a road is actually in course of construction for the purpose of avoiding the abominations of Derrycoosh." 65. [COX, Sir Richard] A Letter to His G---e the D---e of B-----d. London: Printed for P. Herbek, near Fountain-Court in the Strand, 1757. pp. 47, [1]. Disbound. Tears to bottom left corners of first seven leaves with no loss of text, otherwise a very good copy. €245 ESTC T243. Black 321. The author of this letter was a Corkman, Sir Richard Cox, 2nd Baronet (1702-1766). He was Sheriff of Cork City in 1742. The letter was addressed to John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, (1710-1771). Known as Lord John Russell, he became Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1756 and favoured a relaxation of the . 66. A COSMOPOLITE [S. Reynolds Hole] The Sportsman in Ireland. A New Edition with illustrations (some in colour) by P. Chenevix Trench. London: Arnold, 1897. pp. xvii, 306. Contemporary half red morocco on pebbled cloth boards. Slight wear to corners. All edges gilt. A very good copy. €175 This work contains lively descriptions of travel in search of sport, chiefly angling, in the West of Ireland, interspersed with interesting and amusing anecdotes illustrating the character of the people and the history of the districts visited. The illustrations admirably catch the spirit of the work, which forms one of the most entertaining accounts of sport ever published. 67. CROSS, Tom Peete. Motif-Index of . New York: Kraus for Indiana University, 1969. pp. xx, 537. Maroon buckram, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. A fine copy. €45 The author tells us in his preface: "This index is intended primarily for the use of students of folklore and customs and comparative literature. To this end, the references to early Irish or Hiberno-Latin sources are frequently supplemented by references to modern scholarly works in which Motifs found in Celtic are cited for purposes of comparative study in various fields of literary or cultural history, such as medieval romance. A few references to early Welsh documents have also been added ... ." 68. [CUNARD LINE] Cunard. First Line to raise the Irish Flag. Single page advertising leaflet, 266 x 159mm, folded in three. Illustrated. N.p. [Cunard Line], 1923. Agent's signature on upper cover and initials on lower. Very good. €45 "The Cunard liner 'Carmania' claims the distinction of being the first visiting ship to fly the new Irish flag in an Irish port" - The Journal of Commerce, New York, June 21, 1923. "There being little or no winter in Ireland, it is a good country to visit any time of the year." 69. [CURRAN, John Philpot] A Letter to The Right Honourable Edmund Burke, on the Present State of Ireland. Dublin: Chambers, No. 5, Abbey-Street, 1795. pp. 50. Original pale blue stitched wrappers. Inscribed on titlepage in ink 'by Mr. Curran.' A very good copy. €375 COPAC locates 7 copies only. ESTC T169965.

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John Philpot Curran (1750-1817), was a prominent lawyer and anti-Unionist. He defended some of the leading United Irishmen including Theobald , Napper Tandy, the Sheares Brothers, Hamilton Rowan, William Drennan and Oliver Bond. His daughter, Sarah Curran, was the fiancée of Robert Emmet whose defence Curran refused. In 1797 he was condemned as "the leading advocate of every murderer, ruffian and low villain". He was appointed Master of the Rolls in 1807 and held this post until 1814. He married in 1774, to his cousin Sarah Creagh, the daughter of Richard Creagh, a physician. His eldest daughter Amelia was born in 1775, and eight more children resulted from the union, but his marriage disintegrated, his wife eventually deserting him and eloping with Reverend Abraham Sandys, whom Curran sued afterwards for criminal conversation in 1795. His youngest daughter Sarah's romance with the rebel Robert Emmet, who was hanged for treason in 1803, scandalised Curran, who had tried to split them up. He was arrested and agreed to pass their correspondence on to Standish O'Grady, 1st Viscount Guillamore, the Attorney General for Ireland. In the circumstances he could not defend Emmet. He was suspected with involvement in Emmet's Rebellion, but was completely exonerated. However, his friend Lord Kilwarden was killed by the rebels, and he lost any faith in the beliefs of the United Irishmen. He disowned Sarah, who died of tuberculosis five years later. In Dublin, he was a member of Daly's Club. Byron wrote of him: "The riches of his Irish imagination were exhaustless. I have heard that man speak more poetry than I have ever seen written." 70. CURTIS, Edmund & McDOWELL, R.B. Ed. by. Irish Historical Documents 1172-1922. New York: Barnes & Noble. London: Methuen, 1968. Second edition. pp. [iv], 331. Blue cloth titled in gilt on spine. A fine copy. €50 71. DAHL, Louis H. The Roman Camp and the Irish Saint at Burgh Castle. With local history. Illustrated. London: Jarrold, 1913. pp. viii, 248. Red cloth, titled in gilt on upper cover and spine. Ex lib. A very good copy. €45 Burgh Castle is the site of one of several Roman forts constructed in England around the 3rd century to hold cavalry as a defence against Saxon raids up the rivers of the east and south coasts of southern Britain. It is located on the summit of ground sloping steeply towards the estuary of the River Waveney, in the civil parish of Burgh Castle, in the county of Norfolk. This fort was possibly known as Gariannonum, although the single record that describes it as such may also mean the Roman site at Caister-on-Sea. Between the mid-7th and 9th centuries the site was possibly occupied by a monastic settlement, and in the 11th and 12th centuries a Norman motte and bailey castle existed there. Burgh Castle has been suggested as the site of "'Cnobheresburg'', the unknown place (a castrum or fort) in East Anglia, where in about 630 the first Irish monastery in southern England was founded by Saint Fursey as part of the Hiberno-Scottish mission described by . Historians find many arguments against this location, but are unable to agree on a better one. 72. DALRYMPLE, Gilbert. A Letter from Edinburgh to Dr. Sherlock, Rectifying the Committee's Notions of Sincerity. Defending the Whole of the B. of Bangor's Doctrine. And Maintaining that Religion, not a Profession of it, is Religion; That The Gospel, not a Corruption of it, is the Gospel, That Christ, not the Church, is Christ. In which is An Apology for the English Dissenters with a word or two relating to Mr. Toland. The fourth edition with a preface and notes. London: Printed for J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane, A. Dodd without Temple Bar, and J. Fox in Westminster-Hall, 1719. pp. 48. Recent quarter calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €85 This is a pamphlet usually ascribed to George Legh in answer to another by Henry Stebbings in the series of attacks and defences of Benjamin Hoadley (1676-1761). Hoadley, was the spokesman for the Latitudinarians (those tolerant of Non-Conformists) in the Anglican Church especially in his Persuasive to Lay Conformity (1704) and in his sermon delivered after his as Bishop of Bangor The Nature of the Kingdom or Church of Christ (1717). This set off the so-called Bangorian controversy, with more than a thousand pamphlets published in the following years. He was consistently attacked by more orthodox High-Church men like and, interestingly, defended by deists like John Toland. The printer John Roberts was one of those often associated with publications by Toland especially in the period 1710-22. 73. DAVIES, Sir John. Historical Tracts: Consisting of 1: A Discovery of the true cause why Ireland was never brought under obedience of the Crown of England. 2: A Letter to the Earl of

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Salisbury on the State of Ireland, in 1607. 3: A Letter to the Earl of Salisbury, in 1610; giving an account of the Plantation in Ulster. 4: A Speech to the Lord Deputy in 1613, tracing the Ancient . To which is prefixed a New Life of the Author, from authentic documents. Dublin: Printed by William Porter for Mess. White, Gilbert, Byrne, Whitestone, W. Porter, and Moore, 1787. pp. [iv], xxxviii, 313. Contemporary full calf, spine with original morocco letterpiece. Spine also with some wear. Armorial bookplate and signature of John Grogan, 18 Light Dragoons, of Healthfield. Joints worn and upper joints starting but very firm. A very good copy. Scarce. €175 ESTC T134678. Donoghue p.79. Sir John Davies was Attorney General and speaker of the House of Commons in Ireland. 74. DAVIS, Thomas. Literary and Historical Essays. Duffy's Library Series. Dublin: James Duffy, 1846. pp. x, 11-252. Pictorial worn wrappers. Rare in this binding. €45 No copy located in COPAC. 75. DAVIS, Thomas. The Irish Confederation. No. 2. Letters of a Protestant, on Repeal. Edited by Thomas P. Meagher. Dublin: Printed for the Irish Confederation, by William Holden, 1847. pp. vii, [i], [1], 10-36. Disbound. €65 Goldsmiths'-Kress 34938. COPAC locates 3 copies. 76. DAVITT, Michael. Leaves From a Prison Diary; or, Lectures to a 'Solitary' Audience. In two volumes. London: Chapman and Hall, 1885. First edition. pp. (1) xv, 251, (2) x, 256. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good set. €265 Michael Davitt, (1846-1906), 'The Father of the Land League' was born at Straide, County Mayo. His father was a member of a secret agrarian society and at the age of six he saw his family evicted in 1852 during the clearances that followed the Great Famine. They emigrated to Lancashire, where Michael was employed on a cotton mill; at the age of eleven his arm was badly injured by a machine and had to be amputated just below the shoulder. He joined the I.R.B. and in 1870 was arrested for his involvement in arms trafficking on a charge of treason-felony, and was sentenced to fifteen years penal servitude. Due to degrading and inhuman conditions in prison and ill health, he was released seven years later. He later wrote an account of his experiences in the book on offer here Leaves from a Prison Diary. On Saturday 16th August 1879 in James Daly's Hotel (now known as the Imperial Hotel), Castlebar, the Land League was founded. His Fall of Feudalism in Ireland narrates the ways and means by which a revolution on the lines of passive resistance was accomplished. How men and women of Ireland, scattered all over the globe by eviction and evils of unsympathetic rule in Ireland were 'enlisted' in the final struggle for the land and rule of the Celtic fatherland. It shows how the generosity of the at home and abroad raised one million pounds to fight the evils of landlordism, to subsidise the evicted families and uphold the cause of Irish self-determination. He was only 24 years when he was imprisoned as a convicted felon for terrorist activities. Yet, Davitt learned from such adversity while in prison. He came to the conclusion, as he records in this tome that violence was self defeating, and that membership of an underground, armed conspiracy merely invited the counter-productive attention of State agents infiltrating the movement and recruiting informers. 77. DEARMER, Percy. Highways and Byways in Normandy. By Percy Dearmer M.A. With illustrations by Joseph Pennell. London: Macmillan, 1900. First edition. pp. xiv, [2], 368. Bound by Riviere in half crushed green levant morocco on green cloth boards. Title and author in gilt direct in the second and third panels of spine, the remainder tooled in gilt with a tortoise. Corners bumped. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. €150 78. DE BHALDRAITHE, Tomas. Ed. by. English-Irish Dictionary. Dublin: Oifig an TSolathair, June, 1959. pp. xii, 864. Blue buckram, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Previous owner's stamp on front endpaper. A fine copy. €45 79. DE BREFFNY, Brian. Ed. by. The Irish World. The History and Cultural Achievements of the Irish People. With 340 illustrations, 62 in colour, 278 photographs, drawings and a map. Texts by E. Estyn Evans, Kathleen Hughes, Roger Stalley, Brian de Breffny, Rosemary ffolliott, Anne Crookshank, Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh, Phillip l. Marcus, Jeanne Sheehy, William Shannon, and Kevin B. Nowlan. London: Thames and Hudson, 1977. Quarto. pp. 296. Green papered boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in illustrated dust jacket. €75

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80. DE BURCA, Seamus. The Soldier's Song. The story of . Illustrated. Dublin: P.J. Bourke, 1958. pp. 255. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. €45 Peadar Kearney (1883-1942), was the author of the Irish national anthem. Born in Dublin, an uncle of , grew up in Dolphin's Barn and was educated at Model School, Schoolhouse Lane and Marino CBS. He left school at fourteen and worked in a variety of jobs. He joined the Gaelic League in 1901 and became a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood in 1903. In 1907 he wrote the words of The Soldier's Song, and his friend Patrick Heeney, wrote the music. It became the marching song of the and in 1926 became our national anthem. He also wrote other popular songs including Down by the Glen Side, The Three Coloured Ribbon, etc. 81. DE COURCY IRELAND, Dr. John. The Admiral from Mayo. A Life of Almirante William Brown of Foxford, Father of the Argentine Navy. With coloured frontispiece, numerous illustrations and maps. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, for Edmund Burke Publisher, 1995. Blue papered boards, title in silver on spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Very scarce. €125 William Brown was born in Foxford, County Mayo in 1777. He pursued a career as a merchant seaman. Drawn into the maelstrom of Latin American politics in the dying days of the Spanish Empire, he to become one of the founding fathers of a new nation, Argentina, born from the bitter struggle of the people of the Plate Estuary to wrest democratic institutions and political independence from the decaying tyranny of colonial Spanish rule. A quintessential seaman, Brown was happiest on the deck of his ship, and his success in leading his crews to victory against enormous odds was founded on his constant concern for their welfare. In spite of his incredible record of naval success in a whole series of campaigns, Brown had to endure persecution, trial and imprisonment not once but several times in consequence of political intrigue. Nor did he forget the land of his birth, returning in the darkest days of the Famine to give money for relief and supporting O'Connell's campaign against the Union. The story of his dramatic and inspiring life, and the personal qualities that led him through every adversity to a tranquil and revered old age, is here told for Irish readers for the first time, in a book that crowns John de Courcy Ireland's life-long interest in the sea and its affairs. 82. DENNEHY, The Late Venerable Archdeacon. History of Great Island, Ancient Cove and Modern Queenstown. Being the Substance of a Lecture. Revised, Annotated and Supplemented by James Coleman. Illustrated. Cork: Guy & Son, 1923. Second impression. pp. xii, 110, 32 (plates). Quarter blue linen on blue printed boards. Previous owner's signature on frontispiece. A well read copy. €75 83. DE VERNULZ, Nicolas. Nicolai Vernulaei De Propagatione Fidei Christianae in Belgio Per Sanctos ex Hibernia Viros Liber. Louanii: Apud Iacobum Zegers, 1639. 16mo. pp. [8], 90, [4 (index)]. Engraved title. Nineteenth century full green morocco, covers decorated with a wide geometrical gilt roll, title in gilt along spine. Ex libris William O'Brien Milltown Park Trust, with bookplate and stamp. All edges gilt. A fine copy. Extremely rare. €1,350

COPAC locates the QUB copy only. WorldCat 2. Sweeney 5381. Not in NLI or TCD.

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According to Tony Sweeney this is an extremely rare book and a copy of this work dealing with the evangelising of Belgium by Irish Saints is to be found in the Gilbert Library, Dublin. Nicolas de Vernulz (later Latinized Nicolaus Vernulaeus), (1583-1649) was a professor at the University of Leuven and an important Neo-Latin playwright. He was born at Robelmont, near Virton in the Duchy of Luxembourg in 1583. He studied at the University of Cologne, matriculating in 1601 and graduating Master of Arts. In 1610 he succeeded Jean-Baptiste Gramaye as Public Professor of Eloquence at the University of Louvain. In 1618 he took the degree of Licentiate of Sacred Theology in Louvain, and in 1619 became the first president of the newly opened Luxembourg College at the university. In 1646 he succeeded Erycius Puteanus as Professor of Latin at the Collegium Trilingue and was named councillor and imperial historiographer to Ferdinand III. He died in Louvain in 1649. He was a prolific writer and wrote several plays, orations, panegyrics and scholarly historical works. 84. DILLON, John. The Irish Election, 1921. The Nationalist Position. Statement By Mr. John Dillon. Dublin: Printed by Browne & Nolan, Ltd. n.d. (c.1921). pp. 12. Stapled printed wrappers. In very good condition. €75 Mr. John Dillon issued the following Statement in connection with the Irish Elections in May, 1921:- "For some time friends of mine and supporters of the National Party have consulted me as to whether, in my opinion, it would be right to put forward any Nationalist candidates in the approaching elections for the Dublin Parliament, and it seems to me that I ought to state publicly the reasons why I have advised my friends not to take any part in the Southern elections ... ." SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY WITH ALS 85. DILLON, P.J. Australian . London: Women's Printing Society, Ltd., Brick Street, Piccadilly, n.d. (c.1918). pp. vii, 118, [1]. Brown cloth, title in gilt on spine. Presentation copy "To Frank MacDonagh Esq With Kindest regards / P.J. Dillon / 15.7.18." With ALS letter dated 6th Feb. 1914 signed by P.J. Dillon loosely inserted. Some fading to lower margin of cover and spine, otherwise a good copy. €125 "Dear M. MacDonagh, Having decided to make an attempt to get into the charmed circle of the Irish Literary Society, I have presumed to mention your name as that of a possible 'proposer'. A gentleman whom I casually met in the Room yesterday very kindly volunteered to 'second' my candidature - his name is McQuaid I think. Trusting that you will pardon my temerity in the matter, With kindest regards, Yours sincerely PJ Dillon." 86. [DIONYSIUS] Dionysiou Oikoumenes Periegesis Dionysii Orbis Descriptio: Commentario Critico & Geographico (in Quo Controversiae Pleraeque Quae in Veteri Geographia Occurrunt Explicantur, & Obscura Plurima Elucidantur) AC Tabulis Illustrata. A Guilielmo Hill A.M. Collegii Merton in Academia Oxoniensi olim Socio; Jam vero Gymnasiarcha Dubliniensi. With eight folding maps. London: Typis M. Clark, Impensis J. Martyn ad Insigne Campanae in Coemeterio D. Pauli, 1679. pp. [8], 472. Separate title for 'Grammaticarum' dated 1678, continuous pagination. Contemporary full vellum, titled in manuscript on spine. Some small traces of early worming to some margins. Early signature scribbled over on titlepage. A very good copy. €575 Wing (2nd ed., 1994) / D1521. Dionysius Periegetes (Διονύσιος ὁ Περιηγητής, literally Dionysius the Voyager or Traveller, often Latinized to Dionysius Periegeta) was the author of a description of the then-known world in Greek hexameter verse. He is believed to have been from Alexandria and to have lived around the time of Hadrian, though some date his lifetime as late as the end of the third century. The work enjoyed popularity in ancient times as a schoolbook. It was translated into Latin by Rufus Festus Avienus, and by the grammarian Priscian. In translation, it has to be said, it gained as well as lost in that it now contains material of which Dionysius could have had no knowledge. Because of the brevity of some of his entries, notably that dealing with Ireland, the translator made his own additions to the text and thus he writes "Ea longe copiosiores equos parit. atque eos eiusmodi: ut nõ videant nisi quodam suavissimo incessu deambulare a natura didicisse: ac cü quadã quasi modulatione progredi more regio". This can be

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construed as the first published advertisement for the merits of the Irish horse and was surely prompted by reports of horse purchases of which Beccaria would have heard, as these were made in Ireland in the mid-15th century by the duke of Ferrara's agent. 87. DOHERTY, William James. Inis-Owen and Tirconnell. Being some account of Antiquities and Writers of the County of Donegal. Second series. Illustrated. Dublin: Traynor, 1895. pp. [xii], 609. Brown cloth, titled in gilt. Publisher's device blind-stamped on both covers. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Light wear to spine. A very good copy. Very scarce. €295 88. DONOUGHMORE, Richard Earl of. The Speech of the Earl of Donoughmore, on the 6th of June, 1810, Upon His Motion for Referring the Petitions of the Irish Catholics to a Committee, and the Substance of His Lordship's Reply on that Occasion; to which are added Copies of Some Documents Referred to in the Speech. London: Printed for J. Booker 1810. Octavo. pp. 103, [1]. Contemporary half red morocco over papered boards. Title in gilt on red morocco label on upper cover. With bequest label on front pastedown 'This Book was left to Lord Donoughmore by Mrs. Margaret Hely-Hutchinson, the daughter-in-law of the Honble. Christopher Hely-Hutchinson, son of the first Lady Donoughmore and of the Rt. Honble. John Hely-Hutchinson. Mrs. Hely- Hutchinson died at Brighton on the 5th of May, 1909'. In very good condition. €375 COPAC and WorldCat locates 2 copies only. Provenance: From the library of the late Patrick King. 89. DOYLE, Lynn. The Spirit of Ireland. Coloured frontispiece by Paul Henry. Illustrated from photographs and from drawings by Brian Cook. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, London: B.T. Batsford, 1936. pp. viii, 120. Modern green half calf over linen boards, spine lavishly tooled in gilt; marbled endpapers; red, green and white endbands. Top edge gilt. Spine evenly faded. A fine copy. €125

RICHARD DOYLE'S MASTERPIECE 90. DOYLE, Richard and ALLINGHAM, William. In Fairyland: 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. 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

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1869 to write verses to accompany Doyle's series of pictures. See illustration above. 91. [DROMGOOLE, Dr.] The Speech of Doctor Dromgoole, a Physician, at the Catholic Board, in Dublin, on Wednesday, the 8th December, 1813; With Commentary by a Protestant of Ireland. A New Edition. Oxford: Printed and Sold by Munday and Slatter, 1820. pp. iv, 43, [1]. Disbound. A very good copy. €225 COPAC locates 4 copies only. Bradshaw 5680. No copy located on WorldCat. New edition, evidently the first British edition. First published in Dublin, then Belfast, both in 1813. None of the obvious print or digital references identify the Protestant Commentator. Thomas Dromgoole, M.D. (1750?-1826?), physician was born in Ireland somewhere about the middle of the eighteenth century, and took his medical degree at the University of Edinburgh. He settled as a physician in Dawson Street, Dublin, and became a prominent member of the Catholic Board, which met at the beginning of the century to further the cause of Catholic emancipation. Dromgoole was an anti-vetoist, that is, he was opposed to the purchase of freedom for the Catholics at the price of giving the government a veto in the appointment of their bishops. In 1813 he made some vigorous speeches on the subject, overthrowing Grattan's contention in the House of Commons that the veto was approved in Ireland, and materially contributing to the temporary defeat of the Catholic Emancipation Bill. In the following year his speeches were published, together with an anonymous "Vindication", said by Mr. W. J. Fitzpatrick to have been written by Dr. Lanigan, who also, according to the same authority, was the real author of the speeches, though they were "enunciated through the ponderous trombone of Dromgoole's nasal twang." Sheil, describing Dromgoole's mode of emphasising the end of each sentence in his speeches by knocking loudly on the ground with a heavy stick, spoke of him as "a kind of rhetorical paviour." He was satirised by Dr. Brennan under the name of 'Dr. Drumsnuffle,' and was at last driven into exile, ending his days at Rome under the shadow of the Vatican. 92. DRUDY, P.J. Ed. by. Anglo-Irish Studies 1975-1979. An Interdisciplinary Journal. Four volumes. Cambridge: Alpha Academic, 1975/1979. Buckram, titled in silver. Loosely inserted is a letter from the editor. P.J. Drudy, on University of Dublin headed paper dated 30 November 1981 to Dr. TK Whitaker, thanking him for his "Personal subscription in 1975 was in fact very generous and greatly appreciated." A very good set. €85 Anglo-Irish Studies is devoted to the study of Irish and Anglo-Irish culture and learning. It attempts to complement rather than duplicate the work of existing periodicals. The first volume consists of lectures given to Cambridge University Hibernian Society and includes articles on , Irish Education, Daniel Maclise, Irish Politics, Yeats' Early Drama, Placename Research in Ireland. The other volumes contain articles on: The Fall of Parnell; Patterns of Language and Ritual in Sean O'Casey's Drama; Priest and Artist in Joyce's Early Fiction; Irish Periodicals from the Union to the Nation; The Advocacy of Passive Resistance in Ireland 1916-1922; An Anthropological Perspective on Land in Western Ireland; Defence of Brendan Behan's 'The Hostage'; The Seanachie's Voice in Three Stories by Frank O'Connor; Prejudice and Tolerance in Ireland; The Hidden Ireland of Irish Landlords; W.B. Yeats and Celtic Ireland, etc. 93. [DUBLIN FUSILIERS] A Collection of Royal Dublin Fusiliers Photographs. Four photographs of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers including Marching to Chapel; Battalion Parade; The Royal Military College front view; B. Company Mess. Circa 1911. Each 150 x 108mm. Together with: four small photographs of scenes in India including Lieutenant H.M. Flood at Papinakavhalli - captioned Bellary 1913. In very good condition. Together with: Group photograph of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers Xmas 1908, 288 x 210mm. Captioned on mount 'A Group of R.M.C. Cadets Xmas 1908'. In very good condition. Together with: Photograph of Four Officers including Captain G.M. Docker 7th Fusiliers. 180 x 145mm. Mounted with caption 'F. Coy. Officers.' In very good condition. €675

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These photographs came from an album put together by Lieutenant H. M. Floyd of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers from his days at the Royal Military College. 94. [DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE] "Signs of the Times;" extracted from the Dublin University Magazine for January, 1847. Dublin: James McGlashan, 21, D'Olier-Street, 1847. pp. 16. Stitched. A fine copy. Scarce. €75 COPAC locates 1 copy only. This article laments the perceived rise of Catholics in Irish society and the corresponding lack of support for Protestants and the Established Church. "The Romanist schools, which predominate in the south and the west, are the instruments of Popery; in the north of Ireland they are as just as exclusively Presbyterian. We will suppose the children well instructed in reading, writing, and arithmetic, and, in each class of schools, imbibing the predilections of those by whom they are instructed." DUBLIN'S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM 95. DUBLIN'S FIGHTING STORY Dublin's Fighting Story 1916-1921. Told by the men who made it. With a unique pictorial record of the period. Tralee: The Kerryman, 1947. pp. 226. Pictorial wrappers. A fine copy. €75 96. DUFFY, Sir Charles Gavan. The Price of Peace in Ireland. A Letter to His Excellency The Earl of Carnarvon. With some extracts from "An Appeal to the Conservative Party". Dublin: Hodges and Figgis, & London: James Duffy, n.d. [1885]. pp. 25. Some foxing and spotting, otherwise very good in original printed wrappers. Very scarce. €75 COPAC locates 4 copies. Not in Bradshaw or Gilbert. 97. [DUNDALK ANNUAL] Tempest's Centenary Dundalk Annual Survey and Records 1859 to 1959. Illustrated. Dundalk: Printed and Published by the Dundalgan Press [W. Tempest] Ltd., 1959. Tall octavo. pp. 26 (adverts), 138, [6], 42. [76 (photographs)]. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. €65 A most useful and interesting compilation, covering the history of the town, biographical notes, personalities, sport, music, drama, building, local administration, church history etc., and with over 70 pages of photographic plates of Dundalk personalities old and new. Tributes printed included one from Colm Ó Lochlainn at the Sign of the Three Candles. 98. DUNLEVY, Mairead. Dress in Ireland. With 129 illustrations and 8 colour plates. London: Batsford, 1989. Quarto. pp. 192. Red papered boards, title in gilt on spine. Owner's signature on titlepage. A very good copy in pictorial dust jacket. Scarce. €95 This is the first authoritative work on the History of Irish dress, lavishly illustrated and based on original research on primary sources, the book examines in detail the story of Irish costume from the Bronze Age to the twentieth century. Much adverse comment has been made over the centuries about the Irish style of dressing, usually by English commentators, ranging from distaste at the poverty it reflected, to annoyance at those Irish people who were inclined 'to dress above their station'. The English conquerors has always been thwarted in their attempts to impose their code of dress upon the defiant cultural heritage of the Gaeil. Even Henry VIII failed with his stringent laws forbidding the wearing of the Irish mantle and the use of the distinctively Irish dye, saffron.

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Throughout the book Mairead Dunlevy draws together contemporary illustrations and commentaries, literature and remarkable extant costumes, the oldest dating from 750 BC, to create a living picture of dress in Ireland. 99. [DUNRAVEN, Earl of] Manuscript - Earl of Dunraven Pantry Account with James Herbert & Sons. Tea and Coffee Merchants, Grocers. Provisions, Italian Warehousemen and Wine Merchants. 51a Upper Berkeley Street, Portman Square, London. W. For the year 1927. Six pages of entries listing items purchased and price due. Bound in black papered boards, merchant's name and address stamped in gilt on upper cover. Merchant's stamp and postage stamp after each month. In fine condition. €65 100. DUNTON, John. The Life and Errors of John Dunton, Citizen of London. With the Lives and Characters of More Than a Thousand Contemporary Divines and Other Persons of Literary Eminence, to Which Are Added Dunton's Conversation in Ireland. Selections from His Other Genuine Works and a Faithful Portrait of the Author. Two volumes, complete set. New York: Burt Franklin, 1969 [Originally Published 1818]. pp. (1) xxxii, xx, [21], 22-413, (2) [iv], 413- 773. Green cloth, titled in gilt. A fine set. €85 Dunton started his career in London as a 14 year old apprentice to the bookseller Thomas Parkhurst. In 1685 he went to New England, remaining there for much of 1686. Moving back to England in 1688 he prospered for a time as a publisher and bookseller, before turning in his later years to authorship and journalism. His somewhat eccentric and engaging autobiography casts much light on literary London and Dublin in the late seventeenth century, and includes many character sketches of figures involved in the trade. Arundell Esdaile described the book as "full not only of solid information but of the most delightful absurdities." 101. EDGEWORTH, Maria. Belinda. Illustrated by Chris Hammond. With an introduction by Anne Thackeray Ritchie. Illustrated. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1896. pp. 485. Red patterned cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. €65 102. EDWARDS, Ruth Dudley. . The Triumph of Failure. London: Victor Gollancz, 1977. First edition. pp. xv, [3], 384. Brown papered boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. €65 There has always been argument about whether Pearse's leadership of the in 1916 represented a failure or a triumph. Ireland certainly thrives on her martyrs and Pearse, who found himself on Easter Monday proclaimed President of the Provisional Government and Commander-in- Chief of the army of the Republic, took on himself the most bitter of roles at the finish: he was the first to make the move to surrender - and he was the first to be executed. Pearse has an extraordinary reputation in Ireland today (although ironically his father was an Englishman): he is seen popularly as a romantic poet and playwright, educational theorist and political thinker, socialist, nationalist and military leader. 103. [ELIOT, John] An Account of John Eliot, the Friend of the American Indians. Engraved titlepage. Dublin: Printed by Bentham & Hardy, Cecilia-Street, Corner of Temple-lane, 1826. Second edition. pp. 8. Disbound. A very good copy. Scarce. €75 COPAC locates 1 copy only at Trinity College, Dublin. John Eliot (1604-1690) was a Puritan missionary to the American Indians whom some called "the apostle to the Indians". He was born in Widford, Hertfordshire, and attended Jesus College, Cambridge, following which he emigrated to , in 1631. 104. FALKINER, C. Litton. Essays Relating to Ireland, Biographical, Historical and Topographical. With a memoir of the author by Edward Dowden. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1909. pp. xx, 249. Red cloth, title in gilt on spine. With signature of Charles C. Ormsby on front free endpaper. Mild foxing to prelims. A very good copy. €75 The chapters include: Biographical sketches of Spenser in Ireland; Sir John Davis; An Illustrious Cavalier (James Butler, the Great Duke of Ormond); Archbishop Stone and Robert Emmet. Topographical sketches of Dublin, Youghal, Kilkenny, Drogheda, Armagh, and Galway. Studies on the Irish Parliamentary Antiquities; The Succession of the Speakers of the with Biographical Notices of the early Speakers; List of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in the Irish Parliament, 1568-69; John Hooker's Diary, or Journal, January 17 to February 23, 1568-69.

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105. FERGUSON, John. Three Centuries of Irish History. From the Reign of Mary the Catholic to that of Victoria the Protestant. An Unbroken Record of Confiscation and Persecution, mixed with Massacre, and terminating in Extermination by Unjust and Ruinous Taxation. London: Burns Oates & Washbourne, n.d. (c.1896). pp. [ii], 135 (double column). Printed green wrappers. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €125 COPAC locates the TCD copy only. 106. FERGUSON, Sir Samuel. Lays of the Western Gael, and Other Poems. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker, and London: George Bell & Sons, 1897. pp. [ii], 192, [3 (adverts)]. Original blue cloth, gilt decoration on upper cover, title in gilt along spine. A very good copy. €125 Boylan's Dictionary of Irish Biography records that Ferguson's house in Dublin was open to 'everyone interested in Irish art, literature and music'.

See items 103, 105 & 108. 107. FERGUSSON, Sir James. The Curragh Incident. Illustrated. London: Faber and Faber, 1964. First edition. pp. 236. Red cloth, title in gilt on spine. A good copy. €45 Sir James Fergusson, the Keeper of the Records of Scotland, examines in this book some of the unsolved mysteries of the incident at the height of the Irish of early 1914 when 58 cavalry officers, stationed at the Curragh and in Dublin, choose dismissal from the Army rather than the possibility of 'active operations in Ulster'. THE GREATEST DEFENDER OF THEIR RELIGION IN HIS TIME 108. F.G. [Henry Fitzsimon S.J.] Hiberniae sive Antiquioris Scotiae Vindiciae adversus Immoedstam Parecbasim Thomae Dempsteri moderni nuper Editam. In quibus currente calamo innuerae ipsius Dempesteri imposturae & mendacia deteguntur, atq; ipse leui penicillo deingitur, ut intelligat. Antverpiæ: Apud Hermannum Copman, 1621. pp. [iv], 121. Contemporary full mauve morocco, title in gilt on spine. Ex libris William O'Brien Milltown Park Trust, with bookplate and stamp. Minor wear to extremities. All edges gilt. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €1,750 COPAC locates 2 copies only. WorldCat 4. Allison and Rogers 396.1 Sweeney 1940. Henry Fitzsimon (1566-1643), was born in Dublin of Protestant parents. After matriculating at Hart Hall, Oxford, he travelled to the Continent, converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Jesuit in 1592. Afterwards he held the chair of philosophy at Douai. On his return to Ireland he was soon involved in religious disputations, for which he was committed to Dublin Castle. There, we are told, he expressed a desire for exercising his logical faculties, declaring that, "as he was a prisoner, he was like a tied to a stake, and wanted somebody to bait him." , then only in his nineteenth year, took up the gauntlet and proved an able adversary. This was in the year 1599. On gaining his freedom he travelled on the Continent. In 1620 he reached the imperial camp in

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Bohemia, and as army chaplain, went through the campaign, of which he wrote a history. After an exile of twenty-six years he returned to Ireland: "He was a great abetter and encourager of the Rebellion in 1641; but when the rebels began to be subdued, he was obliged to fly for shelter into the woods and mountains, and to skulk from place to place; until at last he died miserably on 1st of February in 1643." Wood remarks that "by his death the Roman Catholics lost a pillar of their church, [he] being esteem'd in the better part of his life a great ornament among them, and the greatest defender of their religion in his time." Dempster's plundering of the of saints on behalf of his beloved Scotland is firmly rejected. The identity of the author of this work has tantalised and teased Irish bibliographers for centuries. One of the foremost candidates, however, for its authorship has to be the Jesuit, Henry Fitzsimon, whose celebrated (thirty-eight page) catalogue of Irish Saints is to be found at the end of 'Hiberniae sive Antiquioris'. Ware states that Fitzsimon also wrote a treatise proving that Ireland was called Scotia, but doubts whether it was ever published. The battle over the nationality of saints had an interesting conclusion, this work as well as Dempster's Scotia illustrior, seu mendicabula repressa, modesta parecbasi Thomae Dempsteri, (Lyon, 1620), incurred the wrath of the censor and were placed in Index of Prohibited Books. 109. [FITZGERALD, Thomas] Poems on Several Occasions. By the Late Reverend Thomas Fitzgerald. Published by his Grandson, the Reverend Thomas Wintour, A.M. Oxford: Printed for the Editor, 1781. pp. xxvi, 148. Half red morocco over marbled boards, title in gilt direct on spine. A very good copy. €275 32 pages of subscribers. From the Nobility and Clergy of the Realm, and including several college professors and students. 110. FITZGIBBON, John Lord Baron. The Speech of the Right Honourable John Lord Baron Fitzgibbon, Lord High Chancellor of Ireland, delivered in the House of Peers on the second reading of the bill for the relief of His Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects, March 13, 1793. Dublin: Printed by T. T. Faulkner, No. 15, Parliament Street, [1793?]. pp. [2], 30. Original blue stitched wrappers. A superb copy. €275 ESTC T203391. John Fitzgibbon (1749-1802), Earl of Clare was born in Donnybrook, the son of a lawyer, originally a Catholic, who had risen from obscurity to eminence, and amassed a large fortune. Educated at T.C.D. and Christ Church, Oxford, John gained a high academic distinction. Called to the Irish bar in 1772, he soon had a very large and lucrative practice. He joined the Munster circuit, where his father's reputation as a careful and painstaking lawyer, and his owning large estates near Limerick, gave him status. He was M.P. for the University of Dublin and later sat for Kilmallock. Attorney General in 1783 and five years later Lord Chancellor of Ireland. In this pamphlet he urges 'your Lordships' to pass the bill on the Irish Roman Catholic question. Fitzgibbon resisted all attempts at reforms in politics, especially those for Catholic relief, and he took a leading role in securing the passage of the Act of Union. "I should be extremely sorry that anything which may fall from me were to flop the progress of this bill: I do believe, after what has passed upon this subject in and Ireland, it may be essential to the momentary peace of the country, that your Lordships should agree to it ... I lament as much as any man, that religious bigotry and religious differences (should prevail amongst us; I very well know they have proved the source of bitter calamity to the people of Ireland, and must necessarily, so long as they exist, retard her progress as a nation, Religious bigotry produced Tyrone's rebellion in the reign of Elizabeth - religious bigotry produced the rebellion in 1641, and the horrid excesses which attended it - religious bigotry produced the rebellion in 1688, and the un-exampled tyrannies and proscriptions of James and his Parliament. And I am sorry to say, and my opinion is formed from general and promiscuous habits of inter-course with the people for more than twenty years, that religious bigotry is at this hour as rank in Ireland as it was at any one period to which I have alluded." When Lord Fitzwilliam, a popular Viceroy, was recalled in 1795, mainly because of Fitzgibbon's influence, a Dublin mob attacked his house. He died in 1802 from effects of a fall from his horse. His funeral was followed by a jeering mob who pelted his remains with dead cats. His grandson, Viscount Fitzgibbon, the last of his line, in the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava in 1854. 111. FITZHENRY, Edna C. Compiled by. Nineteen-Sixteen: An Anthology. Golden Jubilee Edition. Dublin: Browne and Nolan, 1966. pp. 112. Blue buckram, covers elaborately decorated in gilt. Owner's signature on front free endpaper. Top edge blue. A fine copy. €75 With contributions by Yeats; Casement, Plunkett; MacDonagh; Ledwidge; Pearse; A.E.; ; Eva Gore-Booth, Joseph Campbell. Includes: Sixteen Dead Men by W.B. Yeats.

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112. FITZPATRICK, W.J. The Life of Charles Lever. New edition, revised. London: Ward, Lock, n.d. (c.1901). pp. xii, 392, 8 (Publisher's List). Red cloth, titled in gilt. Previous owner's signature on titlepage. Last two leaves of publisher's list with partial loss to margin, not affecting text. Spine faded, wear to extremities. A good copy. Very scarce. €75 "Doctor Fitzpatrick, both as a practical writer, and as one who has made the great men of Ireland his special study, possesses peculiar qualifications for the task. The biography contains a considerable number of anecdotes, and will serve to correct many popular errors with regard to Lever" - Dublin Daily Express. ASSIZES 113. [FLETCHER, Judge] Judge Fletcher's Charge to the Grand Jury of the County of Wexford, in Ireland, at the Summer Assizes, 1814; Containing Superior Advice to the Magistracy, Clergy, Landholders, (but more particularly the Absentee Landholders) of that Kingdom. Bath: Printed and sold by Gye and Son, Market-Place, 1814. pp. 36. Disbound. A very good copy. Rare. €145 No Bath edition located in COPAC. Fletcher began his charge by congratulating the Grand Jury on their county's appearing as peaceful, moral, and sociable as when he first knew it thirty years ago - and improved in wealth, population, and agriculture. He makes this point because descriptions of Wexford have been inaccurate and disturbing in the recent past. He has seen the lower orders annoyed by many causes, in county after county: "Seeing the same facts coming before him, judicially, time after time" in sixteen circuits, he can now publicly state that he has never found "any serious purpose, or settled scheme" of assailing the government or conspiring "with internal rebels, or foreign foes". He outlines the deep-rooted causes that create the evils which really and truly exist. (1) The interaction of rising prices of land and rising profits from large farms. (2) The deluge of paper currency generating the new crime of forging bank- notes, and producing bank failures in every province. (3) A Magistracy over-active in some instances, and quite supine in others (i.e. winking at the armed bands of Orange Men and prosecuting the Ribbon Men). (4) 'Illicit Distillation', a source of the dreadful torrent of evils and crimes that has flowed. AN ATTACK ON MAYNOOTH COLLEGE 114. FLOOD, Peter. Rev. A Letter from the Rev. Peter Flood, D. D President of the R. C. Col. Maynooth, to the Hon. *** ****, M. P. London, relative to a pamphlet, entitled "A Fair representation of the Present Political State of Ireland," by Patrick Duigenan, L.L.D. &c. Dublin: Printed by H. Fitzpatrick, No. 2, Upper Ormond-Quay, 1800. Second edition. pp. 17, [1]. Original pale blue stitched wrappers. A fine copy. €575 COPAC locates 10 copies only. WorldCat 1. ESTC T177470. Edition statement from head of titlepage. Rev. Dr. Peter Flood (d. 1803), was President of St. Patrick's College, Maynooth. In this letter Flood attacks Duigenan's Pamphlet: "You are pleased Sir, to think, me personally called upon to notice the author's indecent and unprovoked Philippic against the R.C. College my silence, you fear, might be misconstrued into a tacit acquiescence in the charges ... The public here are in full possession of all facts relevant to this establishment; and the writer's imputations are so incoherent, so contradictory, and notoriously false, that they shame even the most malignant credulity ... ." 115. FOX, R.M. The History of the . Frontispiece. Dublin: Duffy, 1943. First edition. pp. ix, 241. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Owner's signature on front endpaper. Some mild toning to margin of pages. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €85 The Irish Citizen Army was founded on 23rd November 1913 by Jim Larkin, James Connolly and Jack White. It consisted of a small group of trained trade union volunteers from the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union, with their headquarter at Liberty Hall. 116. FOX-DAVIES, Arthur Charles. The Book of Public Arms. A Complete Encyclopaedia of all Royal, Territorial, Municipal, Corporate, Official, and Impersonal Arms. A new edition containing over 1300 drawings. London: Jack, 1915. Small folio. pp. xx, 876, [3]. Modern half calf on cloth boards. A very good copy. €125 117. [FRANKLIN'S WAX, SOAP] Franklin's, Wholesale & Retail Wax, Soap & Patent Candle Manufactory, 12 Trinity Street, Dublin. Receipt for soaps and candles dated June 3rd, 1823. Orders carefully packed & sent to any part of the Kingdom. 153 x 185mm. With two pinholes. In fine condition. €95

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118. FRASER, G.G. The Moonlighters. The Story of a Raid for Arms. Illustrated by the author. London: Hildesheimer & Faulkner and New York: Geo C. Whitney, n.d. (c.1885). Oblong 16mo. pp. [16]. A fine copy in illustrated printed wrappers. Rare. €75

COPAC locates 1 copy only, at Queen's University, Belfast. Political squib on Irish nationalists and land agitators. This rare booklet depicts in caricature the attempt by one of the many secret organisations to obtain arms for "to stroik a blow for their disthressful counthry and collect arrums for the good cause." 119. FREEMAN, A.M. Ed. by. The Annals of 1224-1544. With two plates. Dublin: The Dublin Institute For Advanced Studies, 1944. First edition. pp. xxiv, 854. Purple morocco on grey papered boards, title in gilt on evenly faded spine. Previous owner's neat stamp on front endpaper. A very good copy. €45 Known as the Annals of Connacht since 1818. The original mss. were the property of Charles O'Conor, of Bellanagare, County Roscommon. Deals at length with affairs in Connacht 1224 to 1544. Written in the 15th and 16th centuries, on the whole by three members of Clan Ó Duibhgeannáin - the Duignan family. The early sections, commencing with the death of King Cathal Crobdearg Ua Conchobair of Connacht, are exceptionally detailed and give a good account of Connacht affairs during the 13th and early to mid-14th century, particularly for the families of Burke and O'Conor. An invaluable document relating much that would have otherwise remained utterly obscure or unknown in the history of Connacht, and Ireland in general. 120. [FREKE, John] Vindex to the Thane, Sir John Freke's Address to the Electors of the County of Cork. [Cork] Printed, 1798. pp. 24. Modern buckram, title in gilt on upper cover. Some browning to titlepage. With neat library stamp. A very good copy. extremely rare. €450 ESTC T193440 locating the NLI and Maynooth copies only. Sir John Freke (1765-1845), succeeded to the title of 6th Baron on the death of his cousin John Evans, fifth in 1807. He was an extensive Munster landowner of the late eighteenth/early nineteenth century and member for Baltimore in the Irish Parliament, 1790-1800. 121. FRENCH, Henry W. Our Boys in Ireland. Illustrated. New York: Worthington, 1891. pp. x, 331. Pictorial cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €235 Henry Willard French, American author of fiction for juveniles and newspaper correspondent was a native of West Hartford, Connecticut. The story opens in Boston where a group of boys set sail for Scotland via Ireland. They land in Galway and travel around the west and south of Ireland. Along the way they meet peasants whose story they relate. After visiting Dublin they set sail for Scotland. The work is considerably enhanced by the magnificent illustrations. 122. GAHAN, The Rev. William. Some Particulars of the Case, Wherein the Lessee of Catharine O'Brien Butler was Plaintiff, and the Rev. A. Dunn, Secretary to the Roman Catholic College of Maynooth, Defendant: Tried at Trim Assizes, Aug. 24th, 1802. With a Circumstantial Account of The Testimony given by The Rev. William Gahan. Dublin: Fitzpatrick, 4, Capel Street, 1802. pp. 19. Original pale blue wrappers. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €685 No copy located on COPAC. This edition not in NLI. William Gahan (1732-1804) was a priest and author. He entered on his novitiate in the Augustinian Order, in 1748 and made his solemn profession. Shortly afterwards he was sent to the Catholic

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University of Leuven, where he commenced his ecclesiastical studies. He was ordained priest in 1755, but remained some years longer in the university to obtain his degree of Doctor of Divinity. In 1761 he returned to Dublin, and the supply of parochial clergy at the time being insufficient, he was asked by Archbishop , and was permitted by his superiors, to take up the work of a curate in St. Paul's Parish. After three years in this capacity he returned to his convent in St. John's Street, where, in the leisure intervals of an ever-active missionary life, he composed the well-known "Sermons and Moral Discourses", on which his literary reputation chiefly rests. About 1783 he made the acquaintance of Dr. John Butler, 12th Baron Dunboyne, , who afterwards turned Protestant on his succession to the title and estates of Dunboyne. A frequent and friendly correspondence took place between these two, and the grief which Dr. Gahan felt for his friend's abandonment of the Catholic faith (1787) was turned into joy when he attended Lord Dunboyne on his deathbed, and received him back into the Church (1800). For this, however, he was to suffer. In spite of Dr. Gahan's advice and that of John Thomas Troy, Roman Catholic , Lord Dunboyne insisted on willing his estate to the trustees of Maynooth College, recently founded (1795) by the Irish Parliament. But as the will was disputed by Lord Dunboyne's sister Catherine, and the issue of its validity, according to the law then in force, depended on whether or not the testator had died "a relapsed Papist", Dr. Gahan was compelled to appear as a witness, and was asked to reveal the nature of his ministrations to the dying nobleman. He refused, of course, to do so, and after undergoing six painful examinations in the Chancery office in Dublin, he was committed to jail at the Trim assizes, 24 Aug., 1802, to which the case had been referred for final judgment, his persistent refusal to testify as to the religion in which Dunboyne had died being ruled by the presiding judge, Arthur Wolfe, 1st Viscount Kilwarden, to constitute contempt of court. This imprisonment, however, lasted only a couple of days, and the remainder of Dr. Gahan's useful life was passed in peace in his convent in Dublin, where he died holding the office of prior. As there were no Catholic cemeteries at the time, his remains were laid to rest in the graveyard attached to St. James's Protestant Church. 123. GARVIN, Tom. Nationalist Revolutionaries in Ireland 1858/1928. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. First edition. pp. xii, 180. Blue papered boards, titled in gilt. Signed presentation copy from the author dated 17.4.'89. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €45 The present-day was created by a revolutionary élite which developed between 1858 and 1914. This book analyses the social origins of the revolutionary politicians who became the rulers of Ireland after 1922, and examines their political preconceptions, ideologies, and prejudices. The author argues that, in many cases, they were not only influenced by old agrarian grievances or memories of the Famine, but also, and more immediately, by the contemporary Catholic abhorrence of the Protestant and secular world symbolized by London, by England, and, to some extent, by America. 124. GAUDEN, John, Bishop. Eikon Basilike. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majesty In His Solitudes and Sufferings. With engraved frontispiece showing the King at prayer. London: 1648 [49]. 16mo. pp. [viii], 269, [1]. Contemporary full worn calf. Spine expertly rebacked. Wear to corners. Fore-edges darkened. A very good copy. €475 Wing E 291. ESTC R176008 locates 8 copies only. Sweeney 985 quoting an extremely rare Cork edition. Forty years after the King's death, authorship of this work was still creating controversy. Arthur Annesley, the Earl of Anglesey was one Irish contributor to this debate. The most acceptable attribution is to credit Charles I with the drafting and Bishop John Gauden with the editing for the press. The poem "an epitaph upon King Charles" is signed I.H. Chapter 12 deals with the subject of "the rebellion, and troubles in Ireland." 125. GAVIN, D. Antonio. A Master-Key to Popery. In Five Parts. Part I. Containing, a Discovery of the most secret Practices of the Secular, and Regular Romish priests in their Auricular Confession ... Part II. A True Copy of the Pope's Yearly Bull of Indulgences and Pardon of Sins ... Part III. An Account of their Masses, priviledge'd Altars ... Part IV. Of the Inquisitors, and their Practices in several Instances. … Part V. Of their Prayers, Adoration of Images, and Relicks, &c. London: Printed for J. Stephens, at the Bible in Butcher-Row, near St. Clement's Church in the Strand; and Sold By A. Bettesworth, … and by the Booksellers of Dublin, 1725. 12mo. pp. xii, 259, [2 (With "Proposals" for printing by Subscription, Vol. II)]. Disbound. A good copy. €175 ESTC T205942 with 3 locations only, NIL & RIA in Ireland.

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The author is described on the titlepage: "born and educated in Spain, some Years secular Priest in the Church of Rome, and since 1715, Minister of the ." Antonio Gavin, an ordained priest who later embraced Protestantism and became a minister at Gowran in County Kilkenny. His Master-Key to Popery, a virulent anti-Catholic work first published in Dublin in 1724, was greeted with great enthusiasm by the British public. 126. GAY, Mr. John. Poems On Several Occasions. By Mr. John Gay. Two volumes bound in one. Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, for George Risk, George Ewing, and William Smith, 1729. pp. [8], 410, [2]. Original worn calf. A good copy. €125 ESTC T13894 with 7 locations only. 127. GIOVIO, Paolo. Descriptio Britanniae, Scotiae, Hyberniae et Orchadum. Bound with: Virorum aliquot in Britannia, qui nostro seculo eruditione, & doctrina clari, memorabilesque fuerunt, Elogia. Bound with: A Bruto Britannicae Gentis Authore omnium in quos variante fortuna Britanniæ Imperium translatum Brevis Enumeratio. Per Georgium Lilius. Venice: Tramezino, 1548. Quarto. pp. [viii], 125 (leaves), [3]. Leaves 70, 71, 72, incorrectly numbered 65, 68, 67. Imprint data from colophon. Woodcut printer's mark: Sybilla, on final leaf. Woodcut genealogical tree on penultimate leaf verso. Contemporary limp vellum, spine professionally rebacked in matching vellum. Ex libris F. Caroli Manzini with his signature on titlepage. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €1,475 Sweeney 2637 BMC of Italian Books, p. 303 DNB XI 1142 Graesse III, 491. Adams G638. It is a truly interesting work, but Giovio never wrote the book as it is published here. Apparently, it is a condensation of all the passages of Giovio's World History pertaining to Great Britain and Ireland, and it is most likely that George Lily, the author and editor of the other two parts of the book, was responsible for the first part, also. It is distinguished for its keen and intelligent observations of Tudor England, historical, geographical, and intellectual. The second part contains the biographies of Colet, William Lily, Grocyn, Linacre, Lupset, Pace, Fisher, More and Latimer. They are selected from Giovio's biographical works. The third part is an original contribution by George Lily, "the most withering dismissal of the Trojan origin of the British that had yet appeared. He made it quite clear that the story of Brutus was nonsense and must be omitted, and in so doing, he reveals the probable views on this subject of the humanists of the earlier generation, such as Colet, and his own father, and Sir Thomas More" (Kendrick, British Antiquity, p. 41). With a woodcut genealogical tree of the families of York and Lancaster. Another interesting feature of the book: the printer Tramezino in Venice wanted to have his exclusive rights to this book as firmly established as possible. Pope Paul III, King Francis I, Cosimo de Medici, and the Duke of Mantua gave the Venetian printer privileges to protect his property for ten years, the Pope extending this privilege to 'Omnibus Christi fidelibus, tam in Italia, quam extra Italiam existentibus,' under the threat of excommunication. A full chapter is given over to a description of Ireland at a time when the majority of continental books produced barely a single page of text on the subject. Includes a genealogical table tracing the descent of the English kings as far as Edward VI, and including the names of his two half-sisters Mary and Elizabeth, both uncrowned as accords with the publication date. The author was the bishop of Nocera at the time of his death in 1552. 128. [GOLDSMITH, Oliver] A Prospect of Society. Reconstructed from The Earliest Version of . By William B. Todd. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1956. pp. [iv], [2], 3-30, [3]. Quarter linen on blue papered boards, title in gilt along spine. A very good copy. €45 LIMITED TO 256 COPIES ONLY 129. GORE-BOOTH, Eva. The Buried Life of Deirdre. With twelve illustrations. London: Longmans, 1926. First edition. Quarto. pp. xi, 64, 12 (drawings). Quarter linen on grey papered boards, title on printed label on spine. Edition limited to 256 numbered copies. Minor wear to extremities. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. Rare. €675

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Eva Gore-Booth, the daughter of Sir Henry Gore-Booth, was born at Lissadell, on 22nd May, 1870. Sir Henry was a good landlord and provided for his tenants during the famine of 1879-80. It was probably the example of Gore-Booth that helped develop in his two daughters, Eva and Constance Gore-Booth, a deep concern for the poor. Eva met Esther Roper, secretary of the Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage while in Italy in 1896. The two women became life-long friends and Eva moved to Manchester where she became active in the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and in women's trade union movement. This included writing propaganda pamphlets and articles in feminist and trade union journals.

The editor of Women's Labour News, Gore-Booth became one of the leaders of the radical socialist group, the Independent . A popular platform speaker for left-wing causes, in 1903 Gore- Booth and Esther Roper founded the Lancashire and Cheshire Women's Textile Workers Representation Committee. Eva Gore-Booth continued to be interested in the struggle for women's rights and in the 1908 joined her sister, , in the campaign against Winston Churchill in the parliamentary election in Manchester. Gore-Booth published ten volumes of poetry and the verse dramas Unseen Kings (1904) and Death of Fionavar (1916). Eva Gore-Booth died in Hampstead, London on 30th June, 1928. Written in 1908, the theme of the play is the working out of the sins of a past life, knowledge of which is granted to Deirdre in her most famous incantation, in which she foretold the destruction of the Red Branch. The didacticism is very thinly covered in the veil of the legend - this is, in fact, less a play than an idea for a play - and it is not clear why Deirdre attributes knowledge of the sorrow to come particularly to women, since her own sorrow was foretold by the bard Cathvah when she was born. There is, however, a certain charm about some of the songs, and the conflict of Angus and Mannanaun is well conceived. Very charming, too, are the sketches by the author, who had never learnt to draw - for an illustrated edition. 130. [GRAHAM, Dougal] The Comical Sayings of Paddy from Cork, with his Coat Buttoned Behind. Being an elegant conference between English Tom and Irish Teague; with Paddy's Catechism and his Supplication when a Mountain Sailor. Glasgow: Printed for the Bookseller, n.d.(c.1850). pp. 24. Disbound. A very good copy. €75 With engraved title depicting Paddy sharpening a scythe and a field of corn in the background. 131. GRATTEN, Henry. In the Debate in the House of Commons on the 25th May, 1808, on the Motion of the Right Hon. Henry Gratten, "to go into a Committee of the whole House to take into Consideration the Petition of the Roman Catholics of Ireland." London: Keating,

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Brown and Keating, [1808]. Quarto. Four pages printed on three sides only. Caption title. In very good condition. Extremely rare. €225 COPAC locating 2 copies only, & Ushaw College. WorldCat 2. (1746-1820) led the nationalist fight for Ireland's legislative independence from England, for parliamentary reform, and for Catholic emancipation. Grattan distinguished himself at Trinity College, Dublin, where he acquired his passion for the classics and for eloquent oratory. He left the university in 1767 and was called to the Irish bar in 1772. With another Irish patriot, , Grattan contributed articles to the nationalist Freeman's Journal. They were at first great friends and united in the Irish cause. Grattan entered Parliament in 1775, the same year in which Flood lost his position as parliamentary leader by accepting the office of vice-treasurer of Ireland. Grattan's eloquence quickly allowed him to move into the leadership that Flood had vacated. The helped bring Irish matters to a head, and in 1778-1779 Britain finally granted some of the concessions to Irish trade for which Grattan and Flood had worked. Grattan's greatest efforts then went toward securing Ireland's legislative independence. He made speech after speech in Parliament, declaring that Ireland had as much right to its freedom as the English king had to his crown. Hard-pressed by defeat in America and alarmed by the convention of the Volunteers, an Irish nationalist organization at , in 1782 England granted legislative independence and ended penal laws against Catholics. The Irish Parliament recognized Grattan's primary role in securing its liberty and granted him £50,000, a sum which made him financially independent. The free Irish legislature, which lasted only 18 years, was called Grattan's Parliament. With their chief object thus achieved, the Irish patriots fell into disagreement over some of their other goals. Grattan and Flood were themselves both Protestants, but they differed on Catholic emancipation. Grattan believed in the future of a unified nationalist Ireland and wished to grant Catholics full civil liberties; Flood, however, wanted to guarantee Protestant ascendancy by withholding from Catholics the rights to vote and hold office. Both wanted to reform the corrupt Irish legislature, but they differed on methods. They also disagreed over disbanding the Volunteers, which Grattan desired and Flood opposed. In Parliament, Grattan at first generally supported the administration but moved into opposition as he saw governmental intransigence against the reforms he wanted, especially tithe commutation. He steadily refused office, lest it appear that he had sold out to government. He continued to attack parliamentary corruption and to support Catholic emancipation. He died in 1820 and was buried in Westminster Abbey. Caption title. Text in double columns. Printer's statement from colophon. Includes extracts from addresses by Henry Grattan, John Milner, John Cox Hippisley, and Richard Watson. 132. [GREAT NEWS FROM IRELAND] Great News from Ireland, Being Motives of Encouragement for the Officers and Souldiers who shall Serve in the Present War of Ireland. Licens'd April 9th, 1689. James Fraser. Edinburgh: Re-printed in the Year, 1689. Small folio. pp. 4. Caption-title. Fraying to inner margin with minute loss of text. €125 Sweeney 2162. The 1st of three Wing printing - G 1724E. The Newsletter is drawn from the following Headings following: I. The General Inability and Incapacity of the Irish to Manage Employs of Trust and Power. II. The Necessity of a Standing Army and Garrisons in that Kingdom. III. The Ecclesiastical Civil and Military, Employs; that must be in the Hands of Protestants. IV. The Number and Vallew of the said Employs. V. The Advantages made be made by Officers and Souldiers in that Service, over and above what those had in the last War. VI. The Cheapness of Land and Provisions, and Improvements to be made in that Kingdom. LADY GREGORY ON THE LANGUAGE REVIVAL & ROYALTIES 133. GREGORY, Augusta Lady. Hyacinth Halvey. A manuscript Irish-language translation of Lady Gregory’s play, pp. 2-65 (lacking first page), pp. 2-49 in ink, remainder in pencil, unsigned, in home-made wrappers with hand-drawn title. €485 Laid in is an Autographed Letter Signed from Lady Gregory on Coole Park headed paper, May 13, ’30. "Dear Mr. Mac Enri, I have just been in correspondence with Mr. Moylan who is having a good deal of trouble in collecting royalties on plays - I will ask you therefore to pay him the usual royalty on any play of mine you may produce. I will return it to you on the plays produced in Gaelic - as I am anxious to help the revival of the language - Yours sincerely, A. Gregory." An Irish-language translation of Hyacinth Halvey was published in 1934, two years after Lady Gregory’s death, under the title ‘Cara an Phobail’. The translation is ascribed to Mícheál Ó Droighneáin. The present item may be the original of that translation. It is a fair copy (no corrections).

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Provenance: Estate of Prof. Liam Ó Briain, who was for many years associated with the Irish-language Taibhdhearc theatre in Galway. LADY GREGORY ON PARTS FOR GIRLS 134. GREGORY, Augusta Lady. The Jester. London & New York, Putnam, n.d. Frayed wrappers, repaired and spine rebacked. Inscribed on front endpaper to Professor [Liam] O’Brien, from A. Gregory, with kind regards, April 23 ’29; and with an interesting Autographed Letter Signed to O’Brien from Lady Gregory laid in, same date, two pages (single sheet), on Coole Park headed paper: "I enclose a copy of the Jester - it was written for a school of boys, but I think if parts are wanted for girls, they might very well play the parts of the young Princes - they are more effeminate than the others ... I was delighted with last evening’s performance, and the ambience - I am sure it will be a great help in the revival of the language." €385 [Evidently Lady Gregory attended a performance at , the Irish- language theatre in Galway with which Prof. Ó Briain was associated for many years]. €35 135. GRIBAYEDOFF, Valerian. The French Invasion of Ireland in '98. Leaves of unwritten history that tell of an Heroic Endeavour and a Lost Opportunity to Throw off England's Yoke. With a map, and numerous illustrations by well-known artists. New York: Somerby, 1890. pp. 192, 14 (plates). Crown octavo. Burgundy cloth, title in gilt on spine and in black on upper cover with gilt decoration of Pikes. A fine copy of a scarce item. €265

Valerian Michaelovich Gribayedoff (1858-1908) was a Russian journalist and illustrator most famous for introducing illustrated drawings into newspapers and capturing some of the only photos during the trial for the Dreyfus Affair in 1897. He was born in Kronstadt, Russia in 1858, and many believed him to have been of noble birth, possibly related to Alexander Griboyedov. Educated in St. Petersburg, England, France, and Germany, he came later to America working as a journalist, rising to prominence by recreating drawings from photos to be included in the newspapers that were more life-like than any others in the field. His only book, The French Invasion of Ireland in '98, was published in 1890. Illustrations included: Castlebar; Arrival of the French Vessels; Portrait of General Sarrazin; Portrait of Marquis Cornwallis; Sarrazin Embraces a Patriot's Corpse; The March to Castlebar; Portrait of General Hutchinson; [General] Lake's Flight from Castlebar; The Ball after the Battle; Map of Connaught; Portrait of Colonel Charles Vereker; Retreat of the French; The Gory Heights of Ballinamuck; The Battle of Killala. "Authorities" listed on p. 7-8. 136. GULLIVER, Verigull [Pseud.] A Fragment of the Voyages of Mr. Verigull Gulliver, (Grandson to the celebrated Traveller.) To the Island of AE-RI-SI-TER, in the Lake of SPE- CUL, Situated in the Province of FO-LI, a part of CHINA hereto unexplored, &c. &c. [Middle Hill Press]: [Privately Printed], 1832. Folio. pp. 5. Drop title. Imprint on final leaf. In fine condition. Extremely rare. €275 COPAC locates the BL copy only. Nineteenth-century publication by Sir Thomas Phillipps, the extraordinary collector of manuscripts and books. He had this facsimile prepared by his Middle Hill Press, The printing was probably limited to about sixty copies.

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137. GWYNN, A. & HADCOCK, R.N. Medieval Religious Houses Ireland. With an Appendix to early sites. Foreword by David Knowles. London: Longman, 1970. First edition. pp. xii, 479. Black cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in lightly frayed pictorial dust jacket. €135 This edition contains a large folding monastic map of Ireland in pocket at end. 138. GWYNN, Rev. Aubrey & GLEESON, Dermot F. A History of the Diocese of Killaloe. Part I. The Early Period. Parts II to IV. The Middle Ages. With large folding map and twelve illustrations. Dublin: Gill, 1962. pp. xviii, 566. Royal octavo. Blue cloth, titled in gilt. A fine copy in dust jacket. €65 The diocese of Killaloe stretches from on the Atlantic coast to Borris-in-Ossory, half-way across Ireland, and embraces the whole of , North Tipperary, portions of the counties of Limerick, Leix and Offaly. The authors give an excellent account of the parishes, monastic sites, and clerics with a general history of the times. 139. GWYNN, Stephen. Irish Books and Irish People. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, n.d. (c.1919). pp. [2], 120. Green cloth title in gilt on upper cover and on spine. A very good copy in repaired dull dust jacket. €75 Whatever Captain Gwynn writes is worth reading. He has a knowledge of the literary value of Irish books, and the complex personality of Irish possessed by few present-day writers, and he imparts his knowledge with that peculiar detailed conviction of the hurler on the ditch. He deals with such subjects as Novels of Irish Life, A Century of Irish Humour, Literature Among the Illiterates, Irish Education and Irish Character, The Irish Gentry, Yesterday in Ireland, etc. 140. GWYNN, Stephen. Henry Grattan and his Times. With portrait frontispiece and other illustrations. Dublin: Browne and Nolan, 1939. pp. viii, 402. Contemporary half red goatskin over cloth boards, title in gilt on spine. All edges sprinkled. A very good copy. €75 141. HALL, Mrs. S.C. Popular Tales of Irish Life and Character. Illustrated by Maclise, Franklin, Brooke, Herbert Harvey, Nicholl, Weigall and others. Glasgow and London: Morison & Simpkin, n.d. pp. 365, 15 (publisher's list). Green cloth, title and decoration in gilt on spine. Cover lightly faded. A very good copy. €65 142. HAMILTON, Rev. William. Letters Concerning the Northern Coast of the County of Antrim. Containing Such Circumstances as appear worthy of notice respecting the Antiquities, Manners and Customs of that Country. Together with the Natural History of the Basaltes, and its Attendant Fossils, in the Northern . The whole illustrated by An accurate Map, and Engravings of the most interesting Objects on the Coast. In two parts. In these letters is stated a plain and impartial view of the volcanic theory of the Basaltes. Dublin: Printed by George Bonham, for Pat. Byrne, Grafton-street, Dublin; G. Robinson, Pater-noster-row, and P. Elmsly in the Strand, London, 1790. pp. xi, [v], 190. Modern half morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on brown morocco letterpiece on spine. A very good copy. €395 ESTC T146986. 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 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 . "You would hardly believe how little remains of Irish history, language or customs, are to be traced in this part of the country, The revolutions which it has undergone, in consequence of forfeitures to the English, and the encroachments of the Scots, have overturned every remnant of its original state" (p.59) ... As the people of those days generally followed the fortunes of their chief, the greater part of the native Irish who survived these bloody scenes, transplanted themselves elsewhere; while the Scots remained peaceable possessors of the field. Hence the old traditions and customs of the country were entirely lost; and the few who speak the Celtic language at all, use a kind of mixed dialect, called here Scotch-Irish, which is but imperfectly understood by the natives of either country. The present possessors are in general an industrious thrifty race of people. They have a great deal of substantial civility, without much more courtesy to relieve it, and set it off to best advantage. The bold ideas of

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rights and privileges, which seem inseparable from their Presbyterian church, renders them apt to be ungracious and litigious in their dealings." 143. [HAMMOND, J.L.] A Tragedy of Errors. (Reprinted from 'The Nation' of January 8th, 1921.) London: Published for 'The Nation' by British Periodicals Ltd., 1921. pp. 32. Stapled wrappers. A very good copy. €225 Not in Carty. Prior to writing his 'graphic sketch of Irish policy from 1914 to 1920,' Hammond had met Erskine Childers and had been briefed by him about the situation in Ireland. The pamphlet reflects the arguments presented by Childers in his pamphlet, Military Rule in Ireland. Hammond (1872- 1949), a distinguished historian, author of Gladstone and the Irish Nation (1938), and journalist, acting as special correspondent for the Manchester Guardian at the Peace Conference. His liberal instincts and his social concerns made him a strong supporter of Ireland's cause and his historical and literary skills combined to make him a writer of compelling prose. Hammond placed his talents at the service of the Peace with Ireland Council and along with other journalists, such as Hugh Martin, H.D. Nevinson, C.P. Scott and A.G. Gardiner, made a major contribution towards presenting the British public with an informed view of conditions in Ireland. 144. HANCOCK, Thomas. The Principles of Peace exemplified in the Conduct of the Society of Friends in Ireland, during the Rebellion of the Year 1798, with some Preliminary and Concluding Observations. Boston: Printed by Whipple & Damrell, for the American Peace Society, 1843. Stereotype edition. pp. 108. Original green cloth, blind-stamped to a floral design, title in gilt on upper cover. Ex lib. Earlham College Library. Some browning. Spine faded, otherwise a very good copy. Extremely rare. €165 No copy of this edition located on COPAC. Hancock was born in 1783 to Quaker parents in the south of County Antrim. He was educated at Ackford, Yorkshire, was apprenticed to a surgeon at , and graduated M.D. at Edinburgh 26 June 1809. He attained considerable practice, and was elected physician to the City and Finsbury dispensaries. In 1810 he contributed some articles on lunatic asylums to the Belfast Monthly Magazine. His first publications were poetical works published anonymously: An Elegy Supposed to be Written on a Field of Battle" 1818, and The Law of Mercy: A poetical essay on the punishment of death. He was an admirer of Locke, and prized very highly a beautiful little manuscript in Locke's handwriting which he possessed. He edited in 1828 Discourses, translated from Nicole's Essays by John Locke. 145. HARDING, William Henry. The Ulster Revival of 1859 by William Henry Harding. London and Edinburgh: Oliphants Ltd., 21 Paternoster Square, n.d. (c.1859). pp. 16. Pictorial wrappers. Staples rusty. A good copy. €65 EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION WITH LARGE FOLDING PLATES 146. HARDY, Philip Dixon. The Holy Wells of Ireland, containing an authentic account of those various places of Pilgrimage and Penance which are still annually visited by thousands of the Roman Catholic peasantry. With a minute description of the patterns and stations periodically held in various districts of Ireland. Dublin: Hardy, Wakeman and Curry. London: Groombridge. Edinburgh: Fraser, 1836. First edition. pp. viii, 66, [7 (leaves of plates (some folding)]. Original blue stitched wrappers. A fine copy. Extremely rare. €395 COPAC locates 3 copies only. Not in McVeagh. Philip Dixon Hardy (1794-1875) Irish poet, bookseller, printer and publisher. He introduced the use of steam-powered printing

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presses in Ireland in 1833. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He edited the Dublin Penny Journal from 1833. This newspaper was published between 1832 and 1836 and issued each Saturday, by J. S. Folds, George Petrie and Caesar Otway. He edited the Dublin Literary Gazette (later the National Magazine) and published a number of tour guides of different parts of the country. 147. HARRICKS'S HOSIERY. Receipt for Harricks's Extensive Irish & English Hosiery. Ware-House No. 25 Westmoreland Street and No. 2, D'Olier Street, within one door of Carlisle Bridge, Dublin. Receipt for Harricks's Stockings for ... Girls. 175 x 218mm. No date (c.1805). Together with: a receipt from Thomas Harricks's Irish and English Hosiery Ware-House, silk stocking and Pantaloon manufactory No. 7, Trinity-Street. Dublin 30 January 1802. 150 x 160mm. In very good condition. €245 148. HARVEY, R. The Shannon and Its Lakes; or A Short History of that Noble Stream, from its Source to Limerick. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1896. pp. xii, 194. Green blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine. Signed complimentary copy from the author to Sir Charles Harvey, Bart. A fine copy. Exceedingly rare. €235 COPAC with 5 locations only. ZAEHNSDORF OF LONDON - SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 149. HAY, Roy and SYNGE, Patrick M. The Dictionary of . Profusely illustrated in colour. London: The Arcadia Press, 1970. Folio. Bound in crushed green goatskin by Zaehnsdorf with their signature in gilt on the upper turn-in. Upper cover decorated with vertical gilt fillets and onlay of leaves in burgundy and brown. Spine divided into six panels by raised bands, title and authors in gilt direct in the second and third; board edges ruled with a single gilt fillet; turn-ins with floral roll; marbled endpapers; green, brown, and white double endbands. All edges gilt. Edition limited to 250 copies for sale. Signed by both authors. Fine in felt-lined clamshell box. €450 PRIZE-WINNING LITHOGRAPHS 150. [HAYES, Michael Angelo] Prize Outlines. Royal Irish Art-Union Competition 1845. Five designs by M. Angelo Hayes M.S.I.A. Illustrating the National Ballad of Savourneen Deelish. Drawn on stone by J.H. Lynch. Dedicated by permission to the President and Committee of the Royal Irish Art-Union 1846. London: Hanhart Lithographic Printers, 1846. Published for the Members of the R.I. Art Union of 1846 exclusively and given in addition to the Annual Engraving. Large folio. Stiff wrappers printed in red and blue. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €675 COPAC locates the Victoria and Albert copy only. WorldCat 1. Michael Angelo Hayes (1820-1877) R.H.A. Born in Waterford, son of Edward Hayes, also an artist. He exhibited first at the R.H.A. in 1837 as 'Master Hayes' and five years later was appointed 'Military Painter-in-Ordinary' to the Lord Lieutenant. He became a full member of the R.H.A. in 1844 and was elected Secretary in 1856. Hayes painted in oils and watercolours. James H. Lynch was admitted as a pupil in the Dublin Society Drawing School in 1815 and later worked as a portrait painter. This series of five lithographs drawn by Hayes, depicting soldiers with their sweethearts and a battle scene was awarded the Royal Irish Art-Union Prize in 1845.

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151. HAYES-McCOY, G.A. Ed. by. The Irish at War. The Thomas Davis Lectures. Cork: Mercier Press, 1969. pp. 108, [4]. Pictorial wrappers. Previous owner's signature on half title. A very good copy. €20 Includes: The ; The Battle of Benburb; The Battle of New Ross; Easter Week, 1916; Militant Ireland; etc. 152. HAYWARD, Richard. In Praise of Ulster. With forty-eight drawings by J. Humbert Craig. London: Arthur Barker, 1938. First edition. Royal octavo. pp. viii, 371. Modern half green morocco on green cloth boards, title in gilt on maroon morocco letterpiece on spine. From the library of Robert B. Wilson with his bookplate on front pastedown. A fine copy. €150 153. HAYWARD, Richard. The Corrib Country. Foreword by Maurice Walsh. With illustrations from drawings in wash by J. Humbert Craig and large folding map. Dundalk: Tempest, 1954. pp. [xii], 164. Faded blue cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A good copy in faded and stained dust jacket. €20 SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 154. , Seamus. Poems and a Memoir. Selected and illustrated by Henry Pearson with an introduction by Thomas and a preface by . New York: Limited Editions Club, 1982. First edition. Imperial octavo. pp. xviii, 153. Limited edition, signed by Seamus Heaney, Henry Pearson, and Thomas Flanagan. Bound in full brown morocco. Upper cover tooled in blind with an design, title in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt. Spine evenly faded. A fine copy in slipcase. €1,250 A most attractive production, hard to find in spite of the large edition. Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), Nobel Laureate, poet, essayist and playwright, born in County Derry and brought up on a small farm between Toomebridge and Castledawson. After graduation from Queen's University, Belfast he taught for a year at St. Thomas's Intermediate School in that city, where Michael MacLaverty, the headmaster, encouraged his writing; he then became a lecturer at St. Joseph's Teacher Training College. While there he participated in the poetry group organised by Philip Hobsbaum at QUB, where he was appointed to the English Department in 1966. 155. HENRY, Paul. An Irish Portrait. The Autobiography of Paul Henry. With a foreword by Sean O'Faolain. With coloured and mono illustrations of the artist's work. London: Batsford, 1932. First edition. pp. xi, [1], 116. Red cloth, title in gilt on faded spine. Top edge red. A very good copy. €75

Paul Henry (1877-1958) was born in Belfast, the son of a Baptist minister. He studied art in Belfast before going to Paris in 1898 to study at the Académie Julian and at Whistler's studio. He married the painter Grace Henry in 1903 and returned to Ireland in 1910. From then until 1919, he lived on and learned to capture the peculiar interplay of light and landscape specific to the west of Ireland. In 1919 he moved to Dublin and in 1920 was one of the founders of the Society of Dublin Painters. In the 1920s and 1930s Paul Henry was Ireland's best known artist. He separated from his wife in 1929.

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BALLYMENA PRINTED - A PROMINENT WEAVER POET 156. HERBISON, David. Children of the Year: With Other Poems and Songs. Belfast: Archer & Sons, Wellington Place. Ballymena: R. Russell, T. Erwin, A. Black, Printers, 1876. First edition. Small octavo. pp. 272, (including a 7 page list of subscribers). Mustard cloth over bevelled boards, Upper board elaborately decorated in gilt, title within a gilt floral garland, replicated in blind on lower cover, title in gilt on faded spine. Traces of old water staining to lower cover, occasional spotting. All edges gilt. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €225 COPAC locates 3 copies only. David Herbison (1800-1880), poet, was born at Dunclug near Ballymena, County Antrim, where his father was an innkeeper. He was one of the best known of the Ulster Weaver poets. When three years old he lost his sight through an infantile malady, and for four years was totally blind. Through skilful medical treatment he regained the use of one eye, but his health continued delicate, and in consequence he received a very scanty education. At fourteen he was put to learn linen-weaving on one of the old hand looms. In April 1827, his father having died, he and an elder brother sailed from Belfast for Canada. Their vessel was wrecked in the St. Lawrence, and many of the passengers drowned. The two brothers escaped with difficulty and made their way to Quebec. The climate of Canada, however, did not suit David, and in 1830 he returned to Ireland, and settling down again beside Ballymena, resumed his old occupation of weaving. Before emigrating he had begun to write poetry, and shortly after his return he commenced to send contributions to Belfast newspapers, and to the Dublin Penny Journal. Encouraged by the success of these ventures, he published, in 1841, a volume entitled The Fate of McQuillan and O'Neill's Daughter, a Legend of Dunluce, with other Poems, Belfast, which was well received. In 1848 he collected a number of other effusions into a work entitled Midnight Musings. In 1858 his Woodland Wanderings appeared, and in 1869 The Snow-Wreath, followed in 1876 by The Children of the Year. That collection is now a valuable source of local history as his poems deals with local events, his family and people of the area. He continued to publish fugitive pieces in the Belfast and other newspapers. On 26 May 1880 he died in his cottage at Dunclug, near Ballymena, from which he derived the title The Bard of Dunclug. A monument to his memory was erected beside Ballymena by public subscription. In his preface to this work Herbison provides some interesting autobiographical details "The linen trade being then prosperous, I was put to the loom - much against my own inclination, but it being my father's desire I submitted to it. In the business of a weaver I have ever since been daily and diligently employed - working hard, more especially in the earlier years of my monotonous occupation, but reading at every moment I could spare. In those days the young people of the neighbourhood were accustomed to meet for amusement at rural 'singings,' where any person who could manage to manufacture an extempore verse was at liberty to repeat the lines, whilst the members of the company were bound to sing them. My first attempt at rhyme was at one of these little gatherings in an neighbouring barn." 157. HERVEY, Dr., HUMPHREYS, J.D. & POWER, Dr. Contributions towards a Fauna and Flora of the County of Cork, read at the meeting of the British Association held at Cork in the year 1843. The Vertebrata by Dr. Hervey; The Mollusca, Crustacea and Echinodermata by J.D. Humphreys; The Flora by Dr. Power. London: Van Voorst & Cork: Purcell, 1845. pp. [vi], iii, [ii], iv, 24, v, [3], 130. Modern quarter green buckram on grey papered boards, title on printed label on spine. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €585 COPAC locates 6 copies only. Not in Lough Fea, Bradshaw or Gilbert. We are told in the introduction that this publication came about: "form part of a series of communications on the local history of the County of Cork, which have, from time to time been contributed to the Cuvierian Society of this City. These, together with a list of the genera of our insects by William Clear, Esq., were furnished to the British Association at their late meeting here, it being considered that information on the Natural History of the place visited, was suited for presentation to that body, and likely to be acceptable. In consequence of a wish which was expressed by several members of the Natural History section of the Association, and being themselves convinced of the value of local catalogues in serving to correct the materials of more extended works, the Cuverian Society have undertaken the publication of this little work. The example now set may possibly be the means of encouraging the appearance of other Catalogues, and thus, in its humble way, of contributing to the advance of the Natural History of Ireland." The Cuvierian Society of Cork was founded as a committee of the Royal Cork Institution in October

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1835. The meetings were held on the first Wednesday of the Autumn and Winter months in the Library of the Royal Cork Institution. The Society was named after the noted French naturalist and zoologist, Georges Cuvier. Its early years concentrated on the natural sciences but by mid century had evolved to be mainly archaeological. The society published in 1845 the Contributions towards a fauna and Flora of the County of Cork and contains a list of the officers of the Society for 1845. 158. HOLINSHED, Raphaell. Holinshed's Irish Chronicle. The Historie of Irelande from the first inhabitation thereof, unto the yeare 1509. Collected by Raphaell Holinshed, & continued till the yeare 1547 by Richarde Stanyhurst. Edited by Liam Miller and Eileen Power with the cancels restored and the woodcut illustrations of the first edition. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1979. Folio. pp. xxiv, 363. Brown cloth, title in gilt on spine. Edition limited to 850 copies. Top edge reddish- brown. A very good copy in dust jacket. With slipcase. €225 Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland, first printed in the year 1577, is one of the great historical reference-books of the sixteenth century. Leading historians of the day assisted Holinshed in the massive undertaking of editing, assembling, and expanding existing historical and topographical works. The Learned Gentleman, Maister Richard Stanyhurst compiled the Description of Ireland. He was the son of James Stanyhurst, the Recorder of Dublin, and a friend and collaborator of the English Jesuit, Edmund Campion. When the first edition was in preparation, the Privy Council objected to certain passages, and this resulted in a number of cancelled leaves. The original texts have been restored in this edition and are printed as appendices. A unique feature of this publication is the remarkable series of woodcuts throughout the text, and the present volume is further enhanced by the inclusion of two woodcuts from the cancelled leaves. 159. [HORATIUS FLACCUS] Q. Horatii Flacci Opera. Edited by John Hawkey. Dublinii: E Typographia Academiæ, 1745. Octavo. Large paper copy. pp. [iv], 248. Bound in contemporary full calf. Spine divided into seven panels by six raised bands, title in gilt on red morocco label in the second; the remainder elaborately tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner design; board edges gilt. Early signature of B. Disney dated 1740 on front free endpaper. Armorial bookplate of Charles William Bury, Esqr. on front pastedown. A very handsome copy. €675 ESTC T46146. Provenance: From the library of Charles William Bury, 1st Earl of Charleville FRS, FSA (1764-1835), known as The Lord between 1797 and 1800 and as The Viscount Charleville between 1800 and 1806, was an Irish landowner, antiquarian and politician. He was the son of John Bury and Catherine Sadleir. His mother Catherine was a daughter of Francis Sadleir, of Sopwell Hall, County Tipperary. His father succeeded to the Charleville estates on the death of his maternal uncle, the Earl of Charleville, in February 1764. He died in August of the same year, only two months after the birth of his son. Bury's mother married as her second husband Henry Prittie, 1st Baron Dunalley (Henry Prittie, 2nd Baron Dunalley was Bury's half-brother). He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. Bury was returned to the Irish Parliament for Kilmallock in January 1790, but lost the seat in May of that year. He was once again elected for Kilmallock in 1792, and retained the seat until 1797. The latter year he was raised to the as Baron Tullamore, of Charleville Forest in King's County. In 1798 he helped quell the Irish Rebellion. and two years later the Charleville title was revived when he was made Viscount Charleville, of Charleville Forest in the King's County, in the Irish peerage. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1803 and of the Society of Antiquaries in 1814 and served as President of the Royal Irish Academy between 1812 and 1822. Lord Charleville married Catherine Maria Dawson, daughter of Thomas Townley Dawson and widow of James Tisdall, in 1798. He rebuilt in the Gothic style and also developed the town of Tullamore, of which he was the main owner. He died at Dover, Kent, in October 1835, aged 71, and was buried at Charleville Forest, . He was succeeded by his son, Charles. The Countess of Charleville died at Cavendish Square, London, in 1851, aged 88. 160. HOWARD, John Eliot. The Island of Saints; or, Ireland in 1855. Illustrated with eleven tinted lithographs, and three woodcuts. London: Seeley, Jackson and Halliday, 1855. pp. xxiv, 276. With half title. Modern papered boards, title in gilt on black morocco label on spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Some fraying to lower margin of fore-edge. All edges gilt. A good copy. Exceedingly rare €275

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COPAC locates 7 copies only. Woods 144. John E. Howard (1807-1883) writer and chemist, who conducted pioneering work with the development of quinine, was born in Plaistow, London, the son of Luke Howard, a noted meteorologist, chemist and Quaker. He worked at the family pharmaceutical manufacturing business of Howards and Sons. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1874. The contents include: Travels to Maynooth College; Galway Nunneries; Shrule; Cong; Kilconly; Lough Mask and Lough Corrib; ; Connemara; The Killaries; Leenane; ; Clare Island; Achill; Castlebar; Lough Conn and Lough Cullen; Ballina; Knock na Rea; Country about Sligo; Manor Hamilton. There are notices of: burning converts' houses; Irish poverty; the massacre at Shrule; the shamrock; Ladies' Irish Association; Romish Relics and Missions; pious Irishwomen; worship of a virgin; a sea eagle; Irish converts; dress of the peasantry; cases of destitution; belief in ghosts, etc. He was a strong supporter of the Protestant and scathing critic of Catholicism. He states that idolatry and intolerant cruelty always go hand in hand in Ballina: "A dissenting minister, who distributes some tracts, was seized by the mob, severely beaten, and was with difficulty saved from being thrown over the bridge into the Moy ... From this it may be judged how active the Papists are in endeavouring to keep the ground they have, and to recover the ground they have lost." On visiting the Achill colony Howard relates: "The land near the settlement is very neatly cultivated by the orphan boys. It was once a bog, so full of water that (as it was described to me) a hare could scarcely have made its way across it. Now it smiles under good management. The old village of Doogurt, and the new colony of Achill, stand like the representatives of the old and new regime." 161. HUDSON J. & MARES, F.H. Gems of Irish scenery. With descriptive letterpress. Twelve albumen prints. (170 x 120mm approximately). 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 green publisher's cloth over bevelled boards, title in gilt on upper cover within a garland of Shamrocks. All edges gilt. New endpapers. A very good copy with fine impressions of these early photographs. €585

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; ; The Vale of Avoca; In the Dargle; The Vale of Clara; The Giant's Causeway; The Lady's Wishing Chair; Pleaskin Head; . 162. HULME, F. Edward. Bards and Blossoms or The Poetry, History, and Associations of Flowers. Illustrated with chromo-lithographic plates with tissue guards. London: Marcus Ward & Co., 1877. pp. 232. Bound in green cloth by Rodman of Belfast with their label on lower pastedown. Upper cover elaborately decorated to a floral pattern framed by a floral border and enclosing in the centre a lyre within an oval border with title superimposed on a scroll in gilt. Spine also with similar elaborate decoration. Minor wear to corners. All edges gilt. A very good copy. €165

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163. HURD, Mr. [Richard] Dialogues on the Uses of Foreign Travel; Considered as a part of an English Gentleman's Education: between Lord Shaftesbury and Mr. Locke. By the Editor of Moral and Political Dialogues. Bound with: Letters on Chivalry and Romance. Two volumes in one. Dublin: Printed for Peter Wilson in Dame-street, 1764 & Dublin: Printed for Richard Watts, in Skinner-row, 1762. pp. 124, 64. Contemporary full polished calf, letterpiece lacking on spine but title visible. Wear to corners. A fine crisp copy. €365 Richard Hurd, D.D. (1720-1808), English divine and writer, bishop of Worcester, was born at Congreve, in the parish of Penkridge, Staffordshire, son of a farmer. He was educated at "a good Grammar School at Brewood" and was later admitted to Emanuel College, Cambridge, taking his BA in 1739. He was ordained Deacon on the 13th June 1742 at St Paul's Cathedral by Joseph Butler, Bishop of Bristol. Opinions about him differed. For some he was an illustrious ornament of his Church. Horace Walpole called him a 'servile pedant', and David Hume had some uncomplimentary things to say about him. Yet he was George III's favourite bishop and much valued by him as a friend. 164. HYNES, Michael J. The Mission of Rinuccini. Nuncio Extraordinary to Ireland 1645-1649. With coloured map of Ireland. Louvain: Librairie Universitaire, 1932. Royal octavo. pp. xxiii, 332, [2] (errata & Church permit). Modern brown buckram with original upper wrapper inset on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Very scarce. €175 Moving across the brilliant and tragic Irish scene of 1641-53 were a crowd of figures, notable either in personality or position - bishops and friars; scholars and poets, like Geoffrey Keating, Father Hackett and Piaras Ferriter; able, intriguing lawyers, like D'Arcy and Bellings; cynical adventurers, like Castlehaven and Eoghan Ruadh's nephew, Domhnall; cruel butchers, like Charles Coote and Murrough O'Brien, true patriots, like Hugh Dubh O'Neill, Rory O'Moore, and Geoffrey Barron of Clonmel; feeble incompetents like MacCarthy of Muskerry and jealous fools, like Sir Phelim O'Neill. But the time of the Kilkenny confederation was dominated by three men, totally different from one another in character - James Butler, Earl and Marquis of Ormond; Eoghan Ruadh O'Neill, and John Baptiste Rinuccini, the Apostolic Legate. Ormond's suave and polished manner concealed his furious hatred of the historic Ireland. For all his Gaelic blood, few men have laboured more successfully than Ormond to anglicise Ireland. The mission of Rinuccini was an episode of great importance in seventeenth-century Ireland. From the beginning of his mission the Nuncio showed high courage and decision of character. He refused to await the protection of a French convoy, but sailed from La Rochelle, escorted by some small Irish boats, and got safely through the narrow seas. He had a narrow escape from an Anglo-Irish pirate named Plunket, in the pay of the English parliament. The failing spirits of the Confederate Irish were revived in October, 1645, by his arrival in the Kenmare river on 21st October, 1645. That night he sheltered in a shepherd's hut, and the country people flocked in great numbers to meet him from the mountainous district all around. The next day after saying Mass, he journeyed through Kerry and West Cork where he received the hospitality of O'Callaghan, O'Sullivan and MacCarthy Riabhach. So taken aback was he by the scenic beauty, that he described it in a letter to Italy "the cattle browsing in rich pastures, the valleys diversified with beautiful woods, the hills and dales of surpassing loveliness, the abounding herds and well-tilled fields." When he reached Kilkenny he found the Confederation City a nest of intrigue. He saw that Ormond and King Charles would go on tempting the Confederates with insincere offers of national and religious freedom. Rinuccini soon made it clear that he would oppose any peace which did not restore any Catholic rights and the confiscated property, for this he had the support of the . He took part personally in the siege of Bunratty and after the overthrow of the Confederates in Munster he harangued the Assembly with passionate vehemence, imploring them to unite their forces while hope still remained. The anti-Rinuccini group desired the appointment of Catholic Bishops to be a matter for a Protestant King, and they actually charged the Papal Nuncio with "conspiring against the rights of the King", because he was not accommodating enough to fall in with their wishes. Dissention and party bitterness had their inevitable effect and the cause of Church and country went down in Ireland in common ruin. In his last sermon in Ireland preached in Galway on February 20, Rinuccini admitted that the object of his mission - to have the Catholic Church officially re-established and to reorganise the clergy - had failed. He had shown immense courage - moral and physical - and his only shortcomings were those of a strong and impatient character. This work is a valuable contribution to Irish historical scholarship.

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165. [IRELAND TRACTS] A Collection of nineteen tracts: 1. Rambles in Spain and . A Visit to a Spanish Hermitage and The Necromancers of the Kasbagh. By Mrs Marion Mulhall. pp. 20. 2. All Hallows' College Dublin and Its Founder. By Very Rev. John Curry, P.P. V.F. pp. 24. 3. The Story of Clongowes Wood A.D. 1450-1900. By Rev. T. Corcoran, S.J. pp. 36. 4. Ireland and the Isle of Man. By Very Rev. Dean Walsh, Rector, St. Mary's, Douglas. Revised and Enlarged by Most Rev. N. , D.D., Bishop of Canea. pp. 32. 5. The "Santa Croce" of Ireland. By John B. Cullen. pp. 16. 6. Tara, Pagan and Christian. By Most Rev. , D.D., . pp. 19. 7. Muckross Abbey and the Island of Innisfallen. By J.B. Cullen. pp. 16, [2]. 8. Lough Derg. Ireland's National Pilgrimage. St. Patrick's Purgatory (Diocese of Clogher). pp. 20. 9. The Arran Islands. By Richard J. Kelly, B.L. (Hon. Sec. of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society). pp. 15. 10. The Boyne Valley Its Antiquities and Ecclesiastical Remains. By B. Cullen. pp. 28. 11. An Abbey-Town of Ireland. (Illustrated). The Origin of Boyle. By The Right Rev. J.J. Kelly, D.D., V.G., Athlone. pp. 48. 12. The Rock and Ruins of Cashel. By John B. Cullen. pp.16. 13. The Convention of Drom-Ceat A.D. 590. By Most Rev. Dr. O'Doherty Bishop of Derry. Part II. pp. 23. 14. The Convention of Drom-Ceat A.D. 590. By Most Rev. Dr. O'Doherty Bishop of Derry. Part I. pp. 23. 15. Aileach of the Kings: A Brief Sketch of the History and Traditions of the Ancient Northern Residence of the Irish Kings. By Most Rev. Dr. O'Doherty, Bishop of Derry. pp. 31. 16. The Catholic Church in Ireland During the Nineteenth Century. By the Most Rev. Joseph Higgins, D.D., Lord Bishop of Rockhampton, Australia. pp. 30. 17. Catholic and Protestant Missions to the Heathen: With a few Indian Diamonds. By The Rev. Nicholas Walsh, S.J. pp. 39. 18. The Irish Church in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries. By The Rev. E.A. D'Alton. pp. 20. 19. The Irish Church in the Sixth Century. By E.A. D'Alton. pp. 15. Illustrated. Dublin: Catholic Truth Society of Ireland, [c.1900]. Contemporary quarter morocco on cloth, title in gilt on spine. Occasional some light spotting, otherwise a good copy. €145 166. [IRISH BOOK SHOP] Catalogue of Books on Ireland and of Irish Interest. Part I. Works in English. With appendix of first editions and index of authors. Dublin: The Irish Book Shop, 50, Lower Baggot Street, Christmas, 1916. pp. 48. Green stapled wrappers, title printed on upper cover. Staples rusty, otherwise a very good copy. €75 The Catalogue is laid out under the following categories: Poetry, Songs and Music, Plays, Essays and Criticisms, Fiction - General, Historical Fiction, Biography and Autobiography, Politics, Topography, Miscellaneous, Appendix Some First Editions, Index of Authors. A first edition of 's 'Dubliners' at the bargain price of 3/6. 167. [IRISH CATECHISMS] Irish Catechisms. "National Press" Leaflets (No 73). 1. - Ulster. London: National Press Agency, Limited, n.d. (c.1885). pp. 4. Table of populations of provinces on page 4 in a neat hand. Disbound. A very good copy. €65 This pamphlet gives population distribution by religious denomination (Catholic, Episcopalian, Presbyterian. Methodist, and Other) for the Counties of Ulster. 168. [IRISH CHURCH MISSIONS] Society for Irish Church Missions to the Roman Catholics. President: His Grace the Duke of Manchester. N.p, n.d. [Society for Irish Church Missions], [1850]. pp. 7. Disbound. A very good copy. Rare. €245 COPAC locates the TCD. The Society for Irish Church Missions to the Roman Catholics was founded during the famine of 1845- 47. This ostensibly religious society was also underpinned by social, political, and economic factors and by the mid 1850s the mission operated on a very substantial scale.

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This pamphlet includes an appeal for funds from the Bishop of Tuam for the West Galway Church Building Fund with a table of contributions already made. 169. [IRISH CONCERT] Royal Albert Hall. Under the Immediate Patronage of Her Majesty Queen Alexandra. Grand Irish Concert in aid of the Soldiers' Free Refreshment Buffets (London and Ireland) and National Milk Hostels. Vocalists: Miss Agnes Nicholls, Mr. Frederick Ranalow, Lady Maud Warrender, Mr. Gordon Cleather. Violinist - Mr. Albert Sammons. Massed Bands of the Brigade of Guards. Conductor - Lieut. A. Williams. Irish Pipers and Drummers. Organising Committee: The Countess of Limerick, The Lady Maud Warrender, The Lady Randolph Churchill, J.J. Bayley, Esq., Saturday, 18, March 1916 at 3p.m. Programme and Book of Words. Quarto. pp. 8. Green printed stapled wrappers. A very good copy. €45

See items 170, 176 & 177. 170. [IRISH FOLKTALE] Trulleflasten. Et Irlandt Folkeeventyr. [An Irish Folktale]. Written in Norwegian. Hand coloured illustrations. : Fr. D. Beyer, 1849. pp. 20. Stiff brown paper wrappers. Owner's signature on inside upper cover. Stain on lower cover, otherwise a very good copy. €145 No copy located on COPAC. 171. [IRISH FORESTERS] Irish National Foresters Benefit Society. London District, No. 8. Programme of a Grand Concert in aid of the Benevolent Fund, at Poplar Town Hall, on Monday, June 30th, 1924, at 8 p.m. London: Printed by F. Paltreyman, Poplar, 1924. pp. [7]. Printed on light green paper. A very good copy. €85 The Irish National Foresters' Benefit Society (Coillteoirí Náisiúnta na hÉireann in Irish) an Irish friendly society began in 1888. The I.N.F. began in 1877 as a breakaway from the Ancient Order of Foresters after political disagreements. The I.N.F. grew rapidly and soon became the largest friendly society in Ireland. It supported and its constitution called for "government for Ireland by the Irish people in accordance with Irish ideas and Irish aspirations." By 1914 the order had spread worldwide and had a quarter of a million members in over 1,000 branches. The influx of Irish labour into Scotland in the 19th century saw the movement gain a foothold, first in the west and later as far as the east coast. With the establishment of the and the gradual expansion of the social welfare system, the I.N.F. went into decline. At the time of writing, there are branches in Newry and Tullamore. 172. [IRISH INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION] Official Souvenir of Irish International Exhibition, Dublin, 1907. Illustrated. Dublin: Printed & Published by Hely's Limited, Dame St & Acme Works, Dame Court, 1907. Oblong octavo. pp. [2], [18 (plates)]. Green stapled printed wrappers. A very good copy. Very scarce. €175 The Irish International Exhibition (sometimes Dublin International) was a world's fair held in Dublin in 1907. The decision to hold the exhibition was taken at the Irish Industrial Conference in April 1903,

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and was inspired by the Cork International Exhibition. The main aim of the exhibition was to improve the trade of Irish goods. The leading force behind the project was William Martin Murphy, a prominent businessman and owner of the , Clerys Department Store, the Dublin United Transport Company and many other Irish and overseas ventures. Three million visitors attended the Irish International Exhibition from May to November 1907 at the 30-acre site we now know as , Ballsbridge. The focal point of the exhibition was an enormous central palace with four wings representing the . Massive losses of about £100,000 sterling were incurred, although this was underwritten by guarantors. As well as contributions from countries including Canada, France and New Zealand there were displays of motor cars, electric and gas lighting and machinery; fine art displays including work by Eva Henrietta Hamilton; funfair amusements; a display depicting life in British Somaliland, the 'Somali village', was the exhibition's most popular attraction. The pond at the end of the water chute is the only reminder of those days and the quiet groves and pathways in the park make it hard to imagine the hustle and bustle of those six months in 1907. 173. [IRISH LANGUAGE] A Collection of Eighteen Pamphlets on the Irish Language. 1. Fás Na Gaeilge An Ard-Chraobh . Baile Átha Cliath: n.d. pp. 11, Printed wrappers. 2. Náisiún Ar Ais - . Tralee: The Kerryman, n.d. pp. 8. Stapled wrappers. 3 Teanga Oifigiúil Duchais. By Tomás Ó Muircheartaigh. Baile Átha Cliath: Connradh na Gaedhilge, 1955. pp. 11. Printed wrappers. 4. The Facts About Irish. By Seán Ó Tuama. pp. 48. Pictorial wrappers. 5. Gléas Oideachais Aireachta na Gaedhilge. Educational Programme of Aireacht Na Gaedhilge. Sn. pp. 15. Wrappers. 6. Tomorrow is Too Late. By Ernest Blythe. Baile Átha Cliath: n.d. pp. 45, + adverts. Pictorial wrappers. 7. The Integral Irish Tradition. By Donnchadh Ó Floinn. Dublin: Gill, 1954. pp. 15. Pictorial wrappers. 8. The State and the Irish Language. By Ernest Blythe. Cathair na Mart: 1949. pp. 32. Printed wrappers. 9. What's This About the Gaelic League. By Professor Daniel Corkery. Baile Átha Cliath: Connradh na Gaedhilge, n.d. (c.1948). pp. 14. Printed wrappers. 10. Lessons from Modern Language Movements. What the Revival of Native Speech has done for Creativity Nationality and Home Power. By Liam P. O'Riain. New edition, revised and enlarged. Dublin: Mahon, 1926. pp. 43. Wrappers. 11. An Irish Mission to Ireland. By Rev. Sean Mac Guaire. Baile Áth Cliath: 1938. pp. 16. Wrappers. 12. The Necessity for the Gaelic League (A Statement of its Aims, Activities and Achievements), Baile Átha Cliath: 1937. pp. 8. 13. The Case for Irish. Baile Átha Cliath: Connradh na Gaedhilge, n.d. 14. You May Revive the Irish Language. Baile Átha Cliath: Conradh na Gaedhilge, n.d. (c.1937. pp. 38. 15. Irish Above Politics. By Máirtín Ó Cadhain. pp. 16. Printed wrappers. 16. The Restoration of Irish. By Martin Brennan S.J. Galway: O'Gorman, 1964. pp. 262-277. Printed wrappers. 17. The Will of A Nation Ireland's Crisis. By Eoin McKiernan. Minnesota: Patrick Butler Foundation, 1963. pp. 13. Printed wrappers. 18. Mr. Hill: Mr. Tara. By Máirtín Ó Cadhain. With map of Dingle . pp. 24. Coloured wrappers. €475 174. [IRISH LITANY] A.M.D.G. Old Irish Litany of the Blessed Virgin. Dublin: M.H. Gill and Son, 50, Upper Sackville-Street, 1880. pp. 16. Grey printed wrappers, illustration and old library stamp on upper cover. A very good copy. €125 COPAC locates 1 copy only.

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175. [IRISH QUESTION] The Irish Question: A Fourth Dilemma, By A Liberal. London: Alexander & Shepheard, 1886. pp. 14. Printed wrappers. A very good copy. €75 No copy located on COPAC. 176. [IRISH STORIES] Popular Irish Stories; a collection of the most interesting Tales and Legends of Ireland compiled from the best authors. New and Improved Series. No. 23. Glasgow: Printed for the Booksellers, 1850. pp. 24. Disbound. Pictorial titlepage. A good copy. €45 COPAC locates 4 copies. Includes: The Hermit turned Pilgrim; The Farmer and his Servant; The Three Advices; The Spaceman; The Priest and the Robber; Mac Turkhill; Anne Boney, the Female Pirate; James Butler; Jack Withers; The Generous Irishman; Paddy and the Priest; Ready Wit. 177. [IRISH STORIES] A Selection of Amusing and Entertaining Irish Stories, Compiled from Various Sources. New and Improved Series. No. 30. Glasgow: Printed for the Booksellers, 1850. pp. 24. Disbound. A near fine copy. Scarce. €45 COPAC locates 7 copies. Includes: Providence, or, The Shipwreck; Generous Revenge; The Little Dog; The Gain of a Loss; Good Company; Envy and Emulation; The Wanderer's Return; Difference and Agreement; Goods at Half Price. 178. [IRISH TALE] The Three Advices. An Irish Tale; To which is added The Silent Man. With a Variety of Anecdotes. Illustrated titlepage. Glasgow: W. & R. Inglis & Co., n.d. (c.1840). 12mo. pp. 24. Disbound. Stitched. A very good copy. €45 COPAC locates 6 copies. 179. [IRISH UNIONIST ALLIANCE] The New Home Rule and its Contemporary Associations and Considerations : Being Selections from the Current Publications of the Irish Unionist Alliance. Dublin: Published by the Irish Unionist Alliance 109 Grafton Street, 1906-7. pp. [4], 5-233. Green cloth, title in black on upper cover and spine. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. A very good copy. €95 COPAC locates 3 copies only. The present volume is intended as a Unionist handbook to the New Home Rule - the Subtle Home Rule by "instalments" which the present successors of Mr. Gladstone have invented and made their own, as an important on the old straightforward, if impossible, policy. Since the years 1886 and 1893 a new generation has reached manhood to whom the Old Arguments against Home Rule are not known. In deciding the forthcoming issue this new element will have its share. It is therefore well that the new generation should have an opportunity of studying how Unionists regard Home Rule, or any approach to Home Rule, and their reasons for strenuously opposing it. 180. [IRISH WHITE CROSS] Report of the Irish White Cross to 31st August, 1922. Prepared by Mr. W.J. Williams. Illustrated. Dublin: Martin Lester, n.d. (c.1923). pp. 142. Oliver green cloth. Title and Celtic cross in gilt on upper cover. Armorial bookplate of John J. Cantwell. Ex libris with stamps. A very good copy. Scarce. €265 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 Irish freedom 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, 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. Contains obituary notices of Archbishop William J. Walsh, Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins. The accounts in this report show that it had collected £1,374,795.

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See items 180 & 182. 181. IRVING, Washington. : A Biography. London: John Murray, 1849. pp. xv, [2], 18-382, [1]. Red cloth, title in gilt on spine. Blind-stamped on upper cover Murray's colonial home library. A good copy. €75 182. JACOBS, Joseph. Ed. by. Celtic Fairy Tales Selected and edited by Joseph Jacobs Late Editor of "Folklore". Illustrated by John D. Batten. Together with: More Celtic Fairy Tales Selected and edited by Joseph Jacobs. Two volumes. London: David Nutt, 1892. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1895. pp. (1) xiv, [2], 267, [1], (2) xii, [2], 234, [2]. Titles printed in red and black. Pictorial green cloth. A very good copy. €65 183. JAMES, G. P. R. [George Payne Rainsford] Mary of Burgundy, or, The Revolt of Ghent. Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1837. pp. viii, 334. Contemporary half maroon morocco on marbled boards, author, title and publisher in gilt on black morocco labels on spine. Signature of T.A. O'Gorman, dated May 14th 1843 on page one. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. €150 George Payne Rainsford James (1799-1860) was an English novelist and historical writer. He was for many years British Consul at various places in the United States and on the Continent. He held the honorary office of British Historiographer Royal during the last years of William IV's reign. In 1825 he wrote his first, and probably his best known novel Richilieu, which wasn't published until 1829. After reading Richilieu, and receiving a letter from James, Walter Scott advised him to take up literature as a profession. He was also given encouragement by Washington Irving. He was appointed Historiographer Royal during the last years of William IV's reign, and published several official pamphlets. In 1842 he lived at Walmer and was frequently a guest of the Duke of Wellington at Walmer Castle. In 1845 he went to Germany, partly for recreation and partly to gather material for his writings. On his return to England he lived for some time in Farnham, Surrey. He died in June 1860 from a stroke. He was buried in the cemetery at Isola di San Michele. The epitaph on his grave stone was written by his friend Walter Savage Landor. The epitaph reads: "George Payne Rainsford James. British Consul General in the Adriatic. Died in Venice on the 9th day of June, 1860. His merits as a writer are known wherever the English language is, and as a man they rest on the hearts of many. A few friends have erected this humble and perishable monument." In 1828 he married the daughter of Horatius Leigh Thomas, an important physician. After their marriage they lived in France, Italy, and Scotland. His wife survived him by 31 years, dying in Wisconsin in 1891. RARE BANDON PRINTING 184. JERMYN, David. Questions on Holy Scripture, And Answers to Same. Bandon: 1864. 12mo. pp. 36. Modern green wrappers. Signature of Thomas Crump on titlepage. Some foxing, soiling and scoring. Extremely rare. €250 No copy located on COPAC. WorldCat 1. 185. JONES, William Todd. Esq. A Letter to the Societies of United Irishmen of the town of Belfast, upon the subject of certain apprehensions which have arisen from a Proposed Restoration

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Catalogue 140 of Catholic Rights. Dublin: Printed by J. Chambers, Abbey-Street, 1792. pp. [ii], 98. Pale blue stitched wrappers, frayed at edges. A fine copy. Exceedingly rare. €475 COPAC locates 7 copies only. ESTC N19643. William Todd Jones, (1757-1818), political reformer, was born at , County Antrim. A protestant of the established church, he was much influenced in his youth by the Presbyterian and Quaker ethos of Lisburn and attended the academy there of Saumaraz Dubourdieu (1717- 1812), a protestant minister of Huguenot extraction. A fellow pupil was William Saurin. Jones received some of his education in Britain. He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn (1776) and called to the Irish bar in 1780, but never practised. Like most contemporaries of his class, Jones was an enthusiastic Volunteer, becoming a captain in the Lisburn Fusiliers. He was also a Freemason, a member of Lisburn lodge (no. 257). At the parliamentary elections of 1783, he and another Volunteer, William Sharman, successfully challenged the interest of Lord Hertford by standing as candidates for the potwalloping borough of Lisburn. Jones had only a small fortune (some land holdings) and no family influence, which made his victory momentous; his politics were those of the Lisburn Constitutional Club which organised his victory - parliamentary reform, by which was meant the independence of the Irish house of commons from both aristocratic proprietors and the administration. From 1783 he was a frequent writer of letters to Belfast newspapers. Indignant at the refusal of the house in November 1783 even to consider the reform bill of Henry Flood, Jones wrote a pamphlet, A Letter to the Electors of Lisburn (1784), proposing the uniting of the cause of reform with that of extending the franchise to catholics. 'The Catholics', he argued, 'are our brethren and are entitled to the rights of citizens; if we refuse them this extension, Ireland remains divided, with neither party strong enough to cope with external opponents or accomplish any considerable domestic reformation.' Jones was a delegate to the reform congress of Volunteers held at the Royal Exchange, Dublin (November 1784). Jones lost his parliamentary seat (April 1790) and failed to regain it at a new election in (March 1791). He remained a public figure. Like Rowan, he was a member of the Northern Whig Club which from its formation in February 1790 sought to reduce government influence on the Irish house of commons. On 14 July 1791, when celebrations of the fall of the Bastille were held in Belfast, Jones was chairman at a dinner of the Lisburn Friends to the French Revolution. He was one of the 18 men who at Doyle's tavern planned the Dublin Society of United Irishmen (7 November 1791), on which occasion he expressed the view that catholic franchise should be limited. But in this pamphlet, A Letter to the Societies of United Irishmen of the Town of Belfast upon the subject of certain apprehensions which have arisen from a proposed restoration of catholic rights (February 1792), he tried to allay protestant fears of and objections to catholic enfranchisement and asserted that the largely catholic Irish parliament of James II had 'pointed out the path to our present constitution' and so was 'worthy of imitation'. In appreciation the Catholic Committee included him and Theobald Wolfe Tone, whose influence on the pamphlet Jones acknowledged in a private letter, to a valedictory dinner given to Richard Burke, the former assistant secretary of the committee. It also awarded him £1,000 with a contingent £500, though he later stated that not all of this was paid. Uneasy at events in France and the radical direction taken by some Irish reformers, Jones was no longer active in politics after April 1792 and left Ireland. By July 1793 he had a house in London; he lived also in (near Wrexham). In August 1796 he was said by Francis Higgins to be apparently 'in great distress' and so the grantee of £100 from the Catholic Committee; in December 1797 he was said by Martha McTier to be in prison for a debt of £2,000. At the close of 1798, in a public letter, he distanced himself from the United Irish rebellion, declaring that he was glad the government had been able to maintain order and punish traitors. According to Lady Moira, who knew him well and received him at Castleforbes (October 1802), he sold his estates in Ireland for an annuity during his life but returned in 1802 to settle some business with the agent of Lord Downshire. There was another reason. When Sir Richard Musgrave, in his book on the Irish Rebellion (1801), alleged that Jones had supported catholic relief for 'sordid and sinister motives', Jones took offence and wrote an intemperate reply; Musgrave offered Jones a private apology but the quarrel was settled only by a duel at Rathgar, near Dublin, in which Musgrave was wounded (30 May 1802). Jones was also a guest at Kilmainham of James Dixon, a catholic of strong United Irish sympathies. By January 1803, Jones was staying at

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Clonakilty, Co. Cork, as the guest of a Dr Callanan. There he was arrested (2 August) and charged with high treason. Moira House in Dublin was raided on an official warrant and letters addressed to Jones seized. For the following 27 months he was held in a Cork prison and was released without being brought to trial (October 1805). His association with Dixon, who was arrested on suspicion of being connected with the rebel leader Robert Emmet, must have aroused suspicion about his loyalties. W. J. Fitzpatrick could only conclude about Todd Jones, 'there is no absolute evidence to show his guilt' (Secret service, 158). Why he was held, and for so long, is not easily explained. In his last years he lived with a sister at Rostrevor, Co. Down. Aged 63 and paralysed in one arm since his time in prison, William Todd Jones died 17 February 1818 at Rostrevor, two days after being thrown in a carriage accident. He was described in 1802 by a fellow-guest at dinner as 'a very genteel man . . . of the most extensive and learned information, of great anecdote, and a most interesting companion.' (Tone, Writings, i, 151, n.). SCARCE FIRST EDITION 186. JOYCE, James. Pomes Penyeach. Paris: Shakespeare & Co., 1927. First edition. Small 12mo. pp. [24] + errata. Original pale green papered boards, titled in black on upper cover. Price and printer in black on lower cover. With errata slip tipped in on lower pastedown. Slight sun- tanning to spine. A very good copy. €750 Slocum & Cahoon A24 Pomes Penyeach contains thirteen poems, beneath each poem is printed in italics the place and year of composition. Sylvia Beach and the author were in agreement that this book should be printed as "cheaply" as possible, consistent with the book's title and brilliant concept. The original price was a shilling (twelve francs). Just as Greek blue was James Joyce's colour of choice for Ulysses, an even more special colour Irish-Calville Apple, was chosen for this edition: "Colors were emblematic and symbolic for Joyce, who was very particular about this shade of green, which unfortunately fades fast!" ('Sylvia Beach and The Lost Generation', page 263). SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 187. 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 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).

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188. JOYCE, P.W. Irish Local Names Explained. Dublin: M.H. Gill and Son, 1902. pp. 107. Original green blind-stamped cloth. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. A very good copy. Scarce. €75 189. JOYCE, P.W. A Child's History of Ireland. Coloured frontispiece from The Book of MacDurnan. With numerous illustrations and folding map of Ireland. London: Longmans and Dublin: Gill, 1903. pp. xvi, 508, 4 (publisher's list). Green cloth with gilt Celtic designs and title. Presentation inscription from the Bibliographer John S. Crone on front free endpaper. New front endpaper. A very good copy. €65 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. 190. JOYCE, Weston St. John. The Neighbourhood of Dublin. Its Topography, Antiquities and Historical Associations. With Numerous Illustrations from the Author's Photographs & Sketches and an Introduction by P.W Joyce. Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son, 1939. Fourth edition. pp. xx, 512. Quarter green buckram on green papered boards, titled in gilt. A fine copy in frayed dust jacket with a few nicks. €95 191. JUDE [Dr. Foley of Limerick] Medicinal and Perfumery Plants and Herbs of Ireland. Illustrated with colour and mono plates. Dublin: Gill, 1933. pp. xxiv, 124. Blue cloth, titled in gilt. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. Very scarce. €175

See items 191 & 192. KAVANAGH'S FIRST WORK 192. KAVANAGH, Patrick. Ploughman and Other Poems. London: Macmillan, 1936. pp. 35. Printed stitched wrappers, a little sun-tanned and frayed, otherwise a very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €1,350 (1904-1967), poet and novelist, was born at Inniskeen, and educated locally. He worked on his father's small farm in the townland of Mucker, and for a time as a cobbler. He left school at thirteen and almost immediately began to 'dabble in verse'. George Russell recognised his talent and published three poems in The Irish Statesman. In 1936 Macmillan published his first book Ploughman and Other Poems, a collection of thirty-one poems written between 1930 and 1935, which contains some of his best. Inniskeen Road achieved great popularity: "A road, a mile of kingdom, I am king of banks and stones and every blooming thing." Kavanagh later called it 'a worthless kingdom'. This work demonstrates Kavanagh's growth from a schoolboy poet of the late

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1920's to an accomplished literary artist. Here the poet sees various truths revealed through such natural phenomena as the twisted furrows of fields, birds in song, or late blooming trees. 193. KEARNEY, Frederick. Industry and False Pride: A Treatise. Addressed to Irishmen at Home and Abroad. Dublin: Richardson & Son, and J. O'Daly, and New York: P.M. Haverty, n.d. pp. 56. Printed wrappers. A very good copy. Scarce. €85 No copy located on COPAC. 194. [KENEDY, P.J.] Publisher's List. Handsome Presentation Books. P.J. Kenedy, Publisher to the Holy Apolostic See. Excelsior Catholic Publishing House. 5 Barclay Street, New York City. Single sheet folded to six printed pages. 250 x 120mm. With one illustration. No date, but titles referenced suggest c.1880. Fine. €85 The publishing firm of P. J. Kenedy was founded in New York in 1866 as the successor firm to John Kenedy and Son on the death of John Kenedy. The firm was initially in the sole ownership of Patrick John Kenedy. In 1969 the firm was acquired by Macmillan Inc. of New York and the use of its name came to an end around 1982. 195. KENNEDY, John F. Welcome Aboard the Presidential Aircraft. Square octavo. pp. [16]. Stapled wrappers. Illustrated. In very good condition. €1,365 John F. Kennedy 's visit to Ireland was a truly historical event. This original pamphlet with the American Presidential Seal and Air Force One logo bears the signature of former President of Ireland, Eamon de Valera on upper cover during President Kennedy's visit to Ireland in June of 1963.

Originally purchased from the estate of a former pilot of Air Force One, who flew Kennedy to Ireland. The contents include: Comfort and Convenience; What makes an airplane fly; General operating procedures; Did you know? and Emergency procedures. John F Kennedy received a rapturous welcome on an emotional visit to his ancestral homeland in County Wexford. "When my great-grandfather left here to become a cooper in East Boston he carried nothing with him except two things - a strong religious faith and a strong desire for liberty" - John F. Kennedy. 196. KICKHAM, Charles J. Knocknagow or The Homes of Tipperary. Dublin: Gill, 1962. Thirty-fourth edition. pp. xvi, 620. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €65 Knocknagow describes the depopulation, through the working of greed and the Land Laws, of the fictional village of the title. Kickham's knowledge of the social issues involved and his skill in depicting with accuracy and sureness of touch, the lives, customs and characters of Knocknagow compel recognition and sympathy. Knocknagow provides a brilliantly successful panorama and an important source of social history which articulates much of the basic mentality of the modern Irish nationalist community. "Here was painted in touching and memorable fashion the virtues that this society prized, the emotions that it felt and the values that it exalted " R.V. Comerford.

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ANNA LA TOUCHE'S COPY 197. KIERNAN, Harriet. An Essay on the Influence of Fictitious History on Modern Manners. Dublin: Graisberry & Campbell, Printers to the Royal Irish Academy, 1814. Quarto. pp. [2], 37, [1]. Half green morocco over marbled boards. Signature of Anna La Touche, dated at Marley, 16 May, 1840, on front pastedown. A very good copy. €485 COPAC locates 2 copies only. Not in NLI. An offprint from the Royal Irish Academy Transactions, 12 (1815) pp. 261-97 A Prize Essay, by Miss Harriet Kiernan; title leaf added, pagination and signatures altered, and E2,4 originally cancels now reset. 198. [KILKENNY QUIT RENT] Quit Rent Receipt relating to Rent Paid on Land in the of Gowran, County of Kilkenny, dated January 1696. Vellum parchment, printed and with manuscript entries (180 x 140mm). Shows the crest of William and Mary with William's motto 'Je Meintien Dray' (I Will Maintain). The document is in good condition but with tear to centre of lower margin with minute loss.€245 It reads as follows: "Received of the Duke of Ormond by the hands of the Reverend Mr. Thos Way the sum of One Pound Four Shillings Sterling being for half years Quit Rent due to his Maj[es]tie at Easter (94) for Grange Logan rect. in the County of Kilkenny and Barony of Gowran. I say received this [?] day of January 1696 by me Thos Crawford [?] ... . Unique document relating to the period of the Williamite Settlement in Ireland following the Battles of the Boyne and Aughrim." 199. KING, Sir Charles Simeon. Bt. A Great Archbishop of Dublin William King. D.D. 1650- 1729. His Autobiography, Family and a Selection from his Correspondence. Edited by Sir Charles Simeon King. With portraits. Re-issue. London: Longmans, 1908. pp. xii, [2], 332, + errata. Blue cloth, Bishops mitre in gilt on upper cover, titled in gilt. A very good copy. €75 200. [KINGS COUNTY] Ordnance Survey of County Offaly [Kings County]. Based on O.S. 6" sheet index. Constraint maps compiled May 1988 by G. Stout, E. FitzPatrick, R.P. Dunford, and K. Daly. Sheets 1 to 47. Complete. Quarter linen on modern wrappers. A fine set. €1,500 Sites and Monuments Record Constraint Map. Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Office of Public Works. THE FINEST BOOK OF ITS TIME 201. KINSELLA, Thomas & . The Tain. Translated by from the Irish Táin Bó Cuailgne. Brush Drawings by Louis le Brocquy. Dublin: Dolmen, 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 frayed dust jacket with repair to spine ends, small stain on upper cover of jacket. A fine 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. 202. KNEEN, J.J. The Place-Names of the Isle of Man. With their Origin and History. With numerous folding maps. Reprinted by the Scholar Press for Yn Cheshaght Ghailckagh, (The Manx Society), 1973. Third edition. pp. xxiv, v-viii, 645. Green buckram, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A fine copy. €135 Originally published in 1925 in six parts. This is the third edition, with the six parts bound in one. 203. KNIGHT OF KERRY [Sir Peter George Fitzgerald] A Brief Argument against the present Law affecting Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister. Inscribed by permission to his Excellency the Earl of St. Germans, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. By the Knight of Kerry. London: Hatchard & Son, 187, Piccadilly, 1853. pp. 12. Modern marbled wrappers. Dusting to cover and final leaf. In very good condition. Extremely rare. €575

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COPAC locates 4 copies only. Sir Peter George FitzGerald, 1st Baronet, 19th Knight of Kerry (1808-1880) Anglo-Irish nobleman, was born and raised in the banking house of his maternal grandfather in Dublin. He was the eldest surviving son of the Right Hon. Sir Maurice FitzGerald, 18th Knight of Kerry of Gleanleam and his wife Maria, the daughter of the Right Honourable David la Touche of Marlay. FitzGerald entered the civil service and was appointed Vice-Treasurer of Ireland in the last ministry of Sir Robert Peel. In 1849, he succeeded his father and resided almost constantly on , devoting himself indefatigably to the duties of an Irish landlord, the improvement of his estates, and the welfare of his tenantry. He especially earned the thanks of the people by the erection of substantial homesteads in place of the old and poorly-maintained cabins, with which the middleman system had covered the west of Ireland. FitzGerald manifested a keen interest in all questions which had a practical bearing on the progress or prosperity and, in contributions to The Times, he deprecated the censure which at that time and since was cast indiscriminately upon all Irish landlords. His own admirable personal qualities, his hatred of abuses, his engaging manners, and his generous nature, made him a great favourite with the peasantry. His hospitality at Glanleam was enjoyed by the Prince of Wales and other distinguished guests. The Atlantic cable had its British termination on his estates, and he evinced much public spirit and energy in connection with the successful laying of the cable. On 11 August 1838, FitzGerald married Julia Hussey, daughter of Peter Bodkin Hussey of Farranikilla House, County Kerry, a lineal descendant of the Norman family of Hoses, which settled on the promontory of Dingle in the thirteenth century. By this lady he had four sons and seven daughters. FitzGerald suffered from a dangerous malady and died on 6 August 1880. He was succeeded in the title and estates by his eldest son, Captain Maurice FitzGerald, who served with distinction in the Anglo- Ashanti wars, being present at the battles of Amoaful, Becquah, and Ordahau, and at the capture of Coomassie. INSCRIBED BY WILLIAM COBBETT SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO COBBETT 204. KNOX, Alexander. Essays on the Political Circumstances of Ireland, written during the Administration of Earl Camden; with an appendix containing Thoughts on the Will of the People and a Postscript now first published. London: Printed for the Author, by J. Plymsell, at the Anti- Jacobin Press, 1799. pp. xviii, 240. Contemporary half vellum on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Presentation copy from the author to Mr. William Cobbett. Long inscription in Cobbett's hand to the Churchwardens of Clifton. All edges yellow. A very good copy. €1,450 ESTC T92613 with 3 locations only in Ireland. WorldCat 1. Not in Gilbert. Bradshaw 7598. William Cobbett (1763-1835), essayist, politician, and agriculturist, was born at Farnham in Surrey, the son of a farm labourer. His early years were spent working on the farm with his father. He was largely self-taught and enlisted as a soldier in 1783. At Chatham depot he developed an extraordinary capacity for literary cultivation. He soon obtained promotion and joined the regiment in Nova Scotia, as a promising non-commissioned officer. In 1792 he submitted evidence of embezzlement against some of his officers and he withdrew to France to avoid reprisals. From there he went to Philadelphia where he opened a bookshop and became a publisher, on the Loyalist side. Cobbett was prosecuted for libel, then moved to New York and finally back to London in 1800, where he again opened a bookshop. He began Cobbett's Weekly Register in January 1802, which was continued until his death. Inscribed by Cobbett on the front free endpaper: "To Churchwardens of Clifton this volume is presented by me who has a great respect for Churchwardens generally, in the hope that a knowledge of the 'Political circumstances of Ireland' during the administration of Earl Camden may assist them in conducting the business of their own parish under any administration!!" The author of this work Alexander Knox (1757-1831), theological writer, was born at Derry and descended from the family of John Knox, the Scottish reformer. His alarm at the proceedings of the United Irishmen convinced him that: "any degree of popular reform would infallibly lead to complete democracy", and he finally became 'an unqualified supporter of the existing constitution'. A close friend of John Wesley and , he was private secretary to Lord Castlereagh during the rebellion of 1798 and afterwards. After the Union Castlereagh urged him to represent his native city, Knox, however retired from public life and devoted himself to theology and writing. The present work is a collection of papers intended in almost every instance for publication in newspapers or for circulation in the form of handbills. They were written at intervals between 1795 and 1797, in a bright, lively and popular style. This edition incorporates extra material. A primary source for the rise of the United Irishmen and the political transactions of that time.

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205. KNOX, Hubert Thomas. The History of the County of Mayo to the Close of the Sixteenth Century. With illustrations and three maps. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1908. First edition. Royal octavo. pp. xvi, 451. Original light brown buckram. Arms of the Bourke family of County Mayo in gilt on upper cover. Light fading to cover, otherwise a fine copy. Very scarce. €375 Prime historical reference work on the history of the County Mayo from the earliest times to 1600. It deals at length with the De Burgo Lordship of Connaught. Illustrated with a large folding detailed map of the county, coloured in outline. There are 49 pages of genealogies of the leading families of Mayo: O'Connor, MacDonnell Galloglass, Bourke MacWilliam Iochtar, Gibbons, Jennings, Philbin, Barret, Joyce, Jordan, Costello, etc. See illustration below.

206. [LAND OWNERS IN IRELAND] Return of Owners of Land of one acre and upwards, in the several Counties, Counties of Cities, and Counties of Towns in Ireland, Showing the names of such Owners arranged Alphabetically in each County; their addresses - as far as could be ascertained - the extent in Statute Acres, and the Valuation in each case; together with the number of Owners in each County of less than One Statute Acre in extent; and the total Area and Valuation of such properties; and the Grand Total of Area and Valuation for all Owners of property in each County ... to which is added a Summary for each Province and for all Ireland. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. Dublin: Printed by Alexander Thom, 1876. Large quarto. pp. vi, [2], 325, [1]. Original blue pebbled cloth, titled in gilt. All edges sprinkled. A very good copy. Very scarce. €475 With an introduction by B. Banks, Secretary, Local Government Board, Ireland, dated 20th April, 1876. 207. [LAND OWNERS IN IRELAND] Return of Owners of Land of one acre and upwards, in the several Counties, Counties of Cities, and Counties of Towns in Ireland ... Showing the owners alphabetically in each county, their addresses, acres, valuation etc. To which is added a summary for each province and for all Ireland. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1988. pp. viii, 325. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A fine copy. €85 Listed are the names of owners, addresses and acreage with valuation in each county in the year 1876. 208. LANE, T. O'Neill. Lane's English-Irish Dictionary (Foclóir Béarla-Gaedhilge). Compiled from the most Authentic Sources. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers and Walker. London: Nutt, 1904. First edition. ix, [7], 581 (double column), 11 (list of subscribers). Green pebbled cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €50 209. LANG. R.T. Ed. by. Black's Guide to Ireland. Fifth edition. Illustrated with Maps, Plans etc. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1902. pp. x, 162, 130 (adverts). Green cloth. A good copy. €75 210. [LANTERN READINGS] Lantern Readings. Ireland. No. 1. Dublin: Printed by O'Brien and Ards, Great Britain Street, n.d. (c.1890). pp. 46. Printed wrappers. A very good copy. Very rare. Extremely rare. €185 No Irish copy located on COPAC. Not in NLI. This book contains lecture notes to go along with sixty lantern slides depicting well known Irish beauty spots, such as Glendalough, Vale of Avoca, Lakes of Killarney, Blarney Castle, Sir Walter Raleigh's House, etc., etc. The printer's street address is interesting in that shortly after the 1891 death of Charles Stewart Parnell, the name was changed from 'Great Britain Street' to 'Parnell Street'.

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211. [] Ordnance Survey of County Laois. Based on O.S. 6" sheet index. Constraint maps compiled May 1989 by G. Stout, E. FitzPatrick, R.P. Dunford, and K. Daly. Sheets 1 to 37. Complete. Quarter linen on modern wrappers. A fine set. €1,500 Sites and Monuments Record Constraint Map. Archaeological Survey of Ireland. O.P.W. 212. LATIMER, W.T. Ulster Biographies, Relating Chiefly to the Rebellion of 1798. Frontispiece. Belfast: James Cleeland, 1897. pp. [vi], 112. Red faded cloth, title in black on upper cover and along spine. Previous owner's signature on half title. A very good copy. €45 213. LATIMER, W.T. Ed. by. A Farther Impartial Account of the Actions of the Men, written by Capt. William M'Carmick, one of the first that took up Arms in Inniskilling, for the Defence of that Place, and the Protestant Interest. (Licensed June 17th, 1691). Edited by W.T. Latimer, B.A. Belfast: James Cleeland, Dublin: William Magee, Dungannon: Richardson & Sons, 1896. pp. [iv], 54. Printed decorative wrappers. A very good copy. €85 No copy located in COPAC. 214. LAWRENCE, W. Ireland in the Magic Lantern. List of Photographic Lantern Slides. Dublin: Printed at The Freeman's Journal for W. Lawrence, 5, 6 & 7 Upr. Sackville St., Dublin. n.d. (c.1891). pp. [ii], 26. Original stiff coloured printed wrappers, staples rusted. Faint small stain in centre of upper blank margin, not objectionable, otherwise a good copy of an ephemeral and very scarce item. Extremely rare. €285 No copy located on Copac. Not in NLI. Arranged by subject, including topographic views (arranged by county), jails, prisons, lecture sets, comic scenes of Irish life and character, scenes of evictions, religious/secular paintings, Book of Kells, portraits, the Irish Parliamentary Party 1890, etc., in all as much a social comment as a valuable listing. On the 20th March 1865 at the age of 24 William Mervin Lawrence opened a Photographic Studio opposite the G. P .O. at Sackville Street. Over the years the studio successfully photographed the length and breadth of Ireland from Head to Achill Head and from Malin Head to . The Lawrence Collection consists of 40,000 glass plates mainly from the period 1880-1914, but some plates go back to 1870. Lawrence was not himself a photographer, but an early entrepreneur. At that time his brother, John Fortune Lawrence, took stereo photographs and William took a keen interest in them, and took over the sales. He employed a team of printers, artists (colourists and retouchers). In 1880 when the dry plate process came in William Lawrence employed Robert French as his chief photographer. French was born in Dublin and spent some time working in the Royal Irish Constabulary, then joined Lawrence Studio, and he worked his way up as printer, artist and then assistant photographer. He took over 30,000 photographs of the "Lawrence Collection". 215. LEAKE, Robert, M.P., Ed. by. The Conquest of Ireland: its Destruction of Irish Liberties, its Influence on Irish Character, and its Ruin of Irish Fortunes. A Young Man's Essay. Written for the Debating Society of the Manchester Athenæum, February 20th, 1850. Edited by Robert Leake, M.P., April, 1886. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., and Manchester: A. Ireland and Co., 1886. pp. 20. Disbound. A very good copy. €165 COPAC locates 6 copies. 216. LEES, Reverend Harcourt. L'Abeja; or, a Bee among the Evangelicals. [Dublin]: n.p., 1820. pp. 20. Early owner's signature, dated November 1820, on titlepage. Disbound. A very good copy of this extremely rare pamphlet. €150 No copy located in COPAC. The Reverend Harcourt Lees (1776-1852) was a clergyman and political pamphleteer on behalf of Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. He is best known for his strongly worded pamphlets, including L'Abeja and The Antidote attacking Roman Catholicism. 217. LEVER, Charles James. Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings and Ponderings in Many Lands: Edited by His Friend, Harry Lorrequer, and illustrated by George Cruikshank. Three volumes. London: Henry Colburn, 1844. First edition. pp. (1) [iv], 290 (2) [iv], 320 (3) [iv], 328, [i (errata)]. Bound in full purple morocco, covers ruled in gilt, spines divided into six panels by five gilt raised bands, title and volume number in gilt direct in the second and third, the remainder tooled with a gilt floral device; board edges and turn-ins ruled in gilt; cream endpapers. Top edge gilt. A very attractive copy. Exceedingly rare. €375

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COPAC locates 7 copies only. Loeber L149. Charles James Lever, (1806-1872), novelist, was born in Dublin, and educated at TCD and Göttingen, where he studied medicine. After graduation he spent four or five years in the backwoods of North America. Returning to Ireland, he practised medicine in Kilrush, County Clare, and other towns, collecting material for his stories of rural life. His experiences included working through the cholera epidemic of 1832. Then, after a few years in practice in Brussels, he returned to Dublin and edited the Dublin University Magazine from 1842 to 1845, and gathered around him the most eminent literary men in Ireland - William Carleton, , Isaac Butt, and Lady Wilde. He had already published several novels, including Harry Lorrequer (1840) and Charles O'Malley (1841), for which he is now best remembered. He then went again to the Continent, eventually settling at La Spezia, and writing all the time. In 1852 he was appointed vice-consul at La Spezia by Lord Derby and in 1867 promoted to consul at Trieste, where he died on 1 June 1872. Lever met a number of Peninsular and Waterloo officers in his wanderings on the Continent, and their experiences enabled him to give life and colour to his army stories. His Irish novels helped to create the tradition of the rollicking devil-may-care young Irishman overflowing with animal spirits. Originally published in the Dublin University Magazine (Jan.-Dec. 1843) as The Loiterings of Arthur O'Leary. Lever's hero Harry Lorrequer writes about O'Leary's adventures. O'Leary discovers and burns this version, furnishing in its place a collection of fragments that Lorrequer then uses to construct the story of O'Leary. The novel is really a string of adventures of the hero in various parts of the world including Canada, Belgium, France and Germany. Included are descriptions of student life in Germany and stories of the Napoleonic wars. Partly based on Lever's own experiences in North America. Our set contains half-titles to volumes 2 and 3 [The BL copy listed on COPAC has also half titles to those volumes]. Illustrated with ten full-page black and white drawings by George Cruikshank. HAND-COLOURED COPY 218. [LEWIS, R.] The Post Chaise Companion: or Traveller's Directory through Ireland. Containing a new and accurate Description of the Direct and principal Cross Roads, with particulars of the Noblemen & Gentlemen's Seats, Cities, Towns, Parks, Natural Curiosities, Antiquities, , Ruins, Manufactures, Locks, Glens, Harbours, &c. &c. Forming an Historical & Descriptive Account of the Kingdom. To which is added, A Dictionary, or Alphabetical Tables. Shewing the distance of all the Principal Cities, Boroughs, Market and Sea Port Towns, in Ireland from each other. Dublin: For the Author, No. 6, Dame Street, 1786. First

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See items 218 & 223. MONUMENTAL WORK ON IRELAND 219. [LIBER MUNERUM] Liber Munerum Publicorum Hiberniae, 1152 - 1827; or The Establishments of Ireland, from the Nineteenth of King Stephen to the Seventh of George IV. During a period of Six hundred and seventy-five years. Being The Report of Rowley Lascelles, of the Middle Temple, Barrister at Law. Extracted from the Records and other Authorities, by Special Command, pursuant to an address, An. 1810 of The Commons of the . With numerous folding tables. Two volumes. London: Ordered to be printed, 1824/52. Thick imperial folio. General title page in red and black (no titlepage to second volume). Modern half brown morocco on marbled boards, titled in gilt. Small neat oval library stamp on titlepage. Very rare. €1,500 The Liber Munerum consists of separately paginated sections totalling 1,749 pages. It was first undertaken to be printed under the direction of the Irish Record Commission, in 1812, from a collection of manuscript books, formed by Mr. Lodge, from the Patent and Close Rolls. In the same year, Mr. B.T. Duhigg, of the King's Inns, who had collected further materials for extending the subjects of Mr. Lodge's volumes, was appointed Sub-Commissioner. In 1813, Mr. Rowley Lascelles, of the Middle Temple, was also appointed Sub-Commissioner, and he was directed to carry out the work. As a result of a dispute with the Commissioners he returned to England about 1820 and agreed with the Government in 1822 to edit the lists independently of the Commission at an annual salary of £500. He continued in this employment until 1830, during which time, the printing was on-going. As he had added considerable extra material to Lodge's lists, which was never intended, his contract was terminated. The work was finally published in 1852. The contents include: The Peerage of Ireland; Lodge's Patentee Officers - Civil Affairs - Law,

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Revenue, and Public Defence; The Patents of Office, Peerage, and Benefice; The Privy Seals, King's Letters, Sign Manuals; The Succession of Dignitaries, including all Grants to the Church that are to be found on the Patent Rolls of Chancery in Ireland; Lodge's Parliamentary Register; Res Gestae Anglorum in Hibernia; The Church Establishment; The Establishments of Ireland from the Statutes and from The Lords Journals. LIMERICK AIRS BY MICHAEL HOGAN 220. [LIMERICK AIRS] The Limerick Lasses. Garryowen. Two broadsheet ballads from Alderman Gaffney's 'Historical Manuscript,' Feb., 1893. With original music scores and words in manuscript attached. Limerick ? circa 1893. In very good condition. €275 The ballads are captured with an historical introduction: The Limerick Lasses - Failing, after great research, to find the original words (if ever there were any) to the above named old Limerick Musical Air, I requested our local and distinguished Poet, Mr. Michael Hogan, the Bard of Thomond, to write some appropriate words to suit the music; he has kindly responded, in the following truthful telling verses. - From Alderman Gaffney's Historical Manuscript, Feb., 1893. Garryowen. [The source of its name, song, and general history] "Garryowen" is in the south eastern portion of Limerick City to the east of St. John's Square, the Catholic Cathedral, St. John's Protestant Church immediately at the rere of St. John's Fever Hospital - bounding and overlooking Killalee grave- yard and St. Patrick's Well - to the east, the old stone walls surrounding the Garden are eight feet high, and are in fairly good condition at the present day: the name 'Garryowen' is derived from Garry, (the Irish for garden), and Owen, the tenant, [who kept a 'dram shop thereon]. 'Twas here ["Garryowen"] the "Boys" of North and South, Limerick City, habitually assembled to take their "Pot" and wind up in a row - culminating in "a boozy fight" (or battle) in support or illustration of the prowess of their respective districts -"Thomondgate" North, and "Garryowen" South City. The Church Commissioners are the head Landlords; Mr. John O'Halloran of Ballycunneen, Bunratty, is middleman; and Mr. James , [horse dealer], City, is the present occupying tenant of the "Garden" proper. From Alderman Gaffney's Historical Manuscript, Feb., 1893. 221. [LIMERICK] The Articles of Limerick, Are Not, Were Not, Violated. Dublin: Printed for Richard Moore Tims, 1825. pp. 33, [1]. Printed stitched wrappers. Untrimmed. In very good condition. Extremely rare. €375 COPAC locates 4 copies only. No printed version on WorldCat. The unknown author sets out to examine "The ill founded, false, and dishonest charge of a breach of the Articles of Limerick ... The Violation of the public Faith, as if it had been pledged by the Articles of Limerick, is a charge which the acrimonious demagogues and agitators of Ireland bring for the purpose of inflaming the Roman Catholics against the Protestants of Ireland." The whole purpose of this pamphlet was to safeguard the Protestant interest. He goes through the various articles of the original Treaty of Limerick and sets forth his argument against the Catholic claims: "It is appears that in the reign of Charles II, penal laws respecting the Religion of the Roman Catholics were in full force - Mr. [John] Curry, one of a numerous tribe of false accusers, proves that the Act of Uniformity was rigorously enforced in the time of the Stuarts." He goes on to state that Irish lawyers in the reign of James I who did not take the Oath of Supremacy were forbidden to practice and that at the time of the restoration it was the opinion of the wisest men, that Roman Catholics were excluded by Law, from seats in Parliament, because they would not take the Oath of Supremacy. He concludes that the Legislature acted only in self defence "and that there was not a shadow of obligation to restrain the Government or Parliament in providing for the safety of the State." THE SCARCE BEST EDITION 222. LODGE, John Esq. The Peerage of Ireland, or, A Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom. With engravings of their paternal Coats of Arms. Collected from the Public Records; authentic Manuscripts; approved Historians; well-attested Pedigrees; and personal Information. Revised, enlarged and continued to the present time by Mervyn Archdall, Rector of . With list of subscribers. Seven volumes. Dublin: James Moore, 45 College Green, 1789. Bookplates of Catharine F. Boyle and Richard M. England. Early signature of Elizabeth Sheilds, Woodpark on titles. Contemporary full tree calf. Spines professionally rebacked at the Abrams Bindery. All edges green. A very good set. Scarce. €1,475 Mervyn Archdall is to Lodge, what Harris was to Ware, in as much as he revised and greatly expanded the work from four to seven volumes taking four years to complete his edition. Many of Lodge's

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valuable notes were left in cipher, and the credit for decoding them lies with Mrs. Archdall, a remarkable woman, who enabled her husband to carry out his extension of this work. Mr. Rowley Lascelles in his compilation of the Liber Munerum [See item 219] drew largely from John Lodge's collection of manuscripts of the Patent and Close Rolls. 223. [LONDONDERRY, Marquis of] Sudden Death of the Most Noble Marquis Londonderry. A single sheet broadside, 179 x 255mm, printed on one side only (double column) on light paper. Nottingham: C.S. Ordoyno, Printer, n.d. (c.1822). A very good copy. Extremely rare. €245 No copy located in COPAC. Robert Stewart (1769-1822) Second Marquess of Londonderry, better known as Lord Castlereagh, was a noted statesman and diplomat. He is best remembered as Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom from 1812 to 1822 and he played an important role at the Congress of Vienna of 1814 to 1815. He purchased the Cape Colony and Ceylon from the Netherlands and worked to abolish the international slave trade. He committed suicide in 1822, as described in this broadside, one year after succeeding his father in the title. See illustration above. This broadside was printed from an article in the Statesman, Monday, Aug. 12, [1822]. 224. [LYRA GERMANICA] Lyra Germanica: Hymns for the Sundays & Chief Festivals of the Christian Year. Translated by Catherine Winkworth. With Illustrations by and Engraved under the Superintendence of John Leighton. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861. Quarto. pp. xx, 272. Full blind stamped morocco to an arabesque design over bevelled boards. Spine divided into six panels by five hatched raised bands, title in gilt direct in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt with a floral device; green and gold double-endbands; comb-marbled endpapers; edges of leaves cross-gauffered. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Some minor wear to extremities. A near fine copy in a fine binding. €150 225. M'CAHAN, Robert. The Life and Poetry of James Stoddard Moore. The Glens of Antrim Poet. Portrait of M'Cahan on upper cover. Coleraine: Northern Constitution. n.d. pp. 44. Blue pictorial wrappers. Repair to top margin of upper cover. A good copy. Scarce. €75 226. MACALISTER, R.A.S. Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum. Illustrated with numerous plates and diagrams. Two volumes. Dublin: Stationery Office and Press, 1945/1996. pp. (1) [vi], xvii, [1], 515, [1]; (2) [x], xvii, [1], 515. Maroon and green buckram, titled in gilt. A very good set. Scarce. €245 This work includes copies of all known inscriptions in the Irish language, whether in Ogham 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. 227. McARDLE, Dorothy. Earth-Bound. Nine stories of Ireland. Worcester: Harrigan Press and Dublin: Emton Press, 1924. First edition. pp. 108. Quarter blue cloth on marbled boards, title in blue on upper cover and on printed label on spine. A very good copy. Very scarce. €275 Dorothy Macardle (1889-1958) was a member of the Gaelic League and later joined Cumann na mBan in 1917. In 1918 she was arrested by the R.I.C. while teaching at Alexandra College. She was eventually dismissed in 1923, towards the latter end of the , because of her anti- Treatyite sympathies and activities. When the republican movement split in 1921-22 over the Anglo- Irish Treaty Macardle sided with Eamon de Valera and the anti-Treaty Irregulars. She was imprisoned by the fledgling Free State government in 1922, during the Civil War and served time in both Mountjoy and Kilmainham Gaols, where she wrote this collection of stories dedicated to fellow Republican prisoners Iseult (Gonne) Stuart, Sighle Humphreys, Rosamund Jacob, Lily O'Brennan, Teresa O'Connell, Eithne Coyle, Nora Connolly and other fellow members of Cumann na mBan. AE'S COPY 228. MACAULAY, Lord. Lays of Ancient Rome with Ivry and the Armada. New edition. London: Longmans, Green, 1877. pp. 167, 12. Brown cloth, title in gilt on rebacked spine. George Russell's copy with his signature on front free endpaper. Loosely inserted is an envelope with his signature and an address presumably to visit on a Sunday night. A very good copy. €125

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229. MACAULAY, Lord. Oliver Goldsmith. Wolverhampton: Department of Printing, College of Art, 1963. pp. 16. Titlepage printed in red and black. Maroon cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. A fine copy. €35 230. MACAULEY, E.W. A Pamphlet on the Difficulties and Dangers of A Theatrical Life. By E. W. Macauley, Late of the Theatre Royal, Crow-Street. Dublin: Printed by Fortune and Blyth, 29, Essex-Street, 1810. pp. [ii], 27, [3]. Original blue stitched wrappers. Some dusting to corners. A good copy. Extremely rare. €375 COPAC locates the OX and BL copies only. WorldCat 2. Not in NLI. SIGNED BY MAUD GONNE MacBRIDE 231. MacBRIDE, Maud Gonne. A Servant of the Queen. Reminiscences. Dublin: Golden Eagle Books, 1950. New edition. pp. 319. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Signed presentation copy from Maud Gonne MacBride to Mr Frank McCarthy, dated 5th August '58 on front endpaper. A very good copy in repaired dust jacket. €285

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. 232. McCARTHY, F.W. Cork. The Official Publication of the Corporation. Illustrated. Published for the Corporation by The Health Resorts Association, London and Cork, 1909. Oblong octavo. pp. 48 (including adverts). Stamp of Town Clerk's Office Cork and Wilkie & Son, Stationers, on upper cover. Stitched wrappers. A very good copy. €45 233. MacCARTHY, Mary. Fighting Fitzgerald and Other Papers. Illustrated. London: Martin Secker, 1930. pp. 230. Red cloth, titled in black. Light spotting to fore-edges. A fine copy. €65 George Robert Fitzgerald, a noted duellist and lawless criminal, better known by his pseudonym 'Fighting Fitzgerald', was born at Turlough House, County Mayo in 1748. He was educated at Eton and commanded a local corps of Volunteers. He mourned for his first wife who died young in an extravagant manner but not so long afterwards married again. His exploits are legendary: hunting by torchlight, terrorising his friends by keeping bears and other ferocious animals as pets, held his father to ransom for the sum of £3,000. Four years after the publication of the present work he was executed at Castlebar for the murder of his neighbour. Patrick Randle McDonnell, an attorney. 234. McCORMICK, John. The Conditions of Labour and Modern Civilization. Toronto: Bell & Co., 1880. pp. 51. "Discarded" stamp of Legislative Library on titlepage. Disbound. A very good copy. Scarce. Extremely rare. €95 COPAC locates 1 printed copy only.

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FIRST IN ENGLISH - WITH O'DOWLEY'S CATECHISM 235. MacCURTIN, H. The Elements of the Irish Language, Grammatically Explained in English. In 14 Chapters. With: Suim Bhunudhasach an Teaguisg Chriosdaidhe, a bpros agus a ndan. Adorned with elegant woodcut devices. Printed at Lovain, By Martin van Overbeke near the Halls, Anno, 1728. pp. [4], 96, [5], 102-158, [2 (Approbatio Censoris)]. In two parts, the second in Irish, with a separate titlepage, but with continuous pagination and register. With a final imprimatur leaf. Later half blind-stamped calf, title in gilt on maroon morocco label in the second panel, most of the first panel lacking. Ex libris William O'Brien Milltown Park Trust, with bookplates and stamp. A very good copy. Very rare in commerce. €1,250 ESTC T90681. WorldCat 2. The author Hugh MacCurtin (Aodh Buí Mac Cruitín) 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 Kilkee. On his return to Dublin he was working with Swift on an Irish Historiographical work, which did not appear. He published in 1717 A Brief Discourse in Vindication of the Antiquity of Ireland. 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. With the assistance of Fr. Morphy of the , 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. Also contained at the end of this work, with its own sub-title page is John O'Dowley's catechism: Suim Bhunudhasach an Teaguisg Chriosdaidhe a bpros agus a ndan, which was first printed at Louvain in 1663. This catechism was wrongly ascribed to O'Hussey, by Dix and the D.N.B. The error arose from the fact that O'Dowley's catechism contains a poem by O'Hussey, which appeared in his An Teagasg Criosdaidhe, published in Louvain in 1608, reprinted Antwerp, 1611. 236. MacDONAGH, Michael. Irish Life and Character. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1898. pp. viii, 382, 2 (publisher's list). Green worn cloth, title in gilt on spine. Mudie's library label on upper cover (partly torn). Top edge gilt. A good copy. €45 The contents include: The Old Irish Squire;- Duelling; Faction Fighting; Law Courts; Irish Humour; Love Making in Ireland; The Ulster Irishman; The Irish Beggar; Irish Colloquialisms and Proverbs; The Sunniness of Irish Life, etc. 237. MacDONNELL, Eneas. The Roman Catholic Oath illustrated by Roman Catholic Authorities and Lord John Russell's Resolution illustrated by extracts from Speeches of its Proposer and Supporters. London: Edward Churton, 1835. pp. 16. Disbound. In very good condition. Exceedingly rare. €195 COPAC locates 6 copies only.

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Eneas MacDonnell (1783-1858), barrister, pamphleteer, and agent of the Catholic Association, was born in County Mayo, fourth son of Charles MacDonnell, a merchant of Clonagh, Westport, and his wife Jane (née Miller). He was educated at the Lay College, Maynooth (opened 1802), and called to the Irish bar in 1810, whereupon he began practising on the Connacht circuit. He entered politics at Castlebar, where on 17 September 1810 he gave a lengthy address (published in the Dublin Evening Post) to a Mayo county meeting called to promote a petition for catholic relief. Until 1815 he was editor of the Cork Mercantile Chronicle; he then set up, in the interest of the Catholic Association, the Dublin Chronicle. It was 'a spirited but never a very influential newspaper' (Inglis) and, as the only Dublin paper not receiving a government subsidy, lasted two years (June 1815 to August 1817). MacDonnell's ownership of the Dublin Chronicle brought him a conviction for libel in the court of king's bench (May 1816), which may have hastened the paper's demise and the decline of the Catholic Association. He was also imprisoned in 1828 on an action taken by Archbishop Trench of Tuam. A prolific pamphleteer and advocate of the Catholic Association which he represented in London as parliamentary agent. Lord Norbury seeing him leave Archbishop Troy's house said: "There's the pious Eneas coming from the 'sack' of Troy." This tract was submitted to the consideration of the Roman Catholic members of Parliament. 238. MacDONNELL, Eneas. The Roman Catholic Oath. Illustrated by Roman Catholic Authorities and Lord John Russell's Resolution. Illustrated by extracts from speeches of its proposer and supporters. Submitted to the consideration of the Roman Catholic Members of Parliament by Eneas MacDonnell, Esq. London: Edward Churton, Library, Holles Street, Cavendish Square, 1835. pp. 16. Disbound. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €245 COPAC locates 7 copies. Eneas MacDonnell qualified at law but did not practise, and strongly supported Daniel O'Connell and the Catholic Association in many pamphlets. 239. McDONNELL, Joseph. Five Hundred Years of The Art of The Book in Ireland. 1500 to the Present. Illustrated with superb coloured plates. London: Holberton for the National Gallery of Ireland, 1997. Quarto. pp. 175, [1]. Red cloth, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in colour pictorial dust jacket. €85 We are delighted to be associated with this book, which includes one of our own publications Flowers of Mayo that won 'The Overall Book of the Year Award' in 1995. For the first time the extraordinary richness and variety of the art of the book in Ireland during the last five hundred years are revealed in this volume. Originally published to accompany an important exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland, the book explores the bindings and calligraphy and titlepage design of Irish printed books and manuscripts. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 240. McGAHERN, John. Memoir. London: Faber and Faber, 2005. pp. [viii] 272. Green papered boards, title in gilt on spine. Signed by John McGahern on titlepage. A very good copy in dust jacket. €165 One of the greatest works by this supremely gifted writer, sadly no longer with us. This is certain to become one of the most sought after of his editions. 241. MacGIOLLA-DOMHNAIGH, Padraig. Some Anglicised Surnames in Ireland. Dublin: Gael Co-operative Society, 1923. pp. 64. Stiff green wrappers, title printed on upper cover within a red ruled border. A very good copy. €45 The Gaelic origin of many Surnames, that in the present day wear an Anglicised appearance, is clearly shown in this informative and intensely interesting publication. 242. [McGLENNON, Felix] Stage Jokes for Irish Comedians. McGlennon's Standard Series No. 27. London: Felix McGlennon Ltd., n.d. pp. 32. Pictorial stapled wrappers. A good copy. Very scarce. €150 243. McGUIRE, James. & QUINN, James. Ed. by. Dictionary of Irish Biography. Volumes 10 and 11. Two volumes. Cambridge: University Press, 2018. Green cloth, title in gilt on black panels on upper covers and spines. A fine set. €200 Published in collaboration with the Royal Irish Academy, The Dictionary of Irish Biography is the most comprehensive and authoritative biographical reference work available both in print and online

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for Ireland. Bringing the collection up-to-date, Volumes 10 and 11 include substantial and original biographical articles on a variety of important figures in the recent Irish past. Most notably discussed are the novelist John McGahern, politicians Charles J. Haughey, David Ervine and Mo Mowlam, the footballer George Best, the businessman Tony Ryan, the journalist and writer Nuala O'Faolain, the architect Sam Stephenson, the snooker player Alex Higgins, and the comedian Dave Allen. This is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in this period and covers over 600 prominent figures in recent Irish history. 244. McHUGH, Roger. Ed. by. Dublin 1916. London: Arlington Books, 1966. pp. xix, 399. Green papered boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €65 This vivid and exciting anthology captures Easter Week in Dublin, and the events that led up to the Rising, as fully and completely as possible, looking back after half a century. With chapters on: Attempt by the Sea - Casement's Last Expedition, Robert Monteith's Story - Arms off the Kerry Coast; The Events of Easter Week; Easter Week Diary of Miss Lilly Stokes; Dublin Rebellion from 'Preston Herald'; A Nurse in Dublin Castle; Countess De Markievicz; A Student of the Rising - Ernie O'Malley; Innocent Bysinger Inside Trinity College; One Man's Easter Week - Commandant Andy McDonnell; Inside the GPO.; The Surrender - Elizabeth O'Farrell; Dubliners Statements concerning Civilian Deaths; Sean O'Casey's Easter; The Executions - Max Caulfield; A Pacifist Dies - Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington; Aftermath - Patricia Lynch - Sylvia Pankhurst; Seven Poems - W.B. Yeats; Three Poems - and James Stephens; News in Exile - Mary Colum, etc. "IN MEMORY OF THOSE GOLDEN DAYS IN GALWAY ..." 245. MacLIAMMHÓIR, Micheál. Diarmuid agus Gráinne. Dráma Trí nGníomh. Oifig Díolta Foilseacháin Rialtais, 1935. First edition. Frontispiece of a stage setting, evidently by MacLiammhóir. Black cloth gilt. With a superb inscription on front free endpaper to [Prof.] Liam Ó Briain, 'Duit-se, a Liaim, a chara ionmhuin, -- i gcuimhne ar na laethanna órdha úd i nGaillimh, Samhradh 1928 -- agus mo ghrádh leis, Micheál 1936.' ['For you, Liam, close friend - - in memory of those golden days in Galway, Summer of 1928, and with my love.']. With a fine signature. A very good clean copy. €475 Liam Ó Briain [1888-1974] was a very distinguished scholar and patriot. Born in Dublin, he won the first National University travelling studentship in 1911, and studied in Germany and Paris. In 1914 he was appointed lecturer in French at UCD. He joined the Irish Volunteers, took part in the Howth gun- running, and in the Rising he fought in St Stephen's Green. He was interned in Frongoch with Michael Collins and others until the general release [see his memoir Cuimhní Cinn]. In 1917 he was appointed Professor of Romance Languages at UCG. He was a Sinn Fein candidate in the 1918 general election, and in 1920 was a judge in the Sinn Fein courts - an illegal activity under British rule, for which he was jailed for a year. He took the Treaty side in 1922, and retired from active politics soon afterwards. Returning to university in Galway, he was one of the founders of the Irish-language theatre Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe, which opened in 1928 with Micheál Mac Liammhóir's retelling of the Diarmuid agus Gráinne legend from . In this opening presentation, Ó Briain himself took the part of the aged warrior Fionn Mac Cumhaill, while the author

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Mac Liammhóir was the young champion Diarmuid Ó Duibhne. Gráinne's part was taken by the Connemara singer Máire ní Sgolaidhe. What a start for a new theatre! Mac Liammhóir, then at the start of his career, soon moved to Dublin, where he opened the Dublin with his partner Hilton Edwards and Lord Longford. Ó Briain remained mainly in Galway until he retired from his chair in 1959. 'Golden days', indeed. It is impossible to imagine a more appropriate work linking these two distinguished men, who remained life-long friends in spite of their differing outlook on many matters. 246. MacLIAMMHÓIR, Micheal. All For Hecuba. An Irish Theatrical Autobiography. Dublin: Progress House, 1961. New and revised edition. Pictorial wrappers. Inscribed on titlepage: "Do Eibhlín Óg le meas agus le gean ó shean-charaid léi darb ainm Micheál, Nollaig 1961." [For young Eibhlín with respect and love from an old friend named Micheál, Christmas 1961.] A well-read copy, some page corners turned. €75

'Eibhlín Óg' is Eileen O'Brien [1925-86], daughter and only child of MacLiammhóir's old friends [Prof.] Liam and Helen Ó Briain. As a journalist she worked for various papers before joining in 1965, where she wrote an influential column titled 'A social sort of column', focusing on the less-privileged in Irish society, and paving the way for younger writers such as Nell McCafferty and Kitty Holland. She also started the Tuarascáil section in Irish, which still continues forty years later. 247. MacLIAMMHÓIR, Micheal. Bláth agus Taibhse ['Flower and Spirit', prose poems in Irish]. Dublin: Sáirséal, 1964. First edition. Olive green cloth, decorated in gilt. Five monochrome plates and gilt cover design by author Inscribed on half-title: "Do Liam agus do Helen [Ó Briain] -- mo shean-cháirde dílse buana - óna gcaraid a scríobh an leabhrán seo -- le hómós agus le gean, Micheál 1965." [For Liam and Helen, my old and ever-faithful friends, from their friend who wrote this little book - with respect and with love']. A fine copy. €185

While MacLiammhóir spoke many languages fluently, it appears he wrote poetry only in Irish. This attractive work is unlike anything else in the literature of the Irish language, or indeed in Irish literature generally. 248. [MacLIAMMHÓIR, Micheál] Tennessee Williams. A Streetcar Named Desire. Cyclostyled playscript, no date, circa 1950s, evidently a stage manager/prompter's copy, extensively marked with stage directions in pencil and coloured inks, some at front possibly in MacLiammhóir's fluid hand. Lacks some pages of lighting directions at rear. €145 Provenance: Estate of Prof. Liam Ó Briain, probably from his friend Micheál Mac Liammhóir (the play was performed at the Gate in the 1950s).

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249. [MacLIAMMHÓIR, Micheál] J.-B. Lully. Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Comedie-Ballet en 5 Actes de Moliere. Partition pour Chant et Piano. Folio boards, n.d. [c. 1950]. [Musical score for piano and voice, to accompany a ballet version of Moliere's play]. Inscribed on front cover, 'Micheál Mac Liammhóir, Gate Theatre, Rotunda', also inscribed 'Abbey'. Further inscribed on front free endpaper, 'Gael-Linn Damer Hall 17-22/3/58 F. MacDiarmada'. Well-worn internally with various inscriptions. €95 Evidently a well-travelled script. Irish-language words have been written in under the French words on some pages; two pages of original musical manuscript have been tipped in at pp. 9/10. Provenance: Estate of Prof. Liam Ó Briain, probably from his friend Micheál Mac Liammhóir. Versions of Moliere's comedy have been performed in many Irish theatres over the years. 250. MacLOCHLAINN, Piaras F. Ed. by. Last Words. Letters and statements of the leaders executed after the Rising at Easter 1916. Illustrated. Dublin: Kilmainham Jail Restoration Society, 1971. pp. xii, 217. Grey black papered boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €75 A compilation of the last written words of the martyrs of Easter Week. It includes also statements, dispatches, and accounts of their last moments from their relatives or friends. 251. McMENAMY, William. A New Method of Calculating the Area of a Survey, Universally. Communicated by Mr. William Mc. Menamy, Master of the Marine-School, Dublin. Dublin: Printed by Graisberry & Campbell, Back-Lane, 1800. pp. 10, [1 (folded table)]. Recent green buckram, title in gilt along spine. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €365 No copy located on COPAC. WorldCat 1. Not in NLI. 252. M'CORMAC, Henry. On the Best Means of Improving the Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Classes; Being an Address delivered on the Opening of the First Monthly Scientific Meetings, of the Belfast Mechanics' Institute. By Henry M'Cormac. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Browne, and Green, 1830. pp. 24. Brown stitched plain paper wrappers. A very good copy. €125 COPAC locates 6 copies. 253. MacSWINEY, Terence. Teachings of Terence MacSwiney. By one of his comrades. Dublin: Published for Sinn Fein Bureau by Brian O'Higgins, n.d. (c. 1930). pp. 34. Colour illustrated stitched wrappers. Covers lightly tanned, otherwise a very good copy. Scarce. €75 COPAC locates 1 copy only. Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork and O/C Cork No. 1 Brigade I.R.A. died in 1920 on the 74th day of hunger strike in protest at his imprisonment by the British Authorities. He was a full-time organiser for the Irish Volunteers and a close friend of Michael Collins. His long martyrdom was a turning point in the struggle for independence. 254. [MAGEE, James] Trial of an Action for Deceit, in which James Magee, Proprietor of The Dublin Evening Post was Plaintiff, and Nich. Purcell O'Gorman, Esq. Barrister at Law, Defendant, had on the 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th of December, 1815 in the Court of Kings Bench, Ireland, before the Right Hon. Chief Justice Downes, and a Special Jury. Together with the Proceedings in the same case. Dublin: Printed by William Folds, 38, Great Strand- Street, 1816. pp. [2] 141. Original pale blue stitched wrappers. A very good copy. €375 COPAC locates 3 copies only. Fraud trial with copious notes in manuscript (legal opinions), some dated 1816. 255. MAGINN, William. Receipt dated August 4th 1826. Received of Mr. John Murray the Sum of One hundred and Seventy five Pounds being in full of all demands whatever up to this date. £175 .. - .. - William Maginn. €225

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William Maginn (1794-1842), journalist and miscellaneous writer. Born at Cork he became a contributor to Blackwood's Magazine, and after moving to London in 1824 became for a few months in 1826 the Paris correspondent to The Representative, a paper started by John Murray, the publisher. This receipt is obviously payment for his time in Paris. Maginn helped to found in 1827 the ultra Tory Standard, a newspaper that he edited along with a fellow graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, Stanley Lees Giffard; he also wrote for the more scandalous Sunday paper, The Age. In 1830 he instigated and became one of the leading supporters of Fraser's Magazine. His Homeric Ballads, much praised by contemporary critics, were published in Fraser's between 1839 and 1842. In 1837, Bentley's Miscellany was launched, with Charles Dickens as editor, and Maginn wrote the prologue and contributed over the next several years a series of 'Shakespeare Papers' that examined characters in counter-intuitive fashion (e.g., the key to Falstaff is his melancholy). From The Man in the Bell (Blackwood's, 1821) through Welch Rabbits (Bentley's, 1842) he was an occasional though skilful writer of short fiction and tales. His only novel, Whitehall (1827) pretends to be an historical novel set in 1820s England, it is a droll spoof of the vogue for historical novels as well as the contemporary political scene. In 1836, he fought a duel with Grantley Berkeley, a member of Parliament. Three rounds of shots were fired, but no one was struck. Berkeley had brutally assaulted magazine publisher James Fraser over a review Maginn wrote of Berkeley's novel Berkeley Castle, and Maginn had called him out. One of the most brilliant periodical writers of his time, Maginn left little permanent work behind him. In his later years, 1842, his intemperate habits landed him in debtor's prison, and when he emerged through the grace of the Insolvent Debtor's Act he was in an advanced stage of tuberculosis. He wrote until the end, including in the first volume of Punch, but he died in extreme poverty in Walton-on-Thames in August 1842, survived by his wife Ellen, and daughters Annie and Ellen, and son John. His nephew Francis Maginn, who was deaf, was a co-founder of the British Deaf and Dumb Association, now called the British Deaf Association (BDA). 256. MAGUIRE, John Francis. Home Government for Ireland. Being a Series of Articles reprinted from 'The Cork Examiner'. First edition. Dublin: John Falconer & London: W. Ridgway, 1872. pp. 48. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. Old stamps of a defunct Mercantile library, otherwise a very good copy. €175 COPAC locates 1 copy only. John Francis Maguire (1815-1872) politician and author was born in Cork. He sat as a member for Dungarvan from 1852 until 1865 and then for Cork from 1865 until his death in 1872. He wrote for his newspaper, the Cork Examiner and wrote several books. He actively supported the Liberal Party's legislation on the disestablishment of the Church as well as the land question. Then in 1870, John Maguire joined the Home Rule party for Ireland, who wanted nothing more than to be able to govern their own instead of being governed by England. He cared about his fellow countrymen and the issues that they faced, and enjoyed writing his Newspaper and books. He was not interested in being a man of wealth or affluence and just wanted to do what he felt was right for his people and be a voice for them. He also had a sincere concern with the drinking problem among the Irish and how their drinking differed from that of other races. John Maguire's columns were reprinted from the Home Government Association. In addition to his advocacy for Cork, as Mayor, MP and editor, Maguire published widely, including in 1871 a novel, The Next Generation, in the genre of near-future projections. 257. MAHONY, Francis. Shandon Bells and other Poems. Manuscript. Three pages foolscap. In a neat forward slanting hand. No date, paper watermark 1835. In very good condition. €125 Francis Sylvester Mahony (1804-1866), also known by the pen name Father Prout, humorist and journalist, was born in Cork, to Martin Mahony and Mary Reynolds. He was educated at the Jesuit Clongowes Wood College, Kildare, and later in the College of Saint-Acheul, a similar school in Amiens, France and then at Rue de Sèvres, Paris, and later in Rome. He began teaching at the Jesuit school of Clongowes as master of rhetoric, but was soon after expelled. He then went to London, and became a leading contributor to Fraser's Magazine, under the signature of "Father Prout" (the original Father Prout, whom Mahony knew in his youth, born in 1757, was parish priest of Watergrasshill, County Cork). Mahony at one point was director of this magazine. He was witty and learned in many languages. One form which his humour took was the professed discovery of the originals in Latin, Greek, or mediaeval French of popular modern poems and songs. Many of these jeux d'esprit were collected as Reliques of Father Prout. Mahony spent the last two years of his life in a monastery and died in Paris reconciled to the Church. In his native Cork Mahony is best remembered for his poem The Bells of Shandon and his pen-name is synonymous with the city and the church of St. Ann's, Shandon.

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"With deep affection and recollection I oft times think of those Shandon bells, Whose sound so wild would in the days of childhood, Fling round my cradle their magic spells ... " 258. [MAIR, John] A Compendious Geographical and Historical Grammar: exhibiting a Brief Survey of the Terraqueous Globe; and shewing, The Situation, Extent, Boundaries, and Divisions of the various Countries; their Chief Towns, Mountains, Rivers, Climates and Productions; their Governments, Revenues, Commerce, and their Sea and Land Forces; likewise, The Religion, Language, Literature, Customs, and Manners of the respective Inhabitants of the Different Nations: and also, a concise view of the Political History of the several Empires, Kingdoms, and States. Embellished with maps. London: Printed for W. Peacock, No. 18 Salisbury Square, 1795. 16mo. pp. xxii, 404, 4 (contents). Recent full calf. Title in gilt on red morocco letterpiece. A very good copy. Very scarce. €375 259. [MAN OVERBOARD] A Man Overboard; or Conversation in the Maintop. Illustrated. Dublin: Printed by M. Goodwin, 29, Denmark-Street, 1824. First edition. pp. 8. Disbound. A very good copy. Rare. €75 COPAC locates only 2nd edition of 1826.

See items 259 & 262. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY 260. MANNING, Maurice. The Blueshirts. Illustrated. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1970. First edition. pp. xii, 276. Blue papered boards, titled in gilt. Signed presentation copy from the author. A very good copy in repaired dust jacket. €65 261. [MARCUS] The Letters of Marcus, as Published in Faulkner's Journal. Dublin: Printed by William McKenzie, No. 33, College-Green, 1793. pp. 64. Original pale blue stitched printed wrappers (with advertisement for new books published by William M'Kenzie at No. 33, College Green). In fine condition. €375 COPAC locates 3 copies only. WorldCat 2. ESTC T122626. In this political pamphlet the anonymous author discusses Republics and those advocating same "It is not easy at first sight, to assign a reason why men so turbulent and vicious as Mr. Thomas Paine, affect

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to be advocates for a Republic. It is of all governments the most rigid, and least tolerant of speculative innovations. The truth is, that they wish to agitate it where it is not, and to fly from where it is, their own circumstances are deplorable, and the waves of contention may lift them a little higher." The author in his eight letter examines the trial of the King of France "Of the king's having contrived, ordered or countenanced that massacre, the ruffians not only knew he was innocent, but they knew some of their own members were guilty ..." He again attacks Paine "Here, the prince of darkness himself might have envied the sensations of our righteous countryman, Mr. Payne, 'joy elevates, and hope brightens his crest,' ... Those who were convinced of the King's innocence, and alarmed at the consequences of his execution, were at the time afraid or unwilling to pronounce acquittal." 262. MARKIEVICZ, Constance de. Women, Ideals and the Nation. A Lecture Delivered to the Students' National Literary Society, Dublin, by Constance de Markievicz ('Macha' of Inghinidhe na h-Éireann). Dublin: Published by Inghinidhe na h-Éireann, 1909. pp. 16. Printed light blue stiff wrappers, staples a little rusty. A very good copy. €475 "I take it as a great compliment that so many of you, the rising young women of Ireland, who are distinguishing yourselves every day and coming more and more to the front, should give me this opportunity. We older people look to you with great hopes and a great confidence that in your gradual emancipation you are bringing fresh ideas, fresh energies, and above all a great genius for sacrifice into the life of the Nation." See illustration above. 263. [MARKIEVICZ, Countess] Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz (Constance Gore- Booth). Also poems and articles relating to Easter Week by Eva Gore-Booth and A Biographical Sketch by Esther Roper. With a preface by President de Valera. Illustrated. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1934. First edition. pp. xix, 315. Maroon papered boards, title in gilt on spine. Presentation inscription in pencil on front free endpaper. A very good copy. Very scarce. €165 BOUND BY M'CANN OF KILKENNY

264. MARSHALL, Arthur Featherstone. The Comedy of Convocation in the English Church, in Two Scenes. Edited by Archdeacon Chasuble, D.D. London: Freeman, n.d. (c.1867). pp. 135. Bound by M'Cann, Bookbinders of Kilkenny in contemporary half red morocco over marbled boards, with their ticket, rectangular printed label (M'Cann/Bookbinder / King-Street / Kilkenny) on front pastedown. Lacks titlepage. A very rare example from this Kilkenny binder. €95 Not listed in Ramsden. Archdeacon Chasuble is a pseudonym for Arthur Featherstone Marshall. Also attributed to Thomas William Marshall. Cf. Allibone. 265. MARTIN, F.X. & BYRNE, F.J. Ed. by. The Scholar Revolutionary: Eoin MacNeill, 1867- 1945, and the Making of the New Ireland. Illustrated. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1973. pp. [xiii], 429. Black cloth, titled in gilt. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €75 Eoin MacNeill has the distinction in modern Irish history of being the only man who successfully launched three revolutions: the establishing of the Gaelic League in 1893; the revolution in Irish historical studies which became evident in his lectures in 1904 and the revolution which began with the founding of the Irish Volunteers in 1913. 266. MASEFIELD, John. Easter. A Play for Singers. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1929. pp. 14. Blue papered boards, title in gilt on upper cover and on spine. €95 267. MASON, Henry J. Monck. Essay on the Antiquity and Constitution of Parliaments in Ireland. A new edition, with preface, life of the author, and an introduction by Very Rev. John Canon O'Hanlon. Dublin: James Duffy, 1891. 16mo. pp. ix, 152, 126, xxvi, [1]. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. A very good copy. Scarce. €75 COPAC locates 3 copies only. Henry Joseph Monck Mason (1778-1858), miscellaneous writer, was born at Powerscourt, . After attending school at Portarlington, he entered Trinity College, Dublin, and on graduating B.A. in 1798 was awarded a gold medal. At college he was contemporary with Thomas

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Moore the poet, and afterwards met him during visits to Kilkenny. In 1800 he was called to the Irish bar, but did not seek practice. About 1810 the Record Commissioners for Ireland entrusted him with the task of preparing a draft catalogue of the manuscripts of Trinity College, Dublin, but the design was soon relinquished; Mason's incomplete and unrevised work was eventually acquired by the college, and deposited in the manuscript room. In 1814 he was appointed Assistant Librarian of King's Inns, and became Chief Librarian in 1815. During a tour in Cumberland in 1814 Mason made the acquaintance of Robert Southey, and maintained a correspondence with him for twenty years. In conjunction with Bishop Daly, Mason founded, in 1818, the Irish society for 'promoting the scriptural education and religious instruction of the Irish- speaking population chiefly through the medium of their own language' and he acted as its secretary for many years. The same year he assisted in organising an association for the improvement of prisons and of prison discipline in Ireland, and in 1819 he wrote a pamphlet on the objects of the association. He likewise visited the prisons with a view to reclaiming first offenders. Mason possessed much general knowledge and an extremely good opinion of himself. His most valuable work is an Essay on the Antiquity and Constitution of Parliaments in Ireland, dedicated to Henry Grattan. It is a concise but learned investigation regarding the nature and bearing of the common and statute law, as rationally recognised and defined, with the international adjustments and powers exercised, from the period of the Anglo-Norman invasion to the reign of Charles I, and was originally intended as an introduction to a projected work on the annals of the early Irish parliaments. In 1851 Mason resigned the librarianship of King's Inns, and gave up his house in Henrietta Street, Dublin, to spend the remainder of his days at a charming residence near Bray, County Wicklow, known as Dargle Cottage. He died there in 1858 and was buried in the old cemetery of Powerscourt Demesne. He was married to Anne, daughter of Sir Robert Langrishe, Bart., by whom he had two sons and four daughters. 268. MASON, W. The English Garden: A Poem in Four Books. By W. Mason M.A. A New Edition, Corrected, To Which are Added, A Commentary and Notes, by W. Burgh, Esq. L.L.D. Dublin: Printed by P. Byrne, No. 108, Grafton-Street, 1786. 12mo in sixes. pp. ix, [1], 258. Contemporary full calf, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. Previous owner's signatures on front free endpaper. All edges marbled. A very good copy. €145 COPAC locates 7 copies only. ESTC T120207. William Burgh (1741-1808), politician, controversialist and friend of Burke, was born in Kilkenny and educated at T.C.D. The son of Thomas Burgh, M.P. for Lanesborough, by Anne daughter of Right Rev. Dr. Downes, Bishop of Cork and Ross. His sister, Amelia was married to John Foster, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, and was created Baroness Oriel in 1790 and Viscountess Ferrard in 1821. William was the owner of considerable estates in Ireland, but lived most of his life at York, in England. He represented the borough of Athy, in the Irish Parliament, 1769-76, and vehemently opposed the Union. A close friend of Wilberforce, he advocated with enthusiasm the abolition of the slave trade. After living in York for almost forty years, Burgh died there in his house and was buried in the lady chapel of York Minster, where there is a standing monument to his memory. His wife, Mary Warburton, daughter and heiress of George Warburton, an Irish gentleman, in compliance with her husband's wish donated several hundred volumes from his library to York Minster. 269. [MASON'S HOUSE FURNISHING] Bought at Mason's House Furnishing and Manufacturing Iron-Mongery Ware-House, No. 10, Dawson-Street, Opposite Duke-Street. Dublin, Septem. 18th 1815. 5. Receipt for the purchase of locks, handles, etc. 96 x 152mm. In very good condition. Signed on verso Revd Mr. Armstrong / 39 Stephens Green. In very good condition. €45 270. MATHESON, Sir Robert E. Special Report on Surnames in Ireland, with Notes as to Numerical Strength, Derivation, Ethnology, and Distribution; Based on information extracted from the Indexes of the General Register Office. With many statistical tables. Dublin: Printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1909. pp. 78. Quarter red linen on printed papered boards. Previous owner's stamp on front endpaper. Some thumbing to boards. A very good copy. €65 IN FINE BINDING 271. MAXWELL, Constantia. The Stranger in Ireland. From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Great Famine. London: Jonathan Cape, 1954. First edition. pp. 340. Full green morocco, title in gilt on spine. Signed by the author on titlepage. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. €95

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This is a unique and valuable commentary on the history of Ireland from the Elizabethan to Victorian times. The author has assembled the impressions of visitors to Ireland throughout four centuries, including such eminent people as Edmund Spencer, Arthur Young, William Makepeace Thackeray and Walter Scott. 272. MAXWELL, Constantia. A Brief Bibliography of Irish History. Dublin: Printed at the University Press, 1911. pp. 16. Author's complimentary copy in manuscript on front cover. Stitched printed wrappers. Scarce. €45 SCARCE FIRST EDITION BOUND BY JENKINS OF READING 273. MAXWELL, W.H. Wild Sports of The West. With Legendary Tales, and Local Sketches. Illustrated with five steel engravings and twelve vignettes. Two volumes. London: Richard Bentley, 1832. First edition. pp. (1) xvi, 327, (2) viii, 343. Bound by Jenkins of Reading in contemporary full calf, title and volume number on double burgundy labels on spine. Armorial bookplate of Anthony Storer on front pastedown. Occasional browning, a very good set of the rare first edition. Very scarce. €575 Acknowledged as the finest book ever written on the West of Ireland. A truly remarkable work by a remarkable author, treating the wild sport, folklore and traditions of that romantic and untouched Erris peninsula. Maxwell was a lively and gifted story-teller with a genuine interest in the ordinary people and how they lived. Born at Newry in 1792, he was educated locally and later went to Trinity. He took holy orders and was transferred to the prebendary of Balla, County Mayo, an area which afforded good shooting and fishing. Having befriended the Marquis of Sligo, he was given the use of his shooting box, Croy Lodge, at Ballycroy. It was here he spent most of his time fishing, shooting and pursuing his literary career. It was in the Officers' Mess at Castlebar Barracks, that he heard all the army gossip. Being a good listener and with an excellent memory he put pen to paper and wrote Stories of Waterloo. He wrote a total of twenty books in all. He died near Edinburgh in destitute circumstances in 1850. 274. MERIWETHER, Avery. English Tyranny and Irish Suffering. Dedicated to the Irish Land League of Memphis. Memphis: Tenn: R. M. Mansford, 298 Main Street, 1881. pp. 27, [9] (adverts). Light purple printed wrappers. Minor splits to spine ends. A very good copy. €225 OCLC locates 3 copies. No copy located in COPAC. THE HUTH COPY 275. MESSINGHAM, Thomas. Florilegium Insulae Sanctorum seu Vitae et Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae. Quibus accesserunt non vulgaria monumenta Hoc est Sancti Patricii Purgatorium, S. Malachiae Prophetia de summis de summis Pontificibus, Aliaque nonulla quorum Elenchus post Praefationem habetur. Paris: Sebastiani Cramoisy, 1624. Folio. pp. [xlvi], 441, + errata. Bound by Clarke & Bedford in nineteenth century full brown morocco, covers framed by blind and gilt fillets with gilt and blind inner and outer fleurons. Spine divided into seven compartments by six gilt raised bands. Title and place of publishing in gilt on brown morocco letterpieces in the second and third, the remainder tooled in gilt. Fore-edges and turn-ins ruled in gilt. Cream endpapers. Red and gold double end bands. All edges gilt. The Huth Library copy with their oval dark green morocco bookplate tooled in gilt on front pastedown. Some light wear, otherwise a superb copy. Very rare. €3,250 COPAC locates 6 copies only. WorldCat 7. Thomas Messingham, born at the close of the sixteenth century, a native of County Meath, educated in Paris where he became a secular priest and later Moderator of the Irish College in that city. In 1620 he published Officia S.S. Patricii, Columbae, Brigidae ... &c. This was followed four years later by his Florilegium which contains the lives of the chief Irish saints with commentaries including that on St. Patrick from Jocelin, St. from Adamnan, St. Brigid from Cogitosus and Capgrave, etc. There is an account of St. Patrick's Purgatory, and the Prophecies of St. Malachy of Armagh. In his introduction he gives a preliminary treatise on the

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names of Ireland, written by David Rothe, where it is proved from single Irish authors who flourished from the fourth to the thirteenth century that 'Ireland was known by the Name of Scotia, and the Irish by the Name of 'Scotts' (A controversial point with Caledonians to this day!). There is also a collection of poems on the saints of Ireland by the following Irishmen (including the author), , Peter Cadell, Hugh O'Reilly, John Colgan, Hugh Ward, Edmund Dwyer, William Coghlan, Patrick Cahill, Roger , Lawrence Sedgrey, James Delaney, Thomas Guyer. A most beautiful example of early printing with the title in red and black, four portraits drawn by Messingham and engraved by Gaultier, numerous decorated capitals and woodcuts throughout the text. 276. [MESTON, William] The Noted History of Mother Grim, commonly called Goody Grim's Witty Tales, very curious for a Winter Evening. Woodcut vignette on titlepage. [Newcastle upon Tyne?]: N.p., Printed this present year, n.d. (c.1780). 12mo. pp. 24. Disbound. Some damp staining to top of leaves, otherwise a very good copy. €145 ESTC T43200. COPAC locates 4 copies. William Meston (1688?-1745) was a Scottish poet, educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen. After taking part in the Jacobite rebellion of 1715, he had to go into hiding. A MAJOR WORK ON THE STUDY OF EARLY IRISH 277. MEYER, Kuno. & STERN, L.C. Et al. Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie. Thirteen volumes. Halle: Max Niemeyer. London: Williams & Norgate. New York: Stechert, 1897/1921. Contemporary half full purple morocco on purple marbled boards, title in gilt on matching morocco label on spine. All edges purple. A very good copy. Rare. €875 The Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie is an academic journal of Celtic studies, which was established in 1897 by the German scholars Kuno Meyer and Ludwig Christian Stern. It was the first journal devoted exclusively to Celtic languages and literature and is the oldest significant journal of Celtic studies still in existence today. The emphasis is on (early) Irish language and literature and Continental Celtic languages, but other aspects of Celtic philology and literature (including modern literature) also receive attention. Kuno Meyer (1858-1919), Celtic scholar, editor and translator, was born in . He left school at fifteen and spent two years in Edinburgh during which time he encountered spoken Gaelic in Arran. He studied Celtic in Leipzig under Ernst Windisch, and devoted himself to "the fascinating study of the vernacular literature of ancient Ireland, the earliest voice from the dawn of West European civilisation." In 1896 he founded in Germany Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie, which became a major influence on Celtic learning. Due to the neglect of the Irish language by the learned institutions and the lack of trained scholars to edit manuscripts in Dublin libraries, he founded a school of Irish

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learning to train students in scholarly methods and philology, predecessor of The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Apart from Stern and Meyer, previous editors include Julius Pokorny, Ludwig Mühlhausen, Rudolf Thurneysen, Rudolf Hertz, Heinrich Wagner, Hans Hartmann, and Karl Horst Schmidt. The current editors-in-chief are Jürgen Uhlich, Torsten Meißner and Bernhard Maier. 278. [MILES, William Augustus] A Letter to the Duke of Grafton, With Notes. To which is Annexed A Complete Exculpation of M. De La Fayette, from the Charges Indecently Urged against him by Mr. Burke, in the House of Commons, on the 17th March, 1794. Dublin: Printed for P. Wogan, Old Bridge, P. Byrne, and W. Jones, 1794. pp. [4], 95, [1]. With half-title. Blue stitched wrappers. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €375 COPAC locates 2 copies only. ESTC T125222. WorldCat 3. William Augustus Miles (c.1753-1817) was an English political writer and British agent in the years around the French Revolution. In August 1782 Miles was in Dublin, and was corresponding with Lord Temple just appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; despite the backing of Lord Shelburne, he failed to obtain political employment. In early 1783 he went on the continent of Europe, to Seraing, near Liège, in order to economise and educate his daughter. He became intimate with two successive prince- bishops of Liège. Miles made himself useful to , the Prime Minister. He was Pitt's first secret agent, from 1784. In the wartime conditions of 1794, Pitt broke off the relationship. Miles's position in the Low Countries placed him as a crossroads for intelligence, and also enabled contacts with French officials. In this pamphlet he defended his friend Lafayette against the charges made against him by Edmund Burke. "It has being the insolent boast of even the most temperate Frenchmen, that 'Great Britain would soon become a province of France'; and the decree of the Convention which indirectly prescribed to us the Republican form of Government, seems to have being grafted on this imprudent prognostic ... Good Good! Great Britain a Province of France! - Perish the Thought, and with it those who would even connive at an humiliation no less injurious to the honour of their country, than it would prove fatal to her prosperity." 279. MILNER, John. Remarks Occasioned by Some Passages in Doctor Milner's Tour in Ireland. Dublin: Printed by J. Shea, 42, College-green, 1808. pp. 48, [1]. Original stitched blue printed wrappers. Untrimmed. A fine copy. Extremely rare. €375 COPAC locates 5 copies only. John Milner was an English Roman Catholic bishop and controversialist who served as the Vicar Apostolic of the Midland District from 1803 to 1826. Milner, however, was not satisfied with his position in the Midlands. He had formed an alliance with the Irish bishops, and with their co-operation, a determined attempt was made to have him transferred to London as coadjutor with right of succession. This scheme was opposed by Bishop John Douglass, and ultimately defeated, though the pope consented that Milner should become parliamentary agent to the Irish bishops in their struggle to procure Catholic emancipation, and that for this purpose he should be permitted to go to London as often as necessary. This disagreement with his colleagues led to further results. Milner found fault with the manner in which the London District was governed, and was not afraid to say so publicly, in numerous pamphlets and other publications, and even in his pastorals. The subjects of contention were several; but two especially may be mentioned. One was the "question of the Royal veto of the appointment of bishops, which first came into prominence in the year 1808. By this it was intended to concede to the Crown a negative voice in the election of Catholic bishops, by conferring a right to veto any candidate whose loyalty was open to question. The chief Irish bishops had agreed to the measure in 1799; but since then, owing to the postponement of emancipation, the scheme had dropped. Milner revived it, and was for a time the warm advocate of the veto. He found himself in opposition to most of the Irish bishops. He visited Ireland, and afterwards wrote his Letter to a Parish Priest (who was really an Irish bishop) in defence of his position. The Irish bishops, however, condemned the Veto in 1808. A year later Milner was converted to their way of thinking, and became as vigorous in opposition to it as he had been before in its favour. An attack on Milner’s Tour and his pamphlet “For notwithstanding the insolence to Lord Redesdale, and the gross invectives against Sir R Musgrave and Doctor Duigenan, which disgrace so many pages of his publication ... yet it must be obvious to every reader of common discernment, that the great object of Dr. Milner, in publishing his Irish-Priest like book, was, for the purpose of persuading all the bigots of the Roman Catholic Persuasion, laymen as well as ecclesiastics, to preserve in their adherence to, the dependence upon the Court of Rome ... .”

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See items 279 & 281. 280. MOLONEY, Ed. A Secret History of the I.R.A. Illustrated. London: Allen Lane, 2002. pp. xxi, 601. Black papered boards, title in silver on spine. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. €15 281. MONGAN, James. A Report of the Trial of the action in which Bartholomew M'Garahan was the Plaintiff, and the Rev. Thomas Maguire was the Defendant, tried in the Court of Exchequer in Ireland on Thursday, the 13th, and Friday, the 14th of December, 1827. Before The Hon. Baron Smith. Dublin: Westley and Tyrrell, 1827. pp. [1 (coloured frontispiece)], 93. Printed stitched wrappers. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €475 COPAC locates the Cambridge University copy only. WorldCat 1. Rev. Thomas Maguire (1792-1847), catholic priest, preacher, and polemicist, was born in February 1792 in the townland of Tiroogan in the part of the parish of Kinawley, County , a son of Thomas Maguire, a local farmer. His mother, Judith, was a sister of a Franciscan priest, (1761-1826), who was parish priest of Templeport (Bawnboy), County Cavan, from 1796 and co-adjutor from 1818 until his death. Maguire was educated at a classical school at Ballyconnell, County Cavan, before entering Maynooth to study for the priesthood. He was ordained (September 1816) in his uncle's parish, where he was curate until promoted parish priest of Drumreilly Lower, County Leitrim (September 1818). Seven years later he was moved to the parish of Innismagrath (Drumkeerin) and it was there he came to national attention as a preacher and polemicist. In April 1827, in Dublin, he debated for six days before a paying audience with a protestant clergyman, Richard Pope (1799-1859), on 'the doctrines of the Church of Rome'. This he did despite the disapproval of the Catholic archbishop of Armagh, Patrick Curtis. Eight months later (13–14 December) he was the successful defendant in a civil action in the court of the exchequer brought by a Drumkeerin innkeeper, Bartholomew McGarahan, for the seduction of his daughter Anne. Maguire had as counsel Daniel O'Connell, Richard Sheil and Michael O'Loghlen. Though the jury awarded Maguire merely token costs of 6d., its verdict was acclaimed by catholics as a great victory and resulted in rioting in Dublin which dragoons were called out to suppress. There were repercussions in County Leitrim: local protestants were threatened, ostracised and even attacked. Maguire repaid his obligation to O'Connell by canvassing for him at the Clare election (1828). He also persisted in his polemicism. In a riposte to a Protestant minister in an adjacent county he wrote a pamphlet, False Weights and Measures of the Protestant Curate of Cavan Examined and Exposed (1833). It was published by his close friend Richard Coyne. In May and June 1838, again before a paying audience in Dublin, Maguire debated for nine days with another protestant minister, Tresham Dames Gregg, the motion that the established protestant church was 'the Church of Christ, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic, in these kingdoms'. Maguire was an active member of the Catholic Association and its successor political organisations. Speaking on 30 June 1841 at a political meeting at Castlebar, County Mayo, from the same platform as O'Connell and Archbishop John MacHale, he declared that 'Repeal was the consideration next in importance to eternity itself for the Irish people'. During the Great Famine he seems to have taken no

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interest in public affairs but spent his spare time on country sports and breeding greyhounds, pointers and spaniels. He died 2 December 1847 at his residence, Monroe Lodge, Ardrum, near Ballinamore, County Leitrim, where he had been parish priest since August 1835. He was buried at Templeport in the presence of a large number of mourners. But five weeks later his body was exhumed. His brother Terence and sister-in-law Anna, who lived with him, had died in suspicious circumstances. Arsenic was found in the stomachs of all three. A coroner's inquest found that Thomas Maguire's housekeeper, Mary Reynolds, had murdered him. At the ensuing Leitrim assizes, however, she was acquitted. 282. MOODY, T.W. Davitt and Irish Revolution 1846-82. Illustrated. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. First edition. pp. xxiv, 674. Black papered boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €85 283. MOORE, George. Typed Letter Signed from George Moore to Mr Wells, dated 14th October, 1927, at 121 Ebury Street, London, S.W.1. In very good condition. €265

In this short abrupt letter Moore is very annoyed and requests that "No mistake about publishing The Making of an Immortal on November 7th. I cannot bear any more delays. Do you intend to. You will send me a telegram? George Augustus Moore (1852-1933), novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist was born at Moore Hall, Lough Carra, County Mayo. He originally wanted to be a painter, and studied art in Paris during the 1870s. There he befriended many of the many leading French artists of the day. 284. MOORE, George, Esq. Observations on the Union, Orange Associations, and other Subjects of Domestic Policy: with Reflections on the Late Events on the Continent. Dublin: Printed: London: Reprinted for J. Debrett, Piccadilly, by S. Gosnell, Little Queen Street, Holborn, 1800. pp. 80. Disbound. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €245 ESTC T041857. COPAC locates 6 copies of this printing. OCLC 20613895. George Moore (b. 1778), of 14 Hume Street, Dublin was the fourth surviving son of John Moore of Summerhill, County Dublin. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Kings' Inns, he was called to the Irish bar in 1800. He married before Eliza Armstrong and succeeded his uncle George Ogle to his Belview estate, Enniscorthy, County Wexford in 1814. Moore, much of whose personal life remains obscure, was the grandson of William Moore of Tinraheen, County Wexford, whose son Lorenzo (c.1741-1804), colonel of the Battle-Axe Guards, was ministerialist Member for Dungannon, 1783-90, and Ardfert, 1798-1800. In early 1825 and again a year later, it was explained in the anti-Catholic press that he was a barrister specializing in ecclesiastical law and an Orangeman of his uncle’s stamp. James Abercromby described him as ‘an Orange lawyer of doubtful fame.’ He was a strong supporter of Protestant ascendancy and a virulent anti-Catholic who always voted for excluding Catholics from Parliament and moved to prevent Catholics being appointed governors of overseas colonies. 285. MOULD, Daphne D.C. Pochin. The Monasteries of Ireland. An Introduction. Illustrated. London: B.T. Batsford, 1976. First edition. pp. [12], 188. Green papered boards, title in gilt along spine. A very good copy in pictorial dust jacket. €45

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286. MUENIER, H. A Treatise upon the Regulations of the French Infantry. By H. Muenier, General de Brigade. Translated from the French by Captain Gregor Mac Gregor, Of the 57th Regiment of Foot. Illustrated with ten engraved plates (eight folding). London: Printed for T. Goddard, Military Library, No. 1, Pall-Mall, 1809. pp. xxiii, [1], 92, [4 (advertisement)]. Contemporary full burgundy straight grained morocco. Covers framed by a wide gilt roll within double ruled gilt borders. Flat spine divided into six panels by gilt bands, title in gilt direct in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner design; fore-edges ruled in gilt, turn- ins gilt. Faint pencil note on front endpaper 'Presentation Copy His / Royal Highness The Duke of / York'. All edges gilt. A very good copy of an exceedingly rare book. €1,250 COPAC locates the NLS copy only. 287. [MULLANPHY, John] Will of John Mullanphy, of St. Louis Missouri, dated September 1837. Fifteen printed pages, stitched and uncut. Fine condition. A fascinating and rare item. €395 John Mullanphy, born in Ireland in 1758, was a prominent merchant in St. Louis and was known as the first millionaire of the American West. In this will he donates large sums of money to the Diocese of St. Louis, the Sisters of Charity and to the Sisters of the Sacred Heart, much of it for the support of orphans. Article 5 of his will creates a foundation for the mulatto child Fanny, "now aged about four years and living with me" charging the Sisters of Charity with her upbringing: "they are to learn her to read and write and treat her kindly." In a later note Mullanphy declares before God that Fanny is not his daughter. The will gives much information on Mullanphy's land holdings in St. Louis, provisions for his children, including his son Bryan Mullanphy who later was Mayor of St. Louis. Names of witnesses and others in this document include Henry Shaw, William Glasgow (a Santa Fe Trail merchant), John Ford, Henry Chouteau (St. Louis County clerk), and John O'Fallon (Mullanphy's lawyer and wealthy St. Louis merchant). This will was printed four years after Mullanphy's death when family members were contesting it. 288. MULLOY, Sheila. O'Malley People and Places. With illustrations and maps. Ballinakella & Westport: 1988. First edition. pp. 95. Pictorial stiff wrappers. A fine copy. €15 WARTS AND ALL 289. MURPHY, Rev. Denis. Cromwell in Ireland. A History of Cromwell's Irish Campaign. Dublin: M.H. Gill, 1897. New edition. pp. x, 478. Brown cloth, title in gilt on spine. Previous owners' signatures on verso of front free endpaper. A very good copy. €95 is the most famous and powerful commoner in British history. He is also one of the most controversial historical figures in Ireland, seen variously as a hated tyrant and bigot, or as a superb patriot with a terrific sense of humour. Included in the appendix in verse form is a list of Cromwell's and William's nobility found among the papers of the Most Rev. Dr. Coppinger: "The Fairs, the Blacks, the Blonds, the Brights, the Greens, the Browns, the Greys, the Whites The Parrots, Eagles, Cocks and Hens The Snipes, Swallows, Pies, Robins, Wrens" … etc

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290. MURRAY, John. Handbook for Travellers in Ireland. Fourth Edition, Revised. With maps and plans. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1878. pp. 56, 389, 52. Red cloth, titled in gilt on upper cover and spine. Spine faded. Small stain to upper cover, top of spine frayed. A good copy. Scarce. €85 Not in McVeagh. The contents include: Enniskillen to Sligo by Coach; Coleraine to Belfast, by Portrush, the Giant's Causeway and Ballycastle; Dublin to , Athlone, Ballinasloe, and Galway; Galway, , Lough Corrib; Galway to Clifden; Clifden to Leenane, Westport and Sligo; Dublin to Wexford through Wicklow, Arklow and Enniscorthy; Cork to Kenmare, via Bandon, Bantry, and Glengarriff; Limerick to Waterford; etc., etc. The author gives us some advice before making a journey by car: "Ascertain which way the wind is blowing, if the weather is cold or likely to be bad, and choose your side accordingly, as the tourist will find it no slight comfort to hear the rain beating on the other side." 291. MURTAUGH, Paul. Your Irish Coats-of-Arms. Authentic Arms for over 2,000 Irish Names. Illustrated. New York: The Ainsworth Company, 1960. pp. [vii], 96. Beige papered boards, titled in gilt. A very good copy. €135 John O'Donovan stated: " ... for it was from his own genealogies that each man of the tribe, poor as well as rich, held the charter of his civil state, his right of property in the cantred in which he was born, the soil of which was occupied by one family or clan, and in which no one lawfully possessed any portion of the soil if he was not of the same race with the chief."

Authentic Arms for over 2,000 Irish families. Coats-of-Arms and crests in full colour. Includes explanations of the origins of Irish family names and arms; Irish versus English Heraldry; The Irish Clan [Sept] System; The Mac, O, and Fitz; Gaelic Irish Surnames which have a foreign appearance: Brazil, Hession, Shovelin, Thulis, etc.

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292. [MUSKERRY] The Economic Situation. Some Views for Farmers. Limerick: Printed and published by City Printing Co., 11 Rutland Street, n.d. (c.1930). pp. 16. Stapled printed wrappers, crinkled. A good copy. €75 No copy located on COPAC. Not in NLI. "When Mr. Cosgrave's Government passed their Land Act and destroyed the security of tenure of the Irish farmers, he struck a blow at the very roots of the financial stability of the Country and in one fell swoop reduced the value of the farmers holdings forty to fifty percent., so much so that as a result of that Act, Irish land has ceased to be a gilt-edged security and the farmers now find it impossible to borrow money on their holdings except from Government sources." 293. NALSON, John. & WARE, Robert. Foxes and firebrands: Or, a specimen of the Danger and Harmony of Popery and Separation ... The second edition in two parts. Dublin: Printed by Jos. Ray, for Jos. Howes, and are to be sold by Awnsham Churchill at the Black Swan in Paternoster-Row, near Amen-Corner, London, 1682. pp. [xiv], 70, [8], 154. Recent brown buckram. Presentation inscription from The Rev. G.S. Coit, D.D. to John Williams, with his signature on titlepage. A good copy. €350 Wing N 104 Sweeney 3141. The variant Dublin imprint for sale by Awnsham Churchill in London. The 3rd of four Wing printings. The publication of this work fits the period, 1677 - 1683, when Nalson, rector of Doddington on the Isle of Ely, was an active polemical writer for the government. 294. [NEALE, Samuel] Some Account of the Life, and Religious Labours of Samuel Neale. Dublin: Printed by Robert Napper; for John Gough, No. 20, Meath-Street, 1805. First edition. pp. v, [ii], 92. Contemporary full tree calf, title in gilt on red morocco letterpiece on spine. A very good copy. €175 COPAC locates 6 copies only. Samuel Neale (1729-1792), a Quaker, the son of Thomas and Martha Neale succeeded to an estate in in his late teens, where he spent much of the time hunting, coursing and 'frequenting the playhouse'. In his early twenties impressed by the preaching of Catherine Peyton and Mary Paisley he travelled with them to Bandon and Kinsale and returned a changed man becoming a Quaker minister in 1752. He travelled throughout Ireland, England, Scotland and America but made his home at Rathangan, County Kildare. 295. NEVIN, Donal. Ed. by. . Lion of the Fold. Illustrated. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1998. pp. xv [3], 557. Quarter green morocco over marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt. A fine copy. €125 296. NEWBY, P.H. Maria Edgeworth. The English Novelists Series. London: Barker, 1950. pp. 98, [4]. Red cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A very good copy in dust jacket. €35 297. NEWCOMER, James. Maria Edgeworth the Novelist. 1767-1849 A Bicentennial Study. With illustration. Texas: Christian University Press, 1967. pp. ix, 172. Printed green wrappers. A very good copy. €25 IRISH NATIONAL THEATRE 298. NicSHIUBHLAIGH, Máire. The Splendid Years. Recollections of Marie NicShiubhlaigh as told to Edward Kenny. With appendices and lists of Plays 1899-1916. Portrait frontispiece. Dublin: James Duffy, 1955. pp. xvii, 207. Quarter blue cloth on green papered boards, titled in gilt on spine. A very good copy in frayed and price-clipped dust jacket. €65 A great theatrical tradition growing out of the ideals of a handful of actors and actresses in an obscure Dublin concert hall ... spreading across the world and culminating in the establishment of the famous . Máire NicShiubhlaigh witnessed the Abbey's early trials - and its triumphs; the Playboy "Riots" in Dublin and America; and she was a moving spirit in the interesting Theatre of Ireland and Edward Martyn's Irish theatre, before she played her most important role in a Republican garrison during Easter Week. 299. [NORWICH, Bishop of] Speech of the Right Reverend The Lord Bishop of Norwich in the House of Lords, on Friday the Nineteenth of May, 1817, in favour of The Catholic Petitions. London: Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, near Lincoln's Inn Fields, n.d. (c.1817). pp. 23. Drop- title. Recent quarter goatskin on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €145

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EXTREMELY RARE CORK PRINTING 300. [NOVENA] Novena in Honor of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin, with an Account of the Effects of the Miraculous Medal. Translated from French. Cork: Cornelius Carver, 3, Paul-Street, 1843. 16mo. pp. 36. Disbound. Stamp of old library on titlepage. Small piece torn from lower inner corner of titlepage, not affecting text. €150 No copy located on COPAC. The medal in question dates from the 1830s and the preface to this rare pamphlet explains miraculous events that occurred in Paris surrounding it. We trace only one printed copy of this title, at the National Library of Ireland. 301. O'BRIEN, William M.P. Grattan's Home Rule, Gladstone's, and Asquith's. An Answer to a Boast. Cork: Free Press, 1915. pp. 32. Recent tan calf on marbled boards, title in gilt along spine, with original wrappers bound in. A very good copy. Scarce. €135 A spirited attack on Redmond's contention that Asquith's Home Rule Bill was better than Grattan's Constitution. 302. O'BRIEN, William. Irish Ideas. London: Longmans, Green, 1895. Second edition. pp. vi, [2], 167, 24 (Publishers list). Green cloth, title in black on upper cover and in gilt on spine. Lightly foxed. Signed presentation copy from the author to Frank MacDonagh, dated April 8th 1927. Occasional light foxing. A very good copy. €125 The contents includes: The Irish National Idea; The Lost Opportunities of the Irish Gentry; Among the Clouds in Ireland; A Gem of Misgovernment; The Influence of the Irish Language; Are the Evicted Tenants Knaves?; Mr. Morley's Task; Toleration in the Fight for Ireland; An Irish Poor Scholar; The Irish Age of Gold; The Future of the Young Men of Ireland. 303. O'BRIEN, William. The Responsibility for Partition Considered with an Eye to Ireland's Future. Dublin and London: Maunsel & Roberts, 1921. pp. 62. Printed brown wrappers. Stamp of Wood Printing Works on titlepage. Some light staining. A good copy in repaired wrapper. €35 304. Ó CADHAIN, Máirtín. As an nGéibheann. Litreacha chuig Tomás Bairéad. Illustrated. Dublin: Sáirséal agus Dill, 1973. First edition. pp. 213, [1]. Pictorial boards in glassine wrapper. A fine copy. €45 Prison letters in Irish from the Curragh, 1939-44, where Ó Cadhain was detained for IRA activities, to his friend the writer Tomás Bairéad. Cover design by . 305. O'CONNELL, Daniel. A Letter to The Members of the House of Commons of the United Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland, on the Legal Right of Roman Catholics to Sit in Parliament; to which is added A Reply to Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, Esq. London: James Ridgway, 169, Piccadilly, 1829. pp. 37, 3 (publisher's list). Disbound. A very good copy. Very scarce. €185 The final part is a reply to Sugden's pamphlet, entitled: "Extracts from the Acts of Parliament relating to the oaths to be taken by the members of the Imperial Parliament." In this pamphlet O'Connell sets forth his legal argument of the right of Roman Catholics to sit in Parliament: "I am a lawyer of thirty years' standing. Experience alone ought to have taught me something of the law; and here I deliberately assert my most sincere conviction of my right to sit, speak, and vote in Parliament, without taking any oath inconsistent with the Catholic religion ... I believe there is not one human being in existence acquainted with the principles and spirit of our laws, so devoid of intellect as to assert that the statute of the 30th Charles II, if it contained a near direction to take the oaths, would it have being equally potential as a law as it was when it limited the time for taking the oath, framed a

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tribunal to administer the oath, enacted penalties and disabilities for not taking the oath, and provide the remedy in the event of a refusal to take the oath ... ." 306. [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. €150 No copy of the Buffalo edition located on COPAC. 307. [O'CONNOR, Arthur] The Trial At Large of Messrs O'Connor, O'Coigly, Binns, Allen, and Leary; for High Treason, by a Special Commission, on Monday the 21st and Tuesday the 22d of May, 1798, at Maidstone; Before Mr Justice Buller, Heath, and Lawrence, with the Pleadings of the Counsel on both sides. By James Fergusson, Esq. London: Printed for Parsons, Paternoster-Row, n.d. (c.1798). pp. [3], 51, [1]. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards, some mild foxing, margin of F1 close trimmed, not affecting text. A very good copy of an exceedingly rare item. €575 ESTC T179161 locates 5 copies. The frontispiece of the five accused is listed only in the National Library of Scotland and Reading copies. Arthur O'Connor, (1763-1852), prominent , General in the French service, was born at Mitchels, near Bandon. Educated at T.C.D. he was called to the Bar in 1788, but, inheriting a fortune of about £1,500 a year, never practised. Edited 'The Press', organ of the Society of the United Irishmen. He was arrested and tried for high treason at Maidstone, acquitted, arrested again on another warrant before he could leave the dock. O'Connor and other state prisoners entered into a compact with the government that by revealing, without implicating individuals, the plans and workings of the Society, their lives would be spared and they would be permitted to leave the country. 308. O'CONNOR, Roger. Chronicles of Eri; being the history of the Gael Scot Iber: or, The Irish People. Translated from the original manuscripts in the Phoenician dialect of Scythian language. Two volumes. London: Phillips, 1822. pp. (1) xiv, [2], ccclxii, [ii], 91 (2) [ii], 509, 3. Later mauve cloth, title in gilt on spine. Traces of singeing to bottom right-hand corner. Otherwise a very good set. Very scarce. €225 In 1822 O'Connor published The Chronicles of Eri, the book is mainly, if not entirely, the fruit of O'Connor's imagination. Roger's portrait is prefixed, described as 'O'Connor Cier-rige, head of his race, and O'Connor, chief of the prostrated people of this Nation. Soumis, pas vaincus.' O'Connor is described as a man of fascinating manners and conversation, but Dr. Madden considers that his wits were always more or less disordered. Through life he professed to be a sceptic in religion, and declared that Voltaire was his God. He died at Kilcrea, County Cork, on 27 Jan. 1834. With engraved titlepage, portrait frontispiece, five folding maps and two folding plates (one hand coloured). THE LAST HIGH KINGS OF IRELAND 309. O'CONOR DON, Rt. Hon. Charles Owen. The O'Conors of Connaught: An Historical Memoir. Compiled from a MS. of the late John O'Donovan, LL.D. With additions from the State Papers and Public Records. With numerous illustrations and genealogical charts. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co., 1891. Quarto. pp. xxiv, 395. Contemporary full brown morocco, covers blocked in gilt. Spine divided into six panels by five gilt raised bands, title in gilt direct in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner design; board-edges ruled in gilt; gilt doublures; blue, gold and brown endpapers; green and gold endbands. O'Conor Don calling card pasted on front free endpaper inscribed 'Presented by / [O'Conor Don] May 5, 1891.' All edges gilt. A very good and attractive copy. €1,250

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This is perhaps one of the most illustrious surnames, which is borne by six distinct septs located in different parts of the country, of which four survive in considerable numbers. The most important of these are the O'Conors of Connaught. It is a story of the survival of this family over a period of more than 2,000 years and is one of the greatest Irish epics and a microcosm of the history of Ireland. Being descended from the last High Kings of Ireland, the O'Conors, a Catholic family managed to retain portions of their ancient patrimony. The Annalists claim that the O'Conors are descended from Heremon, one of the sons of Milesius, who invaded Ireland about 300 B.C. John O'Donovan from whose manuscripts the author compiled this book, states that no family in Europe can trace their descent through so many generations of legitimate ancestors. "His best work" - Crone. THE O'CONOR CONTROVERSY 310. O'CONOR, Roderic. Review of Mr. O'Conor's Work, entitled "Memoir of a Controversy Respecting the Name Borne by the O'Connors of Ballintubber." By a member of the Belanagare family. Dublin: James Duffy, 1859. pp. iv, 50, [1] (errata tipped in at preface). Printed green wrappers. A good copy. Extremely rare. €285 COPAC locating the BL copy only. WorldCat 1.

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This controversy arose after Mr O'Conor published three successive letters on the history of the family of O'Conor in the Roscommon Messenger. Subsequently, other letters appeared in the same journal, and on the same subject. This Memoir, purports to be a compact edition of the above-named letters: "hitherto scattered over a series of newspapers, but contains, in addition, copious notes and observations, emanating from the pen of Mr. Roderick O'Conor, and all intended to establish his view on the subject." 311. Ó CRIOMHTHAIN, Tomás. An t-Oileánach. Scéal a bheathadh féin. An Seabhac do chuir i n-eagar. With portrait frontispiece and map. Baile Átha Cliath: Oifig an tSoláthair, 1929. pp. 266. Modern red cloth, title on original backstrip on spine. A very good copy. €145 RARE PRINTING OF THE NEW TESTAMENT 312. O'DOMHNUILL, HUilliam. Tiomna Nuadh ar dTighearna Agus ar Slanuigheora Iosa Criosd: Ar na Tharruing go Firinneach ar Ghreigis go Goidheilg. London: Shacklewell, 1816. pp. 527, [1]. Full calf, spine professionally rebacked, titled in gilt. A very good copy. €165 313. O’DUFFY, General Eoin. Autograph Letter Signed on his addressed notepaper, one page octavo, dated 6.10.37, to Prof. Liam Ó Briain, Professor of Romance Languages at University College Galway. "I am indeed very grateful for your very generous contribution of £2.0.0 towards the funds of the Irish Brigade. Many, many thanks." With a good signature (in Irish), Eoin Ua Dubhthaigh. In original stamped envelope. €350 Prof. Ó Briain, a 1916 veteran, was a convinced Catholic, but we are not aware of any other evidence that he supported O’Duffy’s plans to bring an Irish Brigade to Spain to support Franco’s insurgents. It is possible he knew O’Duffy from his days in the Irish Volunteers. £2 in 1937 was a useful sum, equivalent to about 100 euro in today’s money. O’Duffy, a former Volunteer officer, was first Commissioner of An Garda Siochána, and in the 1930s was leader of the Army Comrades Association (renamed National Guard), popularly known as the ‘Blueshirts’. In 1936-7 he brought about 700 Irish Volunteers to Spain for about six months. They took some part in the fighting, but returned without gaining any notable success. O’Duffy died in 1944. In original envelope. 314. Ó GALLCHOBHAIR, Prionnsias. The History of Landlordism in Donegal. Illustrated. Ballyshannon: Donegal Democrat Ltd., 1962. pp. [viii], 192. Red cloth, titled in gilt on spine. A very good copy in pictorial dust jacket. €60

Next to the struggle for Catholic Emancipation, the was probably the greatest revolution in modern Irish history, in its organisation, its triumph and its far-reaching effects. On the one side of the Irish peasantry the Land War was a contest against a class and a system relatively stronger than any dominant, ruling, social power in Europe. They were not only Irish landlords, they were the political garrison of England in Ireland, equipped with a massive arsenal and resources at the disposal of a mighty empire for their protection.

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315. O'GRADY, Thomas. No. III. or, The Nosegay; being the Third Letter of the Country Post- Bag, From the Man to the Monster. By Thomas Grady, Esq. author of The Barrister. The second edition with additions. Illustrated with engraved plates after Brocas. Dublin: Printed for the Author, 1816. Royal octavo. pp. x, 108, [5]. Contemporary green morocco in the style of George Mullen, tooled in gilt with a wide rolled border on the covers and corner tools. Flat spine divided into six panels by five fillets, title lettered on spine; board-edges gilt; turn-ins tooled with a gilt roll; dark-blue endpapers. All edges gilt. A very good copy. €375 A lampoon on George Evans Bruce of Miltown Castle, County Cork. Dedicated to , Esq. 316. O'HALLORAN, Rev. W. Early Irish History and Antiquities, and the History of West Cork. With large coloured folding genealogical map of Ireland before the Anglo-Norman Invasion. Dublin: Sealy, 1916. pp. vi, 182. Green cloth, title in maroon on upper cover and spine. Some fading to cloth, mild foxing to prelims. A very good copy. Very scarce. €275 317. [O'HANLON, Redmond] The Surprising Life and Adventures of the Gentleman-Robber Redmond O'Hanlon, generally called the Captain General of the Irish Robbers, Protector of the rights and properties of his Benefactors, and Redresser of the wrongs of the poor and distressed. Glasgow: Printed for the booksellers, n.d. (c.1840). pp. 24. Stitched. Engraving vignette of St. George and the Dragon on titlepage. A fine copy. €145 FIRST BOOK OF CATHOLIC TEACHING IN IRISH 318. Ó hEODHASA, Giolla Brighde. An Teagasg Criosdaidhe an so, Arna chuma do Bonabhenturá ord-dhara brátha bós dord San Próinsias accolaisde S.Antoin a Lobain. Secundo Aeditio. With engraved title and woodcut illustrations. Romae: Typis Sacrae Congreg. de Propag. Fide, 1707. Second edition. pp. 256, [8]. Early twentieth century green linen, title in gilt along spine. Ex libris William O'Brien Milltown Park Trust, with bookplates and neat stamp. Corner of lower titlepage cut. Tear to margin of one leaf. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €1,450 ESTC T180574 with 7 locations only. Dix and Ua Casaide 10. Bradshaw 6113. Sweeney 3265 (1611 edition). First published in Louvain, in 1608. The text has been set in Celtic type. The final four leaves comprise 'Tosach agus aistriugha miorbhuileach Theampoill Mhuire Loreto', preceeded by a leaf of woodcut illustration. P. 256 misnumbered 259.

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Giolla Brighde O hEodhasa (O'Hussey), poet and divine, was born probably in Ballyhose, to that learned family who were for centuries poets to the of Fermanagh. Educated locally, he became proficient in his native language and went to Douai in 1590 where he took a Master's degree. In 1607 he joined the newly established Irish Franciscan College of St. Anthony of Padua at Louvain, where he was ordained in 1609 taking the name Bonaventura. Here he lectured in philosophy and theology. Permission for the foundation of this college was granted to Florence Conry by Philip III of Spain. As early as 1593 Conry had prepared a catechism in Irish, which was not published until recent times. His manuscript may have inspired Bonaventura, one of the early Irish Louvain Franciscans to write this catechism. It is generally accepted that this Louvain Irish type was modelled on the handwriting of O hEodhasa himself, as is evidenced in a letter written by him to Robert Nugent dated 19th September, 1605. The Catechism is the first book of Catholic teaching printed in the Irish language. It was first published at Antwerp (at that time a great centre for printing in Europe) in 1611, where the Irish font was probably established for the use of the Louvain friars. The same year another edition appeared, this time with the Louvain imprint, which would suggest that this type font was removed from Antwerp, for the newly established printing press at St. Anthony's. This edition, published at St. Isidore's College, Rome, in 1707 was edited and revised by Fr. Philip Mag Uidhir (Maguire), OFM. Not only is this work the first Catholic book published in Irish, but it is also the only one written by a fully-fledged Gaelic poet. He was held in the greatest esteem by his countrymen on account of his profound knowledge of the language and history of Ireland. His friend and colleague Aodh Mac Aingil praised his learning and devotion. 319. O'HICKEY, Rev. Michael P. An Irish University, or Else. Dublin and Waterford: Gill, 1909. pp. [iv], 32. Recent tan calf on cloth boards, title in gilt along spine, with original wrappers bound in. A very good copy. €135 320. O'KEEFE, John. Esq. The Prisoner at Large: or, the Humours of Killarney. A Comedy, in Two Acts. As performed with universal applause by the American Company. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by H. Taylor, 1791. 12mo. pp. 35. Later half worn red morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on morocco label on spine. Titlepage a little dusty. A good copy. €375 No printed copy located on COPAC. Evans 23653. WorldCat 1. 321. O'KELLY, S.G. The Glorious Seven. 1916-1966. Illustrated. Dublin: Irish News Service, 1966. pp. 48. Pictorial stapled wrappers. A very good copy. €35 Brief biographies of Thomas J. Clarke, Seán , Thomas McDonagh, P.H. Pearse, Éamonn Ceannt, James Connolly, .

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322. O'LOUGHLIN, Michael. Reminiscences of a Trip to Ireland. By an Irishman with an assumed friend, "Sam". An American from Pittsburgh, Pa., 1890. Pittsburgh: 1890. pp. 8. Inscribed on first page "With grateful remembrance / To Mrs. McEvoy". Worn and frayed, torn in centre from folding. A good copy only. €75 A Trip to Ireland in verse form. JOHN JOSEPH O''S COPY 323. O'MOLLOY, Francis. Lucerna Fidelium [Lochrann na gCreidmheach], seu Fasciculus Deceptus ab Authoribus Magis Versatus, qui Tractarunt de Doctrina Christiana. Rome: Typis Sacrae Congreg. de Propaganda Fide, 1676. pp. [iv], 391, viii. Later cloth, title in gilt on spine. Inscribed in Irish by a previous owner who purchased the book from Figgis Bookshop, Grafton Street in 1897. Ex libris Milltown Park Library, with stamps. Occasional toning. A very good copy. €1,650

Wing O 291C Sweeney 3279. Not in Ramsden. Francis O'Molloy acknowledging the sorry state of learning and religion in Ireland: "which proscribed the public and even the private use of the Irish language in order that, when the latter had been consigned to eternal oblivion, no knowledge might survive of native antiquities, of the Lives of our Saints, of our Faith, of our ecclesiastical traditions," counteracted this by publishing Lochrann na gCreidmheach, better known by its Latin title Lucerna Fidelium. It is a catechism of the doctrines of the Irish Church printed in the Irish character at the press of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith in Rome, with a new Irish type specially cut there for this work. The book has two titlepages, one in Latin and the other in Irish. It was distributed in the Irish and Scottish missions, and to Irish soldiers in Continental armies for their spiritual welfare. Happily for the bibliophile, uncut sheets in fine condition, of this work were discovered in the loft of the Irish College at Rome. These in turn were offered in a single lot (278 copies) at the sale of the library of J.P. Lyons, , in 1845. They were purchased by George Smith of Hodges and Smith, who had them bound up and afterwards sold them for ten shillings each. The Irish inscription reads: "Is liomsa an leabhar so; do cheannuigheas é ag Figgis, Sráid Grafftoin, an treas [=3s] lá de'n mhi deighionach 1897. Seághan S. Ó Fearghaile, 45 Bothar-Bhaile Bocht, Blath Átha Chliath. Foirbridh litireacht bhúr ndúthchaidh agus bí cara duit féin, ar an gcuid is lugha de". [This book belongs to me; I bought it in Figgis, Grafton St, on the 3rd day of the final month [=December] 1897. Seán S. Ó Fearghaile, 45 Road, Dublin. Foster your native literature and you have a friend for yourself, at the very least]. John Joseph O Farrelly, in Irish Seán Seosamh Ó Fearghaile, was a rather significant figure in the Irish Language Revival. There is an entry on him under the variant form Ó Faircheallaigh, Seán Seosamh (c.1845-1927) in volume 4, p. 115, of the biographical series Beathaisnéis 1882-1982 (1994) by Diarmuid Breathnach and Máire Ní Mhurchú. This quotes Séamas Ó Casaide in the Irish Book Lover, Jan.-Feb. 1928, saying that he was 'the last person employed officially in Trinity College Dublin and in the Royal Irish Academy on the transcription of documents in the Irish language.'

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He was born in Teltown, County Meath, and emigrated to America for a while. On returning, he lived in the Summerhill area of Dublin for the last 50 years of his life. His help in supplying words for the Irish-English Dictionary is acknowledged by Fr Patrick Dinneen. He was active in the Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language and the Gaelic League and did genealogical and historical research. He is said to have done valuable work in relation to the beatification of the Irish martyrs, but published comparatively little. He took ill in the Franciscan Library, Merchants Quay, in November 1927 and died before he could reach home. His wife, Mary Anne Flynn, a Dubliner, was 25 years younger than him. They appear to have had no family. He was very interested in traditional music, and especially in the Uilleann pipes. EMERALD GEM OF THE WESTERN WORLD 324. O'NEILL, Henry. Fine Arts and Civilisation of Ancient Ireland. Illustrated with chromo and other lithographs, and several woodcuts. London: Smith & Dublin, Herbert, 1858. Small folio. pp. vi, 118, 23 (plates). Blue blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. Spine professionally rebacked. A very good copy. Very scarce. €750 O'Neill has stated: "that Ancient Irish Art originated in Heathen times; that it was the most masterly development of Ornamental Art the world has ever seen; and in applying the style to sculpture the Irish Artists made colour an essential portion of their designs ... My hope is that to make known the excellency of the noble sculptured Crosses of Ireland may be a means of adding the store of human knowledge ... that my native land was anciently the most civilised in Europe ... to create an interest in a fine country and a gifted people, who still retain evidence that they were once 'Great, glorious and free' and Ireland was 'The Emerald' gem of the western world." SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 325. ORGAN, James P. Lectures on Educational, Social, and Moral Subjects, delivered to the Inmates at the Smithfield Reformatory Institute, Dublin, by James P. Organ. Dedicated by express Permission to his Excellency George William Frederick, Earl of Carlisle, K.G., Lord Lieutenant General, and General Governor of Ireland, &c., &c. Dublin: W.B. Kelly, 8, Grafton Street, and all Booksellers, 1858. pp. viii, 177, [1] (index). Presentation inscription from the author on upper cover. Printed wrappers. A very good copy. Scarce. €275 COPAC locates 3 copies. "AT THE CREEK OF BAGINBUN IRELAND WAS LOST AND WON" 326. ORPEN, Goddard Henry. Ireland Under the Normans, 1169-1216. With maps and genealogical tables of the De Burghs (Burkes/Bourkes), FitzGeralds of Desmond, Fitzmaurice of Lixnaw, Carews, Somerled, MacCarthys. Four volumes. Oxford: Clarendon, 1968. pp. (1) 400, (2) 363, (3) 314, (4) 343. Blue buckram, titled in gilt. Ex libris Edgehill College, with stamps. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. A very good set. Scarce. €250 The Normans were invited to come to Ireland by Dermot MacMurrogh, known ever afterwards as Diarmuid-na-nGall (of the Foreigners/English). He was a man of great strength, brave and fierce. His whole life was a litany of violence, cruelty and villainy. In 1135 he took the abbess of Kildare from her

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convent and forced her to marry one of his followers. When the towns people tried to prevent this sacrilege, he killed 170 of them. In 1152 after the battle of Moanmore he carried off Dervorgilla (she did not object!), the wife of Ternan O'Ruairc, Prince of Breifne, while O'Ruairc himself was away from his stronghold. In May, 1169, a party of soldiers, under Robert Fitzstephen, landed at Cuan an Bhainbh ( Bay) in Wexford. "This was the beginning of Erin's evil", said an old historian. Also with Fitzstephen were Maurice de Prendergast, Maurice Fitzgerald and Raymond Fitzgerald (better known as Raymond le Gros), with a force of 100 knights, 600 archers and 1,300 common soldiers. Wexford surrendered and the following year Strongbow (Richard de Clare-Earl of Pembroke) embarked from Wales with a force of 3,000. On arrival near Waterford he was joined by Dermot and the other Normans. Waterford was sacked with great numbers of the inhabitants slaughtered. After the fight, and while the streets still ran red with the blood of the citizens, Strongbow and Eva (Dermot's daughter) were married in fulfilment of Dermot's promise. Unlike later colonisation, the Normans married Irish wives and before long became 'Hibernis Ipsis Hiberniores - More Irish than the Irish themselves'. My ancestors the Burkes/Bourkes of Connaught were the first to become Hibernicised. They changed their name from de Burgh (in Latin - de Burgo) to MacLiam (from the first of his name in Ireland), the Annalists wrote it 'a Búrc'. They, along with the other great Norman families, the Fitzgeralds, Butlers, Powers, Costellos, Fitzmaurices, Nugents, Flemings, Plunketts, Prendergasts, de Lacys, de Courceys, Savages, Dillons, Walshs, Cusacks etc. adopted the native tongue, customs and dress of the Gael.

See items 325 & 327. 327. 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 pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. €125 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, County Roscommon. He was the last Irish harper-composer whose pieces have survived in any significant 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.

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328. [O'TOOLE, Barney] Paddy's Letters from Wolverhampton to his Mother in Ireland, on The Great Exhibition &c. By the author of 'More Blunders nor One'. N.p. (c. 1851). pp. 20. Green printed wrappers. €285 None in COPAC. The Great Exhibition was an international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park, London, in 1851. It was the first in a series of World's Fairs, exhibitions of culture and industry that became popular in the 19th century. 329. OTWAY-RUTHVEN, A.J. A History of Medieval Ireland. Introduction by Kathleen Hughes. With large folding map of Ireland in 1300. London: Ernest Benn, 1968. First edition. pp. xv, 454. Green cloth, titled in gilt. A very good copy in pictorial frayed dust jacket. €65 330. [PADDY WHACK] Mr. Paddy Whack's answer to Mr. John Bull, in justification of the charges against his countrymen. To which is annexed, the Circular Letter from the United Irishmen. Dublin: Printed by James Moore, 45, College-Green, 1792. PP. 23, [1], 7, [1]. With a half-title. Modern paper wrappers. Untrimmed. In fine condition. €475 COPAC locates 3 copies only. WorldCat 3. ESTC T86720.. The circular letter, dated 'Friday, 30th December, 1791', has separate pagination and register and is signed James Napper Tandy, Sec. "To whom Letters on this subject are to be addressed." Paddy Whack and John Bull of London are pseudonyms. 331. PARNELL, Charles Stewart. National Banquet, Rotunda, 11th Dec., 1883. Pictorial card, printed in gold and black. Listing Seven Toasts. Dublin: Printed by Joseph J. Goggins, Designer and Lithographer, no date. [1883]. 105 x 180mm. In fine condition. €125 The card depicts a double gothic window, with an Irish wolfhound harp and round tower, arms of the four provinces, the Irish and American flags with a head and shoulders portrait of Parnell within a laurel wreath at top. Thoe who proposed the Toast included: The Lord Mayor of Dublin Charles Dawson; Very Rev. James Cantwell; Mr. J.G. Biggar; Mr. Terence O'Brien. The Speakers included: Michael Davitt; Thomas Sexton; Justin M'Carthy; John O'Connor; T.M. Healy; T.P. O'Connor; E.D. Gray; T.D. Sullivan; William O'Brien; Alfred Webb and the Mayors of Limerick and Cork.

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BY A PAST PUPIL OF ST. LOUIS CONVENT, MONAGHAN 332. [PAST PUPIL] Lights and Shadows from the Place of Little Hills: Poems By a Past Pupil of the St. Louis Convent, Monaghan. Dublin: C. Bull, Ltd., 1917. First collected edition. pp. [14], 104. Original brown printed wrappers. Ex libris with stamp. A very good copy. €65 No copy located on COPAC. An uncommon, privately published collection. 333. PEARSE, P.H. The Story of a Success. Being a Record of St. Enda's College, September 1908 to Easter 1916. Edited by Desmond Ryan. Dublin: Maunsel, 1918. Popular edition. pp. xiii, [1], 127. Printed brown wrappers. A very good copy. Scarce. €65 Carty 173b. Pearse's own account of his educational philosophy and practice. 334. PEARSE, Pádraic H. Plays, Stories, Poems. Portrait frontispiece. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1963. pp. xix, 341, viii (Appendix). Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's signature on contents leaf and stamp 'Síghle Bairéad' on page 3. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. €65 335. PETRIE, George. Christian Inscriptions in the Irish Language. Chiefly collected and drawn by G. Petrie, and edited by Margaret Stokes. With lithographed and photographic plates in each volume, and engraved illustrations on text pages throughout. Two volumes. Dublin: Printed at the University Press, for the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, 1872/1878. Original publisher's blind-stamped cloth to a Celtic revival style. From the library of Charles Acton with his armorial bookplate on front pastedowns. All edges red. A fine set. €575 COPAC locates 9 sets only.

George Petrie (1789-1866), antiquary, was born in Dublin, the son of a portrait painter. Educated at Samuel Whyte's School in Grafton Street, and at the Art School of the Dublin Society, where he excelled and obtained a silver medal for figure drawing in 1805. When about nineteen he began to make excursions through the country in search of the picturesque, and to examine and take careful notes and sketches of antiquities. His remarks upon these were characterised by great acuteness of observation. For the present work he was awarded the Royal Irish Academy's Gold Medal. Volume one is devoted to the important early medieval monastery at . It opens with an essay on the historical background, and contains drawings of over 170 inscriptions connected with the monastery. Each is accompanied by notes on its subject, date, script, decoration and linguistic features.

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The second volume gathers inscriptions from other monastic sites across Ireland. Each inscription is illustrated by a drawing, and accompanied by notes on its subject, date, script, decoration and linguistic features. In the preface he states: "The work contains not only the essay on the round towers, very much enlarged, but also distinct essays on our ancient stone churches and other ecclesiastical buildings of contemporaneous age with the round towers". Petrie's conclusions regarding the Christian origin of these towers are now accepted by all leading Irish scholars and antiquarians. His sole interest lay in the preservation of Ireland's past culture, and he was devoid of any personal ambitions. His illustrations constitute a pictorial record of our ancient monuments, drawn with a meticulous accuracy, that has never been surpassed. 336. PHILLIPS, Charles. The Speech of Charles Phillips, Esq. in the case of O'Mullan, v. M'Korkill; Delivered in the Court-House of Galway, on the 1st day of April, 1816. Dublin: Printed for Wm Figgis, 37 Nassau Street, 1816. First edition. pp. 30. Title lightly dust marked, preserved in modern wrappers with printed title label on upper cover. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €385 COPAC locates 2 copies only. WorldCat 4. Charles Phillips (1786-1859), the celebrated writer and lawyer, friend of O'Connell and an ardent campaigner for Catholic Emancipation, was born in Stephen Street, Sligo. He graduated B.A. from Trinity College in 1807 and four years later was called to the Irish Bar. This case was a civil action for damages for a defamatory libel by M'Korkill of the Rev. Cornelius O'Mullan, a Roman Catholic priest. The speech has been preserved, not for its legal merit, but as an unbeatable example of courtroom hyperbole by an Irish barrister whose facility with words was near- legendary. To quote his biographer, he had "a grand style, explosive in pace and overflowing in superlatives, metaphor, and vivid expression [and] unusually passionate and rhetorical." [David Cairns in ODNB]. His introduction of the plaintiff to the court is one small example: "He is a clergyman of the Church of Rome, and became invested with that venerable appellation, so far back as September 1804. It is a title which you know, in this country, no rank ennobles, no treasure enriches, no establishment supports; its possessor stands undisguised by any rag of this world's decoration, resting all temporal, all eternal hope upon his toil, his talents, his attainments and his piety - doubtless after all, the highest honours, as well as the most imperishable treasures of the man of God." ONE OF THE SUPREME TEXTS OF THE RENAISSANCE 337. [PLATO] Omnia Divini Platonis Opera Tralatione Marsilii Ficini, Emendatione Et Ad Graecum Codicem Collatione Simonis Grynaei, Summa Diligentia Repur Gata Index quàm copiosissimus praefixus est. Lugduni [Lyon]: Apud Antonium Vincentium, Excudebant Godefridus et Marcellus Beringi, 1548. pp. [xl], 646. Folio. Later half vellum over marbled boards. Title in gilt on brown morocco label on spine. Ex libris Dominican College Library, Washington, D.C. with their neat stamp on titlepage, also with stamp of previous owner Bernardini Cortesii, also traces of library shelf mark. Bookplate of Stephen Brook on front pastedown. Library pocket removed from lower pastedown, professional paper repair to titlepage. Light soiling to titlepage. Some early marginalia. A very handsome copy in very good condition, well preserved, fresh and unpressed internally. €2,250 COPAC locates the Birmingham Library copy only. A highly important edition with the translation by Marsilio Ficino. Replete with large historiated and figurative capital letters throughout. Preceded with the dedication of the great curator S. Grynaeus, the proem dedication to Lorenzo de Medici and the important Life of Plato written by Ficino the original translator of the manuscripts into Latin; index at the end; 36 of the Platonic dialogues and works (the Dialogues, 10 books of the Republic, 12 books of the Laws and 12 of the Letters), edited and with the commentary of Marsilio Ficino. A highly important edition of the Opera of Plato with the translation of Marsilio Ficino, the first and most important of the modern epoch, in itself one of the primary movers of the humanism of the Renaissance. Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) Italian scholar and Catholic priest was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance. He was an astrologer, a reviver of Neoplatonism in touch with the major academics of his day and the first translator of Plato's complete extant works into Latin. His Florentine Academy, an attempt to revive Plato's Academy, influenced the

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direction and tenor of the Italian Renaissance and the development of European philosophy. Ficino was born at Figline Valdarno. His father Diotifeci d'Agnolo was a physician under the patronage of Cosimo de' Medici, who took the young man into his household and became the lifelong patron of Marsilio, who was made tutor to his grandson, Lorenzo de' Medici. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, the Italian humanist philosopher and scholar was another of his students. When Cosimo decided to refound Plato's Academy at Florence he chose Ficino as its head. In 1462, Cosimo supplied Ficino with Greek manuscripts of Plato's work, whereupon Ficino started translating the entire corpus to Latin (draft translation of the dialogues finished 1468-9; published 1484). Ficino also produced a translation of a collection of Hellenistic Greek documents found by Leonardo da Pistoia later called Hermetica, and the writings of many of the Neoplatonists, including Porphyry,

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Iamblichus and Plotinus. A physician and a vegetarian, Ficino became a priest in 1473. The following year Ficino completed his treatise on the immortality of the soul, Theologia Platonica de Immortalitate Animae (Platonic Theology). In the rush of enthusiasm for every rediscovery from Antiquity, he exhibited a great interest in the arts of astrology, which landed him in trouble with the Roman Catholic Church. In 1489 he was accused of magic before Pope Innocent VIII and needed strong defense to preserve him from the condemnation of heresy. Writing in 1492 Ficino proclaimed: "This century, like a golden age, has restored to light the liberal arts, which were almost extinct: grammar, poetry, rhetoric, painting, sculpture, architecture, music ... this century appears to have perfected astrology." Ficino introduced the term and concept of "platonic love" in the West. It first appeared in a letter to Alamanno Donati in 1476, but was later fully developed all along his work, mainly his famous De amore. After his death his biographers had a difficult task trying to refute those who spoke of his homosexual tendencies. But his sincere and deep faith, and membership of the clergy, put him beyond the reach of gossip, and while praising love for the same sex, he also condemned sodomy in the Convivium. His Latin translations of Plato's texts put into practice the theories of anti-homosexuality in his Convivium. Marsilio Ficino was ever able to place women on an equal level with men in the cosmological hierarchy. Ficino died on 1 October 1499 at Careggi. In 1521 his memory was honoured with a bust sculpted by Andrea Ferrucci, which is located in the south side of the nave in the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore. 338. PLOWDEN, Francis. The History of Ireland, from its Invasion under Henry II, to its Union with Great Britain. In two volumes, with emendations. London: Edited, Printed and Published by Wm. Eusebius Andrews, 1831. pp. (1) xxiii, 336 (2) xii, 443. Full green linen, title in gilt on black label on spines. From the library of St. Benedict's Monastery, with their bookplate. Spines rebacked, with new letterpieces. A very good set. €275 COPAC locates only 2 copies of this edition. Francis Plowden (1749-1829) was born at Plowden, Shropshire and educated at the English Jesuit College at St. Omer. His Historical Review of the State of Ireland was apparently written "under the patronage of the government; but, as it failed to answer their views, he attacked the ministry in a preliminary preface. In 1813 a prosecution was instituted against him at the Lifford assizes by a Mr. Hart, who was connected with the government, for a libel contained in his History of Ireland. A verdict was returned for the plaintiff, with £5,000 damages, and to avoid payment of this sum Plowden fled to France, and settled in Paris, where he was appointed a professor in the Scots College". D.N.B. The book deals extensively with the eighteenth century and in particular the period leading up to and including the 1798 Rebellion and the Union. 339. PLUMMER, Charles. Bethada Náem nÉrenn Lives of Irish Saints. Edited from the Original MSS, with Introduction Translations, Notes, Glossary and Indexes. Two volumes. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1922. First edition. pp. (1) xliv, 346, (2) [ii],404. Green cloth, titled in gilt. Previous owners signatures on front endpaper. Some wear to spines. A good set. €125 Ten lives in Irish Gaelic with English translations including the Life of "Saint Brendan of Clonfert","Life of Ciaran", "Life of Maedoc" and lesser known holy men at least to man. English translations, notes. The survival of Celtic is evident in the wording and the use of stars, moon and sun as active players in these stories. 340. [PLUNKETT, Arthur James 8th Earl of Fingall] A Letter to the Earl of Fingal, by the author of the Letter to Mr. Canning. [i.e. Thomas Lewis O'Beirne.] Dublin: Printed for William Watson, 1813. pp. 63, [1]. Original blue stitched wrappers. A fine copy. Extremely rare. €375 No copy of this edition located in COPAC. Arthur James Plunkett, 8th Earl of Fingall KP (1759-1836), styled Lord Killeen until 1793, Irish peer and prominent Roman Catholic who was a leading supporter of the cause of Catholic Emancipation. He was the eldest son of the 7th Earl and his wife Henrietta Wollascot of Woolhampton, Berkshire. He became Earl of Fingall in 1793 after the death of Arthur James Plunkett, 7th Earl of Fingall and was appointed a Knight of the Order of St Patrick on 20 October 1821, on the occasion of the Royal Visit to Ireland of King George IV. His creation as Baron Fingall in 1831 made him a member of the United Kingdom House of Lords. He married in 1785 Frances Donelan, daughter of John Donelan of Ballydonnellan, and his wife Mabel Hore; she died in 1835. They had a son, Arthur

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Plunkett, 9th Earl of Fingall, and a daughter, Harriet (died 1871), who married James Jones of Llanarth, Monmouthshire, and was the mother of Sir Arthur James Herbert. For many years he was a champion of the cause of Catholic Emancipation, and for a time worked closely with Daniel O'Connell to secure it. In 1807 he obtained an interview with the 1st Duke of Wellington, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, who explained that Catholic Emancipation was not at that time practical politics, but that the remaining Penal Laws would be enforced with all possible moderation. As one of the leaders of the Catholic Association in its original form, which the Government maintained was illegal, he was briefly arrested, but never prosecuted. His role led to his being known by the unofficial title "head of the Irish Catholic laity." 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 bishop of Meath 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. 341. PLUNKETT, Grace. Twelve Nights at the Abbey Theatre. A Book of Drawings by Grace Plunkett. Dublin: Printed for the Subscribers by Colm O Lochlainn at the Sign of the Three Candles in Fleet Street, 1929. Oblong quarto. Limited edition. pp. [iv], 24. Twelve full page illustrations signed by Grace Plunkett with text on the versos. Original white linen, grey boards, paper label on upper cover. Number 97 of 200 copies signed by Grace Plunkett. Blue endpapers. A fine copy. €650 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 William Orpen, 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, Meadows Street and The Irish Review, which was edited from 1913 by Joseph Plunkett. 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 Rathfarnham. 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 April 1916. 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. She died in 1955. 342. [POETRY] Simple Lyrics and Story Poems. A New Anthology for Schools. Books I, II & III. Bound with: A Golden Treasury of Poetry. Books I, II, III & IV. With notes and questions. Two volumes in one. Illustrated. Dublin: Brown and Nolan, & The Educational Company, n.d. pp. 64, 80, [1], 88, [1], 92, [1], 96, [1], 88. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Some browning to pages. Some fraying to spine, otherwise a good copy. Scarce. €165 Includes the poems of: William Allingham; Thomas Moore; Ralph Emerson; H.W. Longfellow; W. Wordsworth; Lord Tennyson; Walter Scott; ; Denis Florence MacCarthy; Sir Samuel Ferguson; Gerald Griffin; Samuel Lover; Oliver Goldsmith; W.B. Yeats; Aubrey De Vere, etc. EARL OF ALDBOROUGH ORIGINAL SUBSCRIBER'S COPY 343. POOL, Robert. & CASH, John. Views of the most remarkable Public Buildings, Monuments and other Edifices in the City of Dublin, delineated by Robert Pool and John Cash, with Historical Descriptions of each Building. Patronized by the Dublin Society. With engraved title, two folding maps, twenty-nine copper plates, some folding. List of subscribers. Dublin: Printed for J. Williams, No. 21, Skinner-row, 1780. Published according to the Act of Parliament January 1st 1780. Quarto. pp. xii, [vii], 118, 29 (plates), + errata. Contemporary full tree calf, spine professionally and sympathetically rebacked by Trevor Lloyd. Spine divided into six panels, title in gilt on red morocco label in second, the remainder tooled with gilt urns. Earl of Aldborough's copy with his armorial bookplate on front pastedown and signature on titlepage and dedication leaf. Also with signature of Anthony H. Corley, M.D. 16 , Dublin, on front flyleaf. An attractive and desirable copy. €1,500 Maurice Craig, in his introduction to the Irish University Press reprint of this work in 1970 states: "Robert Pool and John Cash' 'Views of the most remarkable Public Buildings, Monuments and other Edifices in the City of Dublin' is the first picture-book of Dublin ever to appear". Their aim was clearly to illustrate and bring up to date, with an informative text, the very remarkable and considerable achievements in the development of the city's architecture. The plates include the following buildings: Dublin Castle, The Parliament House, Trinity College, The Provost's House, Royal Exchange, Queen's Bridge & Essex Bridge, Newgate, Marine School, Lying- in-Hospital, Blue-Coat Hospital, Steevens's Hospital, Cathedral of Christ Church, St. Patrick's Cathedral, St. Werburgh's Church, St. Thomas's Church, St. Catherine's Church, Archbishop Smith's

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Monument, Earl of Kildare's Monument, Prior's Monument, Monument of John Lord Bowes, , Lord Powerscourt's House, The Earl of Charlemont's House and The Earl of Tyrone's House. Edward Augustus Stratford, 2nd Earl of Aldborough FRS (1736-1801) Irish peer and Whig politician, styled The Honourable from 1763 to 1777 and Viscount Amiens in the latter year. He was the oldest son of John Stratford, 1st Earl of Aldborough and his wife Martha O'Neale, daughter of Venerable Benjamin O'Neale, Archdeacon of Leighlin. In 1777, Stratford succeeded his father as earl, and in the same year he was awarded a Doctor of Civil Laws by the . He built Stratford Place in London and in Dublin. In 1759, he entered the Irish House of Commons for Baltinglass, the same constituency his father also represented, and sat for it until 1768. He was returned for Baltinglass again from 1775 to 1777. Stratford was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1777, and became Governor of County Wicklow the following year. He died at Belan House in County Kildare, childless, and was buried at St Thomas's Church, Dublin. He was succeeded in his titles by his younger brother. Belan House, one of the largest of eighteenth century gable-ended houses, was built in 1743 for his father John Stratford, M.P., afterwards First Earl of Aldborough, to the design of Richard Castle, in collaboration with the amateur architect, Francis Bindon. 344. PORTER, Fr. Francis. Securis Evangelica Ad Haeresis huius temporis radices posita. Pars prima. Heterodoxa religio proprijs conuicta principijs, ex omni vera religione in atheismum resolui. Pars secunda. Omnes de religione Christiana disceptationes, in vna sola expeditae controuersia, de perpetua infallibilitate Romanae Ecclesiae ... Rome: Sumptibus Iosephi Dondini, 1687. pp. [47], 635, [5 (index)]. Contemporary full vellum, titled in ink on spine. Early owner's signature on titlepage. Ex libris William O'Brien Milltown Park Trust, with bookplates and stamp. All edges sprinkled. A fine copy. Extremely rare. €2,250 COPAC locates only 2 copies - BL and QUB. WorldCat 3. No copy in TCD. Sweeney 3497. The 1st and only Walsh printing - 436. Francis [Walter] Porter (1640-1702) Franciscan priest and ecclesiastical writer, was the eldest of three sons of Simon Porter, a landed gentleman of an Old English family, from Kingstown near Navan in County Meath. He attended a school for Irish students in Lille founded by the Capuchin priest Francis Nugent, where he concluded his studies in 1653. He renounced his material goods and rights as his father's heir at the time of his profession in the Franciscan order in 1654, indicating that he had

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undertaken his novitiate a year earlier. It was at this time that he took the name Francis in place of Walter, his baptismal name. He then entered St Isidore's College, an Irish Franciscan foundation in Rome, where he spent most of the remainder of his life. The place and date of his ordination are not known, but he was appointed a professor of the college, teaching philosophy from 1664 and theology from 1669. He acted for some years as procurator at the Roman curia for his province of the order, and also undertook duties on behalf of some of the Roman congregations.

After the battle of the Boyne, he was appointed theologian and historiographer to the exiled James II at the Court of St. Germain. Porter describes himself in 1693 as "divine and historian to his most Serene Majesty of Great Britain", viz. James the Second. He wrote several rare works of which this is one. Porter had strong personal and family connections to the cause of James II. This, the second edition of his Securis Evangelica was dedicated to the Earl of Castlemaine, the king's ambassador to the . His brother Colonel Patrick Porter (d. 1696) was in 1688 a tutor to one of James's natural sons, Henry Fitzjames, and served in the latter's regiment at Derry and the Boyne. Patrick was the beneficiary of his brother's renunciation of inheritance rights, but was attainted in 1691. Francis Porter died in Rome in 1702 and was buried at St. Isidore's. There are Porter papers in the Franciscan archives, now in UCD in Dublin, and some correspondence is in the Vatican archives. 345. PORTER, Frank Thorpe. Twenty Years' Recollections of an Irish Police Magistrate. Dublin: Hodges, Foster, and Figgis, 1880. 16mo. Sixth edition. pp. xii, 409, [1] (publisher's list). Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €225 This edition not located on COPAC. Topics include: Whipping Young Thieves; Murder of Mr. Little; Royal Visits; The Dublin Garrison; Donnybrook Fair; A Barrister; The College Row; A Colonel of Dragoons; The Count de Coucy; Michel Perrin; The Close of 1848; Murder of Mr. Little; Excise and Customs Cases; The Liquor Traffic; A Dublin Dentist; etc., etc. 346. [POWER, John] Letters on the Royal Veto, by Fidelis [John Power]. Carefully revised by the author. Waterford: Printed and sold by Simon Morris, Shamrog-Office; As also by the Booksellers in Waterford, Clonmel, Kilkenny, Cork, and by Mr. Fitzpatrick, Capel-street, Dublin, 1809. pp. [iv], 26. Disbound. Stamps of old library. A very good copy. Scarce. €245 COPAC locates 3 copies only. Fidelis is John Power, who was Catholic Bishop of Lismore and Waterford from 1804 until he died in office in 1816.

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347. PRICE, Liam. & LONGFIELD, Ada K. The Case of Phelim MacFeagh O'Byrne and the Lands of Ranelagh. With: Some 18th century tombstones. Illustrated. Dublin: Printed by Hodges Figgis for the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 1943. pp. 29-78. Printed wrappers as issued. A very good copy. €25 The article by Ada K Longfield deals mainly with the Counties of Wicklow and Wexford. 348. [PROTESTANT RELIGION] A New Scheme for Increasing the Protestant Religion, and improving the . Some occasional Observations on Heads of a Bill for a Register of Popish Priests. Humbly offered to the Consideration of the Legislature. Dublin: Printed in the Year 1756. pp. 46, [2]. Disbound. Stamp of old disused library on titlepage and page 1. Some tanning and foxing but otherwise a very good copy. Rare. €195 ESTC N11130. COPAC locates 8 copies. 349. PURCELL, Edward. Scraps. Lithographs designed and drawn by E. Purcell. London: Dickinson, 1821-22. Oblong quarto. Forty numbered pages of lithographs. Some pages with full page illustration, some with several smaller subjects together. Lacking titlepage but plates complete. Original publishers brown paper boards with original printed paper label on upper cover. Loss to bottom corner of label but all printed details remain. Recent burgundy morocco spine. Rare. €875 No copy located on Copac. Not in NLI or TCD. Edward Purcell (flourished 1812-1831) miniature painter and lithographic artist was born and trained in Dublin. He exhibited at the Society of Artists in Dublin in 1812 and 1815, he was then residing at Rehoboth Place, Circular Road. For a short time he appears to have been practising in Waterford. By 1820 he was working in London and produced such lithographic sets as Lithographic Costumes of Russia and Persia (1821) Scraps (1821/22) and Sporting Sketches (1824), after Henry Alken. For their time these lithographs are possibly unique, in that they portray figures and subjects not seen in British lithography. Topography is supplanted in favour of rustic scenes and fanciful themes. Purcell returned to Dublin in 1831 and issued an advertisement in Saunders' Newsletter - "Edward Purcell, professor of drawing from London, proposes giving instruction at 73 Aungier Street. Has taught many of the best families in England." There is no further account of him after this. A rare and wonderful collection of plates by this great artist. 350. QUIGLEY, Michael. The Friar's Curse. A Legend of , or, Dreams of Fancy when the Night Was Dark. Milwaukee: Evening Wisconsin Printing House, 1870. pp. 268. Green cloth, harp and shamrock on a gilt shield on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Wear to extremities. One leaf supplied in facsimile. New front endpapers. A good copy. Rare. €150 Michael Quigley emigrated from Inishowen after the Great Famine and worked as a labourer in America. He had a sound elementary education thanks to his attendance at national school before he left but he attended night classes in America and developed an interest in poetry. His poetry fuses a mixture of classical Celtic heroism and local mythology and he appears to have an extensive knowledge of both. Likewise, Druidism and are close allies. His topographical references are those of the exile, writing alone, unrecognised and exiled in a rented room amid the hustle and bustle of a foreign urban landscape – Foyle, Pollan, Drung, Trabreagy, Malin, Ballagh, Keenagh, Lagg graveyard, etc. Some of the tales were handed down by his mother before he emigrated. In 1870, he put pen to paper, working by candlelight "after the exhaustive labours of the day", as he put it. He wrote an epic poem of almost 300 pages broken into cantos which rhymed abab. His rhyme is consistent and reflects his pronunciation. Writing three years after Michael Harkin produced his Inishowen, Quigley may have been influenced by the imagery and folklore of Harkin. For example, he refers to Dan Doherty, the Keenagh harpist, who was insulted when offered payment for playing the harp at a house party. He smashed his instrument on the floor and never played again. The poem also refers to John Harvey. The epic has a modern appeal as it mentions many families still living in the Malin area, and he was related to some of them: Billy Boggs, Cresswell, MacLaughlin, Duncan, Campbell, Red Rory of Slieve Bawn, MacColgan of the Isle of Doagh, MacCallion of the Strand, Art-a-Friel, and Donald Roe McGonigle. See: Sean Beattie History of Donegal Local History Blog. 351. [QUINN, John] John Quinn 1870 - 1925 - Collection of Paintings, Water Colours, Drawing & Sculpture. Profusely illustrated. New York: Pidgeon Hill Press, 1926. First edition. Quarto. pp. 200. Brown printed wrappers. A very good copy. Scarce. €85

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A BREXIT GUIDE FROM HISTORY? 352. R.F. Union or Separation. Of Two Evils, chuse the Least. By R. F. Dublin: Printed for Bernard Dornin, [1798]. pp. [2], 40. Disbound. Scarce. €145 COPAC locates 4 copies only. ESTC T73042. CHARITY SCHOOLS FOR ATHLONE & ROSCOMMON 353. RANELAGH, Earl of. An Act for Vesting the Several Estates Granted by the Right Honourable Richard, Late Earl of Ranelagh, for the Erecting and Supporting two Charity-Schools at the Town of Athlone, and two Charity-Schools in the Town of Roscommon, in the Incorporated Society in Dublin, for promoting English Protestant Schools in Ireland, and for other Purposes mentioned therein. Dublin: Printed for the Incorporated Society, 1760. Quarto. pp. 9. Disbound. Lacks most of the half-page text on final leaf [supplied in facsimile]. Frayed at edges, creased from folding. Signature of the Revd J.E. Moffat on titlepage. A good copy. €375 COPAC locates 2 copies only. No printed copy on WorldCat. ESTC N56255. 354. RAWSON, Thomas James Esq. Statistical Survey of the County of Kildare, with Observations on the Means of Improvement; drawn up for the consideration, and by direction of The Dublin Society. With large folding map of the county, folding table, single-page map, and other plates. By T.J. Rawson. Dublin: Printed by Graisberry and Campbell for the Dublin Society, 1807. pp. xv, [3], xlviii, 237. Modern quarter green morocco on green marbled boards, title in gilt along spine. All edges marbled. A very good copy. €675

Plates and maps included are: Abbey Tower, Naas; Round Tower at Kildare; Moore Abbey; Rheban; Abbey at Castle-Dermot; Crosses at Castle-Dermot; Major Taylors Map of the County of Kildare; Map of the and the Adjacent Country; Map of the Grand Canal with vignette; Machine for Lifting Hay or Corn or Stones from Quarry. 355. ['RED HAND'] Through Corruption to Dismemberment. A story of Apostacy and Betrayal. Athlone: Printing Works, n.d. (c. 1916). pp. 41. Recent tan calf on marbled boards, title in gilt along spine, with original wrappers bound in. A very good copy. €125 Not in Carty. No copy located on COPAC. WorldCat 3. "Then, brethren on! O'Neill's dear shade would frown to see you pause; Our banished Hugh, our martyred Hugh, is watching o'er your cause."

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356. [RENT RECEIPT] Received from Thomas Wolfe, Esqr. by the hands of W. Thomas Browne the sume of three pounds fifteen shillings Sterling, being half a year's Rent due to ... Welbore Ellis, out of holding in West Arran Street, City Dublin ending the twenty fourth Day of December last 1785. Receipt signed by Thomas Prendergast. 137 x 80mm. Fine. €85 Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, PC, FRS (1713-1802) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons for 53 years from 1741 to 1794 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Mendip. He held a number of political offices, including briefly serving as Secretary for the Colonies in 1782 during the American War of Independence. Ellis was the second but only surviving son of the Most Reverend Welbore Ellis, Bishop of Kildare and Bishop of Meath. He was educated at Westminster School from 1727 to 1732 and then entered Christ Church, Oxford. He was created Baron Mendip, of Mendip in the County of Somerset, in 1794 in recognition of his governmental service. In 1738 he inherited a large fortune from his uncle, John Ellis and built Clifden House in Brentford. 357. RICHARDSON, Douglas Scott. Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland. Profusely illustrated. Two volumes. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1983. pp. (1) [34], lv, 373, [105 (plates)], (2) 374-776, 311 (plates)]. Blue cloth, titled in silver. A fine set. €375 In his preface the author tells us "The Medieval and of Ireland has been studied intensively and publication in those areas continue, but, apart from illustrated periodicals of the Victorian era, there is no literature to speak of on the equally worthy work which was done there in the nineteenth century. The larger portion of this is in some form of revived Gothic style and in this sense the Irish took the Gothic Revival as their own. The sheer quantity of Gothic Revival Architecture is important for the Irish scene, but the quality of the work is of wider significance." The contents include: Historical Background; Architectural Background; Literature of the Early Revival; Notes on Francis Johnson; John Semple; John Nash's Irish Castles; Thomas Hopper; Richard and William Morrison; The Pain Brothers; The Queen's Colleges; A.W. Pugin; G.E. Street; E.W. Pugin. 358. RICHARDSON, John. Rector of Annagh. Seanmora ar na Priom Phoncibh, na Chreideamh. Ar na Ttaruing go Gaidhlig, agus ar na Ccur a Ccló a Lunnduin tre Ebhlin Everingham, 1711. Sermons upon the Principal Points of Religion translated into Irish. With a second Sermon by Seon Tillotson Ard Easbug Canterbury. London: Elinor Everingham, 1711. pp. vii, 155, 1 (Irish Alphabet). Modern antique style panelled calf, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. Occasional light browning. A very good copy. €2,250 John Richardson (c.1669-1747), clergyman, was born in , one of the five sons and four daughters of William Richardson, gentleman, possibly at his father's home at Tullyreavey, near Cookstown. His father's means were comparatively modest and Richardson trained for the church, entering TCD at the age of 14 in 1683 and graduating in 1688. He was ordained in 1693 and was rector of Derryloran (Cookstown), County Tyrone, in 1694-1709 and of Annagh (Belturbet), County Cavan, from 1709. A brother, William Richardson, made his fortune as an agent of the Irish Society of London, acquired the Somerset estate near Coleraine, and was MP for Augher, County Tyrone. Richardson was a prominent advocate of the use of the Irish language as a means of converting the Irish Roman Catholics by means of the Bible and liturgy in the native language. In 1711 he travelled to London to present a petition calling for the publication of testaments, prayer books, catechisms, and sermons in Irish, to the lord lieutenant, the Duke of Ormond, to whom he was introduced by Jonathan Swift. In the same year he published he published a Proposal for the Conversion of the Popish natives of Ireland to the Established Church at the New Post-office Printing House in Essex Street. There

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was a good argument put forward in this pamphlet for the publication of Books in Irish. This of course was strongly opposed by the Government of the day on the grounds that it would keep the native language alive and foster national consciousness. Contemporaries give us a vivid picture of this energetic clergyman. Swift in his Journal to Stella for March 6th, 1710-11, wrote "I presented a parson of the Bishop of Clogher's, one Richardson, to the Duke of Ormonde today; he is translating prayers and sermons into Irish". Richardson, who was Servant and Chaplain to the Duke of Ormonde, dedicated these Sermons to him. This is his first publication in Irish, a collection of sermons entitle Seanmora ar na Priom Phoncibh na Chreideamh, appeared in 1711 and contained an original sermon by himself as well as translations by Seon Ó Maolchonaire and Philip Mac Brádaigh. Also in 1711, the House of Commons voted him £200 in recognition of his 'zeal and service'. Richardson succeeded in winning the endorsement of the lower House of Convocation for his project, but the proposal was opposed by bishops in the upper House despite being strongly supported by Archbishop William King of Dublin. Having failed to obtain the official backing of the church for his strategy, Richardson turned to the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge (SPCK) for assistance and in 1712 his 'Short History of the attempts that have been made to Convert the Popish Natives of Ireland to the Establish'd Religion was distributed to the society's members'. In the same year, the SPCK helped to partially defray the costs of printing Leabhar na nOrnaightheadh gComhchoitchionn - a revised version of the Book of Common Prayer, based on the previous translation of 1608 - and a bilingual edition of The Church Catechism. There was little demand for either work and most of the copies printed were still in the SPCK's warehouse five years later. Richardson suffered a loss of several hundred pounds and was forced to abandon the project. Richardson's efforts to reverse his church's neglect of the Irish language had antagonised certain members of the episcopal bench and one, Archbishop Thomas Lindsay of Armagh (1714-24), tried to have him deprived of his living on grounds of neglect. Richardson was repeatedly passed over for preferment, but in 1731 he finally obtained the deanery of Kilmacduagh on the recommendation of Lindsay's successor, Archbishop Hugh Boulter, who represented him to government as having met with 'great opposition, not to say oppression' (King: 'A Great Archbishop', 293n). 359. [RICHEY LINEN DRAPER] Andrew Richey, Wholesale and Retail Linen Draper, No. 22, Dame-Street, Corner of Great George's Street, corner of Great Georges Street. Receipt for 25 yards of linen dated 26 January 1813. 155 x 157mm. In very good condition. €85 360. [ROAD MAP] New Map of Ireland; exhibiting all the Turnpike Roads, Railways, Rivers and Canals, also the Borough and Market Towns. Folding linen-backed coloured map. 380 x 455mm. Scale in British Statute miles. Published by J. Reynolds, London and sold by James Gardner, Regent Street, n.d. Attached to linen-backed folder with title on green printed label on upper cover. A very good copy. Rare. €275 361. ROBINSON, Bryan. Observations on the Virtues and Operations of Medicines. Bound with: A Dissertation on the Food and Discharges of Human Bodies. With illustration and tables. London: Printed for J. Nourse at the Lamb, 1752. pp. xii, 216, vi, 120, [2] (publisher's list). Contemporary full worn calf. Spine divided into six panels by five raised bands; title in red morocco label in the second. Bookplate of Robert Fisher Tomes. Slight tear to one leaf not affecting illustration. A very good copy. Very rare. €275 Bryan Robinson (1680-1754), physician and writer graduated M.B. in 1709 and M.D. in 1711, at Trinity College, Dublin. He was anatomical lecturer there and in 1745 was appointed Professor of Physic. He was three times president of the College of Physicians and was also a member of the College of Surgeons. He practised in Dublin and attended Vanessa, who bequeathed him £15 sterling 'to buy a ring'. This work was highly acclaimed when first published. 362. ROBINSON, William. The Wild Garden: or the Naturalisation and Natural Grouping of hardy exotic plants. With a chapter on the garden of British wild flowers. Illustrated by Alfred Parsons. London: John Murray 1895. Fifth and best Edition. pp. xx, 304. Bound by Birdsall in full vellum, covers decorated in gilt to a panel design with outer fleurons and centre gilt lozenge. Flat spine, ruled and titled in gilt. Edition limited to 280 copies on hand-made paper printed at the University Press, Oxford. Out of series copy. 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drawings and engravings' from paintings by Alfred Parsons. "When The Wild Garden first appeared, the prevailing taste in British and European Continental was for meticulously contrived displays of tropical annuals newly introduced from South America. Robinson's condemnation of this style as rote and wasteful was highly controversial and yet his vision of based upon flowing arrangements of locally adapted winter-hardy plants eventually triumphed and has proved the most enduring." 363. RŒHRIG, Chevalier F.L.O. A Lecture on the Irish Language and the Irish Nationality. Delivered before the Gaelic Literary Society of San Francisco, Cal., May 26th., 1891. With portrait of the author on back of titlepage. San Francisco: Gaelic Literary Society, from the "Monitor", June 26th., 1891. pp. 15, [1]. Beige printed wrappers. A very good copy. €175 No copy located in COPAC. 364. ROLLESTON, T.W. The High Deeds of Finn and Other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland. With an Introduction by Stopford A. Brooke and with Sixteen coloured Illustrations by Stephen Reid. London: George G. Harrap, 1910. pp. lv, 214. Modern calf, title in gilt on spine. New endpapers. Top edge gilt. A fine copy. €175 365. ROSE, George, Esq. A Brief Examination into the Increase of the Revenue, Commerce, and Manufacturers, of Great Britain, from 1792 to 1799. Dublin: Printed by Graisberry and Campbell, and Sold by J. Milliken, 1799. Second edition. pp. xx, 77 (6 appendices). Modern quarter calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €485 ESTC N62539 gives 4 locations only. This edition in NLI. Edition statement from half-title. HERO OF CREMONA 366. ROWE, John G. The Hero of Cremona. Count Daniel O'Mahony. Dublin: Catholic Truth Society of Ireland, n.d. (c.1920). pp. 15, [1] (publisher's list). Pictorial wrappers. Fine. €65 No copy listed on COPAC. Daniel O'Mahony, general in the French and Spanish services, came of ancient Irish stock. Daniel went to France in 1692, and became Major in the Limerick and Dillon regiments successively. While serving in the garrison of Cremona, O'Mahony woke up to find the Austrians, who had obtained entrance into Cremona by means of a sewer, in possession of the town. Many of the French officers were captured before they had time to dress. O'Mahony, however, seized his pistols, and found means of joining a detachment of his regiment which held the Po gate. As O'Mahony obtained reinforcements he spread them along the ramparts, and kept up a galling fusillade on the enemy. This diversion gave the Comte de Revel time to concentrate and reanimate a large number of French troops. Thus ended the surprise of Cremona, one of the most remarkable events in modern warfare: a garrison of seven thousand men, in a town strongly fortified, surprised in their beds, obliged to march in their shirts, in the obscurity of the night, through streets filled with cavalry, meeting death at every step; without officers to lead them, fighting for ten hours without food or clothes, in the depth of winter, yet recovering gradually every post, and ultimately forcing the enemy to a retreat. On account of the important service rendered

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by the Irish major to the French cause, he was selected to carry the despatch to Paris. Louis accorded him an hour's private conference at Versailles, gave him his brevet as colonel, and a pension of a thousand livres, besides a present of a thousand louis-d'or to defray the expenses of his journey. 367. RUGGLE, Aalæ Clareusis A.M. Ignoramus. Comoedia coram rege Jacobo Et Totius Angliæ Magnatibus, per Academicis Cantabrigiensibus habita. Cum Eorum Supplemento quæ, causidicorum municipalium reverentia, hactenus desiderabantur. Editio Septima. Engraved frontispiece. Dublin: 1736. pp. [18], 139, [9]. Half calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. A fine copy. €135 No copy of this edition located on COPAC. A satire based on "La trappolaria" by G.B. della Porta, written to expose the ignorance and arrogance of lawyers. 368. RYAN, Desmond. Sean Treacy and the 3rd Tipperary Brigade. Tralee: Kerryman, 1945. First edition. pp. 215. Quarter linen on blue papered boards. A very good copy. Scarce. €95 SIGNED BY DAN BREEN 369. RYAN, Desmond. Sean Treacy and the 3rd Tipperary Brigade. Illustrated. Tralee: The Kerryman, 1945. First edition. pp. 215. Quarter linen on blue papered boards. Signed by Dan Breen, dated 21/9/ 1945. Also with previous owner's signature. A very good copy. Scarce. €275 Sean Treacy's years were few, his story in the main is a story of guerrilla war against the Black-and- Tans. His life, although he always carried a book in his pocket and an ideal in his heart, was the life of a man of action. FIRST IRISH EDITION 370. RYAN, Edward. The History of the Effects of Religion on Mankind; In Countries, Ancient and Modern, Barbarous and Civilized. Dublin: Printed by T.M. Bates, 1802. Second edition, and first Irish edition. pp. 10, [6] (Subscriber list), [xi]-[xvi], 424, [14]. Octavo. Extracted from binding. Occasional old stamps of a defunct Mercantile Library. Last leaf of index has two long cuts (with no losses), otherwise a good, crisp copy. €165 Not in Bradshaw COPAC locates 3 copies only. The first edition appeared in London, in two volumes, in 1788 and 1793. Ryan "was curate at St. Anne's, Dublin, from 1776, Vicar of St. Luke's, Dublin, and prebendary of St. Patrick's from 16 June 1790 until his death in January 1819. Although some of his family were strictly Catholic, Ryan strenuously attacked Catholicism in this, his most substantial work" - (DNB). 371. 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. . Dublin: The Four Courts Press, 1995. Second edition. pp. [iv], xv, 594. 34 (plates and figures). Green papered boards, title and Celtic decoration in gilt on upper cover and spine. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. A fine copy. €95 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; Ríg na nDéssi; Meath in the 'Book of Rights', etc.

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372. RYAN, Rev. John. S.J. Irish Monasticism. Origins and Early Development. New introduction and bibliography. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1972. Second edition. pp. xv, [1], 481, xiv. Green buckram, titled in gilt. A very good copy in frayed repaired dust jacket. €65 Every point of importance in early Irish ecclesiastical history is discussed, and there are incidental references to social, economic and literary conditions which make the whole course of Irish history more intelligible. 373. RYNNE, Etienne. Ed. by. North Munster Studies. Essays in commemoration of Monsignor Michael Moloney. Illustrated. Limerick: The Thomond Archaeological Society, 1967. Quarto. pp. xvi, 535. Blue buckram, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in pictorial dust jacket. €65 With a feast of scholarly articles by: John S. Jackson, John Hunt, Eileen Binchy, Joseph Raftery, Michael J O'Kelly, Helen M. Roe, Liam de Paor, Etienne Rynne, A.T. Lucas, J.G. Symms, G.A. Hayes-McCoy, Rev. John Ryan, Rev. Robert Wyse Jackson, Mainchín Seoighe, Kevin Danaher, etc. With chapters on: The Clonfinlough Stone: A Geological Assessment; Irish Razors and Razor-Knoves; Knockea, County Limerick; The Roscrea Pillar; The Tau-Cross at Killinaboy: Pagan or Christian; The Plundering and Burning of Churches in Ireland, 7th to 16th Century; The Rise of Dál Cais; Benedictine Bishops in Medieval Ireland; The White Knights and their Kinsmen; The Statute of Our Lady of Limerick: A Gift in Reparation; The Seige of Limerick, 1690; Irish Soldiers of the '45; Stephen De Vere's Voyage to Canada, 1847; , King of Ireland; Caleb Powell, High Sheriff of County Limerick 1858; The Chronology of the First Anglo-Irish Coinage; The Bunratty Folk Park; Three East Limerick Fairs; The Botháin Scóir; The Memorial to Prior Johannes ffox in St. Mary's Cathedral, Limerick; Moloneys and the Tipperary Hearth Money Rolls. 374. [SABHAT, Sean] They Kept Faith. Dublin?: Roinn Eolais na Poblachta, 1957. pp. 20. Printed stapled wrappers. Staples a trifle rusty. A good copy. €25 Account of death of Sean Sabhat and Fergal O'Hanlon, in the I.R.A.'s Border campaign of 1957. 375. SADLEIR, Thomas U. & DICKINSON, Page L. Georgian Mansions in Ireland. With some account of the evolution of Georgian architecture and decoration. Dublin: Printed for the authors at the Dublin University Press by Ponsonby & Gibbs, 1915. Quarto. pp. xii, 103, 80 [plates]. Pictorial cloth. From Brooklyn Public Library with their bookplate and stamps. Limited edition of 700 copies only. Wear to spine ends and extremities. Ticket of Galwey Binders, on front pastedown. Internally very clean. A good working copy. €365

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WITH A CHAPTER ON THE WARDS' PUBLISHERS OF BELFAST 376. SALA, George Augustus. Notes and Sketches of the Paris Exhibition. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1868. pp. vi, 396. Green blind-stamped cloth over bevelled boards, title in gilt on spine. Name clipped from top of titlepage. A very good copy. €275 The contents include: The Opening Day of the Exhibition; The Fine Arts; The Terra Cottas of Leopold Harzé; British Sculpture; Illuminations - The Wards of Belfast; Dolls and Toys; Pottery; Glass; Jewellery and Goldsmiths' Ware; Bronze; Carpets and Tapestry; Distribution of Prizes; English Newspapers in the Exhibition; Fancy Goods; Furniture; English Workmen in the Exhibition; The Emperor of the Blackings; American Restaurant; Burglar-Proof Safes, etc. 377. SAWYER, Charles and DARTON, F.J. Harvey. English Books, 1475-1900 A Signpost for Collectors. With one hundred illustrations. Two volumes. London: Published in the City of Westminster by Chas. J. Sawyer Ltd., 1927. Titles in red and black. pp. (1) xvi, 367, [1], (2) viii, 423. New half levant maroon morocco over boards, titles in gilt on spine. Top edges gilt. A very good copy. €575 "A work on books and book-collecting which is over-flowing with expert knowledge ... it does all that it is possible to do within the limits of two big handsome volumes, and does it very well indeed." - Westminster Gazette. TIGHE OF ROSSANA COPY 378. SECKER, Thomas D.D. Four Discourses On Self-Examination, On Lying, On Patience, And On Contentment : By Thomas Secker, D.D. Late Archbishop of Canterbury. With Some Alterations, to make them better understood by Persons of all Ranks. Dublin: Printed for W. Gilbert, No. 26, Great George's-Street, 1777. pp. 60. Contemporary full sheep. Joints split but very firm and holding. Inscribed on front pastedown 'for Willm Tighe Esqr. / Rossana / E. Tighe / 9 August 1782.' A good copy. €375 ESTC T182710 with 2 copies in NLI only. FINELY BOUND 379. SHANNON, Elizabeth. I am of Ireland. Women of the North Speak Out. With maps, glossary and bibliography. Boston, Toronto, London: Little, Brown and Company, 1989. First edition. pp. ix, [v], 264. Bound in full maroon levant morocco. Spine divided into five panels by four gilt raised bands; title and author in gilt direct in second and fourth, the remainder tooled with a gilt floral device; cream and red endbands. Top edge gilt. A fine binding from the Harcourt Bindery, Boston. €225 380. SHAW, Francis. The Dream of Oengus Aislinge Óenguso. An old Irish Text restored and edited with Notes and Glossary. Edited by Francis Shaw, S.J. Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Waterford and London: Browne and Nolan, 1934. pp. 119. Printed stiff marbled wrappers. Previous owner's signature and stamps. A very good copy. €35 381. [SHERIDAN, Charles Francis] Some Observations on a late Address to the Citizens of Dublin; with Thoughts on the Present Crisis. Dublin: J. Stockdale, for J. Milliken, No. 32 Grafton Street, 1797. pp. [ii], 70. Disbound. Early owner's signature on titlepage. A very good copy. €245 ESTC N26 with 5 locations in Ireland. An Answer to Grattan's Address which had explained to his Dublin supporters why he had withdrawn from parliament and was not contesting the general election. This relatively mild rebuke of Grattan's arguments provides a well reasoned summary of the conservative case on the eve of the 1798 rebellion, by an author who seems to have been a moderate reformer in the past. Interesting parallels are drawn between 'the horrors of 1641', 1690 and the present situation. Charles Francis Sheridan, 1750-1806, was born at 12 Dorset Street, Dublin and educated mainly at home by his father, Thomas who was godson of Jonathan Swift. In May 1772 Charles was appointed secretary to the British envoy in Sweden, remaining there about three years. He wrote A History of the Late Revolution in Sweden in which he gave a narrative of his experience as an eye-witness. He was called to the bar in 1780, being then a member of parliament for Belturbet. At the general election in 1783 he was returned for the borough of Rathcormack. When his brother, Richard Brinsley, became under-secretary for foreign affairs, he procured for Charles Francis the office of Secretary at War in

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Dublin in 1782. He held this office till 1789, when he retired aged 39, and later that year the king gave him a pension of £1,000, being the equivalent of his salary when in office. He wrote several pamphlets, including an Essay on the True Principles of Civil Liberty and Free Government (1793). He spent the last ten years of his life in futile experiments in chemistry and mechanics, and attempts to discover perpetual motion. His health was not good and he died at Tunbridge Wells on 24 June 1806. 382. SHERIDAN, Charles Francis. Esq. The Roman Catholic Claim to the Elective Franchise Discussed, in an Essay upon the True Principles of Civil Liberty and of Free Government. Dublin: Printed by M. Mills, 36, Dorset-Street, for James Moore, 45, College-Green, 1793. pp. xxiv, 150. Original stitched pale blue wrappers. Untrimmed. In fine condition. Very rare. €375 COPAC locates 7 copies only. ESTC T169398. 383. SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley. The School for Scandal : A Comedy; as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Crow-Street. The fourth edition. Dublin: [By P. Wogan?], Printed in the year, 1782. 12mo. pp. 76, 2 (epilogue), 2 (books sold by P. Wogan). Recent wrapper, some light browning. A very good copy. €135 ESTC N21597. 384. SHERLOCK, Thomas Lord Bishop of Salisbury. A Sermon Preached at the Cathedral - Church of Salisbury, October 6, 1745. On Occasion of the Rebellion of Scotland. Published at the Request of the Mayor and Corporation. Dublin: George Faulkner, 1745. pp. 24. Recent quarter green morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt along spine. A very good copy. €125 ESTC T47593. With an interesting list of books just published by George Faulkner, which includes the Works of Jonathan Swift, Pope's Works, Voltaire's Letters, Chamber's Dictionary, Tale of a Tub, etc. 385. SIMON, James. An Essay towards an Historical Account of Irish Coins, and of the Currency of Foreign Monies in Ireland, with an Appendix Containing Several Statutes, Proclamations, Patents, Acts of State, and Letters Relating to the Same. By James Simon, of Dublin, Merchant, F.R.S. Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, For the Author, in Fleet- street, 1749. Quarto. pp. xv, 184, 8, plates. Errata at foot of page 184. Modern cream papered boards, title on printed label on spine. A very good copy. €375 In Wilson's Dublin Directory 1801 James Simon is listed as a Merchant, with his premises at 26 Great Strand Street.

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386. [SINCERE FRIEND] O'Lavery's Garland; A Ballad, with Notes and Illustrations. Humbly dedicated to the Catholic Laity of Ireland, by a Sincere Friend. S.n. [c.1800]. pp. 34. Modern blue wrappers. In very good condition. €375 ESTC T216105 locates the RIA copy only. 387. SKINNER, Liam C. Politicians by Accident. Illustrated. Dublin: Metropolitan Publishing, 1946. pp. xxii, 341. Quarter blue buckram on cream papered boards, title in blue on upper cover and in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €25 388. SKINNIDER, Margaret. Doing My Bit for Ireland. Illustrated. New York: The Century Co., 1917. pp. x, [1], 251. Green cloth, title in black on upper cover with a gilt Celtic cross. A very good copy. Very scarce. €375 Margaret Skinnider (1892-1971) revolutionary and feminist was born in 1893 to Irish parents in the Lanarkshire town of . She trained as a mathematics teacher and joined Cumann na mBan in Glasgow, she was also involved in the women's suffrage movement in Glasgow. Ironically she had learned to shoot in a rifle club which had originally been set up so that women could help in defence of the . During her trips to Ireland Skinnider came under the influence of Constance Markievicz and became active in smuggling detonators and bomb-making equipment into Dublin (in her hat) in preparation for the 1916 Easter Rising. She along with Madeleine french-Mullen spent time in the hills around Dublin testing dynamite. As a bicycle courier for the Citizen Army, Margaret Skinnider saw more of the Rising than most officers, and her account of the Rising is by far the most comprehensive description by any participant. It is primary historical evidence, and is of particular importance as the only eyewitness report of Countess Markievicz' firing on British officers (not RIC, as sometimes claimed) at Harcourt Street. The Celtic Cross on the upper cover is a replica of the Cross presented to the author with the inscription: "The Cumann-na-mBan and Irish Volunteers, Glasgow, present this to Margaret Skinnider for the work she did for Ireland, Easter Week, 1916." 389. [SMITHFIELD MARKET] Smithfield Market. Receipt for Weights and Measures from Messrs. Paisley, Stephens & Todd, Weight Masters. Printed receipt listing No. of Cart, Gross Weight, Tare, Net Weight with entries in manuscript. Stamped. Notice to the buyer: "The Buyer is requested to keep this Ticket and complete it with the No. on the Cart, &c." 145 x 60mm. In very good condition. No date [c.1820s]. €85

390. SMITHSON, Annie P. In Times of Peril. Leaves from the Diary of Nurse Linda Kearns from Easter Week 1916 to Mountjoy 1921. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1922. pp. 61. Original orange papered stiff wrappers, title and medallion portrait of the author on upper cover. Some mild foxing to prelims. Cover laminated. A good copy of a very rare item. €375 Linda Kearns (1888-1951) played a significant role in the events of 1916-23, along with many other women whose role is only now being acknowledged. Born in Sligo, she trained as a nurse and set up a field hospital for the Republican forces in 1916, acting as a despatch carrier for them. She fought in the War of Independence and nursed volunteers 'on the run'. Imprisoned both in England and then Mountjoy, she made a spectacular escape from jail and remained active with the Republicans until the Civil War. She was in Hamman's Hotel when Free State troops attacked the Republican garrison there and attended the mortally wounded commander Cathal Brugha. Captured, she was then imprisoned

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until 1923. She was one of five women elected to the executive of Fianna Fail when it was formed in 1926. She later became a Senator and received several international awards on behalf of nursing organisations. 391. [SOMERSET, Edward, 2nd Marquis and 6th Earl of Worcester and titular Earl of Glamorgan.] The Earl of Glamorgans Negotiations and Colourable Commitment in Ireland Demonstrated: or The Irish Plot For bringing Ten thousand Men and Arms into England, whereof Three hundred to be for Prince Charls's Lifeguard. Discovered in several Letters taken in a Packet-boat by Sir Tho: Fairfax forces at Padstow in Cornwall. Which Letters were cast into the Sea and by the Sea coming in, afterwards regained. London: Printed for Edward Husband, March 17 1645. Small quarto. Disbound. In very good condition. €285 SWEENEY 4765. The 1st and only Wing printing - W 3533. The full story of Glamorgans's negotiations in Ireland where he came as a royal emissary are clouded over by the subsequent disavowal by Charles I. The fact however that he was Cardinal Rinuccini's preferred choice over the Duke of Ormond as Lord Lieutenant indicates that he would have made a far superior figure, around whom all factions could have united, when Cromwell came on to the scene. His post-Restoration work on mechanical inventions also showed that he was endowed with a most fertile brain. In his "Century of the names and scantlings" he came up with the notion of a calculating machine as well a hydraulic machine that would use fire to raise water, the basis of the steam engine. Had he involved himself at an earlier stage in his life in this field rather than trying to solve the Irish question, it is possible that the Industrial Revolution would have come about one hundred and fifty years ahead of its time. 392. SPEEDE, John. The Kingdome of Irland devided into Severall Provinces, and the againe devided into Counties. Newly described. Performed by John Speede, and are to be sold in Pope's head alley by John Sudbury and George Humble. Cum Privilegio Anno Domini 1632. Jodocus Hondius celavit. A very good copy of the 1632 edition of this decorative map in contemporary colouring. The title is within a decorative cartouche beneath the Harp of Ireland held by two putti. The scale is in a decorative cartouche surmounted by cartographic instrument. With compass rose, two sea monsters and two galleys. With a large inset depicting: The Gentleman and Gentlewoman of Ireland; The Civill Irish Woman and Irish man; The Wilde Irish man and Irish Woman. With the Royal Coat of Arms supported by a lion and unicorn. Descriptive text in English on reverse. Depicted are, provinces, counties, mountains, rivers, bays, islands, forests, towns, castles, lakes, Clans and their locations. 550 x 430mm. Framed and glazed. €950

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393. ST. JOHN, James. Letters from France to a Gentleman in the South of Ireland: Containing Various Subjects Interesting to Both Nations. Written in 1787. By James St. John, Esq. In two volumes Dublin: Printed by P. Byrne, 1788. pp. (1) xvi, 224, (2) xx, 243. Contemporary full calf, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. A very good set. €185 ESTC T129033. RARE HORSE BREEDING BROADSIDE 394. [STALLION FEES] A Broadside printed on one side only espousing the great qualities, pedigree and performances of New-Fashion: "Will Cover Mares, this season, at Watt's Royal Horse Bazaar, Stephen's Green, All Mares Three Pounds Five Shillings, to be Paid at First Service ... New-Fashion is of a most beautiful grey colour, full sixteen hands high, of the greatest symmetry and beauty ... and as a Sire cannot be equalled." Addressed to J. Vigors, Esqr., Burgage, Loughlinbridge with stamp dated March 24, 1839, with manuscript entry. Dublin: Clarke, Printer, Great Britain Street, 1839. Small hole in center with minute loss. With manuscript note on verso signed by Charles Dyer, dated at Dublin 23 March, 1839. 28 x 44.5cm. In very good condition. €275 395. STANIHURST, Richard. De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, ad carissimum suum fratrem, clarissimumque virum, P. Plunketum, Dominum Baronem Dunsaniae. Accessit his libris Hibernicarum rerum Appendix, ex Silvestro Giraldo Cambrensi peruetusto scriptore collecta ... . Antwerp: Apud Christophorum Plantinum, 1584. Small quarto. pp. 264, 6 (index), 2 (errata). Contemporary half calf on marbled boards. Seminary library stamp on titlepage. Some toning, light stain to lower right-hand corner of titlepage, occasional foxing. All edges marbled. A very good copy. €1,275 Bradshaw 6300 Gilbert 777. Richard Stanihurst (c.1545-1618), author and Jesuit, was born in Dublin, the son of James Stanihurst, Recorder of Dublin and Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. Educated at Oxford, where he befriended Edmund Campion. Under the latter's guidance he contributed a general description of Ireland for Holinshed's Chronicles, which was dedicated to Sir , the Lord Deputy, a friend of his father. Richard studied law at Lincolns Inn; returned to Ireland, married, and became a Catholic. Following the death of his wife in London, he left Ireland for the Low Countries, where he remained for the rest of his life. He subsequently took holy orders and became chaplain to Archduke Albert of Austria. He was uncle of the famous ecclesiastic, Archbishop James Ussher. The author of several theological discourses, Stanihurst is best remembered for the present work which is a treatise on the early history of Ireland. He makes much use of the writings of Giraldus Cambrensis (Barry), who had accompanied Prince John to Ireland in the late 12th century. The final three books contain a narrative of the arrival and settlement of the Normans here. The first, though, provides a detailed description of the country as it stood in Elizabethan times; the territorial divisions, cities and towns, the origins of the Parliament within the Pale as well as an extensive piece on , which in a matter of twenty-five years would be swept away in the aftermath of the Nine Years War and the . He tells of their customs and culture, their military organisation and their legendary hospitality. The work was dedicated to his brother-in-law, Lord Dunsany. Keating in his general history of Ireland criticises Stanihurst on three points; that he was too young when he wrote, that he was ignorant of the Irish language, and that he was bribed by large gifts and promises of advancement to blacken the character of the Irish nation. Stanihurst contributed the description of Ireland to Holinshed's Chronicles. His De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis is a treatise on the history of Ireland down to the reign of Henry II, with an appendix of extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis. RECOMMENDS IRISH HOLIDAY TRAVEL RARE WORK ILLUSTRATED BY MICHAEL ANGELO HAYES 396. STARK, Archibald G. The South of Ireland in 1850; being the Journal of A Tour in Leinster and Munster. With numerous illustrations by M. Angelo Hayes. Dublin: Duffy, 1850. pp. xii, 214. Modern green buckram, titled in gilt. Occasional mild foxing to prelims. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €675 COPAC locates the Cambridge copy only. WorldCat 2. Woods 133. With chapters on: The Great Southern and Western Railway; The as a Landlord; The

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Marquis of Kildare; Arrival at Carlow - A local grievance - Paupers and Policemen v. Ratepayers; A Visit to Colonel Bruen's Mansion Demesne; Carlow Castle; Absenteeism - Urlingford - Causes of Irish misery - Ballyspellin Spa; Visit to Hollycross Abbey; Sir Walter Scott in Cashel - Golden - Father Mathew's disinterestedness - the Village of Thomastown - The New French Lord of the Manor; Charmed life of Travellers - The Town of Tipperary. He describes the market day at Carrick-on-Suir "the usual gatherings of country people, some selling, or trying to sell, wheat or turf, or turnips; lads and lassies ... waiting to be hired." At Waterford the "shops were mostly empty and dullness reigned in every sport except where hundreds of emigrants were engaged getting their luggage placed on board the steamers." - The clearing system - Cattle versus Human Beings; Emigration - Tipperary Landlords - Smith Barry - Stafford O'Brien; Bansha - The Town of - Clonmel - Charles Bianconi - Carrick- on-Suir - A Scene in the Streets - Car-load of Emigrants; Waterford - Its Commerce - Manufactures - Visit to the Workhouse and a Description of its Management; Dungarvan - Youghal - Beautiful Drive to Cork - The Judges and Barristers - Degeneracy of the Munster Bar; Queenstown the Pride of the Corkorians; Administration of the Poor Law in Cork - Scenes of Misery in Large Towns; Hint for the Encouragement of Good Landlords and useful Tenants; From Cork to Bandon - Innishannon - Scenery of Objects of Interest on the Bandon River - A Souvenir of Oliver Cromwell - Sir Walter Raleigh and Edmund Spenser - Early Bigotry and Modern Charity of its Inhabitants - Protestant and Catholic; Skibbereen - Decline of the Human and Canine Races - Description of Clonakilty - Reminiscences of Dean Swift - Scenery along the Coast - Recollections of the Famine; Pauperism; Arrival at Dunmanway - Old times there - Decline of Industry among the People; Killarney - A Police Barrack in a Strange Place - Arrival at Castle Lough Hotel; The Lakes - Fickleness of Killarney Weather - A Killarney Breakfast - Gorgeous scenery; Poverty in Killarney - Local Residences - Lord Kenmare - Mr Herbert - The OConnell's, etc. 397. STEVENSON, Noragh. Belfast Before 1820. A Bibliography of Printed Material. Belfast: The Belfast Library and Society for Promoting Knowledge (Linenhall Library), 1967. pp. [8], 60. Printed wrappers. A very good copy. €20 398. STOKES, Rev. G.T. D.D. Ireland and the Anglo-Norman Church. A History of Ireland and Irish Christianity from the Anglo-Norman Conquest to the Dawn of the Reformation. Second edition. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1892. pp. xvi, 391 + errata slip. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper and titlepage. Initials blanked out on half title, minor foxing to prelims. Top edge untrimmed. A very good copy. €65 399. STUART, Lady Louisa. The Letters of Lady Louisa Stuart. Selected with an introduction by R. Brimley Johnson. New York: Lincoln MacVeagh, The Dial Press, 1926. pp. xi, [4], 2-274. Publisher's brown cloth. Title on printed label on spine. A very good copy. €75 The contents include letters to: Lady Caroline Dawson, Lady Bute, Lady Carlow, Lady Portarlington, The Duchess of Buccleuch, Sir Walter Scott, Miss Louisa Clinton, Mrs Stewart MacKenzie, Lady Montague, etc. 400. SULLIVAN, T.D. Recollections of Troubled Times in Irish Politics. With portrait frontispiece. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker, 1905. pp. xv, 390. Title printed in red and black. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Cover a little stained, otherwise a fine copy. €25 The Fenians; Daniel O'Connell; Young Irelanders; Longford Election; Coercion; Parnell; Murders and Political Assassinations; Pigott; Unionists; Fighting in Meath; Gladstone etc.etc. 401. [SWIFT, Dean] Readings from Dean Swift: His 'Tale of a Tub': With variorum Notes and a Supplement for the use of the Nineteenth Century, by Quinbus Flestrin Grildrig. Illustrated by R. Cruikshank. London: Roake & Varty, 31 Strand, 1836. pp. xvi, 67 + 6 illustrations (2 hand-coloured). Recent quarter cloth on original printed boards. Some wear and soiling to covers. Spine professionally rebacked. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €275 COPAC locates 1 copy only of this edition.

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Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), man of letters, was born in Dublin, son of an Englishman who was steward of the King's Inn. He was educated at Kilkenny School and Trinity College, Dublin. In 1726 Swift published Gullivers Travels, for which he received £200 copyright, the only occasion according to himself when he made a farthing from his writing. 402. [SWIFT, Jonathan] The Adventures of Captain Gulliver, In a Voyage to Lilliput. Woodcut titlepage. Whitehaven: Printed by William Wilson, 56, King-St., n.d. (c.1840). 12mo. pp. 12. Folded from single sheet. Disbound. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €475 No copy located on COPAC or WorldCat. Not in NLI. William Wilson (1808-1878) was a printer and bookseller in Whitehaven, Cumbria. Final line of text states: "To be continued in another Book." But, possibly all published. 403. TALLON, Geraldine. Ede. by. Court of Claims. Submissions and Evidence, 1663. Introduction by J.G. Simms. Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2006. pp. xvi, 688. Black buckram, titled in silver. Previous owner's stamp on half title. A fine copy in dust jacket. €50 The Court of Claims was appointed by Charles II to administer the Act of Settlement of 1662. The submissions and evidence presented before the court were recorded in a manuscript that has survived in the archive of the Armagh Public Library and is edited here for the first time. The court book lists almost 900 claims of 'innocence' submitted from 28 January to 20 August 1663. Some are briefly noted but many claims include details of the property in question as well as the legal and family history of its ownership. In most cases marginal notes have been added, giving the past record of the claimants and their relations in respect to the events of 1641 and the following years. In about 100 cases the judgement of the court is also noted. A high proportion of the hearings relate to Dublin city and county, but there is much material on Connacht generally, as well as Meath and elsewhere. 404. TAYLOR, George. A History of the Rise, Progress, and Suppression of the Rebellion in The County of Wexford in the year 1798. To which is annexed The Author's Account of his Captivity, and Merciful Deliverance. Folding plate. Dublin: Printed by George Jones, 91 Bridge- Street, 1800. First edition. pp. vii, [1], 8-293, [2]. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, title in gilt direct on professionally rebacked spine. Previous owner's signature on titlepage including Capt. William Henry Allen of Cork, dated June 9th 1801. Folding plate mounted on paper with browning to centre. A very good copy. €475

ESTC N1817. COPAC with 5 locations only. Captain Philip Allen was the son of William Allen and Eliza Aldworth. He married Mary Smary Hayes, daughter of Atwell Hayes. He died on 5 March 1808. He gained the rank of Captain in the Cork City Militia. He held the office of Sheriff of Cork City in 1784. He was a woollen draper and brewer in 1789. He held the office of Mayor of Cork in 1800. Folding plate: View of the bridge of Wexford, and the massacre which took place thereon, June 20th, 1798.

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VISCOUNTESS ASBROOK'S COPY 405. TAYLOR, John. Monsieur Tonson. Illustrated by Robert Cruikshank. London: Marsh and Miller, 1830. Small octavo. pp. 19, [3]. With frontispiece, six plates, and three pages of advertisements at end. Original printed wrappers. Signature of Viscountess Ashbrook on upper cover. A very good copy. €95 First edition of this comic poem, based an anecdote about the eighteenth-century actor Thomas King illustrating his sideline in baiting the French. Provenance: from the library of Viscountess Ashbrook with her signature on upper cover. The title of Viscount Ashbrook, in the Peerage of Ireland was created for Captain Henry Flower, 2nd Baron . The title of Baron Castle Durrow, in the County of Kilkenny, had been created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1733 for his father William Flower. He was a Colonel in the Army and also represented County Kilkenny and Portarlington in the Irish House of Commons. The family seat is Arley Hall, near Arley, Cheshire. The family also previously owned Castle Durrow, near Durrow, County Laois and Beaumont Lodge, near Old Windsor, Berkshire. THE FIRST IRISH FLORA 406. THRELKELD, Caleb. D.D. Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum Alphabetice Dispositarum ... Being A Short Treatise of Native Plants, especially such as grow spontaneously in the Vicinity of Dublin; with their Latin, English, and Irish Names ... With An Appendix of Observations made upon Plants by Dr. Molyneux, Physician to the State in Ireland. Dublin: By S. Powell, 1727. Second edition. pp. [22], 23-26, [176], [1], 2-60. Contemporary full panelled calf. Ex libris William O'Brien Milltown Park Trust, with bookplates and neat stamp. Also with the armorial bookplate of John Gratton, with his stamp and signature on titlepage. A fine copy. €1,650 ESTC T99226. A title page variant of Henrey 1430 (ESTC T99225). An imprint variant of ESTC T210828 which is dated 1726. Henrey describes this as the second issue with "a new titlepage." Dr. Threlkeld was a kindly physician, with eccentric views about Ireland and its people. His flora contains comments on patriotism, witchcraft, herbal cures and all sorts of trivia. He was the first to publish the legend of St. Patrick and the shamrock. It contains an appendix of previously unpublished observations supplied by Thomas Molyneux. This work is enhanced by Threlkeld accurately assigning the native Irish names to the plants, taken from a ms. believed to have been the work of Rev. Richard Heaton (d.1666), which probably provided him with over 400 names of native plants in the Irish language. This in itself is a novel aspect of Threlkeld's work, and he also translated from Latin some passages from earlier works, which he hoped would thus be of more benefit to less learned readers. Scholars, including some of Threlkeld's contemporaries, criticised the work as insufficiently scientific and too much derived from earlier authorities, notably John Ray's Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Britannicarum (1696), but recent research supports Threlkeld's own claim that his catalogue was the 'first of its kind in the kingdom' (quoted in Nelson (1979), and he seems to have made his own collection of plants. Several hundreds of the plants he listed had not been published for Ireland before. Colgan said of him: "Nothing could be further removed from a bald scientific catalogue than the piquant medley of herbal and homily in which this medical missionary from Cumberland delivers himself of his opinion on , medicine, morals, theology, witchcraft, and the Irish question." 407. TIERNEY, Mark. O.S.B. Murroe and Boher the History of an Irish Country Parish. With illustrations and large folding map. Dublin: Browne and Nolan, 1965. pp. xii, [2], 251. Green papered boards, titled in gilt on spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €95

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CATHOLIC, PROTESTANT AND DISSENTER 408. [TONE, Theobald Wolfe] Vindication of the Cause of the Catholics of Ireland, Adopted, And ordered to be published by The General Committee, at A Meeting Held at Taylor's-Hall, Back-Lane, December 7, 1792. To which is subjoined The Declaration Subscribed by the Catholics of Ireland: also the Letter and Plan of the Sub-Committee for the Appointment of Delegates. Dublin: Printed by Appointment, by H. Fitzpatrick, 2 Upper Ormond-Quay, 1793. pp. [ii], 38. Recent full calf, upper cover framed by a single gilt fillet enclosing in the centre the harp of Erin, title in gilt on red morocco label along spine. Housed in a coarse linen / velvet lined solander box. A very good copy. Very rare. €685 COPAC locates 9 copies only. WorldCat 6. Theobald Wolfe Tone, Patriot, United Irishman and Radical, was born in Dublin, 20th June, 1763. His father carried on a coach-building business, his grandfather owned property at Bodenstown, County Kildare. Early in his life, Irish affairs were to dominate his philosophy, and he formed decided opinions that shaped his future life: "I made speedily what was to me a great discovery, though I might have found it in Swift or Molyneux, that the influence of England was the radical vice of our Government, and consequently that Ireland would never be either free, prosperous, or happy, until she was independent, and that independence was unattainable whilst the connection with England existed ... This theory ... has ever since unvaryingly directed my political conduct." Tone is widely regarded as the father of , and every year a commemoration is held by Sinn Féin and others at his grave in Bodenstown Churchyard. His reputation owes much to the engaging personality revealed in his posthumously published journals and autobiography, and to his dramatic and ultimately tragic career. The year 1792, was the busiest in Tone'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. The 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.'" It then went into committee to discuss the petition to the King. Each paragraph was approved unanimously, until the last, spelling out their demands. Luke Teeling, a linen merchant from Lisburn, proposed that nothing short of complete emancipation should be demanded. It must have proved gratifying to Tone to find that it was the very counties of Galway and Mayo which had proved so difficult to convert that summer, which grasped the nettle and proposed bypassing the detested Irish administration altogether and presenting the petition directly to the King. The Vindication contrasts the humble and reasonable petitions of the Catholics with the exaggeration and objection of the Grand Juries' resolutions. Most of these were "either high in the Government of this country, or enjoying very lucrative places under the Government." Tone singled out Foster's role in Louth and Fitzgibbon's in Limerick. He discusses the Catholic issue in terms of the constitutional status of Ireland, and decries those critics who denounce Catholic reform as a danger to the connection with Britain. The Catholics are "good and loyal subjects ... But the Catholics of Ireland well know the treachery which lurks beneath this false imputation on their loyalty." The real enemies of the connection are those who claim that Catholic liberty is incompatible with loyalty, and who reduce the question "to the dreadful alternative of slavery or resistance." In a deliberate snub to the Irish executive the petition was not sent through the Lord Lieutenant, but Tone and others presented it directly to the King in London. The evidence of Catholic determination and organisational strength persuaded the government to grant a substantial Catholic Relief Act the following year. The political thinking of Tone was strongly influenced by the democratic principles of the French revolutionary leaders. He was becoming an ardent Republican, and convinced that if Ireland was ever to become free and independent she must try: "To subvert the tyranny of our execrable government, to break the connexion with England, the never-failing source of our political evils, and to assert the

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independence of my country - these were my objects. To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of all past dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter - these were my means. To effectuate these great objects, I reviewed the three great sects. The Protestants I despaired of from the outset, for obvious reasons. Already in possession, by an unjust monopoly, of the whole power and patronage of the country, it was not to be supposed they would ever concur in measures, the certain tendency of which must be to lessen their influence as a party, how much soever the nation might gain. To the Catholics, I thought it unnecessary to address myself, because, that as no change could make their political situation worse, I reckoned upon their support to a certainty; besides, they had already begun to manifest a strong sense of their wrongs and oppressions; and finally I well knew that, however it might be disguised or suppressed, there existed in the breast of every Irish Catholic an inextirpable abhorrence of the English name and power." [Signed by Edward Sheil, Chairman, & Richard McCormick, secretary]. 409. [TOWNLANDS INDEX] General Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns of Ireland. Showing the number of the sheet of the Ordnance Survey Maps on which they appear: The areas of the townlands, parish and barony; The County, barony, parish and poor law union, and poor law union in which they are situated: Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1995. pp. [ii], 12, 968. Blue buckram, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A fine copy. Scarce. €75 410. TOWNSHEND, Charles. The British Campaign in Ireland 1919-1921. The Development of Political and Military Policies. Illustrated with several maps, tables and a graph of R.I.C. statistics of outrages, 1920-1921. Oxford: U.P. 1975. First edition. pp. xiv, 242. Red cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in dust jacket. Very scarce. €75 An in-depth study providing a comprehensive account of the British employment of military and paramilitary forces in Ireland as a response to the guerrilla style warfare waged against them by the . 411. [TRUE AND IMPARTIAL] A True and Impartial History of the Wars of Ireland, Flanders, on the Rhine, and in Savoy, &c. More particularly what has happened in those Countries since the Late Revolution in England, to the Ending of the Campaign, 1694. Relating to batt[e]ls, sieges, skirmishes, taking towns, castles, fortresses, capitulations, treaties, surrenders, brave enterprizes, noble exploits and achievements, prisoners of note taken, and the numbers of the slain in each battel on either side. The imminent dangers and conspiracies against his Majesty's life; and by what providence and discoveries they were defeated. With the great victories at sea obtained over the French, by the English and Dutch naval forces. Also, the several descents on the coasts of France, and on the enemies territories in Flanders, &c. With the burning of Diepe, Haver de grace, &c. And Admiral Russel's proceedings with the royal navy in the straights. Also an account of the late defeat of the Turks, with other matters worthy of note. In two parts. Licensed according to order. Engraved frontispiece. [London]: Printed for N. Boddington in Duck-Lane, 1695. 12mo. pp. [1 (Engraved Frontispiece)], [6], 192, 68. Contemporary full calf. Some browning to text, wear to covers. Some copies listed with a folding plate. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €575 Wing (2nd ed.) T2495C. Sweeney 5198. ESTC R222251 with 6 locations only. Belfast Central Library only in Ireland. Drophead title at beginning of text: A True and Impartial History of the Kingdom of Ireland. Running title: "The history and wars of Ireland." Includes engraved frontispiece. The second part has the drophead title: "The history of the present wars of Flanders." Register is continuous despite pagination. 412. [ULSTER ELECTION] Election Poster For the United Ulster Party. Depicted is the Scale of Justice 'in The Balance - United Ireland - United Kingdom'. With the legend 'Tip the Scales / Vote / United Ulster Unionist'. With tricolour and Union Jack depicted in the scales. Printed in red, blue and black by Puritan Printing, Belfast. 328 x 430mm. No date. €150 413. [WAGSTAFFE, Jeoffry] The Batchelor: Or Speculations of Jeoffry Wagstaffe, Esq. Two volumes Dublin: Printed by James Hoey, Junior, 1769. pp. (1) iv, 267, [1], (2) iv, 288. Contemporary full calf, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's signature on titlepages. All edges green. A good set. €175

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414. WAKEFIELD, Edward. An Account of Ireland, Statistical and Political. Two volumes. With folding plate and map of Ireland. London: Longman, Hurst, 1812. Quarto. pp. (1) [i], xxiv, 762, (2) [i], 838, 88 (index). Modern half calf on marbled boards, title, volume number and year in gilt on spine. Paper repair to titlepage. Occasional light foxing. A very good set. €1,250 Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature no. 20440. Bradshaw 7752. The author resided in Ireland and travelled throughout the country for nearly two years, for the purpose of collecting materials for this outstanding work. He goes on to state: "When I was in Ireland, I applied for information to people of every rank, from the nobleman to the peasant. To give a list of the persons to whom I am under obligations, would appear ostentatious. Those to whom I am indebted for hospitality, great kindness, and material assistance in the prosecution of my labours, will, I hope, be contented with the only return for their generosity and disinterestedness which I have it in my power to make - my warmest thanks, and lively remembrance of their favours. It will be perceived that I am indebted to the Right Honourable Wellesley Pole for many official documents, without any stipulation respecting the principles of my work; a proof of his liberality, and of his willingness that facts should be laid before the public from incontrovertible documents." Highly important source for the Socio-Economic History of Ireland. With chapters on: Name, Situation, Extent, and Divisions; Soil, Bogs, and Minerals; Climate; Landed Property; Rental, and Tenures; Rural Economy; Harbours; Light Houses; Internal Communication; Manufactures, and National Industry; Topography; Police; Commerce; Imports; In-land Fisheries; Herring Fishery; The Past State of Money and Circulating Medium; Weights and Measures; Prices; Revenue and Finance; Representation; Government; Administration of Law; Grand Jury; Rebellion of 1798 - The Rising of the People; The French Invasion; Education; Charter Schools; Foundling Hospital; Church Establishment; Tithe; Religious Sects and Parties - Catholic Claims; Catholic Clergy; Catholic Population; Religious Sects and Parties in the Counties of Ireland; Population; Customs, Manners, and Habits in the Counties of Ireland; Defence, etc. Includes bibliographical references and index. IN DERRY & BALLYKINLAR 415. WALSH, Louis J. On My Keeping and in Theirs. A record of experiences 'On the run,' in Derry Gaol, and in Ballykinlar Internment Camp. Foreword by Mrs. Cecil Chesterton. Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1921. First edition, second issue. pp. xv, 112. Blue papered boards, title in black on upper cover and spine. Wear to spine ends, otherwise a very good copy. Scarce. €175 416. WARE, Sir James [and HARRIS, Walter]. The Whole Works of Sir James Ware concerning Ireland, Revised and improved. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. Containing the History of the Bishops of that Kingdom and such matters Ecclesiastical and Civil, in which they were concerned, from the first Propagation of Christianity therein to the present Time. Illustrated with Views of the Cathedral Churches, engraven on Seventeen large Copper-Plates. Vol. II. The History and Antiquities of Ireland, illustrated with Cuts of Ancient Medals, Urns, &c., also, the Canons, Nuns, Templars, Monks, Friars, and Hermits, in their proper Dresses: Engraven on Twenty-one large Copper-plates. Also, The History of The Writers of Ireland, in Two parts, viz. I. Such Writers who were born in that Kingdom, and, II. Such who, though Foreigners, enjoyed Preferments or Offices there, or had their Education in it; with an Account of all the Works they published. Written in Latin by Sir James Ware, Knight; now newly translated into English, revised and improved with many material Additions; and continued down to the Beginning of the present Century. Dublin: Printed for Robert Bell, in Stephen-street, opposite Aungier-street; And , in Sycamore-Alley, 1764. Folio. pp. (1) [x], 660, [16 (index)], (2) [vi], 363, [5 (index)]. Contemporary full calf, title in gilt on contrasting red and green morocco labels on spines, joints starting but very firm, corners bumped and worn. From the library of William Adare Esq. with his armorial bookplate on lower pastedowns. Old inoffensive stain to endpapers, frontispiece and titlepage. Repair to corners. Loosely inserted is an invoice of B.H. Blackwell, Ltd. Booksellers Oxford dated 11.6.51 to a Professor Hoppe in Michigan who paid £1-15-0 for this copy. All edges sprinkled. A very good crisp and clean set. Scarce. €1,375 Sir James Ware (1594-1666), antiquary and historian, was born at his father's house, Castle Street, Dublin, on 26 November, 1594. Educated at TCD. He collected and studied manuscripts and charters from an early age. Knighted in 1629, he succeeded his father as Auditor-General for Ireland in 1632 and became MP for Dublin University and member of the Privy Council. During the Civil War he was

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imprisoned by the Parliamentarians as a Royalist and then expelled from Dublin in 1649. After a year and a half in France, Ware settled in London and pursued his studies there until the Restoration of 1660, when he returned to Dublin and was re-appointed Auditor-General. From his emoluments of office he made generous contributions to widows and to fellow-Royalists who had been ruined by the war, while continuing to collect and preserve valuable historical material on Gaelic Ireland. It was around this time that he employed Dubhaltach to prepare transcripts and translations from Irish manuscripts. He published a number of treatises in Latin on Irish and ecclesiastical antiquities, as well as editions of Campion's History of Ireland and Spenser's View of the State of Ireland. His son, Robert Ware, translated and re-published his works, which gained wide circulation. The Whole Works of Sir James Ware was published in Dublin (1739-1746) by Walter Harris who married Ware's grand-daughter. 417. [WATERFORD EVICTION SALE] Sale, By Order of the Sheriff. County of Waterford to wit. Irish Land Commission & Provincial & Robert Phelan Defendant. To be Sold by Public Auction on the 19 day of May 1908 in the Afternoon. At Robert Phelan's Farm Islandikeane, in the said County, The Goods and Chattels of Defendant, consisting of No. 8 cows, 4 Strippers, one Trap & Harness, 8 Sheep, 9 Lambs, 1 Horse, A valuable Reaper & Binder, 1 Cream Separator, 1 Turnip Crusher, 1 Seed Sower, 3 Tons Hay, 5 Tons Straw, and a quantity of General Out Door effects, and a Quantity of Good Household Furniture. Seized under and by virtue of Fi. Fa. [Fieri Facias] in this cause. Dated this 14 day of May 1908. Signed by Mr. Perceval Maxwell, High Sheriff. Broadside, printed on one side only with manuscript insertions. Printed at the Dungarvan Machine Printing Works, Square. 290 x 440mm. Small tear to centre fold. In fine condition. €285

See items 408, 417 & 425. 418. WATSON, John. The Comes Commercii; or, Merchant and Trader's Companion. Containing, Exact and useful Tables, shewing the Value of any Quantity of Goods or Wares ready cast up … these last calculated originally, and the whole Book cast up in Manuscript, and corrected at the Press, By John Watson, Bookseller. The thirteenth edition. Dublin: Printed by P. Wogan, No. 15, Lower Ormond-Quay, 1807. Tall slim octavo. Amateur repair to binding. Some contemporary calculations. James Dooly's copy stating that in March, 1812 he commenced service. A good copy only. €75 "THE LANCASHIRE BURNS" 419. WAUGH, Edwin. Irish Sketches; and Miscellany. Engraved title and frontispiece. Manchester & London: John Heywood, 1882. Quarto. pp. [viii], 407. Titlepage printed in red and black. Quarter morocco on pebbled cloth, author's signature in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €95 COPAC with 2 locations only. Edwin Waugh (1817-1890), poet, son of a shoemaker, was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, England, and

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at the age of twelve, after a little schooling, apprenticed to a printer, Thomas Holden. While still a young man he worked as a journeyman printer, travelling all over England, but eventually returned to his old job in Rochdale. Waugh made a tour to the north of Ireland in 1882. The contents include descriptive and anecdotal sketches of the following: Belfast to Portrush; The Coast Road; ; The Giants Causeway; The Isle of Rathlin; Wreck Ashore; Ulster Notes; The Irish Fish Wife; The Old Coal Man; The Twelve Apostles, etc. 420. WEIR, Hugh. Houses of Clare. Historical, Genealogical, Architectural notes on same. With line drawings by the author and a foreword by the Knight of Glin. Illustrated. Whitegate: Ballinakella, 1999. Folio. pp. [xviii], 285, [43 (photographs and index)]. Green buckram, title in gilt along spine. A very good copy in dust jacket. €135 With useful information on some 700 houses in Clare erected before the 20th century. There are over 150 pen drawings by the author and 50 photographs, many of the latter of buildings now demolished. Of special interest to topographers, local historians, architectural historians and genealogists. 421. [WEST, William] Fifty Years' Recollections of an old bookseller; consisting of anecdotes, characteristic sketches, and original traits and eccentricities, of Authors, Artists, Actors, Books, Booksellers, and of the periodical press for the last half century, with appropriate selections ... Bound with: Three Hundred and Fifty years Retrospection of an Old Bookseller; containing an account of the origin and progress of Printing, Type Founding, and Engraving, in their various branches; also the origin of the earliest Books, Pamphlets ... and Newspapers; with Biographical Anecdotes and Portraits. Illustrated. London & Cork: Printed by and for the Author, 1837/35. pp. [viii], [9]-76, [21],102-200. Original cloth, titled in gilt. Separate title to the second part, lithograph portrait frontispieces, with a further nine lithographed portraits, four plates, woodcuts in the text. Spine rebacked. A very good copy. Rare. €375 An appealingly eccentric work, full of curious information. In the first part of the work, the text proceeds to page 76 before suddenly breaking pagination to incorporate Sketches of the Life of Captain Grose, Grose's Rules for Drawing Caricatures and An Essay on Comic Painting. A second title is then inserted, but then continues with the sequential pagination that preceded the second title. "It is curious to see a bookseller adopt the absurd plan of noting the contents of the second half of his book by a fresh title ... It is an extremely curious and amusing work and deserves more attention than it has received." 422. [WESTMEATH] Middleton Park, Castletown , . A lithograph of the front elevation of the house. 345 x 230mm. W. Walton, Lithographer. Stannard & Dixon, Lithographic Printer. In very good condition. No date, circa 1860. €165 is a splendid nineteenth-century Georgian country house standing on a gentle hill on a kilometre-long avenue looking towards Lough Ennell. It was built in 1850 by the architect George Papworth for George Augustus Boyd (afterwards Rochfort-Boyd). It is a detached six-bay two- storey building with the central two bays slightly projecting from the façade. The house is flanked by single storey one-bay wings. At one end of the house is a cast-iron conservatory, one of only a few Richard Turner conservatories to be found in Ireland. See The Houses and Landed Families of Westmeath - O'Brien, 2014.

See items 422 & 423. 423. [WESTMEATH] Knockdrin House, Mullingar, County Westmeath. A large lithograph of the front elevation of the house. 345 x 230mm. No date, circa 1880. No lithographer or printer. In very good condition. €225

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A splendid eighteenth century Gothic Revival Castle majestically positioned within a rolling parkland estate. Knockdrin Castle is one of the finest picturesque castellated country houses built in Ireland during the first half of the nineteenth century. The castle was built by Sir Richard Levinge [1785- 1848], who first commissioned Sir Richard Morrison to design a new Gothic Revival style castle residence circa 1810. However, neither of Morrison’s two designs were built and the final design is attributed to James Shiel, assistant to Francis Johnston, one of Ireland’s best known architects, and a noted exponent of this idiom of architecture. Elements of the front façade do appear to have been influenced by the Morrison designs. See The Houses and Landed Families of Westmeath - O'Brien, 2014. 424. [WESTMEATH] Barbavilla House, Collinstown, County Westmeath. A pen and pencil drawing, heightened in white; front elevation. 278 x 152mm. Fine. Circa 1890. €225

A splendid eighteenth century house built originally in 1730 by William Smythe who named the house after his wife Barbara Ingoldsby, daughter of Major General George Ingoldsby, who had purchased the lease of , County Kildare, in 1701. Smythe was related to the architect Thomas Burgh, Surveyor General of Ireland, who may have advised him with planning. The house was altered in 1770 by Smythe's grandson, William. The current owner's Mr. & Mrs. Jurgen Marl. See The Houses and Landed Families of Westmeath - O'Brien, 2014. 425. [WEXFORD EVICTION SALE] Sheriff's Sale. County of Wexford to wit. Lord Templemore, Plaintiff; James Murphy, Defendant. By virture of Her Majesty's Writ of Fiere Facias to me directed, I will on Thursday, the 7th day of April, 1881, at the hour of Two o'clock in the afternoon, Set up and Sell by Public Auction, To the highest and best Binder, at the Co. Court-House, Wexford, All the Defendants Right, Title, and Interest (if any he has), in and to all that and those, that part of the Lands of Tinnock, With The Houses and Buildings thereon, as now in his possession, situate in the Barony of Shelburne, and County of Wexford, held by the Defendant, as Tenant from year to year, at the Yearly Rents of £73. 2s. 6d. and £24. 19s. 10. d. Seized under the Execution in this Cause. Dated this 26th day of March, 1881. Terms of Sale - Cash. Thomas J. Walker, Sheriff. Broadside. Printed on one side only . 280 x 445mm. In very good condition. See illustration above. €295 A Fieri Facias, usually abbreviated Fi. Fa. (Latin for that you cause to be made) is a writ of execution after judgment obtained in a legal action for debt or damages for the sheriff to levy on goods of the judgment debtor. The term is used in English law for such a writ issued in the High Court. It is addressed to the sheriff or High Court enforcement officer, and commands him to make good the amount out of the goods of the person against whom judgment has been obtained. 426. [WEXFORD O.S. MAPS] Ordnance Survey of County Wexford. Based on O.S. 6" Sheet Index. Constraint maps compiled May 1989 by G. Stout, E. FitzPatrick, R.P. Dunford, and K. Daly. Sheets 1 to 53. Complete. Quarter linen on modern wrappers. A fine set. €1,500 Sites and Monuments Record Constraint Map. Archaeological Survey of Ireland. O.P.W.

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IRREGULAR PRACTICES OF THE WEXFORD POLICE 427. [WEXFORD POLICE INQUIRY] Copies of the Minutes of Evidence taken before the Commissioners appointed to inquire into Charges of Malversation in the Police Establishment of the Leinster District, sitting during the last Winter in the Castle of Dublin. London: Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 27 June, 1828. Folio. pp. 43. Drop-title. Modern black buckram, title in gilt along spine. Small stain to margin of first page. €150 Minutes of evidence in the case of certain allegations made by Captain Burke, Chief Constable of the County of Wexford, as to irregular practices in the management and control of financial and other concerns of the Constabulary Establishment in that county in 1827. 428. WHELAN, Kevin. Ed. by. Wexford: History and Society. With maps and illustrations. Dublin: Geography Publications, 1987. pp. xvi, 564. Red papered boards, titled in gilt. Ronan Fanning's copy with notes by him on rear endpapers. A fine copy in dust jacket. €165 Excellent history by leading scholars of our day. 429. [WHITTY, Michael James. Robert Emmet. I. The Cause of his Rebellion. II. The Cause of its Failure. III. His Eloquence, Conversation, &c. IV. His Character. London: Longmans, Dublin: McGlashan, Liverpool: Frazer, n.d. (c.1870). pp. v, [5], 276. Contemporary full green morocco, covers framed by double and single gilt fillets with a floral tool in gilt in corners. Spine divided into six panels by five gilt raised bands, title in gilt on maroon morocco label in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt with a floral tool in centre. Inscribed presentation copy from the author to his daughter Anna Whitty. Brief biographical note on the author in pencil on verso of front endpaper. From the library of Rudyard Russell with his bookplate on front endpaper. All edges gilt. Some rubbing and light wear to extremities. All edges gilt. A very good copy. €375 Michael James Whitty (1795-1873) was born in Nicharee, Duncormick, County Wexford. He was a former Chief Constable for Liverpool, who had campaigned for the abolition of the Stamp Act under which newspapers were taxed. He also was editor and proprietor of an English newspaper. The pencil inscription reads: "The Author Michael James Whitty was born in Wexford 1795. Entered on a literary career in London, 1821. Published Tales of Irish Life, 1822-1824. He was appointed editor of The Dublin and London Magazine when it started in 1825; and it was in this magazine that his series on Robert Emmet first appeared. In 1828 he became editor of the Liverpool Journal, and in 1855 started the Liverpool Daily Post. Her died 19th June 1873, aged 78." He is buried in Anfield Cemetery. The journalist Edward Michael Whitty was his son. 430. [WICKLOW & DUBLIN] Heffernan's Pictorial Plan of Wicklow and Environs of Dublin. Folded coloured map with vignettes around the border. 510 x 645mm. Dublin: Published 1st May 1861 by D.R. Heffernan, 12 Charleville Road, Rathmines, [1861]. In green blind-stamped binder's folder, title in gilt on upper cover. Some paper repair to joints, some folds with pinholes, otherwise a good copy. €325 The engraved vignettes includes views of: Kingstown from Killiney; The Scalp; Glen of the Downs; Powerscourt; The Dargle from the River Bank; The Dargle from Summit of Cliff; Powerscourt Waterfall; Bray, Vale of Clara; Poul a Phuca; Castle Howard & First Meeting of the Waters; Enniskerry; Glen of Dunran; Devils Glen; Upper Lake, Glendalough; Seven Churches, Glendalough; Loch Tay & Cottage; Lough Bray; Baily Light House Howth; Ballyarthur; Skelton Abbey and Second Meeting of the Waters, Vale of Avoca. 431. [WICKLOW O.S. MAPS] Ordnance Survey of County Wicklow. Based on O.S. 6" Sheet Index. Constraint maps compiled May 1989 by G. Stout, E. FitzPatrick, R.P. Dunford, and K. Daly. Sheets 1 to 47. Complete. Quarter linen on modern wrappers. A fine set. €1,500 Sites and Monuments Record Constraint Map. Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Office of Public Works. A FINE AND RARE INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH 432. WILDE, Oscar. A Photograph of Oscar Wilde. A head-and-shoulders portrait of Wilde in profile. 185 x 245mm. Mounted on card. Inscribed by him in black ink in top right hand corner: "with best wishes / from / Oscar Wilde." In fine condition. €19,500 Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900), poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s.

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He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for "gross indecency", imprisonment. On his release, physically, spiritually, and financially ruined, he went to Paris where he lived in bitterness and despair until his death at the age of 46. In reply to a critic who had denounced his poetry as "impure and immoral," Wilde said: "A poem is well written or badly written. In art there should be no reference to a standard of good or evil. The presence of such a reference implies incompleteness of vision. The Greeks understood this principle, and with perfect serenity enjoyed works of art which, I suppose, some of my critics would never allow their families to look at. The enjoyment of poetry does not come from the subject, but from the language and rhythm. Art must be loved for its own sake, and not criticised by a standard of morality."

433. WILDE, Oscar. Salome: A Tragedy in One Act; Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde, with sixteen drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. London and New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1907. Quarto. First edition. pp. xviii [4], 65, [4]. Pictorial gilt stamped green cloth, designed by Beardsley, with title in gilt along spine. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. €775 This edition, with the suppressed cover design is not in Stuart Mason. All illustrations printed on Japanese vellum. Between the last preliminary leaf [p. xx] and p.1 of text are inserted two leaves, on the front of the first being the Cast of the Performance of Salome as represented in England for the first time by the New Stage Club on May 10 and 13, 1905; followed by a facsimile reproduction of the play- bill of the first production of the operatic version by Richard Strauss at the Königliches Operahaus, Dresden, on December 9, 1905. 434. WILDE, William R. The Beauties of The Boyne, and Its Tributary, The Blackwater. Second edition, enlarged. With illustrations, plan of the Battle of the Boyne and large folding map. Second edition, enlarged. Dublin: James McGlashan, 1850. pp. [ii], [i], xxix, 324. Modern quarter brown morocco on brown buckram boards, title in gilt direct on spine. Previous owner's blind stamp on front endpapers and signature on half title. A fine copy. Rare. €265 Sir William Wilde (1815-1876), surgeon, antiquarian and topographical writer, was born at Kilkeevin, County Roscommon, the son of Dr. Thomas Wilde and his wife, Emily Fynne, a native of Ballymagibbon, near Cong, County Mayo. He had a successful private practice specialising in eye and ear treatment, and opened an Ophthalmic Hospital and Dispensary for Diseases of the Eye and Ear in 1844. In November 1851, Wilde married Jane Francesca Elgee ('Speranza' of 'The Nation'), with whom he had three children, among them Oscar Wilde. 435. WILDE, Sir William R. Lough Corrib, Its Shores and Islands: with notices of Lough Mask. Illustrated with numerous wood engravings and folding map. Dublin: MacGlashan & Gill, 1872. Second edition. Small quarto. pp. x, 306. Green blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine with a steam-boat in gilt on upper cover. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. A very good copy. €345

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436. WILLIS, Thomas. Facts Connected with the Social and Sanitary Condition of the Working Classes in the City of Dublin, with tables of Sickness, Medical Attendance, Deaths, Expectation of Life, &c., &c. Together with some gleanings from the Census Returns of 1841. Dublin: T. O'Gorman, 1845. pp. 59. Full blind-stamped calf, title in gilt on upper cover within a gilt border. Minor wear to spine, new endpapers. Very good. Extremely rare. €1,250 COPAC locates the TCD copy only. eBook only on WorldCat. Thomas Willis was a Dublin apothecary who was involved in various charitable activities throughout his life, such as the foundation of the Society of St Vincent de Paul. He was based in St Michan's parish, just behind Ormond Quay and in 1845 he published this survey of the parish that examined it in minute detail, in order to, as he put it himself, "my immediate object is to concentrate public opinion on the present condition of the labouring classes, with a view to its amelioration, by providing for them residences fit for human beings." His occupation gave him an intimate knowledge of the parish, which in the 1841 census contained 22,793 inhabitants, making it one of the five most congested of Dublin's 21 parishes. But in the 1830s and 1840s it had declined markedly; it was one of the worst areas affected by the 1832 cholera epidemic (a quarter of 6,000 cases in the city were recorded there). From a close reading of the 1841 census, Willis calculated 'the enormous number of 23,197, or very near one half of the entire number of families, have the wretched and pestiferous accommodation of a single room'. Tenements were already widespread in Dublin by this time. The population of St Michan's was regularly swollen by rural migrants, perhaps due to its proximity to traditional routes into the city from County Meath. Apart from the Jameson distillery, three breweries and three foundries, the nature of the area, containing as it did a large number of markets, meant that most employment within the parish of St Michan's was of a casual nature (a microcosm of the city as a whole?). Willis recorded an infant mortality rate in the parish of 22.15% in first year, rising to 73.61% by age twenty six. In other words, 7 out of 10 children born in the parish of St Michan's were dead by the age of 25. His extensive description of the squalid tenements he encountered is worth quoting at length: "There are no gentry within the district, and the few professional men or mercantile traders whom interest may still compel to keep their offices here, have their residences in some more favoured localities, This parish, that within the last thirty years might boast of as large a proportion of professional and mercantile wealth as any in the metropolis, is now the refuge of reduced persons from other districts, and very many of the houses then occupied by respectable traders, are now in the possession of a class of men called 'housejobbers', who re-let them to poor tenants. These jobbers have no interest in the houses save their weekly rents; the houses, therefore, undergo no repair; the staircase, passages, &c, are all in a state of filth; the yards in the rear are so many depots of putrid animal and vegetable matter; and if a necessary be in any of them, it frequently is a source of further nuisance. The courts and back places are, if possible, still worse, and are quite unfit for the residence of human beings. They are almost all closed up at each end, and communicating with the street by a long narrow passage, usually the hall of the front house, and not more than three or three and a half feet wide. Pipewater, lime washing, dust bin, privy – these are things almost unknown. The stench and disgusting filth of these places are inconceivable, unless to those whose harrowing duty obliges them to witness such scenes of wretchedness. In some rooms in these situations it is not an infrequent occurrence to see above a dozen human beings crowded into a space not fifteen feet square. Within this space the food of these wretched beings, such as it is, must be prepared; within this space they must eat and drink; men, women and children must strip, dress, sleep. In cases of illness the calls of nature must be relieved, and when death releases one of the inmates the corpse must of necessity remain for days within the room. Let it not be supposed I have selected some solitary spot for this description: no, I am speaking of an entire district, and state facts incontrovertible. I indulge in no theories as to the causes which produce this state of things, but I may state the results. They are – that every cause that can contribute to general contagion exists here in full vigour, and that disease, in every aggravated form, with all its train of desolating misery, is rarely absent." 437. WOODS, J. Notes on Some of the Schools for the Labouring Classes in Ireland. Lewes: Baxter and Son, 1841. pp. ix, 51. Presentation copy "With the compliments of the author" inscribed on titlepage. Stiff printed wrappers. Some foxing, otherwise a good copy. €165 COPAC locates 1 copy only. Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature, no. 32404. 438. WOULFE, Stephen. Esq. A Letter to a Protestant; or, the Balance of Evils: being a comparison of the Probable Consequences of Emancipating the Catholics of Ireland, with those

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SCHOOL PRIZE BINDING 441. YEATS, W.B. Plays in Prose and Verse. Written for an Irish Theatre, and Generally with the Help of a Friend. London: Macmillan, 1926. pp. ix, 447. Bound by Bickers of London in full dark blue calf, spine divided into six panels by five gilt raised bands, title and author in gilt direct in the second and fourth, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner design; covers ruled with double gilt fillets, enclosing in gilt on the upper cover the badge of Queen Ethelburga's School, Harrogate; prize label awarded to Sadie Holden on front pastedown; board edges ruled in gilt; splash marbled endpapers; all edges marbled; yellow and blue endbands. A fine copy. €375 DECORATED BY MAUD GONNE 442. [YOUNG, Ella] Celtic Wonder-Tales. Re-told by Ella Young. Illustrated and decorated by Maud Gonne. Dublin: Maunsel, 1910. pp. viii, 202. Blue cloth, title and Celtic design in black on upper cover, title in gilt on lightly frayed spine. A very good copy. Scarce. €275 Ella Young is best known as a writer of children's stories based on Celtic myth and legend. This book is handsomely illustrated by Maud Gonne MacBride. Immortalised by Yeats, she was an outstanding beauty who spent much of her long life as a passionate advocate of Irish freedom.

See items 442 & 443. 443. YOUNG, Ella. The Rose of Heaven. Poems by Ella Young. Decorated by Maud Gonne. Dublin: Candle Press, 1920. Quarto. pp. 55. Original grey papered boards, title and rose in blue on upper cover. Copy number 162 of a limited edition of 350 copies only on handmade paper. Top edge uncut, the remainder deckled. Mild fading to cover. A very good copy. An extremely rare Candle Press item. €475 De Búrca 26. Ella Young (1865-1951), poet and children's author was born in Antrim to a staunch Presbyterian family. She took her degree in Political Science and Law in Dublin. She joined the Hermetical Society, founded by AE, who once called her 'a druidess reincarnated'. A staunch Republican, she was involved in gun-running during the period of the 1916 Rising. Ella is best known as a writer of children's stories based on Celtic myth and legend. This work is handsomely illustrated by the legendary Maud Gonne. 444. YOUNG, Robert M. & PIKE, W.T. Ed. by. Belfast and the Province of Ulster in the 20th Century. By Robert Young. Contemporary Biographies. Edited by W.T. Pike. With two coloured plates (The Giant's Causeway and Belfast Harbour), a coloured map of Ulster and numerous portraits. Brighton: Pike, 1909. Quarto. pp. 640. Contemporary quarter goatskin on blind- stamped cream linen with the Ulster and Belfast coat of arms. Spine divided into six panels by

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Catalogue 140 five gilt raised bands, title in gilt direct in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and- corner design with a gilt Shamrock onlaid in green morocco in the centre. Spine professionally rebacked. Corners a little bumped. Light surface wear to extremities. All edges gilt. A very good copy. Very rare. €385 There are upwards of 900 biographies of distinguished Ultonians from all walks of life: Nobility & Gentry, Magistrates, Clergy, the Bench & the Bar, Legal, Medical, Scholastic, Literary & Musical, Land Agents & Auctioneers, Engineers, Architects and Accountants. With a medallion portrait of each. 445. YOUNG, William R. Fighters of Derry. Their deeds and descendants being a chronicle of events in Ireland during the revolutionary period 1688-1691. With an introduction by Thomas U. Sadleir. Portrait frontispiece of the author. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1932. pp. xi, 353. Red buckram, lettered in gilt. A very good copy. Rare. €850 COPAC locates 9 copies only. First published in 1932, the book was the product of ten years research which the author undertook when suffering from ill-health in the latter part of his life. His reason for writing it, is given in the Preface: "The history of the great Defence of Derry and the honour of the are safe in such hands Lord Macaulay and Dr. Witherow: but it has occurred to me that the present-day generation of Ulstermen, of all political creeds, whether Protestant or Roman Catholic, would be interested in a work giving short sketches of the men who played prominent parts in this great epic and subsequent campaign down to the fall of Limerick, with particulars of their family, antecedents, and present representative. There is scarcely an Ulsterman whose ancestry, direct or through a female line, has not some hereditary touch with participants in those memorable events." The book is essentially divided into two parts: the first contains 1660 biographical entries relating to the defenders of Derry and the second has 352 on the Jacobite side, although some merely record the name and regiment or the name alone. Young was a proud Ulsterman and Unionist, but was nevertheless quick to acknowledge the gallantry of the Irish who fought on the side of King James: Though foiled at Derry and beaten at the Boyne (where a gallant Irishman is said to have exclaimed Change Kings and well fight you again!), they fought desperately on, at Athlone and Aughrim to the walls of Limerick, where they again and again proved the worth of an Irish soldier. There can to-day be nothing but sympathy and admiration for the thousands of Irishmen who, after Limerick, rather than accept extinction in their own land, elected to become exiles and serve in the armies of Spain and France, known as 'The Wild Geese', these Irish Brigades fought in many battles and proved themselves second to none, while their officers, in many cases, served with such distinction and went on to found families ranking among the grandees of Spain, or high in the nobility of France other continental countries. ADDENDUM 446. [FAVOURITE POETS] The Homes of our Favourite Poets. With appropriate Selections from their Works. New York: Syndicate Trading Company, n.d. (c.1880). Oblong octavo. pp. [12]. Thick card, restored, printed in red and brown. €145 With charming watercolour illustrations of the homes of: Henry W. Longfellow, John G. Whittier, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, R. Emerson, William Cullen Bryant, Walter Scott, A. Tennyson, William Shakespeare, Thomas Moore, Lord Byron and Robert Burns.

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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. BONAR LAW 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. HOBAN A Melancholy Truth: The Travels and Travails of Fr Charles Bourke, (1765-1820) 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. McDONNELL Five Hundred years of the Art of the Bookbinder in Ireland. 1500 to the Present. McGEE Irish Writers of the 17th Century. 1974. McTERNAN Here’s to their Memory, & Sligo Sources. 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. O'BRIEN The Houses and Landed Families of Westmeath, 2004. O’DONOGHUE The Poets of Ireland. Dublin, 1912. O’FARRELL Who’s Who in the Irish War of Independence. Dublin, 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 Dublin’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 Sign of Doctor Hay’s Head. Dublin 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 GPO. With The O’Rahilly he led the first party out of the GPO immediately before its surrender. Arrested, imprisoned and released in December 1916. After the victory of Sinn Féin in the 1918 general election and the establishment of Dáil Éireann as the Irish parliament he was made Minister of Home Affairs and later Minister for Finance, and organised the highly successful National Loan. A most capable organiser with great ability and physical energy, courage and force of character, he was simultaneously Adjutant General of the Volunteers, Director of Organisation, Director of Intelligence and Minister for Finance. He organised the supply of arms for the Volunteers and set up a crack intelligence network and an execution squad nicknamed Twelve Apostles. He was for a long time the most wanted man in Ireland but he practically eliminated the British Secret Service with the Bloody Sunday morning operation. Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland is the official biography of a great soldier-statesman and the first authentic history of the rebirth of a nation. Written with inner knowledge by an intimate friend and comrade-in-arms who served with Collins on Headquarters Staff and who shared in many of his amazing adventures and hairsbreadth escapes. 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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B3. BOURKE [de Búrca], Éamonn. Burke People and Places. With clan location maps, illustrations and 50 pages of genealogies. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, for Edmund Burke Publisher and Whitegate, Ballinakella Press, 2001. Fourth. pp. 173. Fine in stiff pictorial wrappers. Enlarged with an extra 35 pages of genealogies. €20

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

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. We have republished ‘one of the rarest of all Irish books’, with a new introduction by Pádraig Ó Riain. The edition is limited to 300 copies, and handsomely bound in blue quarter morocco, title on spine, top edge gilt, red silk marker. Fine in slipcase. €190 Lecky described this volume: “as one of the most interesting collections of Lives of the saints in the world. It is very shameful that it has not been reprinted”. The new introduction by Pádraig Ó Riain, contains the first published account of Colgan’s recently discovered manuscript notes to the Triadis. This reprint should stimulate further the growing interest in the history of the Irish saints.

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

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

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

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 State papers, the King’s Letter Books and Entry Books at the Public Record Office for the names of Officers serving on the Irish Establishment, 1661-1685. In December 1660, Sir Maurice Eustace, Lord Chancellor, Roger, Earl of Orrery, and Charles, Earl of Mountrath were appointed Lord Justices. Under the able rule of Orrery and Mountrath the Army in Ireland was reduced and remodelled. King Charles’s new army dates from 11th February, 1661 and when the Irish parliament met in May the Lord Chancellor informed the House that “there were twenty months” arrears due to the army. The patrons of military history while glancing at the list of officers appointed to command this army, will recognise the names of many Cromwellian field officers who had served in Ireland during the Commonwealth. One may wonder how these ‘renegades’ found their way into the new Royalist levies. The answer is that these same officers not only supported the Restoration but were eager in the King’s service afterwards. It transpired that many Cromwellians were retained in the Army of Ireland and had equal rights with those Royalists who had fought for Charles I and had shared the long exile of Charles II. From a purely military point of view they had learned the art of war under the most successful soldier of his time. 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 Gildea Cannon states “Tony Donohoe has brought it all vividly to light in his impressive history. Using his treasure trove of published and unpublished materials, patiently accumulated over the decades, he has told the story of an ancient parish with a scholar’s eye for the telling detail ... has made effective use of the unpublished Palmer and Pratt estate papers to help bridge the dark gap between seventeenth-century documents detailing the changeover in land ownership from native to settler, and nineteenth-century sources”. B13. [FAMINE IN IRELAND] Transactions of the Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends during the famine in Ireland, 1846 and 1847. With an index by Rob Goodbody. Dublin: De Búrca, 1996. pp. xliii, 529. Fine in buckram gilt. €35 It is difficult to read unmoved some of the detailed testimony contained in this volume of the reports of the envoys sent out by the Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends, who found out for themselves what was really going on during the Famine in remote country areas. B14. GLEESON, Rev. John. Cashel of the Kings. A History of the Ancient Capital of Munster from the date of its foundation until the present day. Including historical notices of the Kings of Cashel from the 4th century to the 12th century. The succession of bishops and 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 Lorrha and Templederry, later parish priest of Lorrha and Knock in 1893 and Lorrha in 1908. A prolific writer and meticulous researcher, he also wrote History of the Ely O’Carroll Territory or Ancient Ormond.

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

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

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

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ANNALS OF ULSTER B17. HENNESSY, William M. & MacCARTHY, B. Ed. by. The Annals of Ulster, otherwise Annala Senait. A chronicle of Irish Affairs from A.D. 431 to A.D. 1540. With translation, notes, and index. New introduction by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. Dublin: De Búrca, 1998. Four volumes. Full buckram gilt in slipcase. €285 The important Annals of Ulster compiled by Cathal Og Mac Maghnusa at Seanaidh Mac Maghnusa, now Belle Isle in , were so named by the noted ecclesiastic, Ussher, on account of their containing many chronicles relating to that province. They contain more detail on ecclesiastical history than the Annals of the Four Masters, and were consulted by Br. Michael O’Clery, Chief of the Four Masters, for his masterpiece.

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’Duignans. The only original copy of these Annals known to exist is a small vellum manuscript which was presented to Trinity by Dr. Leland in 1766. B19. HENNESSY, William M. Ed. by. The Annals of Lough Cé. A chronicle of Irish affairs from A.D. 1014 to A.D. 1590. Edited and with a translation by W.M. Hennessy. With folding coloured plate of the TCD Ms. Two volumes. Dublin: De Búrca, 2000. Third. pp. (1) lix, 653, (2) 689. Superb set bound in full buckram gilt and in presentation slipcase. €110 HIS NEVER-FORGOTTEN COUNTRYSIDE ABOUT GLENOSHEEN B20. JOYCE, P.W. Irish Names of Places. With a new introductory essay on the life of P.W. Joyce by Mainchín Seoighe. Dublin: De Búrca, 1995. Three volumes. pp. (1) xl, 589, (2) viii, 538, (3) x, 598. Fine. €165

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

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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, Sgt. Patrick Lyons, ‘The Antiquarian Policeman’, served with the Royal Irish Constabulary from 1886 - 1920. While stationed in the West of Ireland, he developed a keen interest in documenting the field-monuments he noticed on his patrols. His discovery of four ogham stones led to a correspondence with Hubert Knox, a renowned Mayo Antiquarian; Lyons provided Knox with important descriptions of field monuments, contributing to 19 published papers. Out of modesty, and fear that the R.I.C. would frown on his ‘antiquarian craze’, he preferred not to be acknowledged by name, although he was much admired for his fine mind and dedicated antiquarian ‘policework’ by those few with whom he shared his interest. To bring to light his remarkable work, this book draws on Lyons’ own notes and photographs (preserved by N.U.I. Galway and the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland), archived local newspapers and an overview of the social and political history of his times. A quiet, unassuming man, Lyons died in 1954 and lies buried in an unmarked grave in his native Clonmel. His major contribution to Irish archaeology deserves to be acknowledged in print at last. Máire Lohan (née Carroll) was born in Belmullet, County Mayo and now lives in Galway city. While researching for an M.A. in Archaeology at U.C.G. she became aware of the Lyons Photographic Collection there and also of the Knox/Lyons Collection at the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, around which this book is based. She has worked with the O.P.W. in the Archaeological Survey of County Galway, lectured in archaeology at R.T.C. Galway and excavated in Galway city. She has published articles in the Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society and Cathair na Mart. This is her first book. B25. MacEVILLY, Michael. A Splendid Resistance. A Life of IRA Chief of Staff Dr. Andy Cooney. Foreword by Sean O Mahony. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 2011. pp. xix, 427. Paperback in coloured illustrated French flaps. €20 Hardback in coloured illustrated dustjacket. €50 Limited edition of 50 copies in full green morocco gilt, in slipcase. €225 The appointment of Andy (Andrew) Cooney as Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) while still a medical student was the highpoint of a military career which began in 1917 and was not to

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end until 1944. Prior to this he had served as a Volunteer, GHQ Officer, Brigade Commander and Divisional Commander before being appointed to the IRA General Staff with the rank of Quartermaster-General in 1924 and Chief of Staff in 1925, at which time he was elected as Chairman of the IRA Executive. Cooney was to retain this post until 1927. Afterwards, he remained close to the IRA General Staff until he emigrated to the USA. Michael MacEvilly’s meticulously researched life of Dr. Andy Cooney sheds valuable light on a chapter of Irish republicanism which has hitherto been seriously neglected. No student of Irish republican history can afford to ignore this book, which is also to be commended for its selection of many hitherto unpublished photographs. - Tim Pat Coogan. Michael MacEvilly narrates the life story of Andy Cooney in compelling fashion. Readers will be fascinated by the manner in which a young man combined his studies to be a doctor with his duties as an IRA Volunteer from 1917 onwards. In terms of the wider historical narrative of the period, the book, using much original source material, makes an important new contribution. It makes clear the command structure of the IRA, at both a national and local level, during the War of Independence, the Civil War and beyond. The strengths and weaknesses of individuals are also delineated with remarkable clarity. In particular new information is provided on ‘Bloody Sunday,’ November 1920; the role of the IRB and Michael Collins at the time of the Treaty; and the differences between the IRA and de Valera when Fianna Fail was founded. Above all the book is extremely well researched and eminently readable. - Brian Murphy OSB. Michael MacEvilly was born in Castlebar, Co. Mayo. He was educated at St. Jarlath’s College, Tuam, Co. Galway and subsequently studied Arts and Commerce at University College, Galway. He worked as an accountant and auditor in his own firm located in Dublin, and had a long association with and an interest in the Irish Judo Association and the Olympic Council of Ireland. Irish history and the Irish language were Michael’s major interests. This primarily stemmed from his detailed research of the history of the MacEvilly family, especially their involvement in the War of Independence of which he was particularly proud. Irish republican history was an enduring passion and he became a keen scholar and book-collector on the area. He was an active member of the Committee of the 1916-21 Club and was President from 2000 to 2001. Michael passed away in 2009. He is sadly missed by his family and friends.

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); Myler Magrath, (d.1622), Murrough O’Brien, Baron of Inchiquin (d.1674); Feagh MacHugh O’Byrne (d.1597); Rory O’Conor.(d.1198); Red Hugh O’Donnell (d.1602); Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone (d.1616); Owen Roe O’Neill (d.1649), and many, many more.

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

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size of the county and complexity of changing estate history prevents the book from being exhaustive or a complete history of all estates and gentry families. These Anglo-Irish families (the term is unsatisfactory) became largely sidelined, irrelevant and forgotten by the modern nationalist Irish state. Their numbers and variety in Galway is made clear through a large range of house illustrations. Many of the old landed class and nobility embodied values worthwhile in society. The wealthiest were patrons of much of the culture and art of old Europe. They stood for continuity, tradition, a sense of public duty, standards and refinement in manners. Many of them fostered the pursuit of outdoor sports and horseracing. They linked their frequently remote places to the wider world and they were at the same time cosmopolitan and local without being parochial. Although a declining social force they frequently held liberal attitudes against the power and dominance of state, church, and the ever expanding bureaucracy in modem society and government. Some, of course, did not always live up to ideals. - Knight of Glin. B30. NELSON, E. Charles & WALSH, Wendy F. An Irish Replanted. The Histories of Some of Our Garden Plants. With coloured and Chinese ink illustrations by Wendy F. Walsh. Second edition revised and enlarged. Dublin: Edmund Burke Publisher, 1997. pp. x, 276. €65 “This book has been out of print for almost a decade, and in the intervening years many things have happened both in my own life and in the interwoven lives of my friends and colleagues, and gardens and their plants. I have also learnt more about the garden plants that we cultivate in Ireland. A new edition was required, and I have taken the opportunity to augment the original text. I have added a chapter on roses, based on my address to the ninth World Rose Convention held in Belfast during 1991, and I have drawn into this book, in edited form, a scattering of essays that were published elsewhere and the unpublished scripts for talks which I gave on Sunday Miscellany broadcast by Radio Telefis Eireann. I have also made corrections, and altered a few names to bring them up-to-date. In a few instances, the previously published history has been revised in the light of my more recent research” - Dr. E.C. Nelson. The book is lavishly illustrated by Wendy Walsh, with 21 coloured plates (including ten new watercolours for this edition), eighteen figures in Chinese inks and nine vignettes in pencil. A MONUMENT TO ONE OF OUR GREAT CELTIC SCHOLARS B31. O’CURRY, Eugene. On The Manners and Customs of The Ancient Irish. A series of lectures delivered by the late Eugene O’Curry, M.R.I.A., Professor of Irish History and Archaeology in the Catholic University of Ireland. Edited, appendices etc, by W.K. Sullivan. With a new introduction by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. Three volumes. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, for Edmund Burke Publisher, 1996. Bound in full green buckram, with harp in gilt on upper covers. Head and tail bands. pp. (1) xviii, 664, (2), xix, 392 (3) xxiv, 711. Fine. €235 His thirty-eight lectures On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, delivered at the University between May 1857 and July 1862 (the last one only a fortnight before his death) were published in Dublin in three volumes. These were edited with an introduction (which takes up the whole of the first volume), appendices and other material by Dr. W.K. Sullivan. O’Curry’s works stand to this day as a monument to one of our greatest Celtic scholars. Dr. Nollaig Ó Muraíle states: “This, the single most substantial work produced by one of the great pioneering figures who laid the foundations of modern Irish scholarship in the fields of Gaelic language and literature, medieval history and archaeology, has been exceedingly difficult to come by (even in some reputable libraries) for the best part of a century. It is therefore greatly to be welcomed that it is now being made available again, by De Búrca Books - not just for the sake of present day scholars but also for the general reader who will derive from its pages much enjoyment and enlightenment about 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’Flaherty’s transcript. To enhance the value of this masterpiece a colour reproduction of Baptista Boazio’s map of Ireland 1609 is included in a matching folder. The Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland, Annála Ríoghachta Éireann or the Annals of the Four Masters to give them their best known title are the great masterpieces of Irish history from the earliest times to 1616 A.D. The work was compiled between 1632 and 1636 by a small team of historians headed by Br. Michael O’Clery, a Franciscan lay brother. He himself records: “there was collected by me all the best and most copious books of Annals that I could find throughout all Ireland, though it was difficult for me to collect them in one place”. The great work remained, for the most part, unpublished and untranslated until John O’Donovan prepared his edition between 1847 and 1856. The crowning achievement of John O’Donovan’s edition is the copious historical, topographical and genealogical material in the footnotes which have been universally acclaimed by scholars. Douglas Hyde wrote that the O’Donovan edition represented: “the greatest work that any modern Irish scholar ever accomplished”. More recently Kenneth Nicholls says: “O’Donovan’s enormous scholarship breathtaking in its extent when one considers the state of historical scholarship and the almost total lack of published source material in his day, still amazes one, as does the extent to which it has been depended on by others down to the present. His translations are still superior in reliability to those of Hennessy, MacCarthy or Freeman to name three editor-translators of other Irish Annals ... his footnotes are a mine of information”. A superb set of this monumental source for the history of Ireland. B33. SWEENEY, Tony. Catalogue Raisonné of Irish Stuart Silver. A Short Descriptive Catalogue of Surviving Irish Church, Civic, Ceremonial & Domestic Plate dating from the Reigns of James I, Charles I, The Commonwealth, Charles II, James II, William & Mary, William III & Queen Anne 1603-1714. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 1995. Folio. pp. 272. In a fine buckram binding by Museum Bookbinding and printed in Dublin by Betaprint. Signed and numbered limited edition of 400 copies, 360 of which are for sale. Fine in illustrated dust jacket. €135 Compiled from records of holdings by Cathedrals, Churches, Religious Houses, Colleges, Municipal Corporations, Museums & Art Galleries. Further information has been obtained from those who deal in and those who collect Antique Silver, with special regard to Auction Sales.

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

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which, unfortunately he was given too little time to develop in practice. Rare interviews with Arthur Griffith and Eoin MacNeill further enhance this book, which has long been out of print and hard to find in the antiquarian book market. Originally published in 1922, our edition has a new introduction and an index which was not in the first edition. B37. WALDRON, Jarlath. Maamtrasna. The Murders and The Mystery. With location map and engineers map of the route taken by the murderers in 1882, depicting the roads, rivers, mountains, and houses with names of occupants. With numerous illustrations and genealogical chart of the chief protagonists. Dublin: De Búrca, 2004. Fifth edition. pp. 335. Mint in illustrated wrappers with folding flaps. €20 “This is a wonderful book, full of honour, contrast and explanation … driven with translucent compassion … The author has done something more than resurrect the ghosts of the misjudged. He has projected lantern slides of a past culture, the last of Europe’s Iron Age, the cottage poor of the west of Ireland”. Frank Delaney, The Sunday Times. 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.

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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, 2019. 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

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

B40. WOODS, C.J. Ed by. Charles 's Tour through Ireland and North Wales in September and October 1792. With a foreword by David Dickson. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 2019. Circa 190 pages. Approximately €35

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