Deburca catalogue 112

De Búrca Rare Books

De Búrca Rare Books

Catalogue 112

Catalogue 112

See item 403

See item 403

De BĂşrca Ra re Books A selection of fine, rare and important books and manuscripts

Catalogue 112 Summer 2014

DE BÚRCA RARE BOOKS Cloonagashel, 27 Priory Drive, Blackrock, County Dublin.

01 288 2159 01 288 6960

CATALOGUE 112 Summer 2014

PLEASE NOTE 1. Please order by item number: O'Hart is the code word for this catalogue which means: “Please forward from Catalogue 112: item/s ...”.

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COVER ILLUSTRATIONS: Our front cover illustration is taken from 278, the finely bound copy of O'Hart's Irish Pedigrees; the inside cover illustrations are taken from item 403, Hayes-McCoy's A History of Irish Flags.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 1. [AIMS] Association of Irish Musical Societies AIMS Bulletin. Vol. 8. No. 8., October, 1973.

Dublin: Elo Press, 1973. Quarto. pp. 18. Illustrated wrappers. Ex. lib. with stamps. Light soiling to covers, otherwise a very good copy. €25 With news from the Baldoyle, Carnew, Clara, Clontarf, Coolock, Dun Laoghaire, Glasnevin, Loreto P.P., Pioneer, St. Louis Past Pupils, and St. Pius X, Musical Societies.

2. AINSWORTH, William. Esq. An Account of the Caves of Ballybunian, County of Kerry: with some Mineralogical Details. Illustrated with nine woodcuts (two full-page). Dublin: William Curry, Jun., 1834. pp. [iv], 96. Original quarter brown linen on recent paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Occasional spotting to prelims. A very good copy. Rare. €395 Not in Bradshaw. Gilbert 13. NSTC locates only 4 copies.

3. [ALBUM OF PERFORMERS] Album of performers at Dublin's 'Capitol Theatre' and 'Theatre Royal'. Containing over 130 photographs and postcards (various sizes) of vaudeville and music hall acts that appeared in Dublin during the 1930's and 40's. Most are signed and inscribed to Jimmy (Davenport). Jimmy Davenport was a Dublin musician and assistant band leader associated with the Capitol Theatre and the Theatre Royal during the 1930's. Amongst the signatures of actors, musicians, band-leaders, singers, dancers, comedians, acrobats ventriloquists, etc., are: Comerford Trio, Gracie Fields, Les Allen, Peg-Leg Bates, Cookie Bowers, Carl Brisson, Big Bill Campbell, Jimmy Campbell, Else Carlisle, Billy "Popeye" Costello, Raie Da Costa, Ada & Eddie Daros, Florence Desmond, Jack Doyle & Movita, Jimmy Durrante, Avril Fane, Fayre Sisters, Roy Fox, George Formby, Herschel Henlere, Alec Kellaway, Charlie Kunz, Layton & Johnstone, Ben Lyon & Bebe Daniels, Mills Brothers, Montavani, Ramon Novarro, On Wah Troupe, Navan O'Reilly, Eddie Peabody, Donald Peers, Ann Penn, Harry Richman, Carson Robinson, Elizabeth Welch, Frederique, May Devett, Bridie Gallagher, Iris Whyte, Arthur Lucan & Kitty McShane, Sherry Brothers, Dick 3 Giants, Mary Honer & Harold Turner, Kitty Stamford, Anne Shelton, Radcliffe and Rodgers, Anita Lowe & Fred Fox, Bud Richie, Smart Girls, Andua Winn. Robinson, Radcliffe and Rogers, Harry Roy, Samuels Brothers, Anne Shelton, Torlaf Tollefsen, Elizabeth Welch, Iris Whyte. In very good condition.

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4. AN ENGLISHMAN [Douglas Goldring] A Stranger in Ireland. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1918. pp. vii, 143. Blue cloth, title in blind on upper cover and in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €125 The contents include: Impressions of the Irish People; Ireland and the English; A Funeral (Thomas Ashe) in Dublin; Belfast; Derry; Galway; Cork; Limerick, Cashel, Holy Cross; The Irish Convention, and the Future of Sinn Féin.

5. AN ENGLISHMAN [Douglas Goldring] Dublin Explorations and Reflections. By An Englishman. Dublin & London: Maunsel, 1917. pp. [6], 271, 16 (Announcements). Navy blue cloth, title in blind on upper cover and in gilt on spine. Some minor wear to corners and spine ends. A very good copy. Very scarce. €145 In this volume the author (a well-known English novelist and writer of travel books, who spent some months in Dublin in the summer of 1916) describes his experiences and his impressions of the Irish capital. Goldring writes of Dublin as he would have written of any other foreign capital, that is to say, purely as an outside observer. He is sometimes critical, sometimes enthusiastic; always frank. He gives an interesting account of what he conceives to be the average Englishman's views about Ireland; retails various comments made to him about the Rebellion; writes of the outward appearance of Dublin, its poverty and charm and the beauty of its Georgian houses.

Chapters are devoted to the Dublin pictures, and to Dublin literary celebrities and their works. He recalls literary evenings in Dublin, and contrasts them with those of London. He discusses the various aspects of Dublin life which he has observed; and comes to the conclusion that Dublin is one of the last remaining strongholds of liberty. He writes of the frugality of Irish social life, of the wit of Dublin's poor children, of Dublin pawnshops, Dublin drink and Dublin theatres; of Irish passion and intuitiveness; of the future relations between Great Britain and Ireland.

6. ANDREWS, J.H. Shapes of Ireland. Maps and their makers 1564-1839. Dublin: Geography Publications, 1997. pp. ix, 346. Green paper boards. A fine copy in dust jacket. Very scarce. €75 A BANNED PUBLICATION 7. [ANON] Narrative of Conflict in Six Counties. Illustrated. Belfast?: 1973. pp. 96. Grey stapled wrappers. Title in ink on upper cover with comment 'Published in this binding about 1973'. Some staining to plates and a few pages. A good copy of an exceedingly rare and banned book. €150 2

De Búrca Ra re Books The contents include: Meeting the Challenge; The First Battles; Movement Rebuilt; Collaboration; Retaliation; Resistance Spreads; Internment; War or Peace?; Bloody Sunday, etc. With a Roll of Honour of those volunteers shot by the U.V.F., R.U.C., British Army, in Belfast, Derry, County Derry, Portadown, Lisnaskea, County Tyrone, Newry, Downpatrick, Toome, Strabane, Dublin, Castewellan, Lurgan and Coalisland.

8. ANSON, Peter F. The Pilgrim's Sketch Books. No. 4 An Irish Pilgrimage. Illustrated with sketches by the author. London: Burns Oates, & Washbourne Ltd., n.d. (c.1932). pp. [26].

Pictorial boards, some browning and surface wear. A very good copy. €35

THE SECOND IRISH BOOKFAIR 9. [AONACH NA LEABHAR] Souvenir Programme of the Second Irish Book Fair March 24th to 27th, 1942 Mansion House, Dublin. Dublin: At the Sign of the Three Candles, 1942. pp. 8.

Printed stitched wrappers. A very good copy. Rare. €125 This Book Fair was initiated by the Friends of the Irish Academy of Letters and the Dublin Booksellers. The Book Fair Committee included H.O. White, Miss Temple Lane, Miss Róisín Walsh, R.J. Hayes, M.J. McManus, Miss Helen Rowe, James Barry, etc. The stall holders were drawn from the leading booksellers and publishers of the day: The Cuala Press, Browne & Nolan, James Duffy, Nassau Library, Talbot Press, Easons, The Sign of the Three Candles, Hodges Figgis, Fred Hanna, Green's Library, etc. There were also Show-Case Exhibitors: Dublin City Public Libraries, The Bibliographical Society of Ireland, Specimens of Book Production from various countries, lent by Colm Ó Lochlainn.

The fair included talks by Frank Pakenham, Sean O Faoláin, Louis D'Alton, Austin Clarke, Mrs Sheehy Skeffington, Denis Ireland, D.A. Chart, Eóin Mac Néill, Cathal O'Shannon, etc.

There was also an art section (in the annexe off the Round Room) which included designs and prints of book illustrations, book dust jackets, end papers, book plates and book tokens by the following artists: Dorothy Blackham, Brigid Ganly, Rev. J.P. Hanlon, Grace Henry, Norah McGuinness, Bea Orpen, Seán O'Sulllivan, Nano Reid, Hilda Roberts, Pat Wallace, and Jack B. Yeats. There were also portraits in pencil and crayon by Seán O'Sullivan of Myles na gCopaleen, F.R.Higgins, James Joyce, Patrick Kavanagh, F. MacManus and Lennox Robinson.

Loosely inserted is an information broadside for subscriptions to the Society of Friends of the Irish Academy of Letters, and details for the short story competition, also published by the Three Candles.

10. ARMSTRONG, John. M.D. The Art of Preserving Health: A Poem In Four Books. I. Air; II. Diet; III. Exercise; IV. The Passions. Dublin: Printed in the year 1765. pp. [ii] 59. Disbound.

Stitched and frayed at the edges. €375 ESTC records only 4 copies in the UK. No copy located in Ireland.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 11. [ARMY] Orders and Regulations for the Army Serving in Ireland. Dublin: Printed by George and John Grierson, 1835. pp. xvi, 134. Contemporary quarter calf over paper boards. Spine expertly rebacked, title in gilt on maroon morocco label. From the library of G.J. Bousford, Lt. Royal Artillery, with his armorial stamp on titlepage. Extremely rare. €475 No copy located on COPAC.

12. [ARTS & CRAFTS SOCIETY OF IRELAND] The Arts and Crafts Society of Ireland and Guild of Irish Art-Workers. Catalogue of the Seventh Exhibition, 1925. Dublin: Printed by Maunsel & Roberts, 1925. pp. 69, 7, 8 (Announcements and Adverts)]. Illustrated wrappers.

Frayed at edges. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €1,250

No copy located on COPAC. The catalogue of exhibits included: Leather Work; Book Binding; Printed Books and Printing; Prints; Bookplates; Wood Engravings; Lithography; Decorative Scribe Work; Drawings in Black and White for Reproduction; Drawings in Colour for Reproduction; Fashion Plates; Posters; Lace; Crochet; Smocking; Embroidery; Tapestry; Carpets; Weaving; Designs for Textiles; Enamelling; Metal Work and Enamelling; Metal Work; Jewellery; Pottery; Marble Carving; Wood Carving; Furniture; Painted Woodwork; Decorative Painting; Mosaic; Stained Glass; Designs and Cartoons for Stained Glass and Opus Sectile.

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De Búrca Ra re Books H. Neville Roberts had eight bindings in linen and unbleached canvas. Eleanor Kelly had two bindings including Missale Romanum lavishly tooled to a design from the Book of Lindisfarne. Colm O Lochlainn designed two bindings which were executed by Charles Chamberlain. There were several printed books, designed by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats of the Cuala Press. Maunsel & Roberts exhibited Ireland's Memorial Records, 1914-18, in eight volumes designed by Harry Clarke. There were several printed designs executed by Colm O Lochlainn, Jack B. Yeats with some bookplates designed by Pamela Colman Smith. There were also several drawings by Austin Molloy and Harry Clarke.

A host of men and women in all parts of Ireland came together and formed what was to become known as the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement of the 1880s to 1930s. They were active in a variety of minor arts whose diversity and quality of craftsmanship has left an everlasting legacy to the Irish Celtic revival. The President of the Society was the Earl of Mayo, the Treasurer was Dermod O'Brien, other members included Evelyn Gleeson, Thomas Bodkin, Harry Clarke, Lily Yeats, Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, Rosamund Praeger, Oliver St. John Gogarty, R.C. Orpen etc.

13. ATKINSON, A. Esq. Ireland in the Nineteenth Century, and Seventh of England's Dominion: enriched with copious descriptions of the resources of the soil, and seats and scenery of the north west district. London: Hamilton, Adams, & Liverpool: Marples, 1833. pp. vii, 492.

Recent quarter green morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy.

Exceedingly rare. €475 COPAC locates 3 copies only.

LIBRARY OF DR. T.P.C. KIRKPATRICK 14. [AUCTION CATALOGUE] Catalogue of the Valuable Library formed by the late Dr. T.P.C. Kirkpatrick of Dublin. [Sold by Order of the Executors]. First Portion: Medical Works, Incunabula, General Works and Bibliography, which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co., Auctioneers of Literary Property and Works illustrative of the Fine Arts at their large galleries, 34 and 35 New Bond Street. Day of Sale: Monday and Tuesday, April 25th & 26th, 1955. London: Sotheby & Co., 1955. pp. 40. Printed stapled wrappers. A very good copy. €145 Thomas Percy Claude Kirkpatrick (1869-1954) physician, bibliophile, and medical historian, was born 10 September 1869 at 32 Rutland Square, Dublin, second son of John Rutherford Kirkpatrick, King's professor of midwifery in the University of Dublin, and Catherine Kirkpatrick (née Drury). He was educated at Foyle College, Derry, and Trinity College, Dublin. He became an MD at 26 years of age. In 1900, he was appointed assistant physician at Dr Steevens' Hospital. He became a lecturer in anaesthetics at the medical school there, a post he held for 44 years. In 1913 he was appointed governor of the hospital. In 1908 he was appointed registrar of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. He was for many years consultant at the Lock Hospital, Dublin.

He published a number of books on medical history, including the history of Dr. Steevens' Hospital and of the Rotunda Hospital, and over 100 essays. In his spare time he was a gymnast and member of the Royal Irish Yacht Club and of the Royal Irish Academy, where he was president from 1946 to 1949.

He was an excellent speaker and known for his wit.

Kirkpatrick died 9 July 1954 in Dr Steevens' Hospital from hypostatic pneumonia and chronic uraemia, and was buried in Mount Jerome cemetery. His admirable qualities are summarised in an obituary by his friend William Doolin: "Kirk was that rare and lovely being, a humanist in his outlook and in his interests, his humanism lighted by compassion. In his specialised field of clinical work, he often brought to mind Savonarola's axiom: 'The physician that bringeth love and charity to the sick, if he be good and learned and skilful, none can be better than he'. In his written work he had three notable gifts: solid learning, so lightly borne, a sense of style, and a deep integrity of craftsmanship".

KING'S INNS BOOK AUCTION 15. [AUCTION CATALOGUE] Catalogue of Valuable Printed Books including a Fine Collection of Travel Books. The Property of The Honourable Society of King's Inns, Dublin (Sold by Order of the Benchers). Days of Sale: First Day 24th April, 1972 Lots 1-267; Second Day 25th April, 1972 Lots 268-537; Third Day 26th April, 1972 Lots 538-829. London: Sotheby's & Co., 1972. pp. 116. Printed wrappers. Prices realised and buyers loosely inserted in facsimile. A very good copy. €125 16. [BACON'S CYCLING MAP] Cycling Road Map of Ireland. All main roads specially coloured. Revised according to the latest Ordnance Survey. With route guide. Depicted are cities, 5

De Búrca Ra re Books towns, large villages, railways and stations, cycling roads (in brown), other roads, canals, mountains, lakes. With alphabetical index. 68 x 87.50cm. London: G.W. Bacon & Co., n.d. pp.

37 (Route Guide). Map of Ireland folded. Both in pictorial binders folder. €35

See items 16, 17 & 21.

17. [BANIM, Michael] The Bit O' Writin'. By the O'Hara Family. A new edition with introduction and notes by Michael Banim. Dublin & London: James Duffy, 1865. Small octavo. pp. viii, 371. Publisher's green cloth, upper cover elaborately decorated in gilt with a harp and shamrocks, replicated in blind on lower. All edges gilt. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €245 COPAC locates the Cambridge copy only.

The contents include: The Bit O' Writin'; The Irish Lord Lieutenant and his Double; The Family of the Cold Feet; The Hare-Hound and the Witch; The Soldier's Billet; A Peasant's Girl's Love; The Hall of the Castle; The Half-Brothers; Twice Lost, but Saved; The Faithful Servant; The Roman Merchant; Ill Got, Ill Gone; The Church-Yard Watch; The Last of the Storm; The Rival Dreamers; The Substitute; The White Bristol; The Stolen Sheep; The Publican's Dream; The Ace of Clubs.

18. [BARRINGTON, Donal] Uniting Ireland. Tuairim Pamphlet 1. Dublin: n.d., (c.1959). pp.

24. Stapled wrappers. A very good copy. €25 Advocating steps to reduce tension between North and South, thus creating conditions in which a unity of wills may grow. In its day a new approach.

19. BARRY, Commandant General Tom. Guerilla Days in Ireland. With maps and illustrations. Cork: Mercier Press, 1949. First edition. pp. [x], 223. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Top edge blue. A very good copy. €50 Tom Barry was born in the west of the 'Rebel County' in 1897. During the First World War he served with the British Army in Mesopotamia. On returning to Ireland in 1919 he became a prominent member of the Irish Republican Army, commanding the West Cork unit which he later developed into one of the leading Flying Columns of the war. The Column enjoyed remarkable success notably in the Kilmichael and Crossbarry ambushes. He opposed the Treaty and supported the Republican side during the Civil War. He also served as I.R.A. Chief of Staff in the late thirties.

20. BECKETT, Samuel. Lessness. London: Calder and Boyars, 1970. pp. 21, (1). Signed limited edition, no. 99 of 100 copies signed by the author, specially bound and issued in advance of the first UK trade edition. Original white quarter calf, green cloth boards, titled in gilt on upper cover and spine. Spine a little darkened. A fine copy. €1,250 21. BECKETT, Samuel. An original etching, from life of Samuel Beckett by his friend Avigdor Arikha. Sitting on a chair in contemplative mood. Signed etching (artist's proof) from an edition of 100. Framed and glazed. 12 x 25cms. In fine condition. €575 Avigdor Arikha was born in 1929 in Bukovina, then in German-speaking Romania. His family were transported eastwards in 1941 to Nazi labour camps where his father died in 1943. His pencil drawings, 6

De Búrca Ra re Books on scraps of paper, of labour camp conditions came to the attention of the Red Cross which had been given access to the camp. The Red Cross rescued him and his sister and repatriated them to an Israeli kibbutz in 1944. After formal training in art in Jerusalem he went to Paris in 1949, settling there in 1954.

In May 1956, Beckett met the twenty-seven year old Arikha for the first time after a performance of Waiting for Godot. It was to be the start of a close friendship which lasted for thirty-three years through to Beckett's death. This was a meeting of minds that had a profound effect on how Arikha's art developed. Arikha described Beckett as "the lighthouse I was looking for but never expected to find".

The two met regularly and talked endlessly. From the start Beckett became a champion of Arikha's work. Arikha's art can be found in public collection worldwide. Samuel Beckett was godfather to Arikha’s daughter Alba.

22. [BECKETT, Samuel] La Manivelle The Old Tune. By Robert Pinget. Texte anglais de Samuel Beckett. French and English text. Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1960. pp. 62. White wrappers printed in blue and black. A fine copy. €95 23. [BELFAST LIBRARY] Belfast Library and Society for Promoting Knowledge (Linen Hall Library) Opening of New Rooms and Exhibition, Monday, 7th May, 1900, by the Rev. Thomas Hamilton, D.D. President Queen's College, Belfast. Programme and List of Exhibits. Belfast: Baird, 1900. pp. 77. Printed wrappers, staples a little rusted. A very good copy. Scarce. €135 The Programme of events included lectures by: R.M. Young, Rev. C. Scott, and Francis Joseph Bigger.

The Exhibition displayed important and interesting books from the library. Objects illustrative of the Irish Volunteer Movement of the XVIII century. Book illustrations by local artists including George Morrow, Rosamond Praeger, John Vinycomb and Hugh Thompson. Works of deceased local artists: Andrew Nicholl, Joseph Molloy, Hugh Frazer, James Atkins, Elisa La Monte, J.H. Burgess, etc. Belfast Burns and Burnsiana miscellaneous books and objects lent by Robert Young, J.P., Rathvarna.

SENCHAS MÁR ANCIENT LAWS OF IRELAND 24. BEST, R.I. & THURNEYSEN, Rudolf. Senchas Már. Facsimiles of the Oldest Fragments.

From MS. H.2. 15 in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. With descriptive introduction.

Dublin: S.O. 1931. Large quarto. pp. xv, 56. Half buckram on linen boards. Edition limited to 360 copies. A very good copy. Rare. €765

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

Eugene O'Curry ascribed the date of the early part of the manuscript to 1300, with additional folios from a later period.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 25. [BLAKE FAMILY] Letters from the Irish Highlands. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1825. First edition. pp. xviii, [1], 359, [1]. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, titled in gilt on spine. Some minor spotting to endpapers. A fine copy. Rare. €575 One of the best contemporary accounts of social life in the West of Ireland by a member of The Tribes of Galway. Henry Blake and his English wife, Martha Louise bought Renvyle House where they farmed and ran a business. This work describes in a series of forty-nine letters: Emigration to the Highlands; Report of the Slate Quarry at Letterguesh; Explanation of Con Acre; Balance of Good and Evil in National Character; Industry of the Female Peasantry; Influence of the Priests; Climate of Cunnemarra; Herring Fishery; General Opposition to the Laws; Unequal Distribution of Justice; Clanship; Modesty of the female peasants; Boffin; etc.

A feast of descriptive articles on social life in this most beautiful part of Ireland at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

FINE FACSIMILE EDITION THE 9TH CENTURY BOOK OF KELLS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOOK IN THE WORLD "THE WORK OF AN ANGELIC RATHER THAN A HUMAN HAND" 26. [BOOK OF KELLS] Evangeliorum Quattuor Codex Cenannensis. Three volumes. Berne:

By Urs Graf-Verlag, 1950. Large folio. Full and quarter vellum. Limited to 500 sets. In fine condition. €4,500

The Book of Kells or Codex Cenannensis is a manuscript copy of the four gospels in Latin, written in Celtic style. Originally it was known as Soisceala Mor Columchille or the Great Gospel of Columcille.

The book takes its name from the monastery of Kells, County Meath, where it remained for centuries.

With the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII, the last Abbot, Richard Plunkett, gave it to his kinsman, Gerald Plunkett of Dublin, for safe keeping. Early in the following century it came into the possession of Archbishop James Ussher, who kept it in his library at his house in Drogheda. It narrowly escaped destruction during the Rebellion of 1641 and shortly afterwards when Ussher went to England he brought this masterpiece with him. Some fifteen years later it was brought back to Ireland and kept safely in Dublin Castle until 1661 when it was given to Trinity College, where it is on 8

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permanent view to all. It is the finest example extant of the art of illumination. Giraldus Cambrensis, the Norman Chronicler, writing in the twelfth century stated:"If you look closely and penetrate the art, you will discover such delicate and subtle lines, so closely wrought, so finely curved, so intricately woven and so beautifully adorned with colours that are still so fresh, that you will acknowledge that all this is the work of an angelic rather than a human hand", and he concludes "However often and however closely I scrutinize it, I am always astounded afresh, and always find more and more to admire in it". The original manuscript was written on vellum which has 9

De Búrca Ra re Books stood the test of time. The Book of Kells on offer here is a complete facsimile edition and limited to 500 sets. Forty-eight of its finest pages are in colour and six hundred and fifty two in monochrome. There is an excellent introduction by E.H. Alton; a study of the illuminations by Prof. Peter Meyer; and a collation of the text with the Vulgate by Dr. G.O. Simms, Archbishop of Dublin.

BOUND BY WILLIAM McKENZIE 27. BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of Ireland: together with the Psalter, or Psalms of David. Dublin: Printed by George Grierson, Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1785. 12mo. Bound by William M'Kenzie of Dublin in contemporary red morocco. Covers framed by a gilt floral roll, with a variety of floral sprays, enclosing in the centre the badge of Trinity College, surrounded in gilt by the name of 'Sophia Burrowes'. Flat spine, divided into compartments by McDonnell and Healy tool R16.

Other tools include McKenzie no. 5, 28, 44, & R18. Premium label (with McKenzie imprint), awarded to Bernard Reilly dated 1790 on front pastedown. There are ten other tools which are not identified by McDonnell and Healy. The present bindings represent the typical style of McKenzie with green, yellow, pink, red, white and black splash-marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. One section sprung, fraying to leaves in that section. Bind worn with darkening to lower half. A most unusual and very good example of a M'Kenzie binding. Very rare. €1,250 ESTC T84898 with 9 locations only. See illustration on next page.

BOUND AT THE WATSON BINDERY 28. BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of Ireland: together with the Psalter, or Psalms of David. Dublin: Printed by George Grierson, Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1785. 12mo. Bound at the Watson Bindery in full red morocco to a gilt panel design. Spine elaborately tooled in gilt. Watson tools R2, R3 and McKenzie R16. Cover stained and worn. An unusual and very good example from this renowned bindery. Very rare. €695 ESTC T84898 with 9 locations only.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 29. [BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER] The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of Ireland: together with the Psalter, or Psalms of David. Dublin: By George Grierson, Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1817. 12mo. pp. 354, [108]. Contemporary full worn calf. Title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. Premium prize awarded to Susanna Helena Meade. Badge of Society for Promoting Christian Religion in gilt on both covers. Society's label on front pastedown. All edges gilt. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €575 COPAC locates the TCD copy only. Not in NLI.

30. [BOOKPLATES] A Collection of 15 Bookplates Printed by The Cuala and Dun Emer Press.

Some illustrated by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats and her brother Jack B. Yeats. Various sizes. All in very good condition. €350

SCARCE DUBLIN EDITION 31. BORLASE, Edmund. The History of the Irish Rebellion, Traced from many Preceding Acts, to the Grand Eruption The 23d of October, 1641; And thence pursued to the Act of Settlement, 1662. To which are added Letters to and from Oliver Cromwell, Ireton, Preston ... relating to the Sieges, Battles and remarkable Passages mentioned in the following History, never before printed; taken from Original MSS of Mr. Cliffe, an Intimate of Cromwell's and Secretary to General Ireton. Dublin: Printed by and for Oli. Nelson, at Milton's Head in Skinner-Row, and for Charles Connor, at Pope's Head, near Essex-Gate, 1743. Folio. pp. xxii, ii (List of Subscribers), 420, 46, 8 (index), plus folding table. Signature of Juliana Pratt dated 1843 on titlepage.

Contemporary full catspaw calf with minor wear. Upper joint starting but firm, minor wear to corners and with minor surface loss. A very good copy. Very scarce. €1,250 ESTC T139783.

Edmund Borlase (1620-1682) historic writer and physician, was son of Sir John Borlase, who received the appointment of master-general of the ordnance, Ireland, in 1634, and held office as Lord Justice here from 1640 to 1643. He was born in Dublin and is stated to have been educated at Trinity College and Leiden where he received the degree of doctor of physic in 1650. He subsequently settled in 11

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Borlase in 1660 received the degree of doctor of medicine from the university of Oxford. He enjoyed the patronage of Charles Stanley, Earl of Derby, to whom he dedicated a treatise. The present tome is Edmund's best known work and was undertaken chiefly with the object of demonstrating that the English government in Ireland had not acted against the royal interests nor unjustly towards Irish Catholics.

He obtained a copy of an unpublished treatise on Irish affairs by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon which he plagiarised for this work. The period covered is that leading up to "the grand eruption the 23 of October, 1641" and thereafter through to the Act of Settlement of 1662.

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 32. BOWE, Nicola Gordon. The Life and Work of Harry Clarke. Prix de la Confédération Internationale des Négociants en Oeuvres d'Art 1984. Profusely illustrated with black and white reproductions and several groups of full colour plates. Dublin: I.A.P., 1989. First edition. Quarto. pp. xxix, 301. Edition limited to 50 numbered copies signed by the author. Bound in half morocco on marbled boards. Spine with raised bands and elaborately tooled in gilt. Top edge gilt.

A fine copy in slipcase. €375 Recognized internationally as a bizarre genius of his age, he has been called the Irish Beardsley. This is the first substantial biography of Clarke and a critical survey of his 'oeuvre'.

33. BRADY, Anne. The Bookmaker. Maryland: The Wild Apple Press, 2005. Small folio. pp. 9, [1]. Cream stitched wrappers. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €125 A tribute to Liam Millar and his magnificent printing house the Dolmen Press. Anne Brady, a native of County Laois is the founder of Vermillion Design. With coloured capitals and the Dolmen pressmark on title.

34. BRENNAN-WHITMORE, W.J. With The Irish in Frongoch. Illustrated.

Dublin: Talbot, 1917. pp. xi, 211.

Quarter cloth on pictorial boards.

Owner's signature on front endpaper.

Worn printed label on spine. A very good copy. Very scarce. €185 The author founded Ferns Community, Irish Volunteers in 1913, and the following year he was called to the Executive Council where he advocated the formation of guerrilla units and agreed to draft an instruction booklet on guerrilla tactics. He took part in the rising on Easter Monday 1916 attached to General Connolly's staff. His military post at Sackville Place was burned out by incendiary shell-fire and in retreating he was wounded and taken prisoner.

In Frongoch Internment Camp in north Wales where nearly 2000 Irishmen were imprisoned after the rebellion, he turned the camp into the first Military College of the Irish Republican Army, drilling and discipline being openly taught. He also gave secret lectures on guerrilla warfare to selected officers.

35. [BROADSIDE] The Boatman of Kinsale. Verse by Thomas Davis. With hand coloured illustration of the port of Kinsale. Dublin: Cuala Press, n.d. (c.1945). Single sheet printed on one side only. 28 x 38cm. In fine condition. €150 12

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36. BROOKE, Stopford A. The Need and Use of Getting Irish Literature into the English Tongue. An address by Stopford A. Brooke at the Inaugural Meeting of the Irish Literary Society Established in London. Alfred Percival Graves, M.A., in the Chair. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1893. Second edition. pp. 66. Half morocco on cloth boards. Spine and corners rubbed, otherwise a very good copy. Scarce. €95 37. BUCKLEY, Margaret. The Jangle of the Keys. With a preface by Mary McSwiney. Dublin: James Duffy, 1938. pp. x, 116. Red paper boards, titled in black. Some minor wear to spine ends and corners, otherwise a very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €375 This work is the Jail Journal of a woman political prisoner during the Civil War in Ireland 1922-23.

Margaret Buckley gives us a most interesting account of her experiences.

TWO RARE & ONE EXTREMELY RARE DUBLIN IMPRINTS 38. BURKE, Edmund. An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, in consequence of some late Discussions in Parliament, relative to the Reflections on the French Revolution. With: A Letter from Mr. Burke, to a Member of the National Assembly; in answer to some objections to his Book on French Affairs. With: Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London relative to that event. In a Letter intended to have been sent to a Gentleman in Paris. Three works in one volume. Dublin: Printed by Mills for P. Byrne ... Watson ... White ... Mehain, 1790/1791. pp. 141[3], 60, iv, 356. Contemporary quarter roan on marbled boards, corners with vellum tips, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. Signature of Richard Meade on titlepages. A very good copy. €950 ESTC T22261, ESTC N473852, & ESTC T46574.

The second work A Letter from Mr. Burke, to a Member of the National Assembly is extremely rare and has only 4 locations on COPAC [2 in UK & 2 in USA]. NLI holds the Joly copy.

39. BURKE, Oliver J. The History of The Lord Chancellors of Ireland, from A.D. 1186 to A.D. 1874. Illustrated. Dublin: E. Ponsonby, 1879. pp. xviii, 378. Green pebbled cloth, title in gilt on spine. Ex. lib. Christian Brothers with stamps. A very good copy. Very scarce. €175

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De Búrca Ra re Books 40. [BUSH, John] Hibernia Curiosa. A Letter from a Gentleman in Dublin, to his friend at Dover in Kent. Giving a general view of the Manners, Customs, Dispositions, &c., of the Inhabitants of Ireland. With occasional Observations on the State of Trade and Agriculture in that Kingdom. And including an Account of some of its most remarkable Natural Curiosities, such as Salmon Leaps, Water-falls, Cascades, Glynns, Lakes, &c.

With a more particular Description of the Giant's Causeway in the North; and the celebrated Lake of Killarney in the South of Ireland; taken from an attentive Survey and Examination of the Originals. Collected in a Tour throughout the Kingdom in the Year 1764: And ornamented with Plans of the principal Originals, engraved from Drawings taken on the Spot. With folding plan of Dublin and five other folding illustrations. London: For W. Flexney, n.d. [1764]. pp. xvi, 143. Recent quarter vellum on marbled boards. Occasional light foxing. A good copy. Rare. €275 ESTC T86723.

The author dedicated this work to Lady Louisa Connolly and signed: J. Bush. Signed on p. 143: J.B. Lucas's Coffee-house, Dublin, 30th Novemb. 1764.

Joseph Th. Leerssen in Mere Irish & Fior-Ghael writes of John Bush of Tunbridge Wells' Hibernia Curiosa: "a successful work read as a counter-blow to the denigrator versions of Irish character, and attributing the miserable conditions of the poor Irish not to their own vices but the injustices that left them in direst poverty". He denounces absenteeism, rack rents, middlemen, religious tithes, etc., and identifies with the rural poor "who live in huts ... of such shocking materials and construction that through hundreds of them you may see smoke ascending from every inch of the roof ... and through every inch of which defenceless coverings, the rain, of course, will make its way to drip upon the half naked, shivering, and almost starved inhabitants within". (p.30; Leerssen, 77.] Further: "... while the priests and subordinate landlords, in ease and affluence, live in haughty contempt of their poverty and oppression, of which the first proprietors are but too seldom, indeed, for the interest of this kingdom, spectators".

REGISTER OF ALL HALLOWS 41. BUTLER, Rev. Richard. Registrum Prioratus omnium Sanctorum Juxta Dublin. Edited from a manuscript in the library of Trinity College, Dublin; with additions from other sources, and notes. Folding frontispiece. Dublin: I.A.S. 1845. Quarto. pp. [iv], lxxii, 151. Mauve blindstamped cloth, light foxing to prelims. A very good copy. €165

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De Búrca Ra re Books 42. CAGNEY, James. Film actor. Publicity Photograph of James Cagney. Signed by the actor on 21st May, 1980. 20 x 25cms. Inscribed and dated on verso: '5-21-1980 / Rob Morris, 1345 Lauren Ave, Hollywood, Cal 90046'. In fine condition.€275 James Cagney (1899-1986) was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. His father, James Francis Cagney was of Irish descent.

He is best remembered in Ireland for the film Shake Hands with the Devil, from the book by Rearden Connor, featuring a Dublin surgeon who is the secret head of the IRA. It was directed by Michael Anderson and was filmed in Dublin, and at Ardmore Studios in Bray. It starred James Cagney and Don Murray. Also featured are Dana Wynter, Glynis Johns, Sybil Thorndike and Michael Redgrave.

43. CAIRD, James. The Plantation Scheme; or, The West of Ireland as a Field for Investment. With folding map of Ireland and plan of farm buildings.

Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1850. First edition. pp. vii, 191, 4, 4 (publisher's lists). Blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine. Owner's signature torn from top of titlepage. A very good copy. Very scarce. €250 SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY 44. CAREW, Rev. P.J. An Ecclesiastical History of Ireland from the Introduction of Christianity into that country to the commencement of the thirteenth century. Dublin: John Coyne, 1835. pp.

[2], xi, 425, + errata. Contemporary half morocco on marbled boards. Spine divided into six compartments by five double-raised bands gilt. Title and author in gilt on brown morocco letterpieces in the second and fourth. Signed presentation copy from the author to Mr. Cushing.

Top edge gilt, remainder marbled. A very good copy. Rare. €225 THOMAS MOLYNEUX'S COPY 45. CARR, Richard. Epistolae Medicinales Variis Occasionibus Conscriptae. London: Impensis Stafford Anson, 1691. First edition. pp. [16], 200, [6]. With preliminary leaves A1-2, respectively blank but for 'A' signature mark and blank, and two terminal leaves of advertisements for classics of medicine in folio, quarto and octavo. Contemporary calf, spine rebacked, earlier letting-piece re-laid. Worn, with some loss at corners. Occasional marking and damp staining to text. Library stamp of the Royal College of Physicians, Ireland, to title and A6.

Thomas Molyneux's copy, with his ink inscription to head of B1. €875

ESTC R22894. Wing C629.

Richard Carr (1651-1706), English physician. The Epistolae Medicinales, dedicated by the author to the Royal College of Physicians (to which he was elected fellow in 1687), form a popular collection of medical and nutritional advice to patients in eighteen epistles, discussing the smoking and inhalation of tobacco, the drinking of tea, coffee and milk, and the benefits of various waters in spa towns and invalid resorts in England and Europe. The seventeenth letter refutes in no uncertain terms the popular notion that monthly drunkenness is beneficial to the constitution. Initially intended for a professional audience in this original Latin, it was later popularized through translation into English by John Quincy (London, 1714).

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De Búrca Ra re Books Sir Thomas Molyneux (1661-1733) F.R.S. (1687), brother of the famous philosopher William, was one of the leading men of medicine and science in Dublin. Thomas was several times President of the College of Physicians of Ireland. He founded the Blind Asylum in Peter Street, Dublin in 1711, and was later appointed State Physician and afterwards Surgeon-General to the army. He knew and corresponded with Locke, Boyle, and Petty, and submitted important papers to the Royal Society including the pioneering study on the Giant's Causeway, in which he was the first to conclude that it was of natural origin. A wealthy baronet and MP, his wealth was significant and his library large; parts of it were later acquired by Arthur Jacobs and donated to the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland.

Thomas Molyneux visited Roderick O'Flaherty in his castle at Moycullen in Connemara, and he wrote of his trip: "I went to visit old Flaherty, who lives very old, in a miserable condition ... I expected to have seen here some old Irish manuscripts, but his ill-fortune had stripped him of these as well as his other goods, so that he had nothing now left but some few pieces of his own writing and a few old rummish books of history, printed".

46. CARROLL, Denis. The Man From God Knows Where. Thomas Russell 1767-1803. Dublin: Gartan, 1995. pp. 256. Illustrated wrappers. A fine copy. €45 47. CARROLL, William Henry. A Copious Practical Index to the Several Statues enacted in the 33d, 35th, 37th, Part of the 40th, 43d, 45th, 51st, and 57th years of King George III. For the Regulation of Contested Elections in Ireland, as far as relate to the Elections of Members to serve in the Imperial Parliament for counties and cities only. Carefully collected and alphabetically arranged. Dublin: Printed by George Grierson and John Rowe Power, 1818. 16mo. pp. 254.

Contemporary half calf on paper boards, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €475 No copy located on COPAC. Not in TCD or NLI.

48. CASEMENT, Roger. Casement Slanders Refuted. Áth Cliath: Nuachtáin Teoranta, n.d.

(1966). Pictorial stapled wrappers. A very good copy. €65 The contents includes: Cupla Focal. By Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin; Casement's Capture and its Aftermath.

By Séamus Ó Cléirigh; Relevant Quotations. By Eoin Ó Máille.

49. CASEMENT, Roger. "I Accuse!". One of the world's most celebrated cases of a miscarriage of justice. A monstrous fraud that deceived two continents. By Herbert O. Mackey. Frontispiece of Roger Casement. Dublin: Cahill, n.d. pp. 24. Illustrated stapled wrappers. Scarce. A very good copy. €45 50. CASEMENT, Roger. Official Programme of Unveiling of Banna Strand Memorial. 28th July, 1968. Charleville: Oriel Press, 1968. pp. 44. Illustrated wrappers. A good copy. Scarce. €45 51. CASTÉRA, Jean-Henri. The Life of Catharine II : Empress of Russia. With a correct map of the Russian Empire. The fifth edition, with great additions and a copious index. By W. Tooke, Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, and of the Free Economical Society of St. Petersburg. Three volumes. Dublin: Printed by J. Moore, 45, College-green, 1800. Contemporary full half calf, title in gilt on contrasting labels. Boards with later marbled paper. From the library of Richard Meade, Ballymartyle with his signature on titlepages. Internally a very good set.

Extremely rare. €675 ESTC T123903 locates only 2 copies in U.K. No copy in Ireland.

An enlarged translation by W. Tooke of J.H. Castera's Histoire de Catherine II, the revised version of his Vie de Catherine II.

52. [CATALOGUE] Books on Ireland. Leabhra ar Éirinn. List compiled by National Library of Ireland. Dublin: Published for the Cultural Relations Committee of Ireland by Colm O Lochlainn, At the Sign of the Three Candles, 1953. pp. 48. Stapled printed wrappers. A very good copy. €35 53. [CATHOLIC PETITION] A Detailed Report of the Speeches in both Houses of Parliament on the Irish Roman Catholic Petition, From the 25th March, 1805, the Day when it was first presented, to the 14th May following, when it was finally rejected. Including an accurate Copy of the Celebrated Petition. Compiled from the only Authentic Sources. London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1805. pp. iv, [2], 339, [1]. Contemporary half calf on marble boards, title in gilt on red morocco letterpiece on spine. Wear to corners and spine ends. A very good fresh copy. €375 16

De Búrca Ra re Books Following the death of the Jacobite claimant to the British throne James Francis Edward Stuart on 1 January 1766, the Pope recognised the legitimacy of the Hanoverian dynasty, which began a process of rapprochement between the Catholic Church and the United Kingdom. Over the next sixty-three years, various bills were introduced in Parliament to repeal restrictions against practice of the Roman Catholic faith, but these bills encountered political opposition, especially during the Napoleonic Wars. With the exception of the Catholic Relief Acts of 1778 and 1791, these bills were defeated. Then, finally, most of the remaining restrictions against Catholics in the United Kingdom were repealed by the Catholic Relief Act 1829, better known as Catholic Emancipation.

Mr. Fitzgerald, the Knight of Kerry said "It would be a great melancholy consideration indeed for the Catholics of Ireland, if they were to suppose that the bias of the public mind against them was too strong for any reasons to subdue. He had uniformly supported the question in the Irish Parliament. He had supported the union on the idea that it would be the most probable means of obtaining this object.

He knew that many other gentlemen had supported it on the same principle. He hoped, however, even if the house should decide that night against going into a committee, they would obliterate from their minds those monstrous calumnies which had been stated against the people of Ireland".

54. [CHALMERS, George?] The Commercial Resolutions of the Irish Parliament, in their Present Session, Vindicated. To which is added, An Authentic Copy of the Resolutions. London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1785. pp. 32. Recent quarter black buckram on marbled boards. A very good copy. Rare. €285 ESTC T28428 with 2 locations only in Ireland [NLI & Queens].

Sometimes attributed to George Chalmers. Reprinted in Defence of Opposition, 1785 - Abstract of a letter from a member of the British House of Commons to a member of the Irish Parliament dated May, 1784, with the reply. Below imprint in square brackets: price One Shilling.

MOUNT CONGREVE COPY 55. CHAMBERS, Ephraim. Cyclopaedia: or, an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; ...

The Third Edition corrected and amended, with some additions. Illustrated with twenty-two plates (including ten folding and one double page). In Two Volumes Dublin: Printed for Richard Gunne ... Robert Owen .. .Geo. Risk, Jos. Leathley, Geo. Ewing, Will. Smith, Phil. Crampton, and Abrah. Bradley ... John Smith .. and Geo. Faulkner: 1740. Folio. pp. (1) [4], xxvi, [2], [1008], (2) [2], [964]. Titlepages printed in red and black. Contemporary sprinkled calf, neat modern reback with new red and black morocco title and numbering labels gilt, also a smaller red morocco label at foot of spines lettered "Dublin 1740", leather on new spines much paler than the original on sides. A very nice copy. €1,250

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De Búrca Ra re Books ESTC T135914 locates 2 in Ireland, 3 in England, and 3 North America.

Ephraim Chambers (c.1680-1740) was an English writer and encyclopaedist, who is primarily known for producing the Cyclopaedia, or a Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences.

Chambers was born in Kendal, Westmorland, England, and attended Heversham Grammar School there. Little is known of his early life, other than that he was apprenticed to a globe maker, John Senex, in London from 1714 to 1721. It was here that he developed the plan of the Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. After beginning the Cyclopaedia, he left Senex's service and devoted himself entirely to the encyclopaedia project. He also took lodging in Gray's Inn, where he remained for the rest of his life. Chambers died in Islington and was buried in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey.

The first edition of the Cyclopaedia appeared by subscription in 1728, in two folio volumes and was dedicated to the king. In addition, Chambers wrote for, and possibly edited, the Literary Magazine (1735–1736), which mainly published book reviews. Chambers worked on translating other works in French on perspective and chemistry from 1726 to 1727, including the Practice of Perspective from the French of Jean Dubreuil. He also worked with John Martyn to translate the History and Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris (1742).

Chambers' epitaph was published in both the original Latin and in English in the Gentleman's Magazine, volume 10: Heard of by many, Known to few, Who led a Life between Fame and Obscurity Neither abounding nor deficient in Learning Devoted to Study, but as a Man Who thinks himself bound to all Offices of Humanity, Having finished his Life and Labours together, Here desires to rest.

HARRY CLARKE'S COPY 56. [CLARKE, Harry] The Year's at the Spring. An Anthology of Recent Poetry. Compiled by L.D'O. Walters and Illustrated by Harry Clarke. With an Introduction by Harold Monro. London: George G. Harrap, 1920. Quarto. First edition. pp. 128. Beige cloth, title printed in grey with designs in red. Harry Clarke's own copy with his signature on front free endpaper. Spine evenly faded with wear to head, tail and joints. A very good copy. €675 Steenson A3.b Harry Clarke (1889-1931), stained-glass artist and book illustrator, was born in Dublin on 17th March, 1899, son of an Irish mother and an English father with a church decorating business at 33 North Frederick Street. Educated at Belvedere College. Apprenticed to his father's business in 1905, in 1910 he became a full-time student at the Metropolitan School of Art. Awarded gold medals for stainedglass design in national competitions of the Board of Education 1911, 1912, and 1913, the year in which he entered 'The Watchman of Ovada'.

His first stained-glass commission was for the Honan Chapel in Cork. He went on to design windows for many churches throughout this country, England, and the U.S. Without fear of contradiction Clarke's windows are amongst the greatest works in stained glass ever executed.

Provenance: From the Clarke family by descent.

57. [CLARKE, Harry] Obras de Edgar Allan Poe. Buenos Aires: Gatti, n.d. pp. 31. Illustrated wrappers, with a design by Harry Clarke. See illustration on next page. €35 PRINTING BLOCK 58. [CLARKE, Harry] Engraved plate on wooden block, 62 x 95 x 23mm, dated 1921, for a memorial card for his father, Joshua Clarke. Finely engraved from a drawing by Harry Clarke, depicting a draped tapestry with a crucifix in the centre flanked by the Sacred Heart and a banner.

With the legend "In Memoriam. Sept. 13th, 1921". See illustration on next page. €375 PRINTING BLOCK 59. [CLARKE, Harry] Engraved copper plate mounted on wooden block, 80 x 123 x 22mm, 1924. Finely engraved from a drawing by Harry Clarke, depicting the Apparition at Lourdes of Our Lady to Bernadette. Clarke at this time was designing a stained glass window of the apparition for Ballylooby Church, County Tipperary. €475 18

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PRINTING BLOCK 60. [CLARKE, Harry] Engraved copper plate mounted on wooden block, 167 x 250 x 20mm, n.d. depicting: 'Three of the Separate Processes in the Production of a Stained Glass Window'.

With engraved example of a window, together with textual descriptions of the process of creating it. With the name 'J. Clarke and Sons' in large lettering at bottom. Wrapped in original printed paper of Wishart & Co. €475 This plate was produced for the 1926 Catholic Directory. It tells us the Clarke stained glass commissions in progress at the time: One window, St. Stephen's Cathedral, Brisbane (repeat order); Four windows, Rt. Hon. Lord Rathdonnell, Rathvilly; Four windows, Parish Church, Drumcar, County Louth; Two and four light, St. John's Church, Blackrock, County Dublin; One window, Lady Coghill, Skibbereen, County Cork. Decoration commissions included St. Jarlath's Cathedral, Tuam, County Galway and St. Agatha's Church, North William Street, Dublin.

PRINTING BLOCK 61. [CLARKE, Harry] A copper engraved printer's block, 82 x 144 x 20mm, n.d., [for the Catholic Directory]. Finely engraved from a drawing by Harry Clarke with a detail of a church with two towers at top, and an advertisement for stained glass windows: 'Stained Glass Windows.

How the well-known Studios J. Clarke and Sons Church Decorators and Stained Glass Artists evolve and complete a window'. €425 62. CLARKE, Kathleen. Revolutionary Woman Kathleen Clarke 1878-1972. An autobiography. Edited by Helen Litton. Illustrated. Dublin: O'Brien Press, 1991. pp. 240. Red paper boards, titled in gilt. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €65 63. CLARKE, Thomas J. Glimpses of an Irish Felon's Prison Life. With an introduction by P.S. O'Hegarty. Cork: Published by The National Publications Committee, 1970. pp. 63. Illustrated wrappers. From the library of Prof. T.W. Moody with his signature and bookplate. Also with some notes by Moody. A fine copy. €50 Thomas J. Clarke (1857-1916), revolutionary, was born of Irish parents in the Isle of Wight. The family emigrated to South Africa, returned to Ireland and settled in Dungannon, when he was ten. He went to America in 1881, joined Clan na Gael, the American wing of the I.R.B. Two years later while on a mission to England, Clarke was arrested and sentenced to penal servitude for life. He served fifteen and a half years under severe conditions and on his release and return to Ireland was made a freeman of the City of Limerick. Unable to get employment he emigrated to America in 1899, eight years later he returned home and with his savings opened a tobacconist's and newsagent's shop at 75A Great Britain Street (Parnell Street), where he set about reorganising the I.R.B. He was the first Signatory to the Proclamation of Independence of the Irish Republic, and was shot in Kilmainham Jail on 3rd May, 1916.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 64. [CLONCURRY, Lord] Personal Recollections of The Life and Times, with Extracts from the Correspondence of Valentine Lord Cloncurry. Second edition. Dublin: McGlashan, 1850. pp. xi, 432. Brown blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. From the library of T.W. Moody with his bookplate. Library stamps. A very good copy. €95 Valentine, 2nd Lord Cloncurry, was the son of Nicholas Lawless, 1st Lord Cloncurry, who built a new house at Lyons, County Kildare in 1797. Born in 1773, Valentine was imprisoned in the Tower of London for two years on account of his close association with the United Irishmen, and on his release in 1801 employed Richard Morrison to carry out improvements and alterations to his father's house.

In 1849 he published these interesting memoirs. The summing up of the work shows that his hostility to the Act of Union continued unabated. Lord Cloncurry was twice married. He died 28th October 1853, aged 80, and was buried in the family mausoleum at Lyons.

65. [CLONCURRY, Lord] The Life, Times, and Contemporaries of Lord Cloncurry. With a frontispiece of Cloncurry & Hibernia (after Hogan). By W.J. Fitzpatrick. Dublin: Duffy, 1855. pp. xi, 604. Blue cloth, titled in gilt. A very good copy. Scarce. €95 66. [COCKBURN, Sir George] Military Observations Respecting Ireland, its Attack and Defense: and to shew that at all events, Property should be Armed to Resist Plunder and Anarchy. Interspersed with some Political Remarks. Dublin: [S.n.], 1804. pp. [2], 88, [1].

Original worn blue wrapper to upper cover. Some corners dog-eared. Exceedingly rare. €375 COPAC locates 2 copies only (both with 101 pages).

67. [COLLINS & GRIFFITH] Arthur Griffith Michael Collins. A Pictorial History. Cover illustration by Harry Clarke. Numerous other illustrations. Dublin: Martin Lester, Ltd., n.d.

(1922). Quarto. First edition, first issue. pp. 62. Original illustrated frayed wrappers, some mild staining to covers, otherwise a good copy. Very scarce. €375 Steenson B39.b.

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

68. [COLLINS, Michael] An Saorstát. The Free State. No. 28. Vol. I. Dublin, Tuesday, August 29, 1922. Michael Collins Memorial Number. Folio. 8 pp. Profusely illustrated. Slight crease mark at centre fold. €150 69. CONNELL, George A. James Humbert Craig RHA. The Natural Talents of J.H. Craig 'The Peoples' Artist'. Belfast: The 'Arches' Art Gallery, 1988. Oblong quarto. pp. 133. Blue arlen, title in gilt on upper cover. A very good copy in dust jacket. €45

70. COOGAN, Tim Pat. 1916: The Easter Rising. Profusely illustrated. London: Cassell, 2001. pp. 192. Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in dust jacket. €45 20

De Búrca Ra re Books 71. COOKE, Thomas Lalor. Description of the Barnaan Cuilawn, and some conjectures upon the original use thereof; together with an account of the superstitious purposes to which it was latterly applied. Also a description of the remains of an ancient Mill, which were recently discovered near the ruins of Glankeen Church, in the County of Tipperary.

With one engraved plate. Dublin: Printed by Graisberry for the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, 1825. Quarto. pp. 31-45.

Recent quarter morocco on cloth. Fine. €135 VICTORY OVER ORMOND 72. COOPER, William. Jerusalem fatall to her assailants discovered in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons August 29. 1649. At Margarets Westminster, Upon their solemne day of thanksgiving for that signall Victory over the Lord Ormond, in routing his whole Army, and raising the Siege of Dublin in Ireland, by the Garrison thereof under the Command of Lieutenant Generall Jones. London: Printed by J.C. for the Author, 1649.

Small quarto. pp. [viii], 32, [4]. Title within decorative border. Modern buckram, title in gilt along spine. Ex libris with the bookplate of The Presbyterian Historical Society of England and the label of William B. Shaw. Very good in recent cloth. €875

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The author after a five-year spell in The Hague as chaplain to the exiled Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, came to London to minister at St Olave's. The occasion for this sermon was the thanksgiving day "for that signall victory over the Lord Ormond".

The first two words of the title are printed in Hebrew characters. The verso of the first leaf contains an order to print.

SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION SIGNED 73. CORMICAN, Garrett. Camille Souter. The Mirror in the Sea. Dublin: Whytes, 2006. Folio. pp. ix, 337, [1]. Grey cloth, titled in silver, colour illustration inset on upper cover. Special edition limited to 150 copies, signed by the artist and author. A fine copy. €650 74. COSGRAVE, E. MacDowel, & STRANGWAYS, Leonard R. The Dictionary of Dublin.

Being a Comprehensive Guide to the City and its Neighbourhood. Illustrated by numerous photographs taken by the authors. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker, 1908. pp. xl, 229, [17] (advertisements). Red cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Spine damp stained. Internally a very good copy. €165 A very thorough description of Dublin in 1908, covering the history, walks through the city, and various buildings & topics (in alphabetical order) such as Abattoir, Royal Irish Academy, Alexandra College, Archbishops, Architecture, Meath Hospital, Nelson's Pillar, Tramways, Trinity College, etc., etc. E. MacDowel Cosgrave was Physician to Cork Street Hospital and lived at No. 5, Gardiner's Row (ref. Thom's, 1913).

75. COSTIGAN, Arthur William Esq. Sketches of Society and Manners in Portugal in A Series of Letters from Arthur William Costigan, Esq, Late a Captain of The Irish Brigade, in The Service of Spain to his Brother In London. Two volumes. S.N. (No Publisher or Place of Publication given). Date of Publication is 1787. First edition. pp. (1) vii, [1], 358, (2) iv, 322, + errata. Contemporary full calf. Flat spine divided into six compartments by double gilt bands, title in gilt on red morocco letterpieces in the second compartment, volume numbers in gilt in the fourth. Wear to corners and spine, some browning to endpapers. A very good set. Rare. €485 ESTC N23543 9 locations. Two only in Ireland, TCD and Franciscans Killiney [UCD].

76. CRAWFORD, W.H. and TRAINOR, B. Ed. by. Aspects of Irish Social History 17501800. With an introduction by J.C. Beckett. Belfast: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1969. pp. xvi, 199. Pictorial wrappers. From the library of T.W. Moody, with his bookplate. A very good copy. €35 77. CREAN, Desmond. Songs of an Old I.R.A. Man. With a foreword by Carl Hardebeck.

Dublin: Frederick Press, n.d. (c.1939). pp. 70. Cream wrappers printed in green. Upper cover stained. Internally a very good copy. Rare. €135 The author dedicated this work to his friends and comrades of the Irish Republican Army, 1916-1923.

78. CREGAN, Mairin. Hunger-Strike. A play in two acts. Dublin: Gill, n.d. pp. 48. Fine in printed wrappers. €75 79. CRONNELLY, Richard F. Irish Family History: Being an Historical and Genealogical Account of The Gaedhals, from the earliest period to the present time. Compiled from authentic sources. Historical account of Clanna-Rory. Historical account of The Clan Eoghan or Eugenians. Historical account of The Dalcasians. Historical account of The Cianacht, or the Descendants of Cian, son of Oilioll Ollum, King of Munster. Compiled from Ancient Records ...

Four parts in one volume. Dublin: Printed for the author by N.H. Tallon and Company, 1865. pp.

[4], 422. Contemporary full pebbled cloth, harp and shamrock in gilt within a floral border in centre of upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Light foxing to endpapers. A fine copy. Rare. €575 With detailed accounts and pedigrees of the following Clans: Clanna Rory: The Magennises; The O'Mores; The O'Cronnellys; The O'Dugans; The O'Morans; The O'Lennans; The O'Casans; MacGowans or Smiths; MacWards; M'Scanlans; O'Kennys; O'Lawlors; O'Lynchs; O'Manions; The Maginns; The MacColreavys or Grays; M'Cartans; O'Carelons; The O'Conors Kerry; O'Conors Corc; O'Loghlens Burren; O'Kielys of West Connaught; MacShanleys; MacPriors; McFinvars or Gaynors; M'Cormicks; M'Dorchys; M'Raghnaills or Reynolds; The O'Quinns; O'Mulveys; O'Neidhes; O'Conarys; O'Diochallas; O'Maoletighs; M'Keoghs; O'Beices; M'Maolisas; O'Dugans; O'Coscridhs; 22

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The M'Carthys; The Mac Carthys Mor; The Mac Carthys of Muskerry (Earls of Clan Carthy); Mac Carthy of Carrignavar; Mac Carthy of Aglish; Mac Carthy of Cloghroe; Mac Carthy na Mona; The Mac Donnell Carties; The Mac Carthy Reagh; Mac Carthy Duna; Mac Carthy of Ballynoodie; Mac Carthy Glas; Mac Carthy Glas of Dunmanway; O'Keeffe; O'Keeffe of Ballymacquirk; Mac Auliffe; O'Donoghue of Kerry; O'Donoghue of Cashel; The O'Donoghues of Ossory; O'Collins; O'Connell; O'Daly; O'Mahony; O'Callaghan; O'Callanan; O'Moriarty; O'Collins; O'Cullen; O'Sullivan; Mac Gillicuddy; O'Quill; O'Riordan; O'Shea; O'Lyon; O'Cronan; O'Donovan.

The Dalcasians: O'Brien; The O'Briens of Ara; The O'Briens of Dough, Newtown and Ennistymon; M'Lysaght; O'Ailche; O'Ahern; MacNamara; O'Gunning; O'Kennedy; O'Mara; MacBrody; O'Mulcahy; Mac Einery; O'Liddy; O'Lenaghan; O'Lonergan; Mac Clancy or Clanchy; Mac Coghlan; Mac Curtin; O'Grady; O'Morony; O'Molony; O'Griffin; O'Hanraghty; O'Hanrahan; O'Hehir; Mac Innerny; O'Hartigan and O'Hardiman; O'Hickey; O'Hogan; O'Hurley; O'Hurley of Ballinacarrig; O'Hurley of Tralee; O'Lynch; O'Casey; O'Cudihy; O'Connolly; O'Cormacan; O'Crotty; MacMahon; O'Lanigan; O'Kirwan; Magrath; O'Neill; O'Dea; O'Spelman; O'Fogarty; O'Sheehan; O'Tuomy; O'Regan; O'Kelleher; O'Shanahan; O'Hely, Healy and Halley; Mac Arthur; O'Sexton; O'Reidy; O'Slattery; O'Kearny or Kearney; O'Noonan; O'Quin; Mac Considine; O'Scully; O'Curry; O'Heffernan; O'Cahill; O'Hea; O'Finnellan; O'Gloran; O'Toler; O'Hanify.

The Cianacht: O'Carroll; O'Meaghar; O'Gara; O'Hara; O'Casey; O'Loughan; O'Hennessy; O'Breen; O'Connor; O'Corcoran and O'Flanagan.

Pedigrees of the Irian Saints of Erinn collected from the Yellow Book of Lecain , The Great Book of Irish Genealogies and Acta Sanctorum Hibernia.

80. CROSTHWAITE, John Clarke. Ed. by. The Book of Obits and Martyrology of the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, commonly called Christ Church, Dublin. Edited from the original manuscript in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. Introduction by James Henthorn Todd. With list of subscribers Dublin: I.A.S. 1844. Quarto. pp. ciii, 258, lxiii. Mauve blindstamped cloth. Occasional light foxing, spine evenly sun-tanned. A very good copy. €135 81. CUMMINS, N. Marshall. Some Chapters of Cork Medical History. Cork: University Press, 1957. pp. viii, [1], 116, [1]. Printed wrappers. From the library of Prof. T.W. Moody with his bookplate. A very good copy. €30 82. CUNNINGHAM, Michael. Monaghan: County of Intrigue. An insight into the political legal and religious intrigues in this border area during the period 1968-1979. Illustrated. Cavan: Printed at Abbey Printers, 1979. pp. viii, 130. Illustrated wrappers. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper. A very good copy. €45 83. CUSACK, M.F. A History of the City and County of Cork. Illustrated with steel engravings, folding geological map of the county and pedigrees of the O'Sullivans, O'Driscolls, MacCarthys, O'Donovans, Daunts, Drews and Haymans. With list of subscribers. Cork: Guy, 1875. Royal octavo. pp. xxiv, 586, 2 (corrigenda), [14] (publisher's list and adverts). Recent maroon buckram with original decorated cloth of upper cover mounted. Very good. Scarce. €275 84. DAVIDSON, Florence. Loan-Ends.

Stories in Ulster. Illustrated from original linocuts by Alfred E. Kerr. Belfast: The Quota Press, 1933. First edition. Quarto. pp.

120. Small portion of front endpaper torn (no loss). Pictorial cloth. A very good copy.€285 COPAC locates 4 copies only.

85. DAVIS, Richard P. Arthur Griffith.

Irish History Series, No. 10. Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, Published for the Dublin Historical Association, 1976. pp. 48. Printed wrappers. A very good copy. €30

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De Búrca Ra re Books SIGNED BY MICHAEL DAVITT 86. DAVITT, Michael. The 'Times'-Parnell Commission. Speech delivered by Michael Davitt in Defence of the Land League. Carefully revised. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co., 1890. pp. xiv, 414, [46] (publisher's list). Green pebbled cloth, titled in gilt. Signed presentation copy from Michael Davitt to Madame Venturi, dated Jan. 1, 1890. A very good copy. €675

The Special Commission before which Davitt's speech was delivered, was created in 1888 "to inquire into the charges and allegations made against certain members of Parliament and other persons" by the Times newspaper for alleged libellous references in leading articles and letters under the name Parnellism and Crime. Michael Davitt delivered a speech which occupied the sittings of the Commission from the 24th to the 31st of October, 1889.

87. DE BÚRCA, Seamus. Find the Island. A trip to Galway. A farcical comedy in three acts.

Dublin: P.J. Bourke, n.d. (c.1936). pp. 84. Quarter library buckram on linen boards. Ex. lib. with stamps. Scarce. €35 SIGNED BY CAPTAIN WEISBACH 88. DE COURCY IRELAND, John. The Sea and The Easter Rising. With illustrations and maps. Dublin: Maritime Institute of Ireland, 1966. pp. 52. Signed by Captain Weisbach (on p. 27 beside his photograph) Commander of U19, the submarine which took Roger Casement on that fateful voyage from Heligoland to Kerry where he landed on 21st April, 1916. Fine in pictorial wrappers. €165 Raimund Weisbach (1886-1970) was an officer of the Kaiserliche Marine, and a U-boat commander during the First World War. He was the torpedo officer on the German U-boat, the U-20, who saw to the preparation and firing of the torpedo that sank the RMS Lusitania on 7 May 1915. Weisbach was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class. He provided a concise account of his recollection of the sinking of the Lusitania which was published in The Irish Times in 1970 after his death. After the torpedo was fired, he was called to the periscope. He said the explosion which he saw was far more severe than could normally have been expected.

He surmised then and still believed in 1966 (when being interviewed) that the liner must have been carrying a significant cargo of highexplosives. He went on to become a successful commander, sinking 36 ships before being 24

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Not long after the sinking of the Lusitania, Weisbach received his first independent command, the U19, on 16 March 1916. On 20 April 1916, on the island of Heligoland, Roger Casement embarked as a passenger aboard U-19. Their destination was Ireland. He delivered Casement to Ballyheige Bay a few days later. Weisbach was an official guest of the Government of Ireland at the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the 1916 Rising in 1966. Weisbach came from his home in Hamburg to attend.

89. DE CUELLAR, Francisco. Spanish Armada. Illustrated account of the Francisco de Cuellar story from paintings and drawings by Bernard MacDonagh. Sligo: n.d. (c.1965). pp. 71.

Illustrated stapled wrappers. A very good copy. Scarce. €25 90. [DEFOE, Daniel] The Evident Approach of War: And Something of The Necessity of It, In Order to Establish Peace, and Preserve Trade. To which is added, an exact plan and description of the Bay and City of Gibraltar. Dublin: Printed and Sold by Thomas Hume, at the Custom-House Printing-House, next Door to the Merchants Coffee House in Essex Street, 1727. pp. 50.

Disbound. Our copy appears to be lacking the plate and plan, paper repair to titlepage, corner of one leaf torn with loss of text. Extremely rare Dublin printing. €475 ESTC N31246 locating 2 copies only: University of Toronto and Oberlin College, Ohio.

91. DE MOLEYNS, Thomas Esq. The Landowners and Agents Practical Guide. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. Dublin: E. Ponsonby, 1862. pp. xxiv, 503.

Titlepage printed in red and black. Bound by John Mowat of Dublin in lilac blind-stamped cloth. Title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Occasional light spotting, minor wear to corners. Signature of Herbert FitzRoy Eaton, dated at Dublin 15 Feb. 1865 on half title. A very good copy. €275 92. DE NAVARRO, J.M. A Survey of Research on an Early Phase of Celtic Culture. The Sir John Rhys Memorial Lecture British Academy 1936. From the Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume XXII. London: From the Proceedings of the British Academy, 1936. pp. 47. Printed frayed wrappers. A very good copy. €25 93. [DENHAM, Sir John] The Famous Battle of the Catts, in the Province of Ulster. June 25.

1668. London: In the Savoy: [by T. Newcomb, 1668]. pp. [2], 11. Recent quarter goatskin on marbled boards. Cropped at the foot, taking publisher's name and date from the title and final lines of text except the last page. Early signature of Gervase Pigot on final blank. €375 Sweeney 1377.

The authorship of this anonymous work has long been questioned although it used to be attributed with some conviction to the Irish born Royalist supporting poet Sir John Denham who was said to have based the concept on the much divided membership of the Confederation of Kilkenny. The title page produced by the London printer Thomas Newcomb muddied the issue by transferring the action to Ulster and suggesting that the events took place on June 25 1668. Now no one has ever been able to identify any occurrences in Ulster at that time that would connect and it is worthy of note that by this year Denham was himself mentally ill. A theory that I propound is that it had been composed circa 1650 but that it had remained unpublished until Denham fell ill. Newcomb then updated the action in what could be seen as a sales promotion. There is at least one textual support for this idea: Lest they should no interment have, To the departed Catts, a grave The Ratts in their own bowels gave They at Bonratty, (so says fame) To Rebels bodies did the same. (this place and that may bear one name).

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In 1669, in the reign of Charles the Second, Mr. Gervase Pigot, of Thrumpton, Hall was High Sheriff of the County of Nottinghamshire, and he is said by Thornton to have been a person of great parts, both natural and acquired, and the historian adds, "for sobriety, ingenuity, generosity, piety, and other virtues, few of his rank will ever exceed, if any equal him".

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De Búrca Ra re Books 94. DE VALERA, Eamon. Peace and War. Speeches by Mr. De Valera on International Affairs.

Dublin: Gill, 1944. Second impression. pp.80. Printed wrappers. Owner's signature on inside upper cover. A very good copy. €45 95. [DINGLE] Two Postcards: Beehive Houses, Slea Head, Dingle, County Kerry [c.1930].

With two local farmers looking on. Blasket Islands, Dingle, County Kerry. 140 x 92mm. In very good condition. €75 96. DOHERTY, Gillian M. The Irish Ordnance Survey. History, Culture and Memory.

Illustrated. Dublin: Four Courts, 2004. pp. 237. Black paper boards, titled in silver. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €35 97. DONAGHY, Lyle. Into the Light, and Other Poems. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1934. pp. 87. Title device printed in red and also one page of text in red. Quarter linen on brown paper boards, title printed in black on upper cover and on paper label on spine. Edition limited to 200 copies [for the author]. A fine copy. €375 Miller p. 130.

Privately published item from the collection of Lily Yeats, elder sister of the Cuala proprietor Elizabeth Corbet Yeats.

98. DORBENE, Kevin Stroma. (An American). Ireland Beats Wilson. Dublin: Whelan n.d. (c.

1920). pp. 32. Purple wrappers. Scarce. €125 Carty 1113.

Quotes extensively from American Presidents, in support of the view that America should intervene in favour of Irish independence. When the Paris Peace Conference opened on 18 January 1919, IrishAmericans united in requesting President Wilson to support self-determination for Ireland in accord with the ideals of his Fourteen Points for peace. Dail Eireann actively pursued the same policy. This pamphlet was in tune with that policy. However, President Wilson was happy to sign the Peace Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919, which ignored Ireland's claims.

99. DOWDEN, Edward. A Woman's Reliquary. Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1913. pp. 59. Quarter cream cloth on cream paper boards, title in black on upper cover and spine. Edition limited to 300 copies. Some foxing to cover, browning to endpapers. A very good copy. €150 100. DOYLE, Martin. Hints Addressed to The Small Holders and Peasantry of Ireland, on Road-Making, and on Ventilation, &c. &c. Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Co., 1830. pp. [8], 88. Modern green buckram, title in gilt on maroon morocco letterpiece along spine. A very good copy. €65 Martin Doyle, (pseudonym of William Hickey), was born in County Cork. In 1820 he became Church of Ireland curate at Wexford and together with Thomas Boyce founded the South Wexford Agricultural Society. He published numerous books and pamphlets on practical farming, vegetable-growing, poultry-keeping and any subject he thought might help the struggling small farmers of Ireland. He died in 1875.

101. DOYLE, Martin. Irish Cottagers. Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Company, 1830. pp.

[12], 137, [1], [6]. Green linen, spine rebacked, original letterpiece preserved. A good copy. €75 IRISH MINIATURES AT ST. GALL 102. DUFT, Johannes & MEYER, Peter. Ed. by. The Irish Miniatures in the Abbey Library of St. Gall. With 19 plates in colour and 24 in mono. Berne: Urs Graf-Verlag, 1954. Large quarto.

Bound in full pigskin with Celtic design blind tooling. Edition limited to 600 copies. A very good copy. Very rare. €2,275 St. Gall in Switzerland takes its name from the Irish saint, the companion of St. Columbanus, who remained behind and established a hermitage there in 612, when Columbanus moved on to Milan and Bobbio. St. Gall was a native of Leinster and of the same lineage as St. Brigid of Kildare. The great abbey that grew up at St. Gall continued to have links with Ireland and to be a regular stopping place for the early Irish pilgrim on his journey to Rome. Some of them presented manuscripts to the abbey and in the 9th century there was a special section of the library for books in Irish script.

This fine publication with 19 plates in full colour and 23 in black and white contains a representative selection of what survives today. This includes all the main illuminations of the well known St. Gall Gospels, which may have been among the books donated by the Irish bishop, Marcus, who abandoned 27

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his return journey to Ireland in order to spend his last years in the abbey. His nephew Marcellus joined the community and in the middle of the 9th century he was head of its famous school.

This volume also contains a splendid introduction by the librarian, J. Duft setting out the history and character of the collection with a detailed study of the illuminations by P. Meyer.

103. DUNRAVEN, Earl of. "Ireland, Awake!". An Open Letter to his Fellow Countrymen.

Dublin: Independent Newspapers, 1917. pp. 16. Printed wrappers. A very good copy. Rare. €85 The Fourth Earl of Dunraven (1841-1926), was a most colourful personality having hunted with Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack in America, against hostile Indians, quite apart from having been a war correspondent during the siege of Paris and in Abyssinia, Lord Lieutenant of County Limerick, a Captain in the South African war and later a member of the new Seanad of the Irish Free State.

In this pamphlet the Earl of Dunraven appeals to his fellow Irishmen to wake up and fight for their country against the Kaiser.

104. EDGEWORTH, Maria. Tales of Fashionable Life. Six volumes. London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1809/1814. 12mo. Third and fourth edition. With the contemporary signature of Ellen Bigham of Bally Gilbart on titlepages. Contemporary full tree calf, spines with contrasting labels.

A fine set. €275 Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849), was born at Black Bourton near Reading, and educated in England. She returned to Ireland with her father, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, in 1782, and taught the children of his later marriages, sharing his progressive views on education. During the 1798 rebellion Edgeworthstown was spared by the insurgents because of the family's standing with its tenants.

This work contains: Ennui; Almeria, Madame de Fleury, and the Dun; Manœuvring; Vivian; Emilie de Coulanges and the beginning of The Absentee; The conclusion of The Absentee.

FIRST EDITION 105. EDGEWORTH, Maria. Comic Dramas, in Three Acts. With a preface by Richard Lovell Edgeworth. London: Printed for R. Hunter, 1817. First edition. pp. vii, 382. Contemporary. half green calf gilt on marbled boards. A very nice copy with half-title. €245 Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849), was born at Black Bourton near Reading, and educated in England. She returned to Ireland with her father, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, in 1782, and taught the children of his later marriages, sharing his progressive views on education. Her early works included The Parent's Assistant (1796) and Practical Education (1798). During the 1798 rebellion Edgeworthstown was spared by the insurgents because of the family's standing with its tenants. In 1800, Maria, published Castle Rackrent, the earliest regional novel in English, which made her internationally famous.

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The dramas published here include: Love and Law; The Two Guardians; The Rose, &c.

106. EDWARDS, Ruth Dudley. An Atlas of Irish History. Maps drawn by W.H. Bromage.

London: Methuen, 1973. First edition. pp. 261. Pictorial wrappers. From the library of Prof. T.W. Moody with his bookplate. A very good copy. €30 The seventy-four maps and guides included in An Atlas of Irish History outline the history of Ireland from the earliest times to the present day in visual form, with a full complementary text. A most valuable reference work for the student of Irish history.

107. [EMERSON, John Swift] One Year in the Administration of His Excellency the Marquess of Wellesley in Ireland. The third edition, with corrections, editions, and a postscript. London: Printed for J. Hatchard and Neary Mahon, Dublin, 1823. pp. 153. With stamp of The Law Society. Owner's signature on titlepage. Recent blue wrappers. €475 COPAC locates only the TCD copy of this edition.

Richard Colley Wesley, later Lord Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, KG, PC, PC (1760-1842), was the eldest son of Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington, and Anne, the eldest daughter of Arthur HillTrevor, 1st Viscount Dungannon. He was brother of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.

Richard first made his name as Governor-General of India between 1798 and 1805 and later served as Foreign Secretary in the British Cabinet and as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

He was educated at the Royal School, Armagh, Harrow School and Eton College, where he distinguished himself as a classical scholar, and at Christ Church, Oxford.

In 1780, he entered the Irish House of Commons for Trim until the following year, when by his father's death he became 2nd Earl of Mornington, taking his seat in the Irish House of Lords.

Following his wife's death in 1816, he married, in October 1825, the widowed Marianne (Caton) Patterson, whose mother Mary was the daughter of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence; her former sister-in-law was Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte. They had no children.

In 1821 he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Catholic emancipation had now become an open question in the cabinet, and Wellesley's acceptance of the viceroyalty was believed in Ireland to herald the immediate settlement of the Catholic claims but they would remain unfulfilled. Some efforts were made to placate Catholic opinion, notably the dismissal of the long-serving Attorney-General for Ireland, William Saurin, whose anti-Catholic views had made him bitterly unpopular. Lord Liverpool died without having grappled with the problem. Canning died; and on the assumption of office by Wellington, his brother resigned the lord-lieutenancy. He had, however, the satisfaction of seeing the Catholic claims settled in the next year by the very statesmen who had declared against them. In 1833 he resumed the office of Lord Lieutenant under Earl Grey, but the ministry soon fell, and, with one short exception, Wellesley did not take any further part in official life.

John Swift Emerson, attorney, Camden Street, was one of Major Sirr's aides in the Dublin police, and assisted in the arrest of Lord Edward Fitzgerald in 1798. Later he quarrelled with Sirr over the reward for the arrest of Thomas Russell, an elusive United Irish organiser known as 'the man from Godknows-where'. Emerson was elected a member of the Dublin Society in 1801, his proposers being Jeremiah D'Olier and General Vallancey.

NO COPY LOCATED 108. [ENGLISH PARLIAMENT, House of Commons] A Declaration of the Commons assembled in Parliament; Concerning the Rise and Progresse of the Grand Rebellion in Ireland.

Together with a multitude of Examinations of Persons of quality … who were and still are the Promoters of that cruell and unheard of Rebellion …Also some Letters of Mart, which were granted by the Lord Mohun …and likewise another from the Rebells in Ireland, who termed themselves The Supreme Councel for the Catholique-Cause. London: Printed for Edw. Husbands, and are to be sold in the Middle-Temple, July 25 1643. Small quarto. pp. 63. Bound 29

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by Galwey in late nineteenth century half calf, with their ticket on front pastedown. Some waterstaining, otherwise very good. Extremely rare. €875 Wing E 2557 Sweeney 1776. No copy located on COPAC. This work is part of the propaganda war between Parliament and the King. In addition it published some significant documents, one of which issuing from the Supreme Council of the Confederate Catholics of Ireland is a naval commission dated "Kilkennie the last of December 1642" to "our well beloved friend Captaine Francis Oliver, native of Flanders having received good testimony of his sufficiency and integrity to be captain of the ship called Saint Michaell the Archangel of burden an hundred and twentie lasts or tuns or thereabouts". He was directed to attack not merely enemies of the Confederation but also those of the King.

109. [ERASMUS] Extracts from Erasmus, on the Subject of War: Taken from a publication under the title of "Antipolemus", printed in the year 1794. Dublin: Printed for the Tract Association of Members of the Society of Friends, by Thomas I. White, 149, Abbey Street, 1830. pp. 24. Artistic decoration in ink on titlepage. Disbound. Extremely rare. €275 No copy of this edition located on COPAC.

110. [EUCLID] The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid, with notes. Ninth edition.

Introduction by the editor, Thomas Elrington. Dublin: Richard Milliken, Grafton-Street, Booksellers to the University of Dublin, 1829. pp. iv, 183, 7 (folding plates). Contemporary half calf on marbled boards. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €750 No copy located on COPAC. This edition not in NLI.

111. FALLON, Niall. The Armada in Ireland. With maps and numerous illustrations. London: Stanford Maritime, 1978. First edition. pp. x, 236. Tan paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in stained dust jacket. €5 112. FALLON, Padraic. Lighting-up Time. Being number two of the Tower Press Booklets.

Third series. Dublin: Orwell Press, 1938. pp. 26. Edition limited to 300 copies. Stitched frayed wrappers with dust jacket. €45 113. FINLAY, Rev. T.A. S.J. Foxford and the Providence Woollen Mills. The Story of an Irish Industry. Dublin: C.J. Fallon Ltd, 1932. pp. 28. Printed stapled wrappers. A very good copy.

Rare. €25

114. FITZGERALD, Brian. The Geraldines. An Experiment in Irish Government 1169-1601.

With genealogical charts, and map on front flyleaf. London: Staples, 1951. First edition. pp. 322.

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De Búrca Ra re Books The FitzGeralds of Ireland trace their descent from the famous Maurice, son of Gerald, who accompanied Strongbow to Ireland during the Anglo-Norman invasion in 1169. The family formed two main branches one in Kildare (headed by the Earls of Kildare) and the other in Munster. The latter who were headed by the Earls of Desmond were crushed and deprived of their lands during the Elizabethan conquest of Munster. The author in this work traces the fortunes of the family from their coming into Ireland to the Battle of Kinsale.

115. FITZGERALD, S.J. Adair. The Story of the Savoy Opera. A Record of Events and Productions. With introduction by The Rt. Hon. T.P. O'Connor, M.P. Illustrated. London: Stanley Paul & Co., 1924. Second edition. pp. xx, 240. Contemporary full blue morocco, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. €35 116. FITZ-PATRICK, W.J. Irish Wits and Worthies; including Dr. Lanigan, His Life and Times, with Glimpses of Stirring Scenes since 1770. Illustrated. Dublin: Duffy, 1873. pp. viii, [1], 346, 6. Recent buckram with original upper cover laid on, gilt harp surrounded by a cluster of shamrocks in gilt. Some annotations in ink. From the Franciscan library, Dublin with their neat stamp. A very good copy. €65 117. FLOWER, Robin. Ireland and Medieval Europe. The Sir John Rhys Memorial Lecture British Academy 1927. London: From the Proceedings of the British Academy, 1927. pp. 35, [1].

Stitched frayed wrappers. A very good copy. €15 118. FORESTER, Margery. Michael Collins - The Lost Leader. Illustrated. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1971. pp. xii, 371. Green paper boards, titled in gilt. A very good copy in d.j. €65 A legend in his own lifetime, Michael Collins is one of the greatest heroes Ireland has ever produced.

This biography is based on letters and papers which heretofore had not seen the light of day.

119. [FORTESCUE, Thomas Knox] Jack's Edition of Life at Sea, or the Jervian System in 183being a Series of Letters by an old Irish Captain of the Head to his Nephew. To which are added a set of orders. Dublin: Samuel J. Machen. London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1843. pp. xi, [1], 455, [1], 4 (advertisement). Green blind-stamped cloth, title, sailing ship and anchor in gilt on spine.

Signed presentation copy from the author to his kinsman Thomas Fortescue, 1st Baron Charlemont. €375 COPAC locates 3 copies only (all in U.K.). NLI copy with no author ascribed.

Thomas Knox Fortescue was born in 1818. He served in the Royal Navy for thirteen years and lived in Clontarf. He was married to Emily Magee.

Thomas Fortescue, 1st Baron Clermont (1815-1887), Whig politician was the son of Chichester Fortescue, of Dromisken, County Louth, and his wife Martha Angel, daughter of Samuel Meade Hobson, a barrister, of Muchridge House, County Cork.

Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford was his younger brother. Thomas was educated at Exeter College, Oxford. In 1833 he succeeded to the Ravensdale Park estate in Derbyshire on the death of Sir Henry James Goodricke, 7th Baronet, son of Sir Henry Goodricke, 6th Baronet, by Charlotte, sister of the first Earl of Clermont.

Fortescue was High Sheriff of Louth in 1839. In 1840 he was returned to parliament as one of two representatives for County Louth, a seat he held until the following year. In 1852 he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Clermont, of Dromisken in the County of Louth, a revival of the Clermont 31

De Búrca Ra re Books title held by his kinsman. The peerage was created with special remainder to his younger brother, Chichester. In 1866 he was also created Baron Clermont, of Clermont Park in the County of Louth, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which entitled him to an automatic seat in the House of Lords.

This peerage was created with normal remainder to his heirs male.

Lord Clermont married Lady Louisa Grace, daughter of James Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormonde, in 1840. There were no children from the marriage. He died at Ravensdale Park in July 1887, aged 72.

The English peerage became extinct on his death while he was succeeded in the Irish peerage according to the special remainder by his brother Chichester, who had already been elevated to the peerage in his own right as Baron Carlingford. Lady Clermont died at Ravensdale Park in November 1896, aged 80.

Lord Clermont wrote the definitive history of the ancient Fortescue family, titled History of the Family of Fortescue in all its Branches, published 1880 in London. He produced a Supplement in 1885 containing new information following his discovery of two 13th-century Fortescue charters in Eton College library.

120. FRANKEL, Nicholas. Oscar Wilde's Decorated Books. Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2000. pp. xiv, 222. Cream cloth, title in green. A fine copy in dust jacket. €75 121. FREEMAN, Lt.-Col. F.F. & STUBBS, T.T. Postage Stamps of Ireland. Handbook.

Provisional Issue. Irish Free State Stamps. First Edition, April 1922. Illustrated. Dublin: Mint Stamp Company, 1923. First edition. pp. 31, [9 (adverts)]. Printed wrappers. Rare. €95 122. [FREEMASONS] The Constitution of Free-Masonry; or Ahiman Rezon: to which is added a Selection of Masonic Songs, Prologues, Epilogues, &c &c. ... Revised, corrected, and improved with additions. By authority of the Grand Lodge of Ireland. Brother Downes' fourth edition.

[Compiled by Lawrence Dermott]. Dublin: Printed by Brother C. Downes, Whitefriar-street, (Printer to the R.W. The Grand Lodge of Ireland). Sold by William F. Graham & Son, 35, Capelstreet, and 16, College-green, 1820. pp. [16], cli, [1], 128. Modern quarter morocco on marbled boards. Signature of William Thomas Stephens of the Enniscorthy Masonic Lodge dated 8th May 1830 on front free endpaper. A fine copy. Extremely rare. €385 COPAC locates the BL copy only. Compiler given from BL catalogue.

123. FRENCH, Noel E. Battle of the Boyne 1960. Meath: Trymme Press, 1989. pp. 44.

Illustrated stapled wrappers. A fine copy. Scarce. €45 124. GALLAGHER, Frank. Days of Fear. A Diary of Hunger Strike. London: John Murray, 1928. First edition. pp. 175. Black cloth, printed paper label on spine. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. Rare. €165 Frank Gallagher 1893-1962 [pseud. David Hogan] was a native of Cork. London correspondent of William O'Brien's Cork Free Press, and subsequently its final editor. Although he was himself a separatist, he personally admired O'Brien. The paper was suppressed after Gallagher accused the British authorities of lying about the conditions and situation of republican prisoners in the Frongoch internment camp.

Gallagher joined the Irish Volunteers; worked with Erskine Childers on Republican publicity staff, and edited The Irish Bulletin, from 1919 to 1921. Imprisoned in 1920, he later joined the hunger strike from 5th to 15th April 1920. This diary was written during his actual hunger strike "Days of Fear are living, livid days. As full of gentleness as of fear, as full of despair as of faith. And because they are real they are days strange and most poignant".

RARE ILLUSTRATED GALWAY HISTORY 125. [GALWAY HISTORY] The Gailliv. An Illustrated History of the Ancient City of Galway.

Galway: Philip O'Gorman, Printer and Publisher, 1901. pp. viii, 3-103, [15] (adverts). Recent quarter green morocco on green paper boards with original coloured wrappers bound in. Very good. Exceedingly rare. €475 COPAC lists only two copies.

With chapters on: Forthill Cemetery; Site of the Ancient Abbey of St. Augustine. By Rev. D. Travers; The Augustinians in Galway. By Rev. D. Travers; The Galway Nunnery of St. Augustine. By Rev. D. Travers; Fireuntacht an Loinsigh. Eoghan Ua Neachtain; The Story of Galway. By M.J. Tighe; Some Incidents in the History of Galway. By R.J. Kelly; The Ancient Records of the Old Corporation of Galway. By W.F. Trench; The Bazaar of 1901.

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126. [GALWAY FEVER HOSPITAL] County Galway Infirmary and Town Fever Hospital.

Certifying that John N. Davis had regularly attended the Clinical Lectures delivered in the Hospitals during the Sessions 1860/61. Signed by Medical Attendants - Doctors, N. O'Cahan, Richard Doherty, J. Browne and Charles Croker King. Dublin: Lithographically Printed by M. Allen, 12 Westland Row, with illustration of hospital at head, [1861]. Broadside. 253 x 435mm.

Some fraying to top edge. Pencilled note on verso 'Queen's Coll. Galway / Certificates'. Very good. Rare. €385 OF THE UTMOST RARITY 127. GIOVIO, Paolo. Descriptio Britannicae, Scotiae, Hyberniae et Orchadum. Bound with: Virorum aliquot in Britannia, qui nostro seculo eruditione, & doctrina clari, memorabilesque fuerunt, Elogia. Bound with: Lilius, Georgius. A Bruto Britannicae Gentis Authore omnium in quos variante fortuna Britanniæ Imperium translatum Brevis Enumeratio. (Anglorum Regum Chronicon). Venice: Tramezino, 1548. Quarto. pp. [viii], 253. Contemporary full yapp vellum.

Neat previous owner's stamp on titlepage, also with signature. Early paper repair to margin. A very good copy. Of the utmost rarity. €1,275 Sweeney 2637. Graesse III, 491. COPAC locates 3 copies only.

"Proof of Giovio's classical erudition and his searching spirit is the extremely rare work Descriptio Britanniae Scotiae, Hyberniae, Venice 1548" (Renda-Operti, Diz. della Lett. Ital.)

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, too. 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.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 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.

Sweeney states: "A copy is to be found in the Arranmore collection of early Irish books. 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 of 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. GLAZIER, Michael. Ed. by. The Encyclopaedia of The Irish in America. Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1999. pp. xxi, 988. Green cloth, decorated in gilt. A fine copy in dust jacket. €75 129. GLEESON, Rev. John. History of the Ely O'Carroll Territory or Ancient Ormond. With a new introduction, bibliography, illustrations and maps. Two volumes. Kilkenny: Roberts, 1982. pp. (1) lxii, 325, (2) xii, 320. Blue paper boards, titled in gilt. Edition limited to 1,000 numbered copies. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Fine. Scarce. €285 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 Cashel of the Kings.

130. [GLENSTAL] A postcard of Glenstal Priory Library, Murroe, County Limerick, [c.1930].

Printed in Bruxelles. 137x87mm. Top right hand corner creased, otherwise in very good condition. €35 131. GOOD, James Winder. Michael Davitt. Dublin: Cumann Léigheachtaí An Phobail, 1921. pp. 14. Printed wrappers, staples rusting. A very good copy. Very scarce. €20 CLONBROCK COPY 132. [GORDON, Major-Gen. C.G.] The Journal of Major-Gen. C.G. Gordon, C.B., at Kartoum.

Printed from the original Mss. Introduction and notes by A. Egmont Hake. With portrait, two maps and thirty illustrations after sketches by General Gordon. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, 1885. pp. (1) lxv, 275, (2) 276-587. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title and volume number in gilt direct in the second and third, the remainder tooled in gilt to a floral centre-and-corner design. Marbled endpapers. Dillon of Clonbrock armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Mild foxing to prelims.

A fine set. €275

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De Búrca Ra re Books Major-General Charles George Gordon, CB (1833-1885), also known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British army officer and administrator.

He saw action in the Crimean War as an officer in the British Army. For this service he was appointed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour by the Government of France. But he made his military reputation in China, where he was placed in command of the "Ever Victorious Army", a force of Chinese soldiers led by European officers. In the early 1860s, Gordon and his men were instrumental in putting down the Taiping Rebellion, regularly defeating much larger forces. For these accomplishments, he was given the nickname "Chinese" Gordon and honours from both the Emperor of China and the British.

He entered the service of the Khedive in 1873 (with British government approval) and later became the Governor-General of the Sudan, where he did much to suppress revolts and the slave trade. Exhausted, he resigned and returned to Europe in 1880.

A serious revolt then broke out in the Sudan, led by a Muslim reformer and self-proclaimed Mahdi, Muhammad Ahmad. Gordon was sent to Khartoum with instructions to secure the evacuation of loyal soldiers and civilians, and depart with them. After evacuating about 2,500 British civilians he retained a smaller group of soldiers and non-military men. As an ardent Christian evangelist he was determined to stand up to the Mahdi, a Muslim. In the build-up to battle, the two leaders corresponded, each attempting to convert the other to his faith, but neither would accede. Besieged by the Mahdi's forces, Gordon organized a city-wide defence lasting almost a year that gained him the admiration of the British public, but not the government, which had not wished to become entrenched (as Gordon was instructed before setting out). Only when public pressure to act had become too great did the government reluctantly send a relief force. It arrived two days after the city had fallen and Gordon had been killed.

133. [GORSEDD PRAYER] The Gorsedd Prayer. Oblong octavo card printed on one side. Text with illuminated initials. Published by the Yeats Sisters at the Cuala Press, Dundrum. Fine. condition. Rare. Not in Miller. €75 134. GREGORY, Lady. Coole. Completed from the manuscript and edited by Colin Smythe, with a foreword by Edward Malins. Dublin: Dolmen, 1971. pp. 107. Folio, quarter linen on paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €85 A fuller edition including extra material not in the Cuala edition. The endpapers are from an engraving of a cross-section of Coole House in 1747.

135. GREGORY, Lady. McDonough's Wife. London and New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1913. pp. 20. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. €65 136. GWYNN, A. & HADCOCK, R.N. Medieval Religious Houses Ireland. With an Appendix to early sites. Foreword

by David Knowles. Dublin: I.A.P. 1988. pp. xii, 479. Green paper boards, titled in gilt. A fine copy in fine dust jacket.€75 137. HAGGER, MARK S. The Fortunes of a Norman Family. The de Verduns in England, Ireland and Wales, 1066-1316. Illustrated. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001. pp.

286. Black paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Fine in fine illustrated dust jacket. €65 From 1066 to 1316 Alton Towers, the well-known English amusement park was the seat of the de Verdun family, who from humble origins in Normandy, came to rule vast estates stretching from Buckinghamshire to the Shannon. Theobald II de Verdun was Justiciar of Ireland in 1312 at a time when the family was at the peak of its influence and power.

This work provides us with a unique insight into the problems that were presented by holding lands over such a wide area.

138. HANAGHAN, Jonathan. Ed. by. Poetry Quartos: Outriders; Bannered Spears; Earth Fire; Tidings; Apocalypse. With illustrations by Jack B. Yeats, Harry Kernoff, Sean O'Sullivan, Sean Keating, Stephen Gilbert and Cecile Walton. Five issues (of six). Dublin: Runa Press, 1943/1944.

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De Búrca Ra re Books Occasional poetry publication which was issued by Rupert and Eithne Strong at their private press at 2 Belgrave Terrace, Monkstown, County Dublin. With contributions by Hanaghan, Jonathan, Valentin Iremonger, William Pearse Clare, Lord Dunsany, Robert Greacen, Charles Acton, John Irvine, Basil Rakoczi, Leslie Daiken, Ferdinand Levy, Rupert Strong, Eithne O'Connell, Henry Treece, Frank Harris, etc.

Rupert Strong (1911-1984) psychoanalyst, was born in London and educated at TCD. He was cousin of the novelist L. A. G. Strong. He was somewhat notorious in Dublin for his free conception of life; participant in White Horse movement in Dublin 1940s. He married Eithne O'Connell from Limerick in 1943 and in the same year she founded with him the Runa Press, primarily for the publication of poetry. Some of her early work was included in this series of Runa verse anthology quartos.

Though she had aspired to become a writer from an early age, and wrote continually over the years alongside her domestic responsibilities, she did not publish again till later in life. Her first collection of poems, Songs of Living, written in English, appeared in 1961 with a preface by Padraic Colum. Despite being the mother of nine children, the youngest of whom was mentally handicapped from birth and required permanent care, she returned to Trinity to study modern languages in 1969. Awarded an education diploma in 1975, she taught creative writing (1973–88), worked as a journalist and theatre critic, and lectured extensively in Ireland and America.

She was elected to Aosdána in 1996. She died 24 August 1999 at her home in Monkstown, County Dublin. There is a Rupert & Eithne Strong Poetry Award at the annual Dun Laoghaire Arts Festival.

139. HARDIMAN, James. A Catalogue of Maps, Charts, and Plans, relating to Ireland, preserved amongst the Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, with Preliminary Observations. Dublin: Printed by Graisberry for the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, 1825. Quarto. pp. 57-77. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on red morocco letterpiece on upper cover. Fine. Rare. €175 140. HARRISON, Henry. "The Price of Ireland's Neutrality". An Invocation of Historical Truth in Reply to Henry Steele Commager Professor of History at Columbia University, New York.

With an Appendix. Also with coloured map showing the Partition of Ireland. London: Printed by Richard Madley Ltd, 1943. pp. 12. Printed wrappers. Signed presentation copy from May Hayes to Dr. [T.W.] Moody. A very good copy. €25 141. [HARTLIB, Samuel] Samuel Hartlib. His Legacie: or an Enlargement of the Discourse of Husbandry used in Brabant & Flaunders. The second Edition augmented with an Appendix. Together with: An Appendix to the Legacie of Husbandry: or, A Seed-plot of Annotations upon the Legacie aforesaid. With an Interrogatorie, Relating more particularly to the Husbandry, and Naturall History of Ireland. Together with: An Interrogatory Relating more particularly to the Husbandry and Naturall History of Ireland. London: Printed

by R. & W. Leybourn, for Richard Wodenothe, in LeadenHall Market, next door to the Golden Hart, 1652. Small quarto. pp. [viii], 118, [26 (appendix, errata and author's list)]. Page 118 misnumbered 18. Near contemporary full calf ruled with double gilt fillets. A very good copy. €875 ESTC R626. Wing H990. Not in Sweeney.

Samuel Hartlib (c.1599-1670), writer on education and agriculturist, was born at Elbing in Prussia, his father being a 36

De Búrca Ra re Books refugee merchant from Poland. His mother was the daughter of a rich English merchant at Danzig.

About 1628 Hartlib went to England, where he carried on a mercantile agency.

During the civil war Hartlib occupied himself with the peaceful study of agriculture, publishing various works by himself, and printing at his own expense several treatises by others on the subject. In 1652 he published the current work.

For his various labours Hartlib received a pension from Cromwell as he had spent all his fortune on his experiments. He planned a school for the sons of gentlemen, to be conducted on new principles. At the Restoration, Hartlib lost his pension, which had already fallen into arrears; he petitioned Parliament for a new grant of it, but what success he met with is unknown, as his later years and death are wrapped in obscurity. A letter from him is known to have been written in February 1661-1662, and apparently he is referred to as alive in 1670 and fleeing to Holland from his creditors.

Consists chiefly of letters to Hartlib apparently written by Cressy Dymock, though the first (p. 1-108) is attributed by some authorities to Robert Child.

An appendix to the legacie of husbandry and An interrogatory relating more particularly to the husbandry and naturall history of Ireland each have separate dated title pages with imprint 'Printed for Richard Wodenothe', pagination and register are continuous.

142. HAYES, Richard. Biographical Dictionary of Irishmen in France. Dublin: M.H. Gill, 1949. pp. vi, 332. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in very good dust jacket. Scarce. €225 An invaluable reference work, the result of many years diligent research on the Wild Geese and their descendants in France. With an appendix containing unpublished sources from the various French archives and a list of Irish noble families surviving in France.

143. 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, 1968. pp. [xii], 164. Black arlen. A fine copy in repaired dust jacket. €45

144. [HEANEY, Seamus] Typed letter signed from Cedric Barfoot to the Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney, dated 5 August 1996, Bennebroek, The Netherlands. Interesting letter, one page quarto, in which Cedric discusses a book that he mentioned to Seamus when he was giving a reading in Stirling. Also compares his 'Tollund Man'. In fine condition. €125 37

De Búrca Ra re Books 145. HEATLEY, Fred. Henry Joy McCracken and his Times. Illustrated. Belfast: Wolfe Tone Society, 1967. pp. 61. Pictorial stapled wrappers. A very good copy. Rare. €25 146. HICKEY, Elizabeth. I Send my Love along the Boyne. Illustrated by Nano Reid. Dublin: Allen Figgis and Company Ltd., 1966. pp. 94. Beige buckram, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in very good dust jacket, with a few nicks. €65 147. HOPKINS, Ezekiel. An Exposition on the Ten Commandments: with other Sermons. By the Right Reverend Father in God, Ezekiel, late Lord Bishop of London-Derry. London: Printed for Thomas Parkhurst, at the Bible and Three Crowns in Chief-side; and Nathanael Ranew, and Jonathan Robinson, at the Kings-Arms, and Golden Lyon in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1692.

Quarto. pp. 143, [1 (publisher's list)]. Recent marbled boards, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. Paper fault to a couple of pages with corner loss to margin. A very good copy. €425

Wing H2732 Sweeney 2356 lists the 1691 edition.

Ezekiel Hopkins, D.D., bishop of Derry, second son of John Hopkins, clerk, and rector of Pinne in Devonshire, was born there on 3 December 1634. Educated at Merchant Taylors' School (1646-1648) and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was a chorister (1648-1653), he graduated B.A. on 17 October 1653, and being admitted Usher of the college school in 1655 and Chaplain of the college in the following year, he proceeded to M.A. on 5 June 1656.

At the Restoration he went up to London, where he became assistant to Dr. William Spurstow, one of the authors of Smectymnuus, and at that time minister of Hackney. Hopkins, who conformed after the Act of Uniformity in 1662, was elected preacher of St. Edmund's Lombard Street, or, according to Malcolm, of St. Mary Woolnoth. In 1666, in consequence, it is supposed, of the plague, Hopkins quit London and returned to Devonshire, where he was shortly afterwards chosen minister of St. Mary Arches, Exeter. Here he attracted the favourable attention of Lord Robartes, afterwards Earl of Radnor, who, on being appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1669, made Hopkins his chaplain.

Hopkins, who was of medium stature, and inclined to corpulency, was a good scholar, an excellent preacher (although, according to Prince, "his discourses smelt of the lamp"), an agreeable talker, and a tolerable poet. According to Doddridge (Lectures on Preaching) "his motto, 'Aut suaviter aut vi', well answers to his works. Yet he trusts most to the latter. He awakes awfully: sometimes there is a little of the bombast - he bends the bow till it breaks". (quoted from the DNB).

CHICHESTER HART'S COPY 148. HULL, E., NOLAN, J. M'HENRY, A. Et al. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Ireland. Explanatory memoir of Inishowen; North-West and Central Donegal; Country around Limavady portions of the Counties Donegal and Tyrone. With petrographical and palæontological notes. Dublin: Printed for H.M.S.O. by Alexander Thom, 1885/1891. Royal 38

De BĂşrca Ra re Books octavo. pp. 60, 4 [plates], iv, 174, 32, 42, 72, 50, 26, 46. Contemporary half morocco on cloth boards, title in gilt on spine. Armorial bookplate of H. Chichester Hart on front pastedown. With some notes by him in pencil and ink. A fine copy. Very rare collection. â‚Ź375

The Geological Survey of Ireland (GSI), was founded in 1845 for providing geological maps, reports and data. The early years were very tough; it faced a daunting task, the compilation of the one inch geological map of Ireland. This was to be completed with a staff rarely numbering more than ten, and often less! In the event it took forty-two years. Even so, it must be judged as an almost miraculous performance in view of limitations of manpower and finance, and the parlous state of post-famine Ireland, to say nothing of personal discord and bureaucratic conflict with London. We know that in 1858 a field geologist was expected to survey some 200 square miles, prepare the manuscript map and write an accompanying memoir, all in just one year!

Other eminent geologists assisted with this survey included: R.J. Cruise, J.S. Hyland, J.R. Kilroe, F.W. Egan, W.F. Mitchell, G.H. Kinahan, S.B. Wilkinson, R.G. Symes, A.B. Wynne, and W. H. Baily.

Henry Chichester Hart was born in Dublin of a Donegal family, his father being Sir Andrew S. Hart, Vice-Provost of Trinity College, Dublin. At the age of seventeen he began a botanical survey of his beloved county, which he continued intermittently until 1898, when he published his well-known 'Flora of the County Donegal'. Hart took his degree (B.A.) in Dublin University in experimental and natural science; later he turned to Elizabethan literature, and edited several plays for the 'Arden Shakspere', and Ben Jonson's works for the 'Standard Library'. But it was his arduous work in exploring Ireland that causes his name to stand high in the annals of Irish botany.

He was a man of magnificent physique, a daring climber and a tireless walker, and though his pace was usually too fast for exhaustive work, he missed little, and penetrated to places where very few have followed him. Of all the botanical explorers whom A. G. More enlisted in the preparation of the second edition of Cybele Hibernica, Hart was the most active, searching mountainranges, rivers, lakes, islands, and coasts in order to determine the distribution of rare flowering plants.

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149. HUNT, Edward. An Abridgment of all the Statutes in Ireland, in the Reigns of Queen Anne, and King George. In Force and Use. Dublin: Printed by A. Rhames, for E. Dobson, Sen. and E. Dobson, Jun. at the Stationers-Arms in Castle-street, 1718. pp. [4], xv, [1], 367, [13].

Contemporary full calf, title in gilt on rebacked spine. Some minor wear to corners and surface of lower cover. A very good fresh copy. Extremely rare. €475 COPAC locates the TCD and Cambridge copies only.

150. [ILLUMINATED ADDRESS] Illuminated Address: At the Monthly Meeting of the Municipal Council of the City of Dublin held in the Council Chamber City Hall, Cork Hill, upon Monday the 7th May, 1888 moved by Councillor Dawson. Seconded by Councillor Jas. M'Donnell, "That this Council desires to express its deep regret at the sad and unexpected death of its late respected Member, Alderman Nagle, and that this record of its sincere sympathy be conveyed to his afflicted family by forwarding a copy of this resolution to them". Signed by John Beveridge, Town Clerk and Thomas Sexton, Lord Mayor. Illuminated by T. Fitzpatrick to an oval design with floral border and vignettes of Parliament House, Sackville Street and Nelson's Pillar. Arms of the City of Dublin at centre top. Framed and glazed. 48 x 55cm. In very good condition. €375 151. [ILLUMINATED ADDRESS] Illuminated Address: North Dublin Union. At a meeting of the Guardians of the North Dublin Union held at the Board Room, North Brunswick St., on Wednesday the 9th day of May 1888. Alderman W. Meagher, J.P. in the Chair. Other Guardians Present - J. O'Neill, C. Begg, J. Butterly, M. Butterly, J.P., J. Carolan D.V.C., F. Carr, P. McKenna, T. Molloy, J. McDonnell, M. Morkan, T. Corcoran, B. Goulding, Count Ryder, E. Doran, J. Fitzsimons, W. Roper, G. Healy, J. Kennedy, D. Moran, T. Lenehan, George Tickell, E. Malone and Henry Gibson, Esquires. Proposed by Count Ryder, seconded by M. Butterly Resolved that we desire to express our sincere regret at the loss sustained by the death of the late Alderman Nagle who took such a great interest in the business and rendered such valuable services at all times to this Board and we tender our deep sympathy and condolence to the members of his family in their sad bereavement. Adopted Unanimously. Signed by W. Meagher, 40

De Búrca Ra re Books Chairman and Thomas. H. Ackinson, Clerk of the Union. By Lynch, Artist, 58 Mid. Abbey St. Dublin. Script within a decorative border. Coloured oval photograph of Alderman Nagle at head.

42.5 x 53cms. Framed and glazed. In very good condition. €375 152. INGLIS, Harry R. The 'Royal' Road Book of Ireland.

A Series of Elevation Plans of the Roads, with Measurements and Descriptive Letterpress. With 200 'Contour' Plans, maps and illustrations. Edinburgh & London: Gall and Inglis, 1905. 16mo. pp. 144, [6]. Pictorial cloth. All edges red. A very good copy. Very scarce. €95 153. INGLIS, Henry D. A Journey Throughout Ireland, during the Spring, Summer, and Autumn of 1834. With folding maps. London: Whittaker, 1836. Fourth edition. pp. xii, 396. Recent quarter green morocco on green cloth boards. Owner's signature on titlepage. Slight browning to corners of a few leaves at end. A very good copy. €165 154. [IRISH BOOK LOVER] The Irish Book Lover. A Monthly Review of Irish Literature and Bibliography.

Edited by John S. Crone. Volume I, Number 1, August, 1909 to Volume XXI, Number 6, September 1933.

Complete to that date. With Volume 23, 24 and volume 26 (1935-1939). Twenty four volumes. London & Dublin: Salmond, Hanna and Neale, Three Candles, 1909/1939. Full calf and library buckram, ex. lib. with cancellation stamps.

A very good run of an exceedingly rare periodical. €1,250 The Irish Book Lover (1909-1957), was a quarterly review of Irish literature and bibliography established by John Smyth Crone. Its thirty two volumes include authoritative bibliographies relating to Irish printing and publication at home and abroad, studies, biographies, notes and queries, and obituaries of Irish writers, as well as comprehensive reviewing of contemporary works and some original poetry, all making it a key source for literary researches. The editorial policy, which showed a gentle partiality to Ulster, was non-militant nationalist and increasingly pro-Gaelic. The issues for 1916 and early 1917 contain obituaries of the Easter Rising leaders.

Leading contributors included D.J. O'Donoghue, F.J. Bigger, Ernest R. McLintock Dix, Revd Stephen Brown, Seamus Ó Casaide (editor from 1924), and Colm O Lochlainn - who took over publication, and later editorship, at his Three Candles Press in Dublin, 1929.

Also included with this set is a typescript synopsis of the running index.

155. [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. A very good copy. €135 Includes poetry, plays, essays and criticisms, fiction and general, history, biography, autobiography, politics, topography, etc. A first edition of James Joyce's Dubliners at the bargain price of 3/6.

156. [IRISH CONSTITUTION] Bunreacht na hEireann. The Constitution of Ireland. Dublin: Government Publications Sale Office, n.d. (c.1945). pp. v, [1], 214. Blue printed wrappers, title printed in black on upper cover. From the library of T.W. Moody with his signature over harp on upper cover. Call card signed by Eamon de Valera tipped in. A very good copy. €375 In May, 1935 Eamon de Valera instructed John J. Hearn, the Law Officer of the Department of External Affairs, to prepare the heads of a new constitution to replace that of the 1922 Free State Constitution. In preparing the various drafts, he conferred with the leaders of the various religious denominations. Under the Constitution, the new title of the state became Eire (Article 4). It affirmed the unity of the country, stating that "the national territory consists of the whole island of Ireland, its islands and the territorial seas" (rescinded by the Good Friday Agreement). The Irish Constitution, which was published on 1 May 1937, met with a hostile reaction from the British press, but did not unduly disturb their government. It was approved by the Dáil on 14 June and submitted to the people of Ireland in a referendum held on 1 July, the same day as the general election. The result was a massive 41

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

157. [IRISH LANGUAGE] Athbheochan na Gaeilge. The Restoration of the Irish Language.

With folding map. Baile Átha Cliath: Arna Fhoilsiú ag Oifig an tSoláthair, 1965. pp. 181. Printed wrappers. From the library of T.W. Moody with his signature on cover. A very good copy. €30 158. [IRISH SPORT] Sporting Ireland. Angling, Hunting, Shooting, Bowling, Motoring, Golf, Lawn Tennis, Yachting, Rowing, Coursing, Polo. Important Events & Race Fixtures, 1930, The Dublin Horse Show. Illustrated. Dublin: Irish Tourist Association, Inc., 1930. Quarto. pp. 48.

Fine in illustrated wrappers. Scarce. €65 WEXFORD IN 1798 159. [JACKSON, Charles] A Narrative of the Sufferings and Escape of Charles Jackson, Late Resident at Wexford, in Ireland. Including an Account of Several Barbarous Atrocities committed in June, 1798, by the Irish Rebels in that Town while it was in their Possession: To the Greater Part of which he was an Eye-Witness. Fourth edition, with additions. With list of subscribers. London: Printed, for the Author, by H.L. Galabin, Ingram-Court, 1798. pp. viii, 82, + errata. Later quarter morocco on marbled boards. Printed label on upper cover. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €575 ESTC T39599 locating only 2 copies only in Ireland.

Signed at end: Charles Jackson.

160. J. C. The State of the Papist and Protestant Proprieties in the Kingdom of Ireland, in the Year 1641. When the then Rebellion began and how disposed in 1653, when the War and Rebellion was declared at an End, and how disposed in 1662, upon the Acts of Settlement, and how the Properties stand this present Year 1689.

With the Survey, Loss, Cost and Charge of both Parties by the aforesaid War, or Rebellion: With Inferences and Expostulations from the whole, faithfully Calculated in so concise a Method and Order as was never done before: Humbly tendered to the Consideration of the King's most Excellent Majesty, and the Parliament of Lords and Commons now Sitting at Westminster. To which is added, A List of the present Nobility of Ireland Protestant and Papist. London: Printed for Richard Baldwin in the Old-Baily, 1689. pp. [iv], 34, [2]. A fine copy in recent cloth. Scarce. €950 Wing C 74. ESTC R7540. Sweeney 816.

The document tendered for the consideration of the newly crowned William III and the Parliament of Lords and Commons sitting at Westminster, shows how the major property estates stood at time of publication, i.e. 1689.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 161. [JESUITS] A Page of Irish History : Story of University College, Dublin, 1883-1909.

Compiled by fathers of the Society of Jesus. Illustrated. Dublin & Cork: The Talbot Press, 1930. pp. xi, 640. Maroon cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. €275 162. JOHNSTON, Edith M. Irish History. A Select Bibliography. Sheffield: The Historical Association, 1969. pp. 64. Very good in printed wrappers. €25 163. JOHNSTON, Rev. T.J. St. Columba. St. Patrick's Commemoration Booklets, No. 4.

Dublin: Association for Promotion of Christian Knowledge, 37 Dawson Street, 1932. pp. 24.

Printed wrappers. A very good copy. €15 164. JONES, Theophilus, & OTHERS. A Letter Sent from Ireland, Dated at Dublin Decemb.15.1659. Superscribed, For The Right Honourable William Lenthall, Esq; Speaker to the Parliament. These. To be Communicated to the Rest of Parliament at Westminster. London: Printed by John Streater and John Macock, Printers to the Parliament, 1659. Small quarto. pp. 8.

A2 close trimmed to fore edge with minute loss to a few letters. Recent grey paper boards. Very good. Very rare. €575 Sweeney 2632. Wing L1601. COPAC locates only 2 copies.

William Lenthall (1591-1662) was an English politician of the Civil War period. Educated at Lord Williams's School, he later left Oxford without taking a degree in 1609, and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1616, becoming a bencher in 1633. He represented Woodstock in the Short Parliament (April 1640), and was chosen by King Charles I to be Speaker of the Long Parliament, which met on 3 November 1640. According to Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, a worse choice could not have been made, for Lenthall was of a very timorous nature. He was treated with little respect, and was unable to control the proceedings.

On the outbreak of war, Lenthall threw in his lot with Parliament. He had already called attention to the inadequacy of his salary and been granted a sum of £6000 in April, 1642; in the following year he was now appointed Master of the Rolls, and was one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal.

After the Civil War he supported the House of Stuart.

165. [JOYCE, James] Grant Richard's Autumn 1914 Publications. Including advance notice of James Joyce's Dubliners. [3s. 6d. Ready]. London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1914. pp. 10. In recent black paper wrappers. Fine. €35 "It is easy to say of Gorky that he is a man of genius. To say the same of Mr. Joyce requires more courage, since his name is little known; but a man of genius is precisely what he is. He has an original outlook, a special method, a complete reliance on his own powers of delineation and presentment ... He has plenty of humour" - The New Statesman.

166. JOYCE, James. Two Tales of Shem and Shaun. Fragments from Work in Progress.

London: Faber and Faber, 1932. First English edition. pp. 45. Pale green paper boards, title stamped in dark blue on spine. Orange dust jacket with two (almost invisible) nicks, minor wear to corners and spine ends. A very good copy. €150 Slocum and Cahoon A 37.

An abbreviated form of the section of Finnegans Wake entitled 'Tales told to Shem and Shaun'.

167. JOYCE, James. Pomes Penyeach. London: Faber & Faber, 1939. 16mo. pp. 22. Original pale green printed wrappers, stitched. Label of Shakespeare and Company / Sylvia Beach / Paris on inside lower cover. Lightly suntanned. A very good copy. €95

Slocum & Cahoon A28 Pomes Penyeach contains thirteen poems, beneath each poem is printed in italics the place and year of composition.

168. JOYCE, P.W. WILDE, Sir. W. R. Et. al. On Spenser's Irish Rivers. By P.W. Joyce; On Scandinavian Antiquities discovered near Islandbridge. By Sir William Wilde; On the Battle of Moytura. By W.R. Wilde; On Remains of Ancient Villages in the Aran Isles. By G. H Kinahan; 43

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On the Life and Labours of the Late John D'Alton. By J.R. O'Flanagan; On the Round Tower of Ardmore. By H.M. Westropp; On South European Plants found growing in the West and South of Ireland. By Henry Hennessy; On Architectural Sketches presented by G.V. Du Noyer; On the Cave of Knockmore, County Fermanagh. By W.F. Wakeman; On the Ogham Stone in Glen Fais, County Kerry. By Richard Rolt Brash; Catalogue of Coats of Arms from Tombstones. By G.V. Du Noyer; Biographical Notice of the Late George V. Du Noyer. By Alphonse Gages; On the Goddess of War of Ancient Irish. By W.M. Hennessy; On the Rivers of Ireland, with Derivations of their Names. By Owen Connellan; On an Agreement, in Irish, between Gerald, Ninth Earl of Kildare, and the Mac Rannalls, executed at Maynooth, November 5, 1530. By Very Rev. C.W. Russell. etc. Illustrated with numerous plates and folding maps. Dublin: Printed by M.H. Gill, for the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 1870. pp. viii, [1], 555, [1], lxxiii, xlix (plates).

Contemporary half black morocco on linen boards. Ticket of John Falconer, Bookbinder on lower pastedown. Ex. lib. with stamps. A very good copy. Very rare. €275 169. [KANE, Lady Katherine Bailey] The Irish Flora; comprising the Phænogamous Plants and Ferns. Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 21, College-Green, 1833. pp. xi, [1], 220. Contemporary half green morocco on marbled boards. Owner's signatures on titlepage. Some marginalia and light foxing. A very good copy. Very scarce. €275 COPAC locates 3 copies only.

Lady Kane is credited with the authorship of this work, first published anonymously in 1833. She became the wife of Sir Robert Kane, an important figure in Irish science and economics, and author of The Industrial Resources of Ireland. The present work, although modest, is accurate; the localities for plants were supplied by John White, assistant gardener at Glasnevin Botanic Gardens.

Author identified from Halkett and Laing.

170. KAVANAGH, Art. & MURPHY, Rory. The Wexford Gentry. Two volumes. Illustrated.

Bunclody: Irish Family Names, 1994. pp. (1) viii, 239, (2) vi, 230. Blue paper boards, title in gilt on spines. Fine in illustrated dust jackets. Scarce. €175 This book deals with twenty four of the leading families of County Wexford including: Alcock, Annesley, Barrington, Blacker, Boxwell, Boyd, Boyce, Bradell, Bruen, Carew, Cliffe, Colclough, De Rinzy & Dundas, Devereux & Skrine, Donovan, Doyne, Ely, Esmonde, Goff, Hall-Dare, Harvey, Hore, Hughes, Jameson, Kavanagh, Lambert, Leigh, Levinge, Maher, Maxwell, Barry, Nunn, O'Morchoe, Power, Ram, Redmond, Richards, Stopford, Synnott, Talbot and Tottenham.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 171. KAVANAGH, Rev. P.F. A Popular History of the Insurrection of 1798. Illustrated. Dublin: M.H. Gill, 1898. pp. viii, 288, 59 (Appendix). Green cloth, harp and gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Lacking titlepage. A very good copy. €25 The Centenary Edition of the History of '98 is dedicated by the Author to all Irishmen at Home and Abroad who Love their Native Land.

172. KEARNEY, Hugh F. Strafford in Ireland 1633-41. A Study in Absolutism. With map.

Manchester: U.P. 1959. pp. xli, [2], 294. Illustrated wrappers. A fine copy. €20 This work is an important contribution to both Irish and English history of the seventeenth-century.

173. KEARNEY, Peadar. My Dear Eva. Letters Written from Ballykinlar Internment Camp (1921). Introduced by Seamus de Burca. Dublin: P.J. Bourke, 64 Dame Street, 1976. pp. [iv], 46.

A very good copy in illustrated stapled wrappers. €35 174. KENNEDY, S.B. Frank McKelvey, RHA, RUA. A Painter in his Time. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1993. Square quarto. pp. 96. Black paper boards, titled in gilt. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €45 175. KENNEDY, S.B. T.P. Flanagan. RHA, PPRUA. Foreword by Seamus Heaney. Illustrated.

Dublin: Four Courts, & Belfast, Ulster Museum, 1995. Square quarto. pp. 96. Black paper boards. A very good copy in dust jacket. €45 176. [KERRY LAKES] The Lakes and Fjords of Kerry. The Grand Atlantic Coast Tour to Killarney, Caragh Lake, Valencia, Waterville, Parknasilla and Kenmare. Illustrated from photographs from W. Lawrence. Dublin: Printed by Alex Thom for the Great Southern & Western Railway Company, n.d. (c.1895). Oblong octavo. pp. 50. Stitched wrappers, title in gilt on upper cover. A fine copy. Rare. See illustration below. €75

RARE FIRST EDITION 177. KING, William. The State of the Protestants of Ireland under the late King James's Government; in which Their Carriage towards him is justified, and the absolute Necessity of their endeavouring to be freed from his Government, and of submitting to their present Majesties is demonstrated. London: Printed for Robert Clavell, at the Peacock, at the West-end of St. Paul's, 1691. First edition. Quarto. pp. [xxviii], 408, 1 (publisher's list). Title within double ruled border.

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De Búrca Ra re Books With initial imprimatur leaf and final advertisement leaf. Contemporary full mottled calf, spine sympathetically rebacked. Original manuscript title label laid on front pastedown. Inscribed on titlepage: 'Dr. King. Bp. of London Derry'. A fine copy. Rare. €1,350 Wing K 538. ESTC R18475. Sweeney 2674.

King argues: "the absolute necessity of their endeavouring to be freed from his Government, and of submitting to their present Majesties" in a book, a copy of which was found in virtually every 18th century house library throughout the length and breadth of Ireland. Bishop Gilbert Burnet provided a glowing testimonial: "Not only the best book that hath been written for the service of the Government but, without any figure, it is worth all the rest put together". When Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, he had been imprisoned in Dublin Castle in 1689. This book was purchased for 6 shillings in 1691

(contemporary inscription on front endpaper).

178. [KIRWAN, Kathleen] Prelude to Irish Nationalism. To the proud agony and indestructible sovereignty of the people and the Irish Nation. Tralee: The Kerryman, n.d. (c.1941). pp. 53.

Quarter blue cloth on printed paper boards. A fine copy. Rare. €165 Copac lists only I copy [TCD].

Trinity College's Accessions Catalogue attributes this work to Kathleen Kirwan. Introduction signed: Cait Ní Dhuibhir.

179. LAFFAN, William and ROONEY, Brendan. Thomas Roberts 1748-1777: Landscape and Patronage in Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Tralee: Published by Churchill Press for the National Gallery of Ireland, 2009. Quarto. pp. 413. Grey cloth, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €75 180. LANE, Jack. & CLIFFORD, Brendan. Kilmichael: The False Surrender. A Discussion by Peter Harte, Padraig O' Cuanachain, D. R. O'Connor Lysaght, Dr. Brian Murphy and Meda Ryan.

With Why The Ballot Was Followed By The Bullet. Millstreet: Aubane Historical Society, 1999. pp. 46. Printed stapled wrappers. Fine. €45 181. [LANE, Sir Hugh] Report of a Public Meeting held at the Mansion House, Dublin, on the 29th January, 1918. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1918. pp. 24. Stitched wrappers, title on printed label on upper cover. From the library of Walter G. Strickland with his armorial bookplate inside front cover. A very good copy. €75 Following the death of Sir Hugh Lane in 1915, a controversy arose due to his Will in which he bequeathed his art collection to London. However, an unwitnessed later codicil bequeathed it to Dublin. Having possession, London's National Gallery did not recognise the codicil. At the request of Lane's aunt, Lady Gregory, WT Cosgrave, leader of the Irish Government unsuccessfully approached Ramsay MacDonald on the matter in 1929. When John A. Costello became Taoiseach in 1948, he initiated further negotiations with the UK government, eventually leading to a compromise in 1959, under Taoiseach Sean Lemass, whereby half of the Lane Bequest would be lent and shown in Dublin every five years. In 2008 The National Gallery in London arranged for the entire collection to be on display in Dublin together. The collection includes works by Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Morisot, Vuillard and Degas.

This limited edition of 500 copies was gifted to the Lane Picture Committee by the publishers.

THE BOOK OF THE DUN COW 182. LEABHAR NA H-UIDHRI. Leabhar na h-Uidhri : A Collection of Pieces, in prose and verse in the Irish Language, compiled and transcribed about A.D.1100,

by Moelmuiri MacCeileachair : now for the first time published from the original Ms. in the library of the R.I.A., with an account of the manuscript, a description of its contents and an index. Two coloured lithographs, from the original manuscript.

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De Búrca Ra re Books Dublin: R.I.A., 1870. Limited 200 copies. Quarto. pp. xxv, [1], 134, 8. Corrigenda slip inserted after p. 134. Quarter green morocco, title in gilt along spine. Small stain to inner top corner of a few leaves. A very good copy. €1,250 Leabhar na h-Uidhri, otherwise known as The Book of the Dun Cow got its appellation, legend has it, because St. Ciaran was given a dun of brown cow by his parents prior to him entering the monastic school of St. Finian of Clonard at Clonmacnoise. R.I. Best identified the scribe Máel Muire Mac Céilechair meic Cuinn na mBocht, based on matching the handwriting with two marginal probationes pennae or pen tests, in which the scribe wrote his name. A much later note elsewhere in the manuscript names Máel Muire as the person who "wrote and compiled this book from divers[e] books".

His murder at Clonmacnoise is recorded in the Annals of the Four Masters in 1106, giving us a latest possible date and location for the main body of the manuscript. The importance of the Ms. lies in the fact that it is the oldest book written entirely in the Irish language.

It has had a chequered history. It was preserved in Clonmacnoise until the middle of the twelfth century. In the following century it was in the possession of the O'Donnells of Tir Conaill. In 1359 it was given by that clan, along with the lost Leabhar Gearr, as a ransom for a member of that family to Cathal Og O'Connor, Sligo. Áed Ruad O'Donnell recovered the manuscript in 1470, and it remained in Donegal at least until 1631, when the compilation of the Annals of the Four Masters was completed.

Not much was known of it until 1837, when it was bought by R.I.A. for 1200 guineas from Hodges & Smiths bookshop.

"The oldest volume now known entirely in the Irish language ... regarded as the chief surviving native literary monument, not ecclesiastical, of ancient Ireland ... It is here printed from an exact lithograph of the original by Joseph O'Longan, do the Royal Irish Academy's Department of Irish Mss., and collated by him in conjunction with Mr. Brian O'Looney ... The description here printed of the manuscript is based upon and embodies this work of O'Curry" - J. T. Gilbert's Preface.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 183. [LEASK, Harold G.] Ancient Objects in Irish Bogs and Farm Lands. How they may be recognized and what to do about them, with a note of articles of folk culture. A Guide for Finders. With illustrations. Dublin: Issued by Department of Education, 1942. pp. 26. Printed wrappers. Signature of Catherine Moody on upper cover. A good copy. €15 184. LECANE, Philip. Torpedoed! The R.M.S. Leinster Disaster. Cornwall: 2005. pp. 315.

Black paper boards, titled in gilt. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €65 185. LEDBETTER, Gordon T. Privilege & Poverty. The Life & Times of Irish Painter & Naturalist Alexander Williams RHA 1846-1930. With coloured illustrations. Cork: The Collins Press, 2010. pp. x, 366. Red paper boards, titled in gilt. A fine copy in dust jacket. €65 186. LEDWIDGE, Francis. The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge. With introduction by Lord Dunsany. Portrait frontispiece of the poet. New York: Brentano's, 1919. First American edition. pp. 291. Owner's signature on front endpaper. Quarter green cloth on paper boards.

Minor wear to corners, otherwise a very good copy. Scarce. €65 Ledwidge died in the trenches near Ypres in Belgium on July 31, 1917. His lament for Thomas MacDonagh, set into Slane Bridge, is appropriately his own: He shall not hear the bittern cry In the wild sky where he is lain, Nor voices of the sweeter birds Above the wailing of the rain.

187. LE FANU, Joseph Sheridan. A Lost Name. Three volumes in one. London: Richard Bentley, 1868. First edition. pp. (1) iv, 314 (2) iv, 309 (3) iv, 299. Original blind-stamped cloth.

Title in gilt on spine. Recased with new endpapers. Signature of Brinsley Le Fanu on titlepage dated 1888. A very good copy. Very rare. €1,650 Loeber L112. Not in Brown.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873), poet, novelist, short story writer and journalist, eldest son of Thomas P. Le Fanu, Dean of Emly, and grandson of Alicia Le Fanu, was born in Dublin. The Le Fanus were an old Huguenot family who came to Ireland when Joseph's grandfather was appointed clerk of the coast of Ireland. He was related on his grandmother's side to the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan. From an early age he showed great literary abilities, took honours in Trinity College, Dublin, was called to the Bar. In 1838, Le Fanu bought the Warder, a Dublin newspaper, of which he had previously been editor. He had already contributed some humorous stories to the University Magazine, and had written two admirable pieces of ballad poetry - 'Patrick Crohore' and 'Shamus O'Brien'. His interest in Celtic Ireland led to his election as a council member of the newly founded Celtic Society in 1845. Le Fanu was ever a staunch Conservative. To the Warder he afterwards added by purchase the Evening Packet; and investing in half the proprietorship of the Evening Mail, the three papers became amalgamated in one as a daily paper, with the Warder as a weekly reprint. His literary responsibilities were increased by the purchase of the Dublin University Magazine, about 1869.

After the death of his wife in 1858 he retired almost entirely from Dublin society, of which he had been one of the brightest ornaments and spent the rest of his life writing. He was brilliant in describing scenes of a mysterious or grotesque character, and in the manipulation of the weird and the supernatural. Besides numerous poems, stories and sketches, he was the author of several novels. The Cock and Anchor, a chronicle of old Dublin, appeared about 1850; The House by the Churchyard in 1863; soon followed by Uncle Silas, and other well-known novels. The present work is a suspense novel, a rewritten and greatly expanded version of the story 'The Evil Guest'. It tells of the struggle of Mark Shadwell, the owner of Raby Hall, against despair after murdering his first cousin. He has an affair with his daughter's French governess and becomes estranged from his wife. At the end of the tale he commits suicide.

Shortly after completing his last novel, Willing to Die, he passed away at his residence, 18 Merrion Square South, 7th February 1873, aged 58. He was buried at Mount Jerome Cemetery. His son Philip dispersed his library. There was a short notice in the Dublin University Magazine shortly after his death: "He was a man who thought deeply, especially on religious subjects. To those who knew him he was very dear. They admired him for his learning, his sparkling wit, and pleasant conversation, and loved him for his manly virtues, for his noble and generous qualities, his gentleness, and his loving, affectionate nature".

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De Búrca Ra re Books 188. LE FANU, J. Sheridan. Borrhomeo the Astrologer. A Monkish Tale. Introduction by W.J. McCormack. Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1985. pp. 35, [2]. Edition limited to 150 copies printed on vellum parchment (130 of which were for sale). Original blue paper wrappers, title on printed label on upper cover. A very good copy. €175 189. LEIGH, Samuel. Leigh's New Pocket RoadBook of Ireland, on the plan of Reichard's Itineraries; Containing an Account of all the Direct and Cross Roads; together with a Description of every Remarkable Place. Its Curiosities, Manufactures, Commerce, Population, and Principal Inns; the whole forming a Complete Guide to Every Object worthy the attention of Travellers. Illustrated with a Table of the relative Distances between the Principal Towns, a plan of Dublin, and a map of the Lakes of Killarney.

With hand-coloured folding map of Ireland in superior facsimile. London: Printed for S. Leigh & Dublin: R. Milliken, 1827. 12mo. pp. viii, 360.

Contemporary full green goatskin, titled in gilt. A fine copy. Very rare. €175 COPAC locates 8 copies only.

190. LEMPRIERE, John. Bibliotheca Classica : or, a Classical Dictionary; containing a full account of all the proper names mentioned in antient authors; to which are subjoined, tables of coins, weights and measures, in use among the Greeks and Romans. Dublin: Printed for James Moore, No. 45, College-green, 1793. vii, [1184]. Contemporary full calf. Very worn and in need of rebinding. Internally a clean fresh copy. Extremely rare. €375 ESTC T301006 locates the DCL and Bodleain copies only.

Printed in two columns. Preface signed by J. Lempriere, November 1788. With half-title.

191. LE ROUX, Louis N. Tom Clarke and the Irish Freedom Movement. Illustrated. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1936. First edition. pp. 244. Green cloth, titled in black. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. A very good copy in price-cut dust jacket. Very scarce. €175 Thomas James Clarke emigrated to America in his early twenties, where he joined Clan-na-Gael. A few years later he was sent to Britain on an ill-fated and dangerous Fenian mission, and served 15 years in solitary confinement under ferocious conditions.

Afterwards he returned to America, and it was only in 1907 that he came to Dublin. He opened a newsagent's shop, which quickly became a centre of IRB activity. The other 1916 leaders insisted that his should be the first to sign the Proclamation, in tribute to his personal history and as a mark of continuity with the Fenian tradition.

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 192. LESLIE, Shane. A Ghost In The Isle Of Wight London: Elkins Mathews & Marrot, 1929. pp. 31. Pictorial boards printed in green. Edition limited to 530 numbered copies set in Monotype 12-point Garamond, and printed by Robert MacLehose, at the University Press, Glasgow. Signed and numbered [163] by Shane Leslie. Spine evenly suntanned, small nick to head. Top edge of some pages untrimmed. A fine copy in pictorial wrappers (matching binding). €165 Number 15 of the Woburn Books limited edition series.

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De Búrca Ra re Books LIMITED TO 500 COPIES 193. LEWIS, Samuel. A History and Topography of Dublin City and County. With a map of the county on endpapers. Dublin: Mercier, 1980. pp. 242. Green paper boards, titled in gilt. Lacking titlepage. A very good copy in dust jacket. €30 194. LEWIS, Samuel. Map of the County of Dublin. Drawn and engraved for Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837. Depicted are mountains; rivers; canals; lakes; towns; villages; railroads; mail roads and other roads; baronies. With boundaries coloured in outline.

320 x 250mm. Scale 10 miles to 1.5 inches. In fine condition. €50 195. LLOYD, John. A Short Tour of the County Clare 1780. An exact reprint. Edited by Henry Henn. Cambridge: Trinity Hall, 1893. pp. [8], iv, 59. Title printed in red and black. Original paper boards, title on printed label on rebacked spine. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €375 COPAC lists only 4 copies of this, the second edition, it was first published in Ennis in 1780.

John Lloyd was a native of County Limerick. At the age of thirty he migrated to Clare and settled at Furroor in the parish of Dunaha, about four miles south-west of Kilkee, where he opened a Hedge School which he conducted for eight or nine years. In addition to his Tour Lloyd produced an English translation of the Life of Saint Senan of Scattery Island a MS. of which, transcribed by Anthony O'Brien in Dunaha Chapel, Aug. 23, 1780, is in the library of the Royal Irish Academy. There are only two copies extant of the first edition of this work. One was in the possession of the editor T.R. Henn, of Paradise Hill, which was given to him by George Petrie, the other which also belonged to Dr. Petrie, has passed into the Joly Collection in the National Library of Ireland. There is a curious difference between those copies. In the former the verso of p.59 is blank; in the latter there is an advertisement listing the names and addresses of the persons from whom the book could be bought.

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 196. LONG, Des. Ed. by. Awakening the Spirit of Freedom. 50th Anniversary Booklet.

Illustrated. Limerick: Coiste Cuimneacháin Seán Sabhat, n.d. (2007). pp. 88. Illustrated stapled wrappers. Signed and dated by the author. A fine copy. €65 Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the deaths of Seán Sabhat (Sean South) and Feargal O'Hanlon who were killed in an attack on Brookeborough Police Barracks (Northern Ireland) on New Year's Day, 1957.

197. LONGFIELD, Ada K. History of Tapestry-making in Ireland in the 17th and 18th Centuries. Dublin: Reprinted from The Journal of Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 1938. pp. 91-105. Original printed blue wrappers. Manuscript note loosely inserted from the author to the Librarian, History Society, T.C.D. A very good copy. €25 A UNIQUE COLLABORATION 198. LONGLEY, Michael. The Lake Without a Name. Poems of Mayo. Wood engravings by Jeffrey Morgan. Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 2005. First edition. pp. [xvi], 52, [2]. Edition limited to 275 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator. Quarter linen on grass paper boards.

Fine in lined slipcase. Rare. €375

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De Búrca Ra re Books The fine press limited edition of 'The Lake Without a Name' consists of 275 signed and numbered copies. It is printed on 170gsm mould-made Zerkall paper with a deckle edge. The twenty-nine wood engravings were fashioned on endgrain boxwood supplied by blockmaker Chris Daunt of Gateshead.

The edition is printed letterpress at Libanus Press, Marlborough, in Wiltshire, and is quarter-bound with Frogmore Mill grass paper boards and Ratchford Colorado Amazon cloth, presented in a lined slipcase with a bow edge. The Lake Without a Name is the fruit of an enduring friendship between poet and artist, a unique collaboration between two extraordinary craftsmen.

199. McCALL, P.J. In the Shadow of St. Patrick's: A Paper Read before the Irish National Literary Society, April 27, 1893. With folding map. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker, 1894. pp. iv, 43. Recent paper wrappers with original upper cover laid on. Some corners dog-eared or cut away. A good copy of a very rare item. €125 200. MacCATHMHAOIL, Seosamh. The Gilly of Christ. With Three Symbols By Adam Wentworth Shields. Dublin: Maunsel & Co., 1907. Small quarto. pp. 19. Cream cloth, title and design in green on upper cover. Cloth evenly soiled from handling. A very good copy. €185 201. McCLINTOCK, H.F. Old Irish Dress and that of the Isle of Man. With a coloured frontispiece from a watercolour of Irishmen and women in a manuscript book by Lucas de Heere of about 1570 and many other illustrations. Second edition enlarged. Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, 1950. Quarto. pp. [xxii], 141 + illustrations. Quarter linen on illustrated boards. Signature of the historian, T.W. Moody on front pastedown. A very good copy in rare but lightly frayed dust jacket. Scarce. €95

The standard authoritative work.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 202. McCONKEY, Kenneth. Sir John Lavery. Edinburgh: Canongate Press, 1993. pp. 232.

Grey paper boards, titled in gilt. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €65 203. McCONVILLE, Sean. Irish Political Prisoners 1848-1922: Theatres of War. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. First edition. pp. xii, 820. Blue buckram, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. A fine copy. €125 204. M'CREADY, Rev. C.T. Dublin Street Names, Dated and Explained. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1892. 16mo. First edition. pp. xxiv, 160. Green cloth, title and author in gilt on upper cover. From the library of Caroli E. Doble with his coloured bookplate on front pastedown. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €235 COPAC locates 3 copies only. TCD in Ireland.

The decorative bookplate has a Doe pulling on a rope ringing a Bell [Do/ble].

See items 204 & 216.

205. MacCREANOR, Edward. What Caused the Rebellion of '98. Together with the Irish Convict Priests of '98. By Cardinal Moran. Extracts from The Irish Rosary. [The Irish Rosary], n.d. pp. [58]. Very good in recent stiff paper boards. €25 206. MacDERMOT, Betty. O Ruairc of Breifne. Photographs by Conor Mac Dermot. Illustrated with maps and genealogical charts. Leitrim, Drumlin, 1990. pp. viii, 224, xviii. Dark red arlen, title and armorial shield in gilt on upper cover. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. A fine copy. Scarce. €125 207. MacDONAGH, T. PEARSE, P.H. PLUNKETT, J. M. & CASEMENT, Sir R. Poems of the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood. Edited by Padraic Colum and Edward J. O'Brien. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1916. First edition. Small octavo. pp. xxxv, 71. Very good. Very scarce. €275 208. McDONNELL, Most Rev. Thomas. The Diocese of Killala. From its institution to the end of the Penal Times. Illustrated. Ballina: Monaghan Printers, 1976. pp. [vi], 143. From the library of St. Anthony's Friary, Athlone, with stamp. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Very good. Scarce. €75 209. MacDOWELL, Maeve Cavanagh. In the Time of "The Tans". A Play in Three Acts.

Dublin: Talbot Press, n.d. [1920s]. pp. 48. Illustrated stapled wrappers. €185 Characters include: An Imperialist, An I.R.A. leader, 'Black-and-Tans' and soldiers.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 210. MacEOIN, Uinseann. Survivors. The story of Ireland's struggle as told through some of her outstanding living people recalling events from the days of Davitt, through James Connolly, Brugha, Collins, Liam Mellows, and Rory O'Connor, to the present time. With portraits of the Survivors by Colman Doyle, and numerous maps and other illustrations. Dublin: Argenta, 1980.

First edition. pp. xi, 466. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Previous owner's signature on half-title. A fine copy. €125 211. MacEOIN, Uinseann. Harry. The story of Harry White. With some early photographs and more recent portraits by Colman Doyle. Dublin: Argenta Publications, 1985. pp. 193. Illustrated wrappers. A fine copy. €65 Story of a leading I.R.A. veteran, the man with six lives.

212. McGAHERN, John. The Collected Stories. London: Faber, 1992. First edition. pp. [viii], 408. Brown paper boards. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €65 213. McGARRY, James P. The House of O'Conor. With map and illustrations. Dublin: Dakota, 1971. pp. [vi], 59. Fine in illustrated boards. Scarce. €65 SIGNED COPY 214. McGEOUGH, Kevin. Unsung Heroes. The War of Independence in Monaghan. Illustrated.

Monaghan: McGeough, 2000. pp. 140. Illustrated wrappers. Signed. A fine copy. €75 215. MacGIOLLA CHOILLE, Breandán. Chief Secretary's Office, Dublin Castle. Intelligence Notes 1913-1916, preserved in the State Paper Office. With List of Persons sentenced by Court Martial 1916. Dublin: S.O. 1966. Quarto. pp. xl, 310. Red buckram, titled in silver. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. Very scarce. €250 These Intelligence Notes, are published for the first time in this volume and were described by an under-secretary as furnishing "a valuable record of the various political and agrarian agitations through which the country passed and of the action taken by the Government in maintaining order and suppressing crime and outrage". They contain an account of the state of the country, county by county, as reported upon by officers of the R.I.C. Their reports were despatched to Dublin Castle where it fell to the inspector general to write an overall assessment on the salient points. As well as giving a contemporary police view of the state of each county during 1913-1916, they also include valuable material on the: Ulster Movement against Home Rule; Irish Volunteers; Disloyal Clergymen and Sinn Féin, and the Rebellion.

216. MacGREEVY, Thomas. Jack B. Yeats. An Appreciation and an Interpretation. Illustrated.

Dublin: Printed at the Sign of the Three Candles, for Victor Waddington, 1945. pp. 39, 20 (plates). Greyish paper boards, title in brown on upper cover. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €85 217. MacLYSAGHT, Edward. Short Study of a Transplanted Family in the Seventeenth Century. Dublin: Browne & Nolan, 1935. pp. [ii], 79. Green printed wrappers. From the library of T.W. Moody, with his bookplate and signature. A very good copy. Scarce. €125 The antecedents of the historian, Edward MacLysaght, one of the foremost authorities on Irish family history.

218. McMANUS, Antonia. The Irish Hedge School and Its Books, 1695-1831. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002. pp. 270. Brown paper boards, titled in gilt. A fine copy in dust jacket. €50 219. McNULTY, Edward. The Lord Mayor. A Dublin Comedy in Three Acts. Dublin: Maunsel and Co, 1917. pp. 50. Pictorial wrappers. Light foxing to fore-edges. A good copy. €20 220. McSKIMIN, Samuel. 'Annals of Ulster' from 1790 to 1798. New edition with biographical sketch and notes by E.J.McCrum. Belfast: James Cleeland & William Mullan, 1906. pp. 106.

Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. Previous owner's signature and bookplate on front endpaper. A very good copy. €65 Samuel McSkimin was born near Ballyclare, County Antrim, in 1775. As a young man he moved to Carrickfergus where he was the owner of a huxter's shop in the Irish Quarter. His great love was history and Dr. Reeves said of him "He possessed a marvellous taste and faculty for archaeological pursuits. His History of Carrickfergus is a book of great merit, and especially rich in family history".

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De Búrca Ra re Books manuscripts that contained M'Skimin's experiences of the United Irishmen in County Antrim which he published under the title Annals of Ulster, or Ireland Fifty Years Ago (Belfast, 1849).

221. MacTHORMAID, Brendan Mary.

Deathless Glory. Illustrated. Dublin: Massey, 1966. pp. 59. Green, white and gold stiff wrappers, with medallion portrait of P.H. Pearse in centre of upper cover. A very good copy. Scarce. €65 Humbly and reverentially dedicated to the Teachers of 1916. Scholarly account of the leaders and events of the Easter Rebellion.

222. McVEAGH, John Irish Travel Writing: A Bibliography. Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1996. pp. 160. Black paper boards, titled in gilt. A fine copy in dust jacket. €45 WITH SIGNED LE BROCQUY LITHOGRAPH 223. MADDEN-SIMPSON, Jeremy.

The No Word Image. Edited by Richard Kearney. Illustrated with a signed and numbered Le Brocquy lithograph. Dublin: Eason & Son, 1986. Small folio. pp. 79.

Greyish brown cloth, titled in white with image on upper cover. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €365 224. MALLON, Declan. Nano Reid.

With 24 coloured plates. Drogheda: Sunnyside Publications, 1994. pp. 132, [11]. Folio. White printed wrappers. A fine copy in dust jacket. €165 225. [MARKIEVICZ, Countess] Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz (Constance GoreBooth). 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. pp. xix, 315. Green cloth, titled in gilt. Minor wear to spine. Owner's signature on front pastedown. A very good copy. Very scarce. €165 THE POET'S REBELLION 226. MARTIN, F.X. Ed. by. Leaders and Men of the Easter Rising: Dublin 1916. London: Methuen, 1967. First edition. pp. xii, 276. Green paper boards, titled in gilt. Previous owner's signature on front pastedown. A fine copy in frayed dust jacket. €85 The Easter Rising was planned and led by a secret council of seven men - Pearse, Clarke, Plunkett, Ceannt, MacDonagh, MacDermott and Connolly, who were poets and writers. With little or no prospect of military success the rebellion was brutally crushed within a week and the leaders executed.

This knee-jerk reaction shocked the Irish people and kindled the flame of freedom and nationality which eventually led to independence and the first break-up of the British Empire.

The Easter Rising will always be associated with University College, Dublin. Pearse served for a period as deputy lecturer, and Thomas MacDonagh was a lecturer in English in the College at the time of the Rising, both were signatories of the Proclamation, and both were executed. The O'Rahilly, one of the most heroic participants in the action of Easter Week was a student there as well as Eamon de Valera. Eoin MacNeill who founded the Irish Volunteers was a professor there, and he has gone down in history as the one who countermanded the order for the Rising. Never has such a young institution given so much of permanent value to a nation.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 227. MARTIN, F.X. Ed. by. The Howth Gun-Running and the Kilcoole Gun-Running 1914.

With a foreword by Eamon de Valera. With illustrations and maps on endpapers. Dublin: Browne and Nolan, 1964. pp. xxvi, 201. Red paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Presentation inscription on half title (partly deleted). A very good copy in dust jacket. €75 On 26 July 1914 a little white yacht, overloaded with a cargo of rifles and ammunition, sailed bravely into Howth Harbour – and into Irish history. It was an audacious and a perfectly timed operation carried out in broad daylight, under the eyes of officers of the Crown.

228. MAYCOCK, A. L. The Papacy. London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1927. pp. 80. Printed wrappers. From the library of T.W. Moody with his signature. A very good copy. €15

229. MECREDY, Thomas Tighe. Abstracts of title, their preparation and examination ... to which are added definitions of some of the principal estates in land. Dublin: Hodges, Smith & Co., 1867. pp. viii, 91, iv (Publisher's catalogue). Maroon cloth, title in gilt on upper cover.

Engraved label of King, Printer, Stationer, Upper Ormond Quay, Dublin, on front pastedown.

Stamp of Norman & Law, Solicitors, Dame Street. Signature of James B. Marshall on preface.

Recased, new endpapers. A very good copy. Very rare. €275 230. 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 Pontificibus, Aliaque nonulla quorum Elenchus post Praefationem habetur. Paris: Ex Officima Sebastiani Cramoisy, 1624. Folio. pp. [xlvi], 441 (double column). With errata on verso of 3M3. Nineteenth century half calf over marbled boards.

Early owner's signature 'J. Barry' on titlepage. Armorial bookplate of William Perceval, Esqr. on front endpaper. Some occasional light browning. A very good copy. Very rare. €2,750

COPAC locates 6 copies only.

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. Columba 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 names of Ireland, written by David Rothe, where it is 55

De Búrca Ra re Books 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), Eugene Sweeney, Peter Cadell, Hugh O'Reilly, John Colgan, Hugh Ward, Edmund Dwyer, William Coghlan, Patrick Cahill, Roger Molloy, 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. The portraits on the titlepage include those of St. Columba, St. Patrick, and St. Brigid, with another of St. Columba, Apostle of the Picts on signature T. There are also numerous decorated capitals and woodcuts throughout the text.

Title page printed in red and black, with engraved vignette. The lives of Santa Columba and of Santa Brigida have individual title-pages. Woodcut head and tail-pieces, initials. Body of text printed in double columns.

SARAH WILSON'S COPY 231. [MONTAGUE, Lady Mary Worthly] Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M---y W---y M---e: Written during her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa, to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in different Parts of Europe. Which contain, among other curious Relations, Accounts of the Policy and Manners of the Turks; Drawn from Sources that have been inaccessible to other Travellers. Third Edition. Dublin: Printed for P. Wilson, J. Hoey, Junior, and J. Potts, Booksellers, 1765. 12mo. pp. viii, 280. Signature of Sarah Wilson on front endpaper in a neat hand dated May, 1774. Full worn calf, spine divided into six compartments by five raised bands, title on worn morocco label in the second compartment, the remainder tooled in gilt with a flower tool. €375

ESTC T79455 locates 7 copies only.

Lady Montague is notable for introducing the practice of inoculation against smallpox to England, following her return from Constantinople, where her husband was Ambassador.

232. MOODY, T.W. Professor. The Writings of Edmund Curtis. Dublin: Reprinted from Irish Historical Studies, 1943. pp. 8. Printed green wrappers. A fine copy. €20 233. MORLEY, Henry. Ed. by. Ireland under Elizabeth and James the First. Described by Edmund Spenser, by Sir John Davies, Attorney-General for Ireland under James the First, and by Fynes Moryson, Secretary to the Lord Mountjoy, Lord Deputy. London: George Routledge, 1890. pp. 445, 2. Maroon pebbled cloth, title and floral decorations in gilt on spine. Some minor spotting and wear to cloth. A very good copy. €75 234. MORRIS, William. Art and its Producers, and The Arts & Crafts of Today: Two Addresses Delivered Before The National Association for The Advancement of Art. By William Morris.

London: Printed at the Chiswick Press with the Golden type designed by William Morris for the Kelmscott Press, 1901. pp. [3], 47. Quarter linen on blue paper boards, title printed on upper cover. From the library of Elizabeth Corbet Yeats with her bookplate on front pastedown. Minor wear to spine, otherwise a very good copy. €275 235. MORRISSEY, Thomas J. A Man Called Hughes: The Life and Times of Seamus Hughes, 1881-1943. Illustrated. Dublin: Veritas, 1991. pp. [6], 403. Black arlen, titled in gilt. Signature of Grainne Cooney on front endpaper. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Rare. €125 236. [MORROGH-BERNARD Agnes] Agnes Morrogh-Bernard 1842-1932 Foundress of Foxford Woollen Mills. With illustrations. Foxford: Published by Foxford I.R.D., n.d. [32].

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De Búrca Ra re Books Mother Mary Arsenius was born Agnes Morrogh Bernard at Cheltenham in 1842, daughter of an Irish landlord and an English Catholic lady. The effects of the famine influenced her to become an Irish Sister of Charity. Later years brought her to Foxford, County Mayo, where she founded a woollen factory which grew into a flourishing Irish industry, famous from Mayo to America and beyond. She showed how Capital and Labour could work harmoniously under the inspiration of the Catholic faith.

She died in Mayo in 1932.

237. MULCAHY, Risteárd. Richard Mulcahy (1886 - 1971). A family memoir. Illustrated.

Dublin: Aurelian Press, 1999. First edition. pp. [viii], 422. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. €35 238. MURPHY, Brian P. Patrick Pearse and the Lost Republican Ideal. Illustrated. Dublin: James Duffy, 1991. pp. 238. Green paper boards, titled in gilt. A very good copy in dust jacket. €75 239. MURPHY, Brian. OSB. Michael Collins. Some original documents in his own hand.

Aubane: Historical Society, 2004. pp. 40. Illustrated stapled wrappers. €35 WARTS AND ALL 240. MURPHY, Rev. Denis. Cromwell in Ireland. A History of Cromwell's Irish Campaign.

Dublin: Gill, 1897. New edition. pp. x, 478, 42 (publisher's list). Brown cloth, titled in gilt. Slight wear to spine ends. A very good copy. €95

Oliver Cromwell 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" … etc

241. MURPHY, James. Lays and Legends of Ireland. Dublin: Duffy, n.d. (c.1911). pp. [vi], 104, (double column), 4 (publisher's list). Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine and upper cover. Owner's signature on half-title. Fading to spine, otherwise a very good copy. Very scarce. €65

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De Búrca Ra re Books HOLY CROSS ABBEY 242. MURPHY, Rev. Denis. Ed. by. Triumphalia Chronologica Monasterii Sanctae Crucis in Hibernia - The Glorious History of The Monastery of Holy Cross in Ireland. De Cisterciensium Hibernorum. Viris Illustribus. Edited with a translation, notes, and illustrations. With 9 plates (one coloured). Dublin: Fallon, 1895. Second edition. Quarto. pp. lxxi, 315. Rebound preserving original cloth cover and spine. A very good copy. €165

The Abbey of Holy Cross was founded by Donal Mór O'Brien in the twelfth century. It is situated on the west bank of the river Suir about three miles from Thurles and took its name from the portion of the True Cross that was kept there. This history is taken from an original manuscript written by Malachy Hartry, a monk of the monastery in 1640. It was later owned by Walter Harris, from him it went to the Lanigan family and eventually ended up with Archbishop Croke of Cashel who gave permission for publication. It also contains a history of 41 other Cistercian monasteries throughout Ireland.

243. MURPHY, The Rev. Robert. A Treatise on the Theory of Algebraical Equations. London: Published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1839. pp. xii, 171. Owner's signature on titlepage. Original green worn cloth, title in gilt on spine. Name clipped from front endpaper. Some annotations. Very scarce. €275 Robert Murphy was born in Mallow in 1806, the son of a cobbler, who died young. At the age of eleven, young Robert was run over by a runaway cart, fracturing his thigh. Confined to bed for several years, he took up the study of mathematics out of boredom. He made tremendous strides in the subject with the aid of a few old textbooks his mother bought him, solving puzzles in the Cork Examiner and even correcting a pamphlet by Rev. John Mackey of Maynooth University on the Duplication of the Cube. Rejected by Trinity College, Dublin, he was persuaded by friends to apply for Cambridge University, where he was accepted. He entered Caius College and had a glittering mathematical career there. He was elected a Fellow in May 1829, took holy orders in 1830, and in 1831 was made Dean of his college.

But Murphy had several weaknesses of character in the areas of gambling and alcohol. He had to leave England, pursued by debtors, making a tenuous living writing articles, periodic teaching, and marking examination papers. However, he did manage to produce several ground-breaking papers which demonstrated that he was of near genius level in mathematics, and two excellent textbooks on Electricity (1833) and Algebraical Equations (1839). He was one of the acknowledged inspirations behind George Boole's early papers. He died of consumption in 1843, brought about by his dissipated habits, aged only forty three. He was one of the true mathematical geniuses that Ireland has produced.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 244. MURTAGH, Fr. Michael. St. Patrick's Dundalk. An Anniversary Account. Dundalk: Printed by Bellew Print, 1997. pp. viii, 371. Blue buckram. Inscribed by the author on front pastedown "For Seán / With respect & good wishes". Fine. €35 245. [NICHOLSON, William] The Irish Historical Library. Pointing at most of the Authors and Records in Print or Manuscript, which may be serviceable to the Compilers of a General History of Ireland. By William, Lord Bishop of Derry. Dublin: Printed by Aaron Rhames, for R. Owen, Bookseller, in Skinner-Row, 1724. First edition. pp. xxxviii, [2], 246, [10 (index)]. Recent full calf. Signature of C. Dawson on titlepage. Some occasional mild foxing. A fine copy. €475 William Nicholson (1655-1727), Archbishop of Cashel was a native of Cumberland. He was translated to the lucrative bishopric of Derry in 1718 and eight years later to the archbishopric of Cashel. His great work was entitled 'Historical Libraries' of England, Scotland and Ireland. This is the first edition of the 'Irish Historical Library' published in Dublin in 1724, containing a valuable list of authors and records in print and manuscript relating to the history of Ireland. Walter Harris in his edition of Ware says: "he fell into many errors in this work, for want of sufficient acquaintance with the Irish manuscripts and language. But notwithstanding that, much thanks are due to him for the extraordinary pains he took to inform himself about the materials which may be had for improving Irish history".

246. O'BRIEN, Conor Cruise. Conflicting Concepts of the United Nations. The Twenty-First Montague Burton Lecture on International Relations. This Lecture was delivered in the University of Leeds on 1 March 1963. Leeds: University Press, 1964. pp. 23, 2. Printed stitched wrappers. A very good copy. €35 SIGNED BY CRUISER 247. O'BRIEN, Conor Cruise. To Katanga and Back. A U.N. Case History. With maps and illustrations. London: Hutchinson, 1962. First edition. pp. [xvi], 371. Black cloth, titled in gilt on spine. Signed presentation copy. Cloth faded. A very good copy. €75 248. O'BRIEN, James Thomas, D.D. A Charge Delivered To The Clergy of The United Dioceses of Ossory, Ferns, and Leighlin, at his Primary Visitation in September 1842. London: Seely. And Dublin: Curry, 1843. pp. [2], iv, [3], 294, 64, [8]. Contemporary half black calf on marbled boards, title on mauve morocco label in second compartment of spine and year in gilt direct in the fourth. Bookplate of Rathaspeck Parsonage Trust Library on front pastedown. All edges sprinkled. Some minor spotting to prelims. A fine copy. €285 James Thomas O'Brien (1792-1874), Church of Ireland Bishop of Ossory, was born at New Ross, County Wexford, the son of Michael Burke O'Brien, a corporation officer, with the title of deputy sovereign of New Ross, who died in 1826. His father, who came originally from Clare, was descended, although himself a Protestant, from a Roman Catholic branch of the great O'Brien family, which had been deprived of its property by the penal laws.

James was educated at the endowed school of New Ross, and entered Trinity College, Dublin, as a pensioner in November 1810. He obtained a scholarship at Trinity College in 1813, graduated B.A., and took the gold medal in 1815. He was especially distinguished in mathematics.

In 1820, O'Brien obtained a fellowship of Trinity, and took holy orders. He was awarded the degree of D.D. in 1830. He was one of the six University of Dublin preachers from 1828 till 1842, and became Archbishop King's lecturer in 1833, when the divinity school in the university was thoroughly reorganised.

O'Brien maintained through life strongly evangelical views. Resigning his fellowship in 1836, he became vicar of Clonderhorka, Raphoe, but in the following year removed to the vicarage of Arboe, Armagh, which he held till 1841. On 9 March in the same year he was raised by the prime minister, Sir Robert Peel, to the bishopric of the united dioceses of Ossory, Ferns, and Leighlin.

O'Brien died at 49 Thurloe Square, London, on 12 December 1874, and was buried in the churchyard of St. Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny. Archbishop Trench described him, when addressing the clergy of the diocese assembled to elect a successor in the see, as a fit representative of the ideal anēr tetragōnos, i.e. the philosopher's four-square man, able to resist attack from whatever quarter made, and his successor, Dr. Robert Gregg, in his primary charge, spoke of O'Brien's "unvarying consistency, calm judgement, and chastened self-restraint".

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De BĂşrca Ra re Books 249. O'BRIEN, Murrough. 6th Baron and 1st Earl of Inchiquin. A True Relation of a Great Victory obtained by the Forces under the command of the Lord Inchiquine in Munster in Ireland, against the Rebels under the command of Lord Taaff, Novemb. 13, 1647 : Sent in a letter from the Lord Inchiquine, to the Honorable William Lenthal, Esq; Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons. Together with an order of the Commons assembled in Parliament, for publique thanks to be given for the same to Almighty God, in all churches and chappels in the kingdom of England and dominion of Wales. Ordered by the Commons Assembled in Parliament, that this letter be forthwith printed and published. London: Printed for Edward Husband, Printer to the Honorable House of Commons, Nov. 30, 1647. Small quarto. pp. [8]. Modern quarter sprinkled calf on marbled boards. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. â‚Ź1,350

Wing I 136. Sweeney 3212. ESTC R8873 gives 2 locations only in Ireland [NLI & BCL].

The Battle of Knocknanauss was fought in 1647, during the Irish Confederate Wars, part of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, between Confederate Ireland's Munster army and an English Parliamentarian army under Murrough O'Brien. The battle resulted in a crushing defeat for the Irish Confederates.

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De Búrca Ra re Books English Parliamentarian forces in Cork, ravaged and burned the Confederate territory in Munster. This caused severe food shortages and earned O'Brien the Irish nickname, Murchadh na dTóiteán (Murrough the Burner). In addition, Inchiquin took the Rock of Cashel, which was garrisoned by Confederate troops but was also rich in emotive religious symbolism. In the sack of the castle, O'Brien's troops massacred the garrison and also all the clergy they found there.

The Confederates' Munster army was incapable of stopping O'Brien because of political infighting between officers who supported a deal with the English Royalists and those who rejected such a deal.

Eventually, in reaction to the sack of Cashel and when near famine conditions were approaching as a result of O'Brien's pillaging, the Confederate Supreme Council replaced Donagh MacCarthy, Viscount Muskerry, as commander of the Munster army with Viscount Taaffe and ordered him to bring O'Brien to battle.

Taaffe was an English Catholic and not an experienced soldier. Moreover, although he had an excellent contingent of veteran troops under Alasdair MacColla, most of his men were similarly inexperienced.

Furthermore, the Irish troops were demoralised by the internal factionalism in their ranks and most of them had little loyalty to Taaffe. O'Brien, on the other hand, had been commanding his force since 1642 and was well tried in battle. His troops were a mixture of well trained Parliamentarian soldiers shipped from England and British settlers who had been driven from their homes in the Irish Rebellion of 1641. The two armies met at Knocknanauss, near Mallow in County Cork in November 1647.

The battle that followed was essentially an uncoordinated rout of the Irish forces. Taaffe positioned his men on either side of a hill, so that they could not see one another. The result was that one wing of the Confederate army had no idea of what the other wing was doing. MacColla's men charged the Parliamentarians opposite them putting them to flight and killing a large number of them. Thinking the battle was over, they then took to looting the enemies baggage train.

However, on the other wing, O'Brien's cavalry had charged the raw Irish horsemen, causing them to run away. Despite Taaffe's desperate attempt to rally them, the Irish infantry followed suit, many of them being cut down by the pursuing roundheads. The pursuit continued for miles and not only resulted in heavy casualties among the Irish, but also in the loss of most of their equipment and supplies.

Inchiquin lost several senior officers, including the Judge-Advocate, Sir Robert Travers. MacColla and his men surrendered when they realised what had happened but were subsequently killed by their captors. Around 3,000 Confederates died at Knocknanauss, and up to 1,000 English Parliamentarians.

The carnage did not stop after the fighting was finished. The next day a couple of hundred Irish soldiers were found sheltering in a nearby wood. These were promptly put to the sword.

Theobald Taaffe, 1st Earl of Carlingford (c. 1603-1677), known as 2nd Viscount Taaffe, of Corren and 2nd Baron of Ballymote between 1642 and 1661, was a Royalist officer who played a prominent part in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Following the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641, the Catholic Taaffe remained loyal to the authorities in Dublin. He later joined the Irish Confederates, and was awarded command of the Munster Army. Taaffe was a supporter of the moderate faction, and strongly supported an alliance between the Confederates and Irish Royalists. After the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, Taaffe accompanied Charles II in exile. Following the Restoration, he was created 1st Earl of Carlingford.

250. O'BRIEN, Nora Connolly. Portrait of a Rebel Father. With a preface by Robert Lynd.

Portrait frontispiece. Dublin: Talbot & London: Rich and Cowan, 1935. First edition. pp. 328.

Green cloth, title in black on spine. A very copy in rare slightly frayed dust jacket. €225 James Connolly, the Irish labour leader, was one of the seven men who signed the Proclamation of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic at Easter, 1916. As Commandant-General of the Dublin Division, he was in command at the General Post Office, where he was wounded, and later executed at Kilmainham. When the writer of this volume was still a child, she accompanied her father on many of his lecture tours in Great Britain and America, and attended his meetings.

"Among the sixteen men who were executed after the Irish Insurrection of 1916 there was no nobler or more heroic figure than James Connolly ... His daughter has here repaid love with love and pride with pride in a book that has been written from the depths of her remembering heart".

251. O'CALLAGHAN, V. Rev. C.M. St. Colman Mac Duagh Type of The Irish Monk.

Frontispiece. Dublin: Browne & Nolan, n.d. (c.1897). 16mo. pp. 38. Stitched linen wrappers. A fine copy. Extremely rare. €175 No copy located on COPAC. Not in NLI. Approbation signed Francis J. MacCormack, Bishop of Galway and Kilmacduagh. Galway, 3rd August, 1897. Bishop MacCormack was a native of Ballintubber, County Mayo.

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THE STANDARD WORK 252. O'CALLAGHAN, John Cornelius. History of the Irish Brigades in the Service of France, from the Revolution in Great Britain and Ireland under James II to the Revolution in France under Louis XVI. Illustrated. Glasgow: Cameron & Ferguson, 1885. pp. xiii, 649. Contemporary half calf on cloth boards, title in gilt on red morocco letterpiece. A very good copy. €275 Thousands of Irishmen left Ireland following the collapse of the Jacobite armies, 1689-91. These Irishmen and their descendants fought with distinction on the battle fields of Europe and their prowess caused King George II to observe on the eve of the battle of Dettingen "God curse the laws that made these men my enemies". Prime historical and genealogical reference work on these 'Wild Geese' families who formed the Irish Brigades that served the French crown for most of the eighteenth century.

Colonel P.J. Halley in his introduction to the I.U.P. reprint states: "no modern historian has attempted such a complete history of the Irish Brigades in the service of France" and that O'Callaghan's is still "the standard work".

253. Ó CASAIDE, Séamus. A Typographical Gazetteer of Ireland or The Beginnings of Printing in Irish Towns. Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son, 1923. pp. 51. Stitched paper wrappers, title printed on upper cover. A very good copy. Scarce. €85 Includes a very useful Index to Printers.

254. Ó CIANÁIN, Tadhg. The Flight of the Earls. Edited from the author's manuscript, with translation and notes by Rev. Paul Walsh, M. A. Dublin: Gill, 1916. pp. xx, 268.

Quarter green cloth on green paper boards. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Some minor wear. A very good copy. €175 At midnight on the 14th of September 1607, Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, and Rory O'Donnell, Earl of Tyrconnell, along with 100 of their followers, left Rathmullen Strand on the western shore of Lough Swilly bidding farewell forever to their native country.

They landed in France where they were received with great distinction by all, from the King downwards. From France the Earls and their families proceeded to Rome where they were given 62

De Búrca Ra re Books ample pensions by the Pope and the King of Spain. O'Donnell's chronicler, Ó Cianain, travelled with them and gives us an excellent account of the fortunes of that memorable journey into forced exile.

255. Ó CONCHUBHAIR, Séan M. The Congested Districts Board. An article from an unknown publication, consisting of twenty-one pages. Unbound. €15 256. O'CONNELL, Mrs. M.J. The Last Colonel of the Irish Brigade. Count O'Connell and Old Irish Life at Home and Abroad 1745-1833. Frontispiece. Volume I only of two. London: Kegan Paul, 1892. pp. xix, 335, 56, [2]. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. School prize label on front pastedown. Stamp of Franciscan library. A very good copy. €25 These letters of the O'Connell family are mostly of a personal nature. Besides their biographical and genealogical interest, they, to some extent, reflect the social and political state of the Catholics of Ireland prior to Emancipation. They are also an important contribution to the history of the County of Kerry. The author was daughter-in-law to Daniel O'Connell.

257. O'CONNOR, De Francisco Burdett. Recuerdos de Francisco Burdett O'Connor de la órden de Libertadores de Venezuela, Cundinamarca y el Perú; Coronel de Ios ejercitos de Colombia, General de Brigada de Ios del Perú y General de Division de Ios de Bolivia. Tarija: Imprénta de La Estrella, 1895. pp. iv, 305. Contemporary quarter red morocco on brown and red pebbled cloth boards. Signed presentation copy to Mr. H. Conner of Manch from O'Connor d'Arlach, dated 1958. Armorial bookplate of Henry L. Conner. All edges red. Very good. €375 No copy located in COPAC. Not in NLI. Francis Burdett O'Connor (1791-1871), General, was an officer in the Irish Legion of Simón Bolívar's army in Venezuela. He later became chief of staff to Antonio José de Sucre and minister of war in Bolivia. O'Connor was born in Cork, into a prominent Protestant family. His parents were Roger O'Connor and Wilhamena Bowen. His uncle Arthur O'Connor was the agent in France for Robert Emmet's rebellion of the United Irishmen. His brother was the MP and Chartist leader Feargus O'Connor.

In 1819, Francis enlisted in the Latin American independence cause of Simon Bolivar, and sailed from Dublin with 100 officers and 101 men of the Irish Legion under the command of Colonel William Aylmer. The force arrived at Margarita Island off the coast of Venezuela on September 1819 to find that conditions were squalid and nothing was prepared. After losses through death and desertion, in March 1820 the force attacked the city of Riohacha on the mainland, which they temporarily occupied.

Later the force was involved in the siege of Cartagena and the campaign against Santa Marta.

However, the Irish soldiers became demoralized by the cautious and inept conduct of the war by General Mariano Montilla and indiscipline evolved into mutiny. In June, 1820 the force was disarmed and shipped to Jamaica.

O'Connor joined the United Army of Liberation in Peru in 1824, and six months later Bolívar appointed him chief of staff. He fought at the Battle of Junín in August 1824 against heavy odds and chose the site of the Battle of Ayacucho. In 1825 Antonio José de Sucre chose him to direct the Campaign in Upper Peru, the final operation of the war, the pursuit and elimination of general Pedro Antonio Olañeta, the last royalist commander to offer resistance.

In 1826 Francisco O'Connor was appointed military governor of Tarija. In 1827, he published a proclamation encouraging Irish people to settle in the 'New Erin' of Tarija. He was involved in the later wars between the successor states in South America, helping to defeat an Argentine army at the Battle of Montenegro in Bolivia on 24 June 1838. He died in Tarija on 5 October 1871 at eighty years of age.

258. O'CONNOR, Ulick. The Troubles. Ireland 1912-1922. Illustrated. New York: Bobbs Merrill, 1975. pp. ix, 181. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's bookplate and signature. A very good copy in repaired dust jacket. €45 259. Ó CORRAIN, Donncha. Ireland before the Normans. With maps. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1972. pp. xi, 210. A very good copy in pictorial wrappers. €20 "THE LAST OF THE GRAND OLD SCHOLARS OF IRELAND" 260. O'DALY, Aenghus. The Tribes of Ireland: A Satire, with poetical translation by the late James Clarence Mangan; together with An Historical Account of the Family of O'Daly; and an introduction to the history of satire in Ireland. Dublin: John O'Daly, 1852. pp. 112. Original blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine. Fading to covers, some pencil scoring. A very good copy. Rare. €175 63

De BĂşrca Ra re Books John O'Daly, author and publisher, was born at Farnane, County Waterford in 1800 and was educated at a local hedge school. Like Carleton he was of peasant stock but while lacking Carleton's literary genius, O'Daly was a much more versatile individual, a purveyor of fine books, a writer and publisher, a good Irish scholar, a translator, an editor, and Secretary of the Irish Antiquarian Society. We know the Munster poet Timothy O'Sullivan was a frequent visitor in his father's house. O'Donoghue tells us in his Life of Mangan, that O'Daly was not approved of by certain of his countrymen on account of having in his youth enrolled in the ranks of "The Soupers" in Kilkenny. John Keegan, another peasant poet tells us: "I first met O'Daly in Kilkenny in 1833, when he kept the school there for teaching Irish to the Wesleyans of that city. He, I am sorry to say, has renounced the Catholic creed, and was then a pious Biblical. He subsequently came back and is now living in Dublin, Secretary to the Celtic Athenaeum, and keeps a bookseller's shop in Anglesea Street. He is one of the best Irish scholars in Ireland ... low-sized, merry countenance, fine black eyes, vulgar in appearance and manners, and has the most magnificent Munster brogue that I ever had the luck to hear".

By 1850 we find him publishing many works in Gaelic and on Irish history, often in collaboration with that prince of scholars, John O'Donovan. Some of his Gaelic translations were versified by Mangan.

O'Daly was a founder member of the Ossianic Society of which he was president from 1855 to 1857.

His book catalogues are both erudite and interesting. After he died in Dublin in 1878, no effort was made to secure any of the manuscripts he left behind, some of them Carolan's, and their whereabouts remain a mystery.

He was described by Eleanor Hull as "The last of the grand old scholars of Ireland".

261. [O'DONNELL CORRESPONDENCE] Archive of Correspondence (150 letters) between members of the O'Donnell Family in Spain and Austria. Charles Joseph O'Donnell (1818-1901) of Dublin/Castlebar; Snr. Carlos J. O'Donnell, the Duke of Tetuan, Madrid; and Maurice Count O'Donnell of Austria. Bound in cloth and in two volumes, backstrip of volume 1 detached. The letters (in English and Spanish); various sizes, octavo and quarto are with their original envelopes and are tipped in. The archive covers the period from October 1846 to December 1895. With copious genealogical and historical notes. Together with: A copy of correspondence from Maurice Count O'Donnell's notebook which was in the possession of Maire Anne Countess Uiberacker-O'Donnell, lent to the historian Rupert Coughlan, and transcribed by him into a school copybook consisting of 200 quarto pages. Bound in quarter linen on red paper boards. A most valuable primary source for the study of the O'Donnells of Mayo, Spain and Austria.

Unique. â‚Ź2,750 The O'Donnells of Spain and Austria are descended from the Mayo and Leitrim branch of that illustrious family. They are of a line senior to that of the illustrious Red Hugh, who was slain in Spain.

These "Wild Geese" O'Donnells were not slow to establish themselves in the military hierarchy.

Major-General Henry Count O'Donnell (a descendant of Calvagh, Chief of Tirconnell) was the founder of the Austrian branch of the family.

Henry's eldest son, Count Joseph O'Donnell (17551810), was the skilful Finance Minister who steered Austria through the economic disaster following the Napoleonic invasion. Joseph's son, Field Marshal Count Maurice O'Donnell, born in Vienna in 1780, was the father of the famous MajorGeneral Maximilian Count O'Donnell who, as aidede-camp to the Austrian Emperor, Franz Josef, saved him from assassination in 1853.

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De Búrca Ra re Books the native Spanish. He had six sons and two daughters. His eldest daughter, Beatrix, married Count Manuel de Pombo, Colombia's national hero. Her many descendants are still in South America. Carlos O'Donnell (1773-1830) was the second son of General Joseph O'Donnell. Carlos's son was Leopoldo O'Donnell (1809-67), the most outstanding of the Spanish O'Donnells. Following the successful Moroccan campaign, he was created Duke of Tetuan in 1860. He was Governor of Cuba for a while and was Prime Minister of Spain in 1858. Leopoldo's nephew, Lieutenant Carlos O'Donnell (d. 1903), was Chamberlain, Minister for State and ambassador at the courts of Brussels, Vienna and Lisbon.

Carlos's son, Juan (1864-1928), presided at the Irish Race Convention held in 1919. The delegates endeavoured to gain the support of President Wilson of America for Ireland's claim to nationhood, but their efforts ended in failure.

It is impossible to visit Madrid today without recognizing the influence of the O'Donnells. One of its principal streets bears the name, as do many shops, commercial houses and garages. There is one family of thirteen O'Donnell brothers and in the telephone directory they are numerous. The present Duke of Tetuan of the Spanish O'Donnells has five brothers, all married.

After the battle of the Boyne in 1690, Daniel O'Donell was one of the family who went to France, taking with him the Cathach. It was deposited in a monastery where it was discovered by a priest in the 1880s. Sir Nial O'Donnell of the Newport, County Mayo, family claimed it as the badge of their chieftaincy. This was disputed by the other branches of the family. Finally the Cathach reached the neutral haven of the Royal Irish Academy, where it was placed by Sir Richard Annesley O'Donnell, 4th Baronet of Newport House (now a first class hotel).

262. O'DONNELL, Peadar. Salud! An Irishman in Spain. London: Methuen, 1937. First edition. pp. 256. Red cloth, titled in green. A very good copy. Very rare. €275 Peadar O'Donnell, revolutionary and author, was born at Meenmore, County Donegal, in 1893. He was educated at St. Patrick's Training College, Dublin, and taught for a while on Arranmore and Inisfree islands. After visiting Scotland and seeing the hardship endured by migrant Irish labourers, he became a full-time organiser for the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union in 1918. He joined the I.R.A. in 1920 and was wounded whilst on active service during the War of Independence. He opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 and was imprisoned for two years, escaping in 1924. In June of that year he married Lile O'Donel, daughter of a wealthy Mayo landlord, and became editor of 'An Phoblacht', the I.R.A. newspaper. He was part of the I.R.A. breakaway group which formed the Republican Congress in 1934, for which he was court-martialed. He helped recruit volunteers to fight in the International Brigade, which fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. This work describes these details in full.

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 263. O'DONNELL, Peadar. The Knife. Portrait of the author as a young man on front endpapers. Dublin: Irish Humanities Centre, 1980. pp. 288. Signed by the author and by Grattan Freyer, who wrote the introduction. A very good copy in very good dust jacket. €145

Sectarian violence in the Lagan Valley prompted Peadar O'Donnell to write 'The Knife', a political novel depicting the old protagonists Orange and Green. All his life O'Donnell was an untiring champion of social reform and unpopular causes.

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - NO MORE LONELY SCAFFOLDS 264. O'DONOVAN, Donal. Kevin Barry and his Time. Illustrated. Dublin: Glendale, 1989. First edition. pp. 244. Illustrated wrappers. Signed presentation copy from the author dated 1991. A very good copy. €165 DESCENDANTS OF OLIOLL OLUM, KING OF MUNSTER 265. O'DONOVAN, John. Ed. by. The Banquet of Dun na n-Gedh and The Battle of Magh Rath. An ancient historical tale ... With a translation, notes, and folding genealogical chart 65

De Búrca Ra re Books showing the decent of the principal families sprung from Olioll Olum, King of Munster. Dublin: I.A.S. 1842. Quarto. pp. xxiv, 16, 360. Mauve cloth, titled in gilt. This copy was printed for Colonel Henry E. Porter, Member of the Society. A fine copy. €265 The Battle of Moira, known archaically as the Battle of Mag Rath, was fought in the summer of 637 by the Gaelic High King of Ireland Domnall II against his foster son King Congal of Ulster, supported by his ally Domnall the Freckled (Domnall Brecc) of Dalriada.

The battle was fought near the Woods of Killultagh, just outside the village of Moira in what would become County Down. It was allegedly the largest battle ever fought on the island of Ireland, and resulted in the death of Congal and the retreat of Domnall Brecc.

The genealogical chart depicts the descent of the O'Donovans; O'Collins; O'Sullivans; O'Callaghans; O'Moriartys; MacCarthys; O'Keeffes; O'Mahonys; O'Donoghues; O'Briens; MacNamaras; O'Deas and O'Cuinns.

266. O'DONOVAN, John. Et al. The Miscellany of the Irish Archaeological Society. An Ancient Poem attributed to St. Columbkille, edited by John O'Donovan; De Concilio Hibernie per magnates totius illius Insule - Rev. Richard Butler; copy of the Award as concerning the Tolboll (Dublin) - A. Smith; The Pedigree of Doctor Domnick Lynch ... from a coeval Ms. - J. Hardiman; Poem by Gratianus Lucius, alias Doctor John Lynch - J. Hardiman; Obits of Kilcormick - Rev. J.H. Todd; Ancient Testaments - A. Smith; Autograph letter of Thady O'Roddy - Rev. J.H. Todd; Autograph letter of Oliver Cromwell to his son Harry Cromwell, Commander in Chief in Ireland - A. Smith; The Irish Charters in the Book of Kells - J. O'Donovan; Original Charter granted by John, Lord of Ireland to the Abbey of Mellifont - A. Smith; Journey to Connaught, April, 1709 - A. Smith; Covenant between Mageoghegan and the Fox, with historical notices of the two families - J. O'Donovan; The Annals of Ireland from 1443 to 1468, translated from the Irish by Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh for Sir James Ware - J. O'Donovan. Volume I (all published). Dublin: I.A.S. 1846. Quarto. pp. viii, 302, 4. Mauve cloth, titled in gilt. This copy printed for Colonel Henry E. Porter, Member of the Society. Light foxing to prelims. A very good copy. €175 267. O'DONOVAN, John. Ed. by. The Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach, commonly called O'Dowda's Country. Now first published from the Book of Lecan, in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, and from the Genealogical Manuscript of Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh, in the library of Lord Roden. With a translation and notes, and a map of HyFiachrach, and surname index supplement. Dublin: For The Irish Archaeological Society, 1844. pp. xii, 524, 20. Mauve blind-stamped cloth, titled in gilt. This copy was printed for Colonel Henry E. Porter, Member of the Society. Some light spotting. A very good copy. €375

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De Búrca Ra re Books Illustrated with a large folding genealogical table showing the descent of the principal families of HyFiachrach, from their great ancestor Eochaidh Muighmheadhoin, Monarch of Ireland in the fourth century, to the present day. These were the illustrious families of the O'Dowds, O'Shaughnessys, O'Clerys, and O'Hynes. Their territory comprised of County Mayo and much of County Sligo. This account of the families of Hy-Fiachrach is taken from the manuscripts of the great scholar Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh.

268. O'DONOVAN, John. SMITH, Aquilla. & BUTLER, Rev. R. Ed. by. Tracts Relating to Ireland, printed for the Irish Archaeological Society. I. The Circuit of Ireland, by Muircheartach MacNeill, Prince of Aileach; A Poem, written in the year 842 by Cormacan Eigeas; A Brief Description of Ireland 1590. II. A Treatice of Ireland by John Dymmok; Annals of Multifernan; The Statute of Kilkenny A.D. 1367. Two volumes. Dublin: 1841/43. Quarto. pp. (1) iv, 68, viii, 31 (2) [x], 90, viii, 26, xxxvi, 153, [3]. Mauve cloth, titled in gilt. This copy was printed for Colonel Henry E. Porter, Member of the Society. A fine set. €365 269. O'FAOLAIN, Eileen. The King of the Cats. Illustrated by Nano Reid. Dublin and Cork: The Talbot Press, 1941. First edition. pp. 148. Quarter cloth on brown paper boards. A well read copy in good condition. Rare. €150 270. Ó FEARGHAIL, Seán Óg. Law (?) and Orders. The Belfast 'Curfew' of 3-5 July, 1970.

Illustrated. Belfast: Central Citizens' Defence Committee, 1970. Quarto. pp. 46, 15 (plates).

Pictorial stapled wrappers, corner of one illustration cut out. A very good copy. Very Rare. €35 THE PATRICIAN YEAR WITH AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED FROM TOMAS Ó FIAICH 271. Ó FIAICH, Tomas. Ed. by. Seanchas Ardmhacha. Journal of the Armagh Diocesan Historical Society for the Patrician Year 1961-1962. Illustrated. Armagh: 1962. pp. 211. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Autograph letter from Tomas Ó Fiaich to Radio Éireann on St. Patrick's College, Maynooth headed paper, dated 8/4/62, tipped in on front endpaper. A very good copy in frayed illustrated dust jacket. €85 With a feast of articles by leading clerics and scholars on St. Patrick celebrating the Patrician year in 1962.

"AFFABLE AND LEARNED" THE 'OGYGIA' ACHIEVED EUROPEAN RENOWN 272. O'FLAHERTY, Roderico. Ogygia: Seu, Rerum Hibernicarum. Ex Pervetustis Monumentus sideliter inter se collatis eruta, atque è Sacris ac Prophanis Literis primarum Orbis Gentium tam Genealogicis, quam Chronologicis susslaminata praesidiis ... Prima Ogygiae Insula; seubrevis Tractatus de Hiberniae Insula ... Secunda Ogygiae Extera; seu Synchronismus, in quo Hibernorum tempora pariter, ac generationes cum Exetris accurate conferuntur. Tertia Ogygiae Domestica; seu Rerum Hibernicarum plenior, ac susior fissertatio ... Quibus Accedit, Regum Hiberniae, Christianorum ab anno 428 ad annum 1022; aliorumque eventuum as jam regnantem Carolum 2. brevis Chronologica Tabula. Deinde Carmen Chronographicum summam omnium …

Diluvio ad praesens tempus complectens. Postremò Catalogus Regum in Brittannia Scotorum, ex Hiberniae Monumentis. London: Typis R. Everingham, Sumptibus Ben. Tooke, ad insignia Navis in Coemeterio D. Pauli, 1685. pp. [2], [xvi], 44, 503, 604-700 [i.e. 510]. Small quarto. Paper repair to fore-edge of first two gatherings. Minute traces of damp-staining to a few leaves. Early owner's signature on titlepage. Contemporary full calf, title in gilt direct on spine. A very good copy. Very rare. €2,750 Wing O 160. Sweeney 3257. COPAC locates only 5 copies.

Roderick O'Flaherty, the noted historian and antiquarian of west Connaught was born at Moycullen Castle, County Galway, in 1629. His father Hugh, was the last chief of that proud race. He devoted his life to the study of Irish history and antiquities and was a contemporary of Dr. John Lynch, Bishop Kirwan of Killala, and he studied Irish literature and history under Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh of Lecan, then resident in the college of St. Nicholas in Galway. In 1652 without having taken part in rebellion, he was included in the general Cromwellian proscription. He appealed to the Commissioners at Athlone, and was allowed a portion of his family's estate in Iar Connaught. Afterwards he wrote: "I 67

De Búrca Ra re Books live a banished man within the bounds of my native soil; a spectator of others enriched by my birthright; an object of condoling to my relatives and friends, and a condoler of their miseries".

His first important work was a reply to Dr. Borlace's History of the Rebellion. He also wrote A Description of West or hIar Connaught which was first published by the Irish Archaeological Society in 1846. His magnum opus however was the present work on offer here, the Ogygia, which according to Hardiman "remains a lasting monument of our author's learning and genius". Immediately on its appearance it excited the curiosity and attracted the attention of the learned of Europe, many of whom testified their approbation of the work in the most flattering terms. Our ablest antiquaries since that time have admitted that in it he has given secure anchorage to Irish history.

A monumental work on the history of Ireland from the earliest times to the year 1684. O'Flaherty consulted the Book of Lecan, the chronicle of Tighearnach O'Braein, the Liber Migrationum of Michael O'Cleary, and numerous other Irish medieval manuscripts. The Irish type used in quotations and in giving the true forms of names is also the one used in Seanmora ar na Priom Phoncibh na Creideamh, translated into Irish by Philip MacBrady and John O'Mulchonri, and published in 1711 by Elinor Everingham.

Edward Lloyd of Oxford, who visited O'Flaherty in 1700, described him as "affable and learned", but added the revolutions in Ireland had "reduced him to great poverty, and destroyed his books and papers". In 1709, Sir Thomas Molyneux visited Roderick O'Flaherty in his castle at Moycullen in Connemara, and he wrote of his trip: "I went to visit old Flaherty, who lives very old, in a miserable condition ... I expected to have seen here some old Irish manuscripts, but his ill-fortune had stripped him of these as well as his other goods, so that he had nothing now left but some few pieces of his own writing and a few old rummish books of history, printed".

He died in 1718 in his 89th year, leaving an only son Michael, to whom, in 1736, a portion of the family estates were restored.

O'Flaherty's other great work Chorographical Description of West or H-Iar Connaught achieved its first publication under the editorship of James Hardiman in 1846. See following item.

273. O'FLAHERTY, Roderic. A Chorographical Description of West or h-Iar Connaught, written A.D. 1684. With notes and illustrations by James Hardiman. With map and folding genealogical table. Dublin: Irish Archaeological Society, 1846. Quarto. pp. xiv, 469, 25. Modern half maroon morocco. A very good copy. €285 SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY 274. O'FLAHERTY, Tom. Aranmen All. Illustrated. Endpapers illustrated with map of the Aran Islands. Dublin: At the Sign of the Three Candles, 1934. 185 x 125mm., pp. [xi], 9-192.

Bound in homespun linen 'stamped with a currach passant'. Signed presentation copy from the author to "Roísín who inspired my first poem (unpublished) and my first book (published). The proof reading is bad and ... could be better but I must confess that I get a thrill out of seeing the .... in print". Ex. lib. with neat stamps. A very good copy. €225 Thomas O'Flaherty (1891-1936), brother of the celebrated novelist Liam, was born at Gort na gCapall, in the Aran Islands. He emigrated to America in 1911 where he had a varied career. Returning to Ireland in the 1930s he spent some time in Dublin, writing for the press.

Of the twenty illustrations, twelve were from the film Man of Aran, which was a tremendous success on its release in 1934.

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De Búrca Ra re Books National Airs of Ireland, Ancient and Modern arranged for the Violin, Flute, Cornet, Clarionett, &c. Boston: Oliver Ditson, n.d. (c.1890). Oblong octavo. pp. 40. Original green printed wrappers with cloth spine. Lightly frayed cover, otherwise a very good copy. €95

276. O'HALLORAN, Mr. [Sylvester] A General History of Ireland, from the Earliest Accounts to the Close of the Twelfth Century, collected from the Most Authentic Records, in which new and interesting lights are thrown on the remote Histories of Other Nations as well as Britains.

Two volumes. London: Printed for the Author, by A. Hamilton, 1778. Quarto. pp. (1) xv, [1], lvi, 307, [11], (2) [iii], 416, [11]. Contemporary full catspaw calf. Covers framed by a gilt Greek key roll to boards. Spines expertly rebacked with elaborate gilt tooling. Contrasting labels. Signature of Hennessy on titlepage, with his bookplate and also that of Caroli Francisci Josephi Ghisleni Fallon, Namurcencis, on front pastedown. Light foxing to list of subscribers. A very attractive set. Very rare. €1,250 Bradshaw 6110 Not in Gilbert.

Silvester O'Halloran, surgeon and historian, was born in Limerick, in 1728. He studied medicine in the schools of London, Paris, and Leyden, and devoted himself to practice in his native city. Before he was twenty-one he published a Treatise on Cataract, the first of several medical essays from his pen.

Archaeology divided his attention with medicine; he was an Irish scholar, and one of the earliest members of the Royal Irish Academy. A Treatise on the Preservation of Ancient Annals appeared in 1770; An Introduction to the Study of the Antiquities of Ireland, in 1772; his General History of Ireland, in 1774; besides minor papers read before the Academy and elsewhere.

His History is now but little referred to, as the most valuable and accurate portions of it are to be found in Colgan and O'Flaherty. It is distinguished throughout by great national enthusiasm and considerable erudition, but its topographical descriptions, though on the whole tolerably correct, have been in many instances revised and altered by modern investigators... It was an astonishing performance at the date of its publication."

He is spoken of by a contemporary as "the tall, thin doctor, in his quaint French dress, with his goldheaded cane, beautiful Parisian wig, and cocked hat;. . his entire time nearly given up to literature and the discovery of antiquities." O'Halloran died in Limerick in 1807, aged about 78, and was buried in Kileedy churchyard. His portrait is prefixed to a notice in the Dublin Journal of Medical Science, Vol vi. [One of his sons, Joseph, entered the army, served fifteen years in India, and rose to be LieutenantGeneral Sir Joseph O'Halloran: he died in London about 1843, aged eighty.]

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277. O'HANLON, Terence. The Highwayman in Irish History. Illustrated. Dublin: Gill, 1932. pp. viii, 165. Green cloth, titled in gilt. A very good copy. Scarce. €95 Among the infamous Raparees mentioned are: Redmond O'Hanlon; Dudley Costello; Brennan on the Moor; Galloping O'Hogan; Ned Ryan of The Hills; Freney and Crotty the Robbers; Charles O'Dempsey; MacNamara of Cong; Jeremiah Grant, and Shane Crossagh, etc.

278. O'HART, John. Irish Pedigrees; or, the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation. Second series.

With list of subscribers. Dublin: Gill, 1878. First edition. pp. viii, [3], 416. Contemporary full green morocco. Covers framed to a panel design enclosing an armorial gilt device in centre, title in gilt on spine with a gilt harp and shamrocks. Minor wear to corners. All edges gilt. A very good copy. €275 John O'Hart (1824-1902), genealogist, was a native of Crossmolina, County Mayo. Although it was his wish to join the priesthood, family circumstances prevented this. He joined the Royal Irish Constabulary, but left after two years to take up a teaching post with the Commissioners of National Education.

There were a very limited number bound in full morocco which were for presentation by the author.

See items 278 & 281.

279. OHLMEYER, Jane. Ed. by. Ireland from Independence to Occupation 1641-1660.

Illustrated. Cambridge: University Press, 1995. pp. li, 324. Purple paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €85 280. O'KEEFFE, John. Recollections of the Life of John O'Keeffe, Written by Himself. Two volumes in one. Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1827. pp. (1) xiv, 216 (2) 234. Recent Quarter green buckram on paper boards. Previous owner's signature on titlepage of volume one.

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De Búrca Ra re Books and plays. After his move to London in 1780 a considerable number of these were performed at Haymarket and Covent Garden. A contemporary wrote: "His inventive powers in the construction of odd phrases and quaint burdens for songs, his extraordinary combinations of strange fancies, and the contrivance of a sort of significant gibberish, without meaning in itself, but fashioned so as to convey the most accurate and vivid ideas of what he himself meant to express, are matters beyond the power of analysis".

281. O'KELLY, Seumas. Ranns & Ballads. With frontispiece by Jack B. Yeats. Dublin: The Candle Press, 1918. pp. 47. Publisher's note with errata tipped in. Quarter coarse linen on grey paper boards, title on printed label on upper cover. Edition limited to 450 numbered copies. A very good copy. €165 De Búrca 17.

282. Ó LAOÍ, Padraic. Annals of the G.A.A. in Galway. Volume I. 1884-1901. Galway: Emerald Printers, 1983. pp. [iv], 230, [4]. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. €65 283. O'MALLEY, Ernie. The Singing Flame. Tralee: Anvil, 1978. First edition. pp. [vi], 312.

Green paper boards, titled in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Rare. €145 This is a continuation of On Another Man's Wound and the first detailed account of the civil war by a leading Republican.

284. O'MALLEY, Ernie. On Another Man's Wound. Dublin: Anvil Books, 1979. pp. 343.

Green paper boards, titled in gilt. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €75 "Many things have been written round the war between the English forces and the Irish Republican Army, the best of them being, I think, On Another Man's Wound" - Sean O'Casey.

285. O'NEILL, David. The Partition of Ireland. How and why it was accomplished. Third edition, with an additional chapter on the recent (1949) General Election in the Six Counties.

With maps. Dublin: M.H. Gill, 1949. pp. 46. Illustrated wrappers. Publisher's review-slip loosely inserted. A fine copy. €30 286. Ó RAGHALLAIGH, Deasmumhan. Three Centuries of Irish Chemists. Illustrated with portraits. Cork: University Press, 1941. Quarto. pp. [3], 30. Printed stapled wrappers. A good copy. €125 With biographical details of 63 Irish chemists.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 287. O'RAHILLY, Alfred. The Case for the Treaty. S.n. [1921?]. pp. 24. Printed wrappers. A good copy. Scarce. €135 Alfred O'Rahilly (1884-1969), University Professor and Administrator. Born in Listowel, County Kerry, in 1914 he joined the staff of UCC as Assistant in Mathematics, and two years later was appointed to the chair of Mathematical Physics. After the 1916 Easter Rising, O'Rahilly publicly supported Sinn Féin and was elected to Cork City Council as a Sinn Féin and Transport Workers candidate. Arrested early in 1921 for political writings, O'Rahilly was interned in Spike Island prison.

He was released in October 1921 where he was constitutional adviser to the Irish Treaty Delegation.

O'Rahilly supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty and in 1922 he composed a draft constitution for the Irish Free State with Darrell Figgis.

In this pamphlet he deals with the issue of the Treaty, the Republican Oath, a lesson from South Africa, the Allegiance issue, Ulster, Powers of the Free State, the Associated Irish State, Freedom by Gradual Growth, What's a Name and Unity.

288. O'RAHILLY, Aodoghán. Winding the Clock. O'Rahilly and the 1916 Rising. Illustrated.

Dublin: Lilliput, 1991. pp. xiv, 254. Maroon paper boards, titled in gilt. A fine copy in dust jacket. €75 WITH JOHN O'DONOVAN'S SUPPLEMENT 289. O'REILLY, Edward. An Irish-English Dictionary, with copious quotations from the most esteemed ancient and modern writers, to elucidate the meaning of obscure words and numerous comparisons of Irish words, with those of similar orthography, sense, or sound, in the Welsh and Hebrew Languages. A new edition, carefully revised and corrected. With a Supplement, containing many thousand Irish words, with their interpretations in English, collected throughout Ireland, and among ancient unpublished manuscripts by John O'Donovan. These collections contain many thousand Irish words, with their interpretation in English, collected by the learned author during the many years he devoted to this pursuit in unwearied researches among ancient unpublished manuscripts throughout Ireland. Dublin: James Duffy, 1877. Quarto. pp. [2], 725 (double column). Green blind-stamped cloth, upper cover decorated with a gilt harp and garland of shamrocks, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Scarce. €275 COPAC locates 2 copies only.

THE TINKER & THE LADY 290. [ORIGINAL SKETCH] Pencil Sketch possibly by George Russell [AE] of the Principal Characters from John M. Synge's In the Shadow of the Glen - The Tinker and The Lady. The drawing is on the titlepage of Samhain, December, 1904. Framed and glazed. Newspaper cuttings on rear. In fine condition. €475 "i BAJO FRANCO Y HITLER!" SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY 291. O'RIORDAN, Michael. Connolly Column. The story of the Irishmen who fought in the ranks of the International Brigades in the national-revolutionary war of the Spanish people 19361939. With maps and illustrations. Dublin: New Books, 1979. Quarto. pp. 232. White linen, title in brown on upper cover and spine. Signed and inscribed by Michael O'Riordan, with an Irish and Spanish Anti-Fascist greeting. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. Scarce. €125 The chapters include: The Revolt of the Generals; An Earlier Revolt and Civil War in Ireland; Ireland in the Thirties; The International Brigades; The Connolly Column; The Battle of Jarama; From Vinegar Hill to Chimora; The Brunete Offensive; On the Aragon Front; The Battle of Teruel; The Capture of Frank Ryan; The Last Battle; The Leaving of Spain; Release Frank Ryan!; From Burgos to Dresden, etc.

292. O'ROURKE, Rev. John. The Centenary Life of O'Connell. With recollections of the Liberator in Parliament, by the Right. Hon. W.E. Gladstone, M.P. Dublin: James Duffy, n.d.

16mo. Fifth edition. pp. [4], 288, [12]. Green cloth, harp in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on decorated spine. Celtic decorative bookplate of A.P. O'Brien on front pastedown. All edges gilt.

Some minor wear to extremities. A very good copy. Very scarce. €125 COPAC locates only 1 copy of this edition.

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De Búrca Ra re Books SIGNED BY ORPEN WITH MONOGRAM 293. [ORPEN, Sir William] Sir William Orpen. RA RHA. Contemporary British Artists. Edited

by Albert Rutherston. Introduction signed R.P. Photogravure frontispiece. London: Ernest Benn 1923. Small quarto. pp. 32, 34 (photogravure plates of Orpen's work). Evidently a presentation copy from Orpen, signed with a curious monogram on front endpaper using the letters WO to suggest a bearded face with hair standing on end, dated 1928. Quarter linen on grey paper boards.

A very good copy. €365 Provenance: Collection of Kathleen Fairbanks.

WITH ORIGINAL PENCIL SKETCH BY ORPEN 294. ORPEN, Sir William. KBE RA. An Onlooker in France 1917-1919. Revised and Enlarged Edition. London: Williams & Norgate, 1924. Quarto. pp. 127. With photogravure frontispiece & 96 full page plates of Orpen's paintings. Brown cloth. Title in black on spine. With an original pencil sketch (full page on front endpaper) by Sir William Orpen of a child walking on water, with the caption in Orpen's hand "May you always be on the top of the wave ... to Kathleen 1928". Some sunlight fading to upper cover. A very good copy. €675 Orpen's experiences as a war artist during World War I marked a turning point in his life and work. As expected he painted portraits of the top brass and the big occasions, but his most deeply-felt works were his sketches of ordinary Tommies caught in the maelstrom of battle and bombardment.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 295. Ó SÚILLEABHÁIN, Domhnall. Beatha Dhomhnaill uí Chonaill. With coloured illustrations. Baile Átha Cliath: Oifig Díolta Foillseacháin Rialtais, 1936. pp. xiv, 275. Green cloth, titled in gilt. A very good copy. €15 296. O'SULLIVAN BEARE, PhiIlip. Historiae Catholicae Iberniae Compendium. Domino Phillipo Austriaco III. Lisbon: Ulyssippone excusum a Petro Crasbeeckio, 1621. Small quarto.

Early owner's signature on titlepage. Recent full vellum, with yapp edges, title lettered in gilt on spine. Some occasional mild browning and old ink-staining. A very good and attractive copy.

Very rare. €6,650 The 1st and only Allison and Rogers printing - 864 Shaaber 080 Sweeney 3303.

Philip O'Sullivan-Beare (1560-1618), the only son of Donal O'Sullivan (1537-63), Lord of Beare and Bantry, was born c.1590 in Dunboy Castle, County Cork, the ancestral home of that branch of the O'Sullivan clan who were descended from the kings of Munster. He was educated in Waterford where he learned English and Latin. He took no part in the Desmond Rebellion, but entered the Nine Years War in 1601 when a Spanish force landed in Kinsale. After the defeat of Kinsale he was sent to Spain to be educated at Santiago de Compostella. Later on he entered the naval service where he distinguished himself.

The Historia Catholicae is divided into four parts: (1) The much admired topography of Ireland; (2) An account of the pilgrimage of Don Ramon de Penllos to Lough Derg; (3) A History of the English in Ireland from the Invasion of Henry down to 1588; (4) Irish affairs down to 1618.

According to Allison and Rogers it reprints "the text of the two catalogues of Irish Saints and heroes compiled respectively by Richard Conway and Henry Fitzsimon". The most dramatic of all events, though, is a family story. After the defeat at Kinsale and the capture of his castle at Dunboy, Donal O'Sullivan Beare led a thousand of his people, men, women and children, on a winter march northwards where he had obtained refuge from Brian O'Rourke in County Leitrim. Philip's father and mother were amongst the thirty-five survivors. This great retreat has been the subject of a fine modern retracing by Peter Somerville Large - From Bantry Bay to Leitrim, in which he picked up folk memory echoes all along the way.

Many valuable historical documents are quoted, Donall O'Sullivan-Beare's letter to the King of Spain complaining about the terms of De Aguila's Kinsale capitulation; Florence Conry's statement of Catholic grievances. It is the only account of the Elizabethan wars in Ireland purely from an Irish or Catholic perspective, and is a refutation of the English and Anglo-Irish protestant histories.

297. O'SULLIVAN, Seumas. Common Adventures: A Book of Prose and Verse. Nicolas Flamel: A Play in Four Acts, from the French of Gérard de Nerval: by Seumas O'Sullivan.

Dublin: Orwell Press, 1926. First edition. pp. [ix], 53. Edition limited to 200 numbered copies, signed by Seumas O'Sullivan. Frayed printed stiff wrappers with some surface wear. Very good.

Very scarce. €125 298. O'SULLIVAN, Seumas. & SOLOMONS, Estella F. Retrospect. The Work of Seamus O'Sullivan 1879-1958 and Estella F. Solomons 1882-1968. Edited by Liam Miller. Illustrated.

Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1973. pp. 104. Blue buckram, title in gilt on spine. Edition limited to 750 copies. A fine copy in frayed and sun-tanned dust jacket. €85 Miller 200 Contributors include: A.J. Leventhal; Brian Fallon; Jack Coughlin; Liam Miller; Padraic Colum, and Alan Denson.

299. PAGE, Norman. An Oscar Wilde Chronology. Dublin: Macmillan, 1991. pp. x, 105. Black paper boards, titled in gilt. A fine copy in dust jacket. €45 300. [PEARSE, P.H.] The Letters of P.H. Pearse. Edited by Séamus Ó Buachalla and with a foreword by F.S.L. Lyons. London: Colin Smythe, 1980. pp. xxiv, 504. White paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in dust jacket. €75 In his foreword Dr. Lyons, Provost of Trinity College Dublin, writes: "It is a larger correspondence than we could have dared to hope for and it is peculiarly valuable because it deals not only with each phase of his career, but with each facet of a life which was dedicated with an almost monastic austerity to the cause of Irish freedom".

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& Nolan 1934. pp. 167. Black cloth, titled in green. Previous owners' signatures on front endpaper. Top edge green. A fine copy in frayed dust jacket. Rare. €275 After Mrs Pearse died in 1932 there were legal difficulties over her will and over the royalties on Patrick Pearse's writings. These led to problems between the two surviving daughters, Margaret and Mary Brigid. When Mary Brigid published this book in 1934, Margaret claimed some of the proceeds as having legal title to Patrick Pearse's autobiographical material. Mary withdrew the book from circulation, thus making it rare.

302. PENDER, Séamus. Ed. by. A Census of Ireland, circa 1659. With supplementary material from the Poll Money Ordinances (1660-1661). Dublin: S.O. 1939. pp. xix, 946. Maroon cloth, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's signature on front pastedown. Some fading to covers. A very good copy. Scarce. €185 The original manuscripts from which this book is printed are copies of townland census returns of the inhabitants of Ireland, compiled under the direction of Sir William Petty, (see item 437). They are arranged geographically in counties, baronies, parishes and townlands; and in cities, parishes and streets. In addition to listing English and Scottish settlers they also supply important and interesting barony and city lists of the names and numbers of the principal Irish inhabitants. The returns for the counties of Cavan, Galway, Mayo, Tyrone and Wicklow are wanting.

303. PETRIE, George. Ten Views of Picturesque Scenery in the North and North West of Ireland. Engraved by William Miller, from drawings by George Petrie, Esq. R.H.A., M.R.I.A., &c. With short descriptions. Dublin: William Curry, Jun., and Company, 1830. pp. 21. Quarter green morocco on thick printed wrappers. Stamp of MacDowel Cosgrave collection, dated 1906 on front endpapers. Plates with tissue guards. Light damp-staining to margins of plates.

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COPAC locates the TCD copy only.

Contains views of: Drogheda; Narrow-Water Castle; Rostrevor; Belfast, from Turf-Lodge; The Long Bridge and Cave-Hill, Belfast; Giant's Causeway; Carrick-a-Rede; Dunluce Castle; Londonderry; Lough Gill.

THE DOWN SURVEY 304. [PETTY, Sir William] History of the Cromwellian Survey of Ireland, A.D. 1655-6, commonly called 'The Down Survey'. Edited, from manuscripts in the libraries of T.C.D., The King's Inns, and The Marquis of Lansdowne, by Thomas Aiskew Larcom. Dublin: For the Irish Archaeological Society, 1851. Quarto. pp. [iv], xxiv, 426. Mauve blind-stamped cloth. Foxing to prelims. A very good copy. Scarce. €275 The most important cartographical event in Ireland in the seventeenth century was the survey carried out by Sir William Petty of the estates of the Irish landowners. The Down Survey as it was called, resulted in the publication of Hiberniae Delineatio which was a milestone in Irish cartography. It took thirteen months to complete and was carried out by1,000 men of Petty's choosing. For his services he was paid £9,000, an enormous amount in those days, some of this money he invested profitably in the purchase of soldiers' debentures. According to John Aubrey, one could view the whole of Petty's vast estate, from the top of Mangerton, amounting to some 50,000 acres in the county of Kerry. It had long been known that Sir William Petty had left an account of the Down Survey. He made several references to this survey in his writings, and also mentions it in his Last Will and Testament. In 1834, Mr. James 76

De Búrca Ra re Books Weale, of the department of Woods and Forests, an ardent collector of books and manuscripts relating to Ireland, purchased at the sale of the library of Lord De Clifford, a manuscript copy of the Down Survey. On his death in 1838, this survey along with other manuscripts were purchased by the Government. It was from this copy that Sir Thomas A. Larcom published the present volume for the Irish Archaeological Society. The term Down Survey simply means, the results were set down or laid down on maps.

305. PIM, Herbert Moore. Unknown Immortals in the Northern City of Success.

Illustrated by John McBurney. Dublin: The Talbot Press. London: Fisher Unwin, 1917. pp. 96. Quarter blue linen on illustrated blue boards, printed label on spine, a little worn. A very good copy. €75 Herbert Moore Pim was one of the most unusual characters to have emerged from the revolutionary period in Irish history. Although rarely mentioned in the works dealing with the period, his political trajectory took him into contact with many of the leading figures of the cultural, nationalist and unionist circles of the time.

Herbert Moore Pim, poet and writer, was born in Belfast in 1883. Educated as a Quaker, he became a Catholic nationalist about 1918 but was later said to have reverted to Unionism.

He died in England.

306. [POCOCKE, Richard] Richard Pococke's Irish Tours. Edited with an introduction and notes by George T. Stokes.

Dublin: Hodges Figgis, 1891. pp. [ii], 187.

Green cloth over bevelled boards, titled in gilt. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Spine with small nick to head. A very good copy. Very scarce. €265 Richard Pococke made extensive travels throughout Ireland from the 1740s to the 1760s, and kept a detailed written record of all his excursions.

His Irish journals, never before collected, are here published complete for the first time and offer a fascinating insight into the life of mid-eighteenth century Ireland.

LAURENCE WALDRON'S COPY A FINE COPY OF THE RARE FIRST EDITION IN RARE DUST JACKET 307. POE, Edgar Allan. Tales of Mystery and Imagination. Illustrated with sixteen plates in colour, twenty-four full-page line drawings, and numerous other vignettes by Harry Clarke.

London: George G. Harrap, 1919. Crown octavo. First edition. Pictorial olive green cloth decorated in black. Top edge gilt. Bookplate of Laurence Waldron, Marino, Killiney on front pastedown. With rare lightly frayed original dust jacket. A fine copy. €1,650 Steenson A2.b This is a collection of twenty-nine spine-chilling tales by the master of mystery and suspense, Edgar Allan Poe. It includes such classics as The Fall of The House of Usher and The Murders in the Rue Morgue. These tales illustrated by the renowned Irish artist, Harry Clarke, transport the reader into a world of morbid fascination, fantasy and fear. In a letter dated October 10th 1919 to his early patron Laurence Waldron, Clarke wrote "I send you today the first copy I received of the ordinary edition of the Tales. I hope you may like it apart from the horror of the stories. I don't forget August 1914 when in the midst of all the trouble you helped me to retain the commission after Harrap cancelling it - it was kind".

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Laurence Ambrose Waldron PC (1858-1923), stockbroker, politician, and patron of the arts was born at Ballybrack, County Dublin. He was fourth son of Laurence Waldron (M.P. for Tipperary), and Anne White daughter of Francis White, surgeon and inspector of lunatic asylums. His elder brother Brig.General Francis Waldron served in the second Boer War. He was educated at Belvedere College and also at the Oratory School, Birmingham. He established his own stockbroking firm and soon had a thriving business. He served as M.P., representing the Irish Parliamentary Party, for Dublin St Stephen's Green, from 1904 to 1910.

His friends included Oliver St. John Gogarty, George Moore, and J.M. Synge, knew him as 'Larkey', and he was known as a raconteur and epicurean. A noted collector of books and art, he immersed himself in the literature of the Celtic revival. His sumptuous home, Marino, Killiney, reflected his literary and artistic tastes and became a regular haunt for many of Dublin's literati.

In the summer of 1912 he befriended Harry Clarke, and acted as his patron until his death in 1923. In 1913 he secured a travel scholarship for Clarke, who became a regular visitor to his home. He commissioned several works from Clarke including the Queen's series of stained glass panels. Waldron also introduced him to other potential patrons and members of Dublin's artistic community. Waldron was a familiar sight in Dublin streets, walking behind his carriage while his dog reclined in comfort on its seat. When he died in December 1923, Harry Clarke designed his memorial card.

308. [POLISH CLOTHING] A Photographic Card showing members of a deputation who waited on the Minister for Industry and Commerce regarding the importation of Polish clothing: P.T. Daly, S. Byrne, Senator Farren, Senator M. Duffy, and J.W. Kelly. 102 x 82mm. €45 309. POWER, Arthur. From the Old Waterford House. Charming and Intimate Glimpses of Life in one of Waterford's "big houses". Waterford: Carthage Press, 1940. pp. [vi], 180. Coloured wrappers. A very good copy. scarce. €65 Includes an account of his friendship with Joyce.

310. [PRAEGER, Miss S. Rosamond] A Postcard of Rosamond Praeger's - The Waif (Bronze Statuette, 28in. high). Published by Comhairle Cathrach Átha Cliath (Municipal Gallery of Modern Art). 140 x 90mm. In very good condition. €35 78

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311. [PROTESTANT GENTLEMAN] The Answer of a Protestant Gentleman in Ireland, to a Late Letter from N.N. upon a late Discourse between them, concerning the present posture of that Countrey, and the part fit for those concerned there to act in it. London: Printed for Ric. Chiswell, at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1689. Quarto. pp. [ii], 18. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt along spine. Title slightly off-set. A fine copy.

Rare. â‚Ź675 Wing A 3283B. ESTC R10297. Sweeney 173.

A defence of the action of Irish Protestants in fleeing to England and their unwillingness to return to their estates as long as the country continues under the government of King James. He writes "Consider the proceedings of the Emperor Ferdinand the second. Tell me if any man in his senses ought to relie on the word and promise of a Popish prince made to his heretical subjects". And he goes on to explain that "Tho' our Rents do not come out of Ireland after us, but are intercepted by such as have no right to them; yet we may live, the generous people of England will not let us starve, we are not in the least doubt but King William will provide handsom subsistence for us according to our several capacities.

We are proud that so illustrious a person as Lord Halifax will vouchsafe to solicite for us".

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312. [PROUT, Father] Shandon Bells. Illustrated by Joseph Lauber. London: Lithographed and Printed by Hazell, Watson & Viney for Richard Clay, n.d. (c.1890). pp. 32. Pictorial stitched wrappers. Some light staining to lower margin of rear cover. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €125 No copy located on COPAC.

313. [QUEEN CHARLOTTE MILLS] Receipt made out to Dr. Truell, 15 Fitzwilliam Sq. East, on Queen Charlotte Mill's headed paper for goods bought at the British Woollen Mart, 44 Castle Street, Wright & Jebb, Proprietors, dated Dublin, Jan. 1825. Single quarto sheet with manuscript entries. €135 MEENAWANNIA IN GLENTIES 314. QUIGGIN, E.C. A Dialect of Donegal. Being the speech of Meenawannia in the parish of Glenties. Phonology and texts. Cambridge: U.P. 1906. pp. x, 245. Brown cloth, titled in gilt. A very good copy. Rare. €165 315. REEVES, William. A Lecture on the Antiquities of Swords, Delivered at Swords, in the Borough Schoolhouse, on Wednesday Evg., Sept. 12 1860 by the late Right Rev. William Reeves, D.D. Bishop of Down; formerly Vicar of Lusk. Dublin: Printed by Charles W. Gibbs, n.d. pp. 16. Illustrated wrappers. Staple a little rusted. Owner's signature on upper cover. A very good copy. Rare. €45 316. REEVES, Rev. William, Ed. by. Acts of Archbishop Colton in his Metropolitan Visitation of The Diocese of Derry, A.D. 1397. With a rental of the see estates at that time. Edited from the original roll preserved in the Archiepiscopal record closet of Armagh. With an Introduction and Notes. Dublin: I.A.S., 1850. Quarto. pp. xx, 149. Cloth. With the signature of Earl Bective (Member of the Society). Occasional light foxing. A very good copy. €125 317. REEVES, William. Ed. by. The Life of St. Columba, Founder of Hy; Written by Adamnan, ninth Abbot of that Monastery. The text printed from a manuscript of the eighth century; with the various readings of six other manuscripts preserved in different parts of Europe.

To which are added, copious notes and dissertations, illustrative of the early history of the Columbian institutions in Ireland and Scotland. With two maps, five plates (four in colour), and two genealogical tables. Dublin: Printed at the University Press, for the Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society, 1857. Quarto. pp. [2], lxxx, 497, 1. Mauve blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on evenly faded spine. This copy was printed for Major-General Porter, Member of the Society. A very good copy. Very scarce. €245 318. REYNOLDS, J.J. Footprints of Emmet. Illustrated. Dublin: Gill, 1903. pp. 127 (double column). Crown octavo. Cloth with a medallion portrait of Emmet in gilt on upper cover, and tooling in blind to a Celtic design. Covers lightly stained, minor wear to spine ends and corners.

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De Búrca Ra re Books With fifty illustrations, including many from the author's photographs as well as several plates from the Emmet family archive.

319. RICE, John Herman. The Round Towers, Their Use and Origin. Dublin: Printed by Sealy, Bryers and Walker, n.d. (c.1918). Pictorial stapled wrappers. Repair to spine. A very good copy.

Extremely rare. €150 COPAC locates the BL copy only.

320. ROBBINS, Frank. Under the Starry Plough.

Recollections of the Irish Citizen Army.

Illustrated. Dublin: The Academy Press, 1977.

First edition. pp. 251. Green arlen, titled in gilt. A fine copy in lightly frayed dust jacket. Very scarce. €75 The author, a born and bred Dubliner, was a messenger boy at eight and a factory worker and ardent trade unionist at fifteen. On the outbreak of the Easter Rebellion in 1916 he was a sergeant in the Irish Citizen Army, along with a colleague he raised aloft the flag of Irish freedom (tricolour) on the roof of the College of Surgeons. A compelling narrative written from the viewpoint of a rank-and-file worker and soldier with much new information and including what is probably the best account of the activities of the St. Stephen's Green garrison.

The long personalised inscription is to his friend Liam Kavanagh "my friend & colleague of the 1916-21 Association. Former Governor of Mountjoy Prison under our first Irish Government whose gracious ways did more to win the battle which was then very necessary".

321. [RUDYARD KIPLING] France at War. London: Macmillan and Co., 1915. pp. 73, 2.

Cream paper wrappers, title printed in red on upper cover above the French flag. Some minor spotting, otherwise a very good copy. €75 322. RYAN-SMOLIN, Wanda. King's Inns Portraits. Photography by John Kellett. Dublin: Published by the Council of King's Inn, 1992. pp. ix, 88. Pictorial wrappers. A fine copy. €25 323. [SAINT PATRICK] St. Patrick's Breastplate. Oblong octavo card printed on one side only.

Text with illuminated initials. Published by the Yeats Sisters at the Cuala Press, Dundrum. In fine condition. Rare. €75

324. [SCOTCH-IRISH] The Scotch-Irish and Ulster. Compiled by Eric Montgomery. With illustrations. Belfast: Ulster-Scot Historical Society, 1965. pp. 31. Pictorial wrappers. Owner's signature on titlepage. A very good copy. €20 81

De Búrca Ra re Books There were no less than ten Presidents of the United States with direct Scotch-Irish ancestry. This pamphlet has portraits and biographical sketches of them: Andrew Jackson, James Knox Polk, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Chester Alan Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley and Woodrow Wilson.

THE HISTORIAN C.P. CRANE'S COPY 325. SCULLY, Reginald W. Flora of County Kerry. Including the Flowering Plants, Ferns, Characeae, &c. With six plates and a coloured folding map. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1916. pp. lxxxi, 406. Original blue cloth over bevelled boards. Spine rebacked, stain to lower cover.

Signature of the historian, C.P. Crane, on half title. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. €950 Dr. Reginald W. Scully (1858-1935), well known as the author of the excellent Flora of County Kerry, took the medical course at the Royal College of Physicians in Dublin, but did not practise. His interest in botany was stimulated by A. G. More. He was a man of retiring disposition, and acquired his knowledge of Irish flowering plants more by study and field-work than by participation in the scientific life of Dublin, where he resided for most of his life, making long summer sojourns especially in Kerry.

He was co-editor with Colgan of the second edition of Cybele Hibernica, but on the latter fell the brunt of that laborious undertaking. His Flora of Kerry is, for fullness and critical accuracy, one of the best books on Irish botany that has appeared. In later years he went to live at Rushbrooke near Cork, and, though retaining to the last a keen interest in the flora of Ireland and especially of Kerry.

326. SEYMOUR, St. John D. The Twelfth Century Reformation in Ireland. St. Patrick's Commemoration Booklets, No. 8. Dublin: Association for Promotion of Christian Knowledge, 37 Dawson Street, 1932. pp. 23. Printed wrappers. Some annotations. A very good copy. €15 327. SHACKLETON, Sir Ernest.

South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917.

Illustrated. Amsterdam: Time-Life Books, 1983. pp. xiv, [3], 368.

Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy. €65 Shackleton's epic journey across treacherous seas to summon help, after the 'Endurance' had been crushed and sunk by huge ice-floes, was truly one of the greatest feats of human endurance of the twentieth century. Tom Crean, later of The South Pole Inn, Annascaul, accompanied his fellow countryman on this expedition. Their ship was 200 miles from the nearest land, and 1,000 miles from human assistance.

It was the beginning of one of the most astonishing voyages in maritime history. In a 22 foot long whaling boat they faced roaring seas and shrieking gales, their skin was flayed at every joint with sea blisters, their hands chafed and bleeding, their throats sore with thirst. For two long weeks they were continually bailing and chipping away ice formed by spray. But they got through, moreover, Shackleton and two others followed their miraculous sea journey with an 82

De Búrca Ra re Books astonishing feat of mountaineering. On South Georgia, in darkness of mists, without guides or maps, they made the first ever crossing of a snow-clad mountain range, sliding and staggering down the far side to reach the Norwegian whaling station and safety.

South is Shackleton's monumental record of an adventure story crammed with human drama and endurance.

328. [SHAW, Henry] Shaw's Authenticated Report of the Irish State Trials 1844. Dublin: Printed and published by Henry Shaw, Stationer, 20, Dame-Street, 1844. pp. [16], 678, 1 (advertisement for Bob Norbury). Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, title in gilt on black morocco letterpiece in the second compartment divided by thick gilt raised bands. From the library of T.W. Moody with his signature on front endpaper. Minor wear to extremities. A very good copy. €175 The trial was set for January 15, 1844. During jury selection every Catholic was dismissed as a potential Repealer. The result was a jury made up entirely of Protestants. O'Connell was found guilty, but released on bail pending sentencing. Since he was still a member of the House of Commons, he went to England to take his seat, and rally support. The English feted him at every turn. There were dinners in Liverpool, Birmingham, and Wolverhampton, as well as in London. On returning to Dublin, he was sentenced to one year in prison and given two substantial fines (two thousand and five thousand pounds). While he sat in Richmond Prison, an appeal based on the deficiencies of the jury list and selection of jurors, was launched in the House of Lords. The votes looked as if they would fall along party lines until Lord Chief Justice Denman threw his support for dismissal. Regarded as non-partisan, Thomas Denman believed that Law must be fair and equal for all subjects in every case. On September 4, 1844, Denman used his vote to break a tie and reverse the judgment against O' Connell. Daniel O'Connell died in Genoa on May 15, 1847.

329. SHEARMAN, Hugh. Anglo-Irish Relations. London: Faber and Faber, 1948. pp. 288. Red paper boards. Spine faded, otherwise a good copy. €45 YOUNG IRELANDER "HONEST JOHN MARTIN" 330. SILLARD, P.A. The Life and Letters of John Martin. With sketches of Thomas Devin Reilly, Father John Kenyon, and other "Young Irelanders". Dublin: James Duffy, 1901. Second edition. 16mo. pp. xiii, 297, 20 (Duffy Catalogue). Green cloth. Harp surrounded by a cluster of shamrocks in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Some wear to spine ends. A very good copy. Rare. €125 John Martin (1812-1875) was born in Loughorne, near Newry, County Down, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he studied medicine. He travelled in Europe and America, and on his return to Ireland he became a Young Irelander. He was the schoolfellow and brother-in-law of John Mitchel. He produced the Irish Felon, a militantly nationalist journal, and was tried and sentenced to transportation for ten years. He was pardoned and returned to County Down in 1856, where he established the National League in 1864. He was elected Member of Parliament for Meath in 1871 and held the seat until his death. He was known as 'Honest John' Martin. He died in Newry.

331. SIME, S.H. Ed. by. Idler Magazine. November, 1900. Edited by S.H. Sime. London: 1900.

Small folio. pp. [6], 191-280, xii. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. Scarce. €135 Sidney H Sime (1867-1941) artist, was born in Manchester in poverty. He is best remembered today for his fantastic and satirical artwork, especially in his story illustrations for Lord Dunsany. Sime became famous for his drawings in Pick-Me-Up, The Idler and the Pall Mall Gazette. After receiving an inheritance from his uncle, Sime bought The Idler, but the magazine failed in less than two years.

There are several contributions in the magazine by Sime and a short story by Halitvack entitled Doctor O'Dowd and I. Halitvack was the pen-name of Edward Raphael Lipsett (1869-1921), a Dublin Jew, journalist, novelist and playwright who wrote impressions of the Jews in Ireland.

332. SIMMS, Samuel. Rev. James O'Coigley, United Irishman. Belfast: Quinn, 1937. Quarto. pp. 37. Blue printed stitched wrappers. Loosely inserted are some typed notes on the author.

Signature in pencil of previous owner with his embossed bookplate. Cover sun-tanned. A very good copy. Scarce. €125 Rev. James O'Coigley was born in the parish of Kilmore, County Armagh in 1761. He was ordained in 1785 in Armagh, lived briefly in Paris and then returned to the Armagh diocese. A United Irishmen, he worked at improving Catholic and Presbyterian relations. O'Coigley travelled to England and Paris, 83

De Búrca Ra re Books where he was involved with the United Britons and with James Napper Tandy. While travelling to France, he was arrested alongside four other United Irishmen, one being Arthur O'Connor, a leader of the Rebels of Leinster. Upon his arrest, English authorities discovered a letter by the United Britons addressed to the French Revolutionary Government calling for an invasion of England, hidden in O'Coigley's garments.

O'Coigley asked permission for a Catholic priest, and his jailers delivered a 'Castle-Catholic' reverend, loyal to the British Crown. They ordered him to refuse the last sacraments to Fr. O'Coigley unless the Rebel priest would give details concerning the United Irishmen. Father Coigly would not talk and the visiting priest left with no sacraments dispensed. He was hanged at Penenden Heath, Maidstone on June 7, 1798.

Theobald Wolfe Tone recorded on his birthday, 20th June: "Quigley has been executed and died like a hero. If ever I reach Ireland and that we establish our liberty, I will be the first to propose a monument to his memory".

RARE WICKLOW ITEM 333. SIMOENS, Dr. G. The Gold and the Tin in the South East of Ireland. Illustrated with frontispiece and plans. With an introduction by P.J. McAndrew. Dublin: Cahill, 1921. Small quarto. pp. vii, 198. Paper repair to titlepage. Recent quarter morocco with original blue printed wrappers bound in. Some mild foxing. A very good copy. €95 334. SKRINE, Francis Henry. The Irish Brigades 1689-1745. A Lecture delivered before the Irish Literary Society of London, October 1st, 1921. London: Printed by the Women's Printing Society, Ltd., 1921. pp. 20. Recent paper wrappers. A very good copy. Very scarce. €65 335. [SLIGO, The Marquess Of] Westport House and The Brownes. With illustrations and pedigrees. Derbyshire: Moorland Publishers, 1981. pp. 111. Green paper boards, titled in gilt. A fine copy in illustrated dust jacket. €45 336. SMITH, Aquilla. Ed. by. A Brife Description of Ireland: Made in this yeere. 1589. By Robert Payne, unto xxv of his partners for whom he is undertaker there. Truely published verbatim, according to his letters, by Nich. Gorsan one of the said partners ... with Diuers Notes taken out of others. At London, Printed by Thomas Dawson, 1590. And Re-printed at Dublin: 1841. Quarto. pp. viii, 31. Half morocco on green paper boards. Signed presentation copy from the author to D.H. Haigh. Some spotting to half-title, otherwise a very good copy. €150 In his introduction the editor states: "The second edition of this little tract was not known to be in existence until November, 1840, at which time it was purchased at a book sale, in Dublin, at a very considerable price, by a member of the Irish Archaeological Society, who has kindly permitted it to be reprinted. It contains many interesting particulars, which are narrated in a manner calculated to impress the reader with perfect confidence in the fidelity of the Author's relation of what he 'discovered and learned' during his residence in the south of Ireland ... Her Majesty was intent on peopling Munster with English settlers, and letters were written to every county in England to encourage younger brothers to become 'undertakers' in Ireland, a name applied to the settlers on account of their being obliged to undertake to observe certain conditions enjoyed by the Queen. The plan devised for the Plantation of Munster, was, to divide the forfeited lands into seignories; and to require each undertaker for 12,000 acres, to plant eighty-six families upon his estate".

337. SMITH, Stuart. How to Study Birds. Illustrated. London: Collins, 1945. First edition. pp.

192. Recent quarter calf on marbled boards. A very good copy. €45 Study of birds' behavioural patterns and answers such questions as: how birds find their way when migrating, how young birds learn to sing, the significance of territory to birds, etc.

338. 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 paper boards, title printed on upper cover and spine, binding evenly faded, slight wear to head of spine. Previous owner's signature on half-title. Medallion portrait of the author loosely inserted.

A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €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 84

De Búrca Ra re Books 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 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.

339. SNODDY, Theo. Dictionary of Irish Artists 20th Century. Second edition. Dublin: Merlin Publishing, 2002. Second edition. pp. 768. Blue paper boards, titled in gilt. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €75 340. [SOTHEBY'S CATALOGUE] Catalogue of A Selected Portion of the Well-known Library from Killadoon, County Kildare formed by the late H.J.B. Clements, Esq. The Property of Col. H.T.W. Clements. The Second Part Printed Books and Manuscripts. Days of Sale: Fourth Day Monday, 31st October, 1966 Lots 721-963; Fifth Day Tuesday, 1st November, 1966 Lots 964-1217. At eleven o'clock precisely each day. Illustrated. London: Sotheby's & Co., 1966. pp.

91. Printed stiff wrappers. Prices realised written in red and black ink. Printed list of prices with buyers' name tipped in at end. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Some newspaper clippings laid on verso of frontispiece. A very good copy. Rare. €145

341. STAFFORD, Thomas. Pacata Hibernia; or, a History of the Wars in Ireland, during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. Taken from original Chronicles. Two engraved portraits (with explanatory slip of verses to that of Queen Elizabeth), eighteen engraved maps and plates, all but one folding. Three parts in three volumes. Dublin: Reprinted by the Hibernia-Press Company, No. 1, Temple-Lane, 1810. pp. (1) [xvi], 334, (2) [2], 335-708, [7]. Royal octavo, large paper copy. Bound by George Mullen of Dublin in full diced russia. Covers framed by a wide gilt floral 85

De Búrca Ra re Books roll within triple gilt fillets. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands. Title and volume number in gilt direct in the second and fourth, the remainder tooled in gilt to a floral centre-and-corner design; fore-edge ruled in gilt, gilt doubloures. Armorial bookplate of George O'Callaghan on front pastedowns. Minor wear to spine joints. The finest and most fresh set we have ever seen. See illustration on previous page. €1,650 This is one of the great books dealing with Irish history and in particular the final stage of the Elizabethan wars in Ireland (Nine Years War), even if the perspective is that of the winning side. After the death in 1629 of the Earl of Totnes, formerly Sir George Carew, President of Munster, it was put together from the papers by his bastard son, Sir Thomas Stafford. Carew himself played a leading role in the events involved and especially in the decisive battle of Kinsale. One of the great set-pieces in the book concerns the siege of the castle of Glin. Carew had taken the Knight of the Valley's six-year-old heir as hostage and he had the child placed on top of the fortifications sending word to the defenders that they would now have a fair mark at which to direct their fire: "The constable returned answer that the fear of his life should not make them to forbear to direct their volleys of shot for he said in indecent terms not fit for me to write: The place is open where he was born and the knight may have many more sons".

342. STANYHURST, Richard. Richardi Stanihursti Dubliniensis, De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis Libri quattuor ... accessot jos; onros Jonermocari, reri, Appendix, ex Silvestro Giraldo Cambrensi pervetusto scriptora collecta ... Omnia nunc primum in lucem edita. Antwerp: Apud Christopherum Plantinum, 1584. Quarto. pp. 264, [8]. Contemporary full calf. Spine skilfully rebacked. Previous owner's armorial stamp on titlepage. Prelims a bit browned, crease to titlepage. A very good copy. €1,450 Allison and Rogers 1127. Sweeney 4804. COPAC locates 5 copies only.

Richard Stanyhurst (c.1545-1618), author and Jesuit, was born in Dublin, the son of James Stanyhurst, 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 Henry Sidney, the Lord Deputy, his father's friend. Richard studied law at Lincolns Inn; returned to Ireland, married, and became a Catholic. Following the death of his wife in London, he left England 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 archbishop, James Ussher.

The author of several theological discourses, Stanyhurst 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 book, 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 Gaelic Ireland, which in a matter of twenty-five years would be swept away in the aftermath of the Nine Years War and the Plantation of Ulster. 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 Stanyhurst 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.

Includes index. Printed marginalia. Woodcut printer devices. Error in pagination: 69 numbered 68.

FIRST IN THE IRISH LANGUAGE IN ROMAN TYPE 343. STAPLETON, Theobald. Catechismus, seu doctrina Christiana, Latino-Hibernica, per modum dialogi, inter Magistrum et Discipulum. Bruxellis, 1639. Dublin: S.O., 1945. Reflex facsimile. pp. 17, 172. Signature of Gerard MacNamara, Ecclesiastical Inspector, Down & Connor, on front endpaper. Quarter linen on worn red paper boards. Minor wear to corners. A very good copy. €475 Theobald Stapleton was born in County Kilkenny and educated in Tipperary under Maurice Beggan.

Although English by descent, he was not connected with the Yorkshire family of Stapleton. He went to Salamanca in 1609 and was later ordained in Flanders. He published Catechismus seu doctrina christiana latino-hibernica in 1639 and this catechism is celebrated for being the first book printed in the Irish language in roman type.

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De Búrca Ra re Books Stapleton's object in publishing it was to promote the use of Irish in religious literature, and to further this object he added to the book an appendix in nineteen sections giving directions for reading Irish.

The dedication is to Prince Ferdinand, governor of Belgium and Burgundy.

At a Sotheby auction in London, the original edition made €35,775, a few years ago.

It was the first work in the Irish language printed in Roman type.

344. [STEVEN, Robert] An Inquiry into The Abuses of The Chartered Schools in Ireland. With Remarks upon the Education of the Lower Classes in that Country. London: Printed for Thomas and George Underwood, 32 Fleet Street, 1817. pp. [vii], 222. New paper spine over original grey boards, corners slightly worn and bumped. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €875

COPAC locates only 3 copies.

Dedication signed: Robert Steven.

Irish Charter Schools were operated by The Incorporated Society in Dublin for Promoting English Protestant Schools in Ireland. The Charter Schools only admitted Catholics, under the condition that they be educated as Protestants. These schools were intended, in the words of their programme, "to rescue the souls of thousands of poor children from the dangers of Popish superstition and idolatry, and their bodies from the miseries of idleness and beggary".

345. STEWART, Ann M. Irish Art Societies and Sketching Clubs. Index of Exhibitors 18701980. Two volumes. Dublin: Four Courts, 1997. pp. (1) xi, 432, (2) [iv], 433-778. Green buckram, title in gilt on upper cover and spines. €75 346. [STEWART, Ann M.] Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts. Vol. 1 A-G; Vol. II G-M; Vol. III N-Z. Index of Exhibitors and their Works 1826-1979 compiled by Ann M. Stewart. Three volumes. Dublin: Manton Publishing, 1985/1987. pp. (1) xxiii, 314, (2) [3], 317, (3) [4], 316.

Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good set in frayed and torn dust jackets. €250 347. [STOCK, Bishop] A Narrative of what Passed at Killalla, in the County of Mayo, and the parts adjacent, during the French Invasion in the Summer of 1798. By an Eye-Witness. Dublin: By and for R.E. Mercier and John Jones, 1800. Second edition. pp. [ii], 152. Contemporary quarter calf on marbled. Spine expertly rebacked. Scarce. €265 In August, 1798 one thousand French troops under the command of General Humbert landed near Killala on the west coast of Ireland, to be joined by over three thousand local men eager to strike a blow for their country's freedom. The author's home became the headquarters of the insurgent army.

Following a whirlwind campaign the combined force was defeated at Ballinamuck.

Joseph Stock (1740-1813), Bishop of Killala became a prisoner of the French under General Humbert.

He kept a diary of these momentous events which was first published in 1799.

348. STOKES, Gabriel. Tragoediae selectae scilicet Euripidis Hippolytus Iphigenia in Aulide.

Cum Interpretatione & notis In Usum Juventutis Academiae Dubliniensis. Jussu & Impensis Academiae editae, Operâ & Curâ Gabrielis Stokes, L.L.D. Dublinii: In Edibus Academicis 87

De Búrca Ra re Books Excudebat Guliel. M'Kenzie, 1794. pp. [6], iv, 108, 89 ,[1], 48. Contemporary full walnut calf, title in gilt on red morocco letterpiece. Slight wear to lower part of spine, with minute loss of leather. From the library of Robert Montgomery of Convoy with his signature on titlepage. Some light browning to first gathering. Minor surface and corner wear. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €375 ESTC T220041 with 2 locations only RIA, Derry & Raphoe.

349. STOKES, Margaret. Six Months in the Apennines or a pilgrimage in search of vestiges of the Irish Saints in Italy. With numerous illustrations. London: George Bell, 1892. Quarto. pp. xiv, 313. Cream and grey cloth, title and device in gilt on upper cover, titled in gilt on spine. A fine copy. €135 350. STOKES, Whitley. Ed. by. Irish Glosses. A Mediaeval Tract on Latin Declension, with Examples Explained in Irish. To which are added The Lorica of Gildas, with the Gloss Thereon, and a selection of Glosses from the Book of Armagh. Dublin: Printed at the University Press, for The Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society, 1860. Quarto. pp. [iii], 206, [1], 8 (I.A. & C.S. Publications). Mauve blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Rare. €125 351. STOKES, Whitley. Ed. by. Three Irish Glossaries. Cormac's Glossary Codex A. (From a manuscript in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy); O'Davoren's Glossary (From a manuscript in the Library of the British Museum); and A Glossary to the Calendar of Oingus The Culdee (From a manuscript in the Library of Trinity College Dublin). With a preface and an index. London: Williams and Norgate, 1862. pp. lxxx, 168. Brown blind-stamped cloth. Crude repair to spine. With the signature of 'E. Hogan S.J.' on titlepage. €135 352. STOUT, Hon. Robert. Notes on the Progress of New Zealand for twenty years, 1864-1884.

Illustrated with charts and maps. Wellington: George Didsbury, 1886. pp. 39, 21 (folding charts).

Blue cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. Ex. lib. Glenstal Abbey Library, with stamp. Covers a little faded. A very good copy. €75 There are two folding maps shewing the location and density of the population of New Zealand in 1864 and 1881. The map states that the Maoris are excluded. The author was Premier of the Colony.

FROM THE COLLECTION OF LADY OTTOLINE MORRELL 353. STRONG, L.A.G. Dublin Days.

Stratford-upon-Avon: Printed at Shakespeare Head Press for Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1921. First edition of the author's first regularly published book, preceded only by "Dallington Rhymes" of which 20 copies were privately printed in 1919. Green stitched wrappers, title on printed label on upper cover. Loosely inserted are two autograph letters signed from Strong to Lady Ottoline Violet Anne Morrell dated December, 1928 and December, 1929 presenting his own works and arranging visits. An unopened copy. In very good condition.

Lady Ottoline (1873-1938), English aristocrat and society hostess. Her patronage was influential in artistic and intellectual circles, where she befriended writers including Aldous Huxley, Siegfried Sassoon, WB Yeats, T. S. Eliot & D. H. Lawrence, and artists including Mark Gertler, Dora Carrington and Gilbert Spencer. She was a regular host to the adherents of the Bloomsbury Group, in particular Virginia Woolf.

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De Búrca Ra re Books HARRY CLARKE'S COPY 354. SYNGE, John M. Poems and Translations. Dublin: Maunsel and Co., 1912. pp. xii, 50.

Quarter vellum parchment on paper boards. Harry Clarke's copy with his signature and copious notes at front. A well used copy by Clarke with soiling to spine. T.e.g. A unique item. €385

355. [TALBOT PRESS] A Complete Catalogue of Talbot Press Books. With Autumn Announcements. Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1921. pp. 24. Decorated stapled wrappers. A very good copy. Rare. €85 It is a pleasure to buy It is a pleasure to give It is a pleasure to get A Talbot Press Book.

356. [TALBOT PRESS] Books About Ireland. The Talbot Press Catalogue of Books. Including books formerly issued by Maunsel & Roberts, Ltd. and Martin Lester, Ltd. Dublin & Cork: The Talbot Press, 1933. pp. 67, [1]. Stitched decorated wrappers, title printed in red on upper cover.

A very good copy. Rare. €75

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De Búrca Ra re Books 357. [THEATRE] Cluithcheoirí na hÉireann (The Theatre of Ireland). Opening Performances of the Season, in the Molesworth Hall, Dublin, on Friday and Saturday, 7th and 8th December,1906.

Programme for The Racin' Lug by Seumas Ó Cuisin; Brand by Henrik Ibsen and Casadh an tSugain by Douglas Hyde. Cover illustration by Seagan Mac Cathmaoil. Single sheet folded and printed on both sides by the Tower Press, Cornmarket. Fold mark. A fine copy. €235 Very early performance of the Ibsen play. Seumas Ó Cuisin is better known as James Cousins.

358. THOMPSON, Wm. Esq. The Natural History of Ireland. Birds, comprising the orders Raptores, Insessores, Rasores, Grallatores, Natatores and Mamalia, Reptiles, Fishes and also Invertebrata. Four volumes. Portrait frontispiece to volume four. London: Reeve, Benham and Reeve, 1849-1856. pp. (1) xx, 434, 1, (2) xi, 346, (3) vii, 491, 1, (4) xxxii, 516. Olive green blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spines. Neat library stamp of John C. MacGowan of Donaghadee on front endpaper and half-titles. Spine evenly sun-tanned. A fine set. Complete sets are exceedingly rare. €865 The eldest son of a Belfast linen merchant, William Thompson was born in 1805. While apprenticed to the linen industry he cultivated his interest in birds, business however did not appeal to him and after a few years he devoted his life to zoology. He contributed many articles to the Belfast Natural Society and other scientific journals. A year before his untimely death he had published three volumes of his Natural History of Ireland, dealing with birds. The manuscript of the fourth volume pertaining to the remaining vertebrates and all the invertebrates was published in 1856 by J.R. Garrett and Robert Patterson. William Thompson was one of the foremost naturalists that Belfast has produced.

359. THYNNE, Rev. William, A.B. The Theory of Algebraic Equations: A Chapter of Elementary Algebra. Cambridge: Deighton, London: Bell, Dublin: Machen, 1849. pp. viii, 154.

Inscribed 'From the Author' on front endpaper, also with previous owner's signature. Original faded cloth. Title on worn printed label on upper cover. A very good copy. €475 Copac locates only 6 copies.

William Thynne, clergyman, taught at Trinity College, Dublin. He achieved fame for his elementary textbooks on the Theory of Equations and Logic. He also dabbled in religious controversy and wrote a number of polemic attacks on the Catholic Church. While not an eminent research mathematician, his textbooks are carefully written, student friendly, and have stood the test of time.

360. TINSLEY, M.E. Bridges Over the Liffey. Illustrated by Stephen Tunney. Glenageary: 1978. pp. 23. Pictorial wrappers. Signed by the author. A very good copy. Rare. €45 361. TODD, James Henthorn. Leabhar Imuinn. The Book of Hymns of the Ancient Church of Ireland. Containing: I. The Hymn of St. Sechnall in Praise of St. Patrick. II. The Hymn of St. Ultan in Praise of St. Brigid. III. The Hymn of St. Cummain Fota in Praise of the Apostles. IV. The Hymn of St. Mugint. V. The Hymn of St. Colman Mac Ui Cluasaight. VI. The Hymn of St. Cuchuimne. VII. The Hymn of St. Hilary in Praise of Christ. VIII. The Hymn of St. Colman Mac Murchon, in Praise of Michael the Archangel. IX. The Hymn of St. Oengus Mac Tipraite in Praise of St. Martin. X. Gloria in Excelsis Deo. XI. The Magnificat. XII. The Benedictus. XIII. Te Deum Laudamus. XIV. The Hymn of St. Columba. XV. The Hymn of St. Columba, "In te, Christe". XVI. The Hymn of St. Columba, "Noli Pater". XVII. The Prayer of St. John the Evangelist. XVIII. The Epistle of Christ to Abgarus. XIX. Prefatory Remarks on the Hymn of St. Fiacc, in Praise of St. Patrick. Edited from the original manuscript in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, with translation and notes. Two volumes. Dublin: Printed at the University Press for I.A.& C.S. 1855/69. Quarto. pp. (1) [iv], 120, 20, 12, 8, (2) [iv], 121-304, + advert.

Mauve blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine. Slight foxing to prelims. A very good set. €275 FROM THE BOOKS OF LECAN AND BALLYMOTE 362. TODD, James Henthorn. Ed. by. Leabhar Breathnach Annso Sis. The Irish Version of the Historia Britonum of Nennius. Edited, with a translation and notes, by J.H. Todd. With introduction and additional notes by the Hon. Algernon Herbert. Dublin: I.A.S., 1848. Quarto. pp. xvi, 287, cxxx, 35, + errata. Mauve blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on rebacked spine. This copy was printed for the Rev. George Studdert, A.M., Member of the Society. Light foxing to prelims. A very good copy €175 90

De Búrca Ra re Books The text of this work is taken principally from a collation of three manuscripts of the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries: I. Collection of various Tracts belonging to Duald Mac Firbis; II. A copy of the Irish Nennius from the Book of Ballymote; III. A copy of this work from the Book of Lecan.

363. TOWNSHEND, Anna J. Manuscript of Prose and Poetry pieces by Anna J Townshend. In a neat forward/slanting hand. Comprising numerous poems in manuscript including the following: Song, Answer, The Voice of Spring, Mein, Wunsch, The Sunbeam, The Death of Alice, etc. Most of the poems are captioned Ballantyre and dated. Signed and dated on front free endpaper by 'Anna J. Townshend / July 20th 1856 / Finis / Fortlands, Killiney / Janry 27 1867'.

Also signed by her pseudonym. Loosely inserted is a drawing of a lady on horseback with the signature of .... Trench, dated November 1803 Geashill. Octavo volume, consisting of 136 pages.

Bound in full black roan, ruled in gilt. In fine condition. €575

364. [TRADE ADVERTISEMENT] Trade Advertisement for Dallas, Tailor. Clerical and Merchant Tailor. Dress Suits and Dinner Jackets A Speciality. Latest Styles. Autumn & Winter 1900-1901. With illustrations. Dublin: 1900. Single sheet folded, printed on all sides. Fine. €65 365. [TRADE CATALOGUE] A Catalogue for Edward Polland Ltd. Watchmakers & Jewellers, Washington House, 18 High Street, Belfast. Established 1879. Profusely illustrated. Belfast: n.d. (c.1890). Quarto. pp. 36. Printed frayed wrappers. Staples rusty. A good copy. Very scarce. €165 366. TRENCH, F. On Gates and Gate-Hanging. Illustrated. S.n. [Dublin? c.1846]. pp. 7, 2 (plates). Original blue paper wrappers. Stitched. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €575 No copy located on COPAC. Author ascribed in NLI copy.

For the benefit of the Cloghjordan Deacon poor's fund.

367. UA DUINNÍN, Athair Pádraig. Cill Áirne. Trácht ar spéar-radharcaibh Locha Léin agus ná tíre 'na thimhcheall. Baile Átha Cliath: Connradh na Gaedhilge, 1902. pp. vi, [2], 89, [2]. Red ribbed cloth, title and badge of Connradh in gilt on upper cover. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. A very good copy. Scarce. €50 91

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RARE PHOTOGRAPHIC ITEM WITH TOUR BOOK AND VIEWER 368. UNDERWOOD and UNDERWOOD. Ireland Through The Stereoscope. Series of early photographs of scenes throughout Ireland. A duplicate of subject laid on cards and numbered one to one hundred with an extra two (not called for). On verso of cards is a brief history and description of each of the photographs. The aforementioned item is cleverly disguised in a box giving the appearance of a double volume set of books. New York and London: Underwood & 92

De Búrca Ra re Books Underwood, 1905. With: Ireland Through the Stereoscope. A Tour conducted by Charles Johnston. With an historical and topographical account of each of the views. Illustrated with six coloured folding maps. 270 pages. Published by Underwood and Underwood. Together with: The Stereoscopic viewer. Exceedingly rare lot. €1,450 369. [UNIONISM] Unionism or Unity? A suggested New Deal for Six-County Industry. Belfast: Printed by P. Quinn, May 1948. pp. 16. Printed stapled wrappers. A fine copy. Scarce. €65 RARE THREE CANDLES ITEM 370. [UNITED ARTS CLUB] An Elaborate Christmas Card for Members of the United Arts Club. With verse in Irish and English. From The Artist and The Gunman To: Nodlaig, 1931.

With two illustrations. Published by Colm O Lochlainn at The Sign of the Three Candles, 1931.

Printed in black on thick off-white paper. Folded in three to tall octavo. A fine and extremely rare Three Candles item. €285 Not in De Búrca.

In one of the illustrations members of the UAC are seated around a long table having a few drinks.

These include: W.B. Yeats, Lennox Robinson, George B. Shaw, George Russell, etc.

See items 370 & 381.

371. USSHER, Arland. The Twenty-Two Keys of the Tarot. With the designs drawn by Leslie MacWeeney. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1976. pp. 46. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Scarce. €35 372. USSHER, James. Jacobi Usserii Armachani Archiepiscopi, Historia Dogmatica Controversiæ inter Orthodoxos & Pontificios de Scripturis et Sacris Vernaculis. Nunc Primum Edita. Accesserunt Ejusdem Dissertationes II de Pseudo-Dionysii Scriptis, & de Epistola ad Laodicenos; antehac Ineditæ. Descripsit, Digessit, & Notis atque Auctario locupletavit Henricus Wharton, A.M., Reverendissimo in Christo Patri ac Domino, Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi, a Sacris Domesticis. London: Typis R.R. Impensis Richardi Chiswell ad insigne Rosæ Coronatæ in Cemeterio D. Pauli, 1690. Quarto. pp. [xvi], 468, [12 (indexes)]. Contemporary full calf, covers ruled with double line fillet, with floral pieces in corner. Spine showing minor signs of wear, otherwise a fine fresh copy. Complete with half-title. Scarce. €765 Wing U179. ESTC R23577. Sweeney 5348 refers to 1689 edition.

First leaf bears half-title, "Jacobi Usserii Armachani Historia dogmatica de scripturis et sacris vernaculis.", on recto and imprimatur, "Imprimatur. Guil· Needham RR. in Christo P. ac D.D. Wilhelmo Archiep. Cant. à Sacris Domesticis. Ex Ædibus Lambhithanis, Junii 27. 1689" on verso.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 373. USSHER, James. A Free Examination of the Common Methods employed to Prevent the Growth of Popery. In which are pointed out their Defects and Errors, and the Advantages they give Papists. To which is added, Seasonable Reflections, humbly offered to the Consideration of the Legislature. Dublin: Printed by D. Chamberlaine, at Faulkner's Head in Dame-Street, facing Fownes's-Street, 1774. 12mo. pp. xii, 252. Early owner's initials on front endpaper. Recent half green morocco on marbled boards. Small tear to margin of E, with partial loss to two lines. A fine copy. €165 ESTC N31680.

374. WALL, Thomas. The Sign of Doctor Hay's Head. Being some account of the hazards and fortunes of Catholic printers and publishers in Dublin from the later penal times to the present day. Illustrated. Dublin: Gill, 1958. First edition. pp. [v], 156. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in spotted dust jacket. €45 Dr. George Hay was a Scottish Catholic Bishop and author of many books of piety, was violently persecuted before and during the Gordon riots towards the end of the eighteenth century. An enterprising Dublin printer, Patrick Wogan, found that the bishop's books were very popular with Irish Catholics, and he began to use Dr. Hay's head as the sign over his printing house and bookshop in Bridge Street.

It was more than a trade sign; it was a confession of faith, a sign of the times and a symbol of Catholic revival which came in the late eighteenth century when Catholic printers as well as merchants and landowners began to emerge out of the shadows of the Penal Laws and to assert their own social, civic and religious rights.

375. WALLACE, Arthur. The Trial of Arthur Wallace, Assistant Deputy Post-Master of Carlow, for Stealing Notes out of the Post Bag, and for Forgery. Dublin: Printed by John Rea, 57, Exchequer-Street, 1800. pp. 48. Recent quarter calf on marbled boards. Signature on titlepage. A very good copy. Very rare. €475 ESTC T106921 with 4 locations only in Ireland.

376. WALSH, Edward. Et al. Poetry & Legendary Ballads of the South of Ireland. By Various Writers. With biographical notices, notes, etc. First series. Illustrated. Cork: Guy, 1894. Imperial octavo. pp. [8], 360, (double column). Contemporary half green morocco over cloth boards.

Ticket of Guy Binder Cork / Binder / Cork on front pastedown. Some minor wear to spine and corners. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. €175 Includes works by: Arthur Gerald Geoghegan, Jeremiah Joseph Callanan, Thomas Condon, Edward Walsh, John Claragh MacDonnell, Father Prout (Francis Sylvester Mahony), Captain John Wood, Richard Alfred Millikin, Edward Lysaght, James Delacour, Bartholomew Simmons, Thomas Osborne Davis, Gerald Griffin, and Henry Bennett. It also contains a list of other County Cork poets, from O'Donoghue's 'Poets of Ireland'.

377. WALSH, Micheline Kerney. Hugh O'Neill & The Flight of the Earls. Illustrated.

Rathmullan: 1991. pp. 28. Illustrated wrappers. A fine copy. €10 378. WALSH, Micheline. The O'Neills in Spain. Dublin: N.U.I., 1957. pp. 46. Stapled wrappers.

A very good copy. €25 379. [WALSH, Rev. Paul] The Life of Aodh Ruadh O Domhnaill. Transcribed from the Book of Lughaidh O Clérigh with introduction, notes, glossary, text and translation by Rev. Paul Walsh and prepared for press by Colm O Lochlainn. Part I, Text and Translation. Part II, Introduction Glossary, etc. Dublin: Published for the Irish Text Society, 1948/1957. pp. (1) xi, 347, (2) [8], 467. Green ribbed cloth. Celtic shield in gilt on upper cover, titled in gilt on decorated spine.

Previous owner's signature on front endpapers. Newspaper clippings relating to Red Hugh on pastedowns. A very good set. €165 380. WALTER, Scott. Rob Roy. By The Author of "Waverley", "Guy Mannering", and "The Antiquary". Three volumes. Edinburgh [and London]: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. For Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Browne, London, 1818. pp. (1) viii, 321, [1], (2) [3], 324, (3) [3], 348. Contemporary half maroon morocco, flat spine divided into compartments by gilt fillets. Title and volume number in gilt direct. All edges sprinkled. A very good set. €175 94

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381. [WARE, Robert] Pope Joan: Or, an Account Collected out of the Romish Authors, Proved to be of the Clergy and Members of that Church, Before Luther left her Doctrine; and also Of Romish Authors, since Luther departed from Rome; testifying, that there was a She-Pope, who sate in that See, and Ruled the Same. London: Printed for William Miller, at the Gilded Acorn in St. Paul's Church Yard, 1689. Small quarto. pp. [iv], 24. Title offset, within double ruled border.

Quarter morocco on cloth boards. Slight wear to covers, otherwise a very good copy. Very Scarce. €695 Wing W 850. ESTC R38939. Sweeney 5544.

In this work Ware claims that his evidence shows "that there was a she-pope, who sate in that See and ruled the same", but few modern scholars would agree. Robert was the second son of Sir James Ware and was vehemently opposed to the Roman Catholic interest of Ireland in the reign of King Charles II. Fearing for his safety and on the advice of the Earl of Clarendon, then Lord Lieutenant, he moved to England with his family, only to return after the accession of William and Mary.

382. WARREN, Rev. Thomas. A History and Genealogy of the Warren Family in Normandy, Great Britain and Ireland, France, Holland, Tuscany, United States of America, etc. (A.D. 9121902). With numerous pedigrees. Portrait frontispiece. London: Printed for private circulation, 1902. First edition. pp. xiv, 399. Olive green cloth, titled in gilt on upper cover and spine. Early owner's signature on front free endpaper. Some minor wear to spine ends and corners. Top edge gilt. A good copy. Very rare. €225 COPAC locates 8 copies only [1 in Ireland - TCD].

The section dealing with the Warren family in Ireland consists of 150 pages. With chapters on: The Warrens of Warrenstown, County Meath; The Warrens of Cavan, Cork, Kinsale, Youghal, Donegal, Down, Dublin, Kildare, Kilkenny, King's and Queen's Counties, Londonderry, Louth, Wicklow, etc.

383. WATSON, R. An Address to the People of Great Britain. By R. Watson, Lord Bishop of Landaff. Dublin: Printed by John Exshaw, 1798. pp. [ii], 27. Disbound. A fine copy. €185 ESTC N2027.

Rt. Rev. Richard Watson (1737–1816) was an Anglican clergyman and academic, who served as the Bishop of Llandaff from 1782 to 1816. He wrote some notable political pamphlets.

CORK BOOKSELLER 384. [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; and an unlimited Retrospect, including some extraordinary circumstances relative to The Letters of Junius, and a chain of corroborative evidence respecting their author. 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, Magazines, Reviews, Periodical Essays 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, title in gilt on upper cover. Separate title to the 95

De Búrca Ra re Books second part, lithograph portrait frontispieces, with a further nine lithographed portraits, four plates, woodcuts in the text. Spine rebacked. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper.

A very good copy. Rare. €695 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".

385. WESTROPP, Thomas Johnson. The Ancient Places of Assembly in the Counties Limerick and Clare. Illustrated. Dublin: Reprinted from the Journal of The Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 1919. pp. [1], 24. Blue printed stitched wrappers. Inscribed and titled on upper cover to "Mungret College / With T.J.W's compliment". Also with the latter's stamp with address 115, Strand Road, Sandymount. A very good copy. €35 386. WEYGANDT, Cornelius. Irish Plays and Playwrights. Portrait frontispiece of W.B. Yeats and other illustrations. London: Constable, 1913. pp. x, 314. Green blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Owner's signature on half-title. Minor wear to corners. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. €95 387. WHYTE, John. The Reform of Stormont. A New Ulster Movement Publication. This pamphlet is designed to stimulate informed debate in Northern Ireland and in Great Britain on the need to change Northern Ireland's political structures as an essential part of uniting our community. Belfast: 1971. pp. [16]. Stapled printed wrappers. T.W. Moody's copy with his signature on upper cover. A very good copy. €15 FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION 388. WILDE, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Paris: Charles Carrington, 1908. pp. 312. Quarter Publisher's vellum over pale blue boards. Original printed dust jacket, frayed at edges. A very good copy. €375 Black and white illustrations by Paul Thiriat each with captioned tissue guard.

With the publisher's insert stating that the book, although dated 1908, was only published now [1910] because of the Artist's ill health. Listed in The Observer's All-Time 100 Best Novels.

389. WILSON, T.G. A Hitherto Undescribed Death-Mask of Dean Swift.

Dublin: Reprinted from The Journal of Royal Society of Antiquaries, 1951. pp.

107-114. Blue paper wrappers, title printed on upper cover. Complimentary copy signed by the author. Small tea stain to front cover, otherwise a very good copy. €45 390. WOULFE, Rev. Patrick. Sloinnte Gaedheal is Gall. Irish Names and Surnames. Collected and Edited with Explanatory and Historical Notes. Kansas: Irish Genealogical Foundation, 1992. pp. xlvi, 753. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy. €65 In his introduction Rev. Woulfe states: "It is now nearly twenty-five years since I began to collect Irish names in one of the large towns of Lancashire. At that time there was still, in most of the industrial 96

De Búrca Ra re Books districts of England, a good sprinkling of Irish speakers, exiles of the famine years half a century before. Of those I met nearly all were from the West of Ireland". The author, a native of Limerick, spent many years in England, where he began his research on Irish Names and Surnames. On returning to clerical duties in his native county he gathered as much oral and written information as was possible before publishing this authoritative work on Irish families.

Dr. Edward MacLysaght said of this work: "there exists a book which deserves high praise; the Rev. Patrick Woulfe's Sloinnte Gaedheal is Gall. I take this early opportunity of acknowledging my indebtedness to Father Woulfe's work".

391. [X.Y.Z.] The Budget of 1909. What it Means to Ireland. Dublin: Dollard, Printing House, Ltd. 1909. pp. 19. Printed wrappers. Staples rusted. A good copy. €125 Not in NLI. No copy located in COPAC. Not in Carty.

392. [YEATS, Jack B.] Ceachta beaga Gaedhilge. Irish Reading Lessons. Compiled by Norma Borthwick. With illustrations by Jack B. Yeats. Books I, II, and III. Dublin: The Irish Book Company, 1905/1915. pp. (I) 30, (II) 28, (III) 40. Recent buckram, with original wrappers bound in. A good set. Rare. €275 These little books were immensely popular with children in the early years of the twentieth century, and the thirty-nine illustrations introduced Jack B. Yeats to many who would never have seen his paintings. Some of the blocks are dated from '92, when he was just twenty years old and they all show his great graphic power.

393. YEATS, W.B. & JOHNSON, L. Poetry and Ireland: Essays. Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1908. pp. [ii], 54. Printed in red and black. Quarter cream linen on blue paper boards. Wear to spine. A very good copy. €225 Wade 242. Miller XII. The first book printed at The Cuala Press.

394. YEATS, W.B. Poems. London: Fisher Unwin, 1922. pp. xv, [1], 314, [1]. Light blue cloth, with gilt-stamped design by Althea Gyles on spine and blind-stamp floral design on covers.

Minor spotting to fore-edge. A very good copy. €275 395. YEATS, W.B. Seven Poems and a Fragment. With woodcut on titlepage by Sturge Moore.

Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1922. First edition. pp. [iv], 25. Quarter linen on printed grey boards, title printed on upper cover. Edition limited to 500 copies. A very good copy. Very scarce. €175 Wade 132 Miller 32

396. YEATS, W.B. The Death of Synge, and Other Passages From an Old Diary. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1928. First edition. pp. 35. Original quarter cloth on grey paper boards, title printed on black on upper cover, spine label slightly chipped. One of 400 copies, published by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats with a woodcut by her on the titlepage. A very good copy. €285 Wade 162.

397. YEATS, W.B. Stories of Michael Robartes and His Friends: An Extract from a Record made by his Pupils: And a Play in Prose.

Illustrated. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1931. pp. 46.

Printed in red and black. Quarter linen on printed grey boards. Edition limited to 450 copies. A superb copy. Very scarce. €275 398. YEATS, W.B. A photograph of the funeral of W.B. Yeats, the Nobel Laureate laying in State, with a Guard of Honour, outside the Town Hall, surrounded by a massive crowd of mourners. The Lord Mayor with a wreath and Jack B. Yeats coming down the steps of the town hall, also with a wreath in his hand. 215 x 165mm. In fine condition. €275 W. B. Yeats, the Nobel Laureate died on 28th January 1939 at the Hôtel Idéal Séjour, in Menton, 97

De Búrca Ra re Books France. Ill health had caused him to winter abroad in a warmer climate, but he made it clear that he wanted to be buried in Sligo 'under bare Ben Bulben's head' beside Drumcliffe Church, where his greatgrandfather had been Rector from 1811-1846. War intervened and it was not until September 1948 that the poet returned to Sligo. On 17th September, the L.E. Macha came from Nice to the port in Galway, and the funeral cortege came by road to Sligo.

The poet lay in State, with a Guard of Honour, outside the Town Hall - all shops in Sligo closed for four hours - before moving on to Drumcliffe for the burial. The person in charge of this operation for the Irish Government was Sean MacBride, son of Maud Gonne MacBride, and then Minister of External Affairs. His epitaph is taken from the last lines of "Under Ben Bulben", one of his final poems: Cast a cold Eye On Life, on Death.

Horseman, pass by!

399. YEE, Chiang. The Silent Traveller in Dublin. Illustrated by the author with 12 plates in colour, 4 in mono & 47 line drawings. New York: John Day, 1953. pp. xi, 146. Cream cloth, title in blue on upper cover and spine. Owner's signature on front endpaper. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €35 DECORATED BY MAUD GONNE 400. [YOUNG, Ella] A Celtic Wonder-Tale. Re-told by Ella Young. Illustrated by Maud Gonne.

New edition. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1923. pp. vii, 202. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. Scarce. €125

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 (George Russell), 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. The 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. This work is dedicated to her son Seaghan.

ADDENDA 401. BRUNET, Alexander. The Regal Armorie of Great Britain, from the time of the Ancient Britons to the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria: the Institution of Chivalry, and the Origin of Emblematic Insignia in Ancient Nations. Coloured frontispiece. €225

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402. DUNLOP, Robert. Ireland Under the Commonwealth. Being a selection of documents relating to the Government of Ireland from 1651 to 1659. Edited, with historical introduction and notes. Two volumes. Manchester: U.P., 1913. pp. (1) clxxvi, 282, (2) lxxviii, 471. Cloth, title in gilt on spine. Ex lib with neat stamp. Top edge green. Spines evenly suntanned. A very good set.

Scarce. â‚Ź575 A selection of documents drawn from a number of volumes known as the Commonwealth Records, which were discovered by Prendergast in the Bermingham Tower of Dublin Castle. These were covered in dust and had not seen daylight for over a century. The author's intention in publishing this work was to exonerate Cromwell's policy in Ireland. Initially he was of the opinion that 'The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland' by Prendergast was biased and that the position taken up by Cromwell was divine retribution for the horrid and unprovoked massacre by the Irish Catholics of the English and Scottish settlers in Ireland in 1641. However the more the author sifted through the documents, the more he began to realise that apart from the religious difference between Ireland and 99

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403. HAYES-McCOY, G.A. A History of Irish Flags from earliest times. Profusely illustrated.

Dublin: Academy, 1979. Quarto. pp. 240. Brown arlen, title in black on spine. A fine copy. €175 Since the dawn of Irish history, numerous wars, invasions, rebellions, political movements and upheavals have plagued our land; it is therefore to be expected that the history of Irish flags and emblems is a rich and varied one. The first full-length history of the use of flags and emblems by Irishmen traces the story from archival sources through to the victory of Clontarf, the Norman Conquest, the Cromwellian and Williamite wars and follows the 'Wild Geese' to France and Spain, to Austria/Hungary, the Germanic States and as far away as South America.

IN FINE BAYNTUN RIVIERE BINDING 404. HEALY, Maurice. The Old Munster Circuit. A book of memories and tradition. London: Joseph, 1948. pp. 272. Bound by Bayntun of Bath in half green morocco over green cloth boards, badge of St. Columba College in gilt on upper cover. Spine elaborately tooled in gilt, title in gilt on red morocc label. College Premium label on front endpaper. T.e.g. A very good copy. €225 SIGNED BY SEAMUS HEANEY 405. [HEANEY, Seamus] Seamus Heaney A Bibliography 1959-2003. By Rand Brandes and Michael J. Durkan. London: Faber and Faber, 2008. pp. xxxiii, [1], 494. Black paper boards, titled in gilt. Signed on the titlepage by Rand Brandes and Seamus Heaney, dated at Dublin, 5 July 2008. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €285

See items 405, 406 & 409.

406. [IRELAND] Ireland by Motor Coach. Official Brochure of Extended Tours throughout Ireland, 1933. With folding itinerary map and numerous illustrations. Great Northern Railway and LMS Northern Counties Committee, 1933. pp. 56. Pictorial wrappers. Some light staining to upper cover, otherwise a very good copy. Very rare. €125 407. LEADBEATER, Mary. The Leadbeater Papers. The Annals of Ballitore, by Mary Leadbeater, with a memoir of the author: Letters from Edmund Burke heretofore unpublished: and the correspondence of Mrs. R. Trench and Rev. George Crabbe with Mary Leadbeater. Two volumes. London: Bell and Daldy, 1862. pp. (1) x, 416, xxv, (2) x, 403, [1]. Original blindstamped pebbled cloth. Wear to top of spine and fading to covers. From the library of the French College of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Blackrock, with stamps. A good set. Rare. €475 Mary Leadbeater (1758-1826), author, poet, and memoirist was born in Ballitore, County Kildare. She was the daughter of Richard Shackleton by his second wife, Elizabeth Carleton, and grand-daughter of Abraham Shackleton, schoolmaster of Edmund Burke

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De Búrca Ra re Books 408. O'CONNOR, Mrs. T.P. Herself-Ireland. With 24 illustrations on art paper. London: Hutchinson, 1917. pp. xvi, 300, 4 (advertisements). Blue cloth, titled in gilt. Endpapers with words and music of 'The West's Awake'. Loosely inserted is a card announcing a furniture sale at "Langara", Glenageary by Battersby Auctioneers. Owner's signature in pencil on front endpaper.

Light foxing to prelims. Minor wear to extremities. A very good copy. €150 Chapters include: God Save Ireland and the People in it; Old Dublin - Sir Hugh Lane - The Slums- The Waiter who Refused a Tip; Love and Dean Swift; Hicks - A Man without Price; Old Ireland and the Little White Flower; Irish Wit; Better Strife than Loneliness; The Museum -The Treasures of Ireland; The Beautiful Twin Sisters Cork and Queenstown; A Pleasant Tour; Galway - An Old City of the West; Mitchelstown Castle and an Irish Romance, etc.

409. SWANZY, Henry R. A Handbook of the Diseases of the Eye and their Treatment. With illustrations. London: H.K. Lewis, 1884. First edition. pp. xv, [1], 437, 24 (advertisements). With sheet pasted on lower pastedown 'Holmgren's Tests for Colour Blindness'. Red cloth, titled in gilt. Some wear to binding. A very good copy. Rare. €375 COPAC locates 10 copies only.

410. [TAILTEANN MEDALS] Aonach Tailteann Medals for Art: 1928 Silver Medal - Art First Prize; 1932 Gilded Silver Medal - Art First Prize (both 5cm diameter); 1924 smaller, 2.8cm, bronze Committee Medal, the latter by P. Quinn (exceedingly rare). The other medals by Jewellery & Metal Manufacturing (Segal Family) The recipient Evelyn Gleeson who was designer of the medals. In their original boxes and in excellent condition. €1,250 Provenance: Whyte's Auction Sale of Evelyn Gleeson Material, April 23, 2010.

The medals depict a profile of Queen Tailte, facing left with the title 'An Banrioghan Tailte'. The reverse 'Aonach Tailteann, Baile Atha Cliath. With a circular border of interlaced zoomorphic ornament, incorporating four diminutive figures in postures representing sport and art. The border is broken by the coats of arms of the four provinces of Ireland.

The Tailteann Games were an ancient sporting event held in Ireland in honour of the goddess Tailte. They ran from 1829 BC to 1169-1171 AD when they died out after the Norman invasion.

The site of the games was the plains of Royal Meath, perhaps in the townland of Telltown. The games were held over a thirty day period each year.

The revival of the games was initiated by Ireland's first representative Parliament, Dail Eireann.

Its first President, Eamon de Valera, voted the necessary funds to meet the preliminary expenses.

Unfortunately the games did not proceed due to the Civil War. It went ahead in association in Croke Park in 1924, 1928, and 1932 and it was open to all people of Irish birth or ancestry, with participants coming England, Scotland, Wales, Canada, the USA, South Africa and Australia as well as Ireland.

The bronze commemorative medal was issued to members of the organising committee which included Evelyn Gleeson.

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De Búrca Ra re Books PRINCIPAL SOURCES CONSULTED BEST BLACK BONAR LAW BRADSHAW COPAC CRAIG CRAIG CRONE DE BURCA DIX D.I.B. D.N.B. ELLMAN ELMES & HEWSON E.S.T.C. FERGUSON, Paul GILBERT GILCHER HALKETT & LANG HERBERT HICKEY & DOHERTY HOGAN KELLY, James KENNEDY, Máire KEYNES KINANE KRESS LOEBER LYNAM McCREADY McDONNELL & HEALY McDONNELL McGEE McTERNAN MELVIN MILLER MUNTER N.S.T.C. NEWMAN O’DONOGHUE O’FARRELL O’HIGGINS O’REILLY PATERSON PHILLIPS POLLARD POLLARD PYLE SLATER SLOCUM & CAHOON STC SWEENEY WADE WALL WARE WEBB WIKIPEDIA WING

Bibliography of Irish Philology & of Printed Irish Literature, 1913.

Catalogue of Pamphlets on Economic Subjects 1750-1900 in Irish Libraries.

The Printed Maps of Ireland 1612-1850, Dublin, 1997.

Catalogue of the Bradshaw Collection of Irish Books. 3 vols. 1916.

Online Public Access Catalogue.

Dublin 1660-1860.

Irish Bookbinding. 1954.

The Irish Book Lover. 1910 - 1952.

Three Candles Bibliographical Catalogue. 1998.

Early Printed Dublin Books, 1601-1700. New York, 1971.

Dictionary of Irish Biography. Cambridge, 2009.

The Concise Dictionary of National Biography. 1973.

James Joyce. Oxford, 1983.

Catalogue of Irish Topographical Prints and Original Drawings, Dublin 1975.

Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue.

Map Library, TCD. Catalogue of Books and Mss. in the library of Sir John Gilbert.

A Bibliography of George Moore.

A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain.

Limerick Printers & Printing. 1942.

A Dictionary of Irish History Since 1800. Dublin, 1980.

Dictionary of Irish Literature. Dublin, 1979.

Irish Protestants and the Experience of Rebellion. 2003.

Printer to the City: John Exshaw, Lord Mayor of Dublin 1789-90. [2006] A Bibliography of Sir William Petty F.R.S. 1971.

A History of the Dublin University Press 1734-1976, Dublin, 1994.

The Kress Library of Business and Economics in Harvard. 4 vols. 1940-67.

A Guide to Irish Fiction 1650 - 1900. Dublin, Four Courts, 2006.

The Irish Character in Print. Dublin 1969.

A William Butler Yeats Encyclopædia.

Gold Tooled Bookbindings Commissioned by Trinity College in the 18th Century.

Five Hundred years of the Art of the Bookbinder in Ireland. 1500 to the Present.

Irish Writers of the 17th Century. 1974.

Here’s to their Memory, & Sligo Sources. 1977 & 1988.

Estates and Landed Society in Galway. 2012.

Dolmen XXV Bibliography 1951-1976.

A Dictionary of the Print Trade in Ireland 1550-1775. New York, 1988.

Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue.

Companion to Irish History, 1991.

The Poets of Ireland. Dublin, 1912.

Who’s Who in the Irish War of Independence. Dublin, 1980.

A Bibliography of Irish Trials & other Legal Proceedings. Oxon, 1986.

Four Hundred Irish Writers.

The County Armagh Volunteers of 1778-1993.

Printing and Book Production in Dublin 1670-1800.

Dublin’s Trade in Books 1550-1800.

Dictionary of Members of the Dublin Book Trade 1550-1800.

The Different Worlds of Jack B. Yeats. His Cartoons and Illustrations. Dublin, 1994.

Directory of Ireland. 1846.

A Bibliography of James Joyce. London, 1953.

A Short-Title Catalogue. 1475-1640.

Ireland and the Printed Word 1475-1700. Dublin, 1997.

A Bibliography of the Writings of W.B. Yeats. 1968.

The Sign of Doctor Hay’s Head. Dublin 1958.

The Works - Harris edition. Dublin 1764.

A Compendium of Irish Biography. Dublin, 1878.

Online Encyclopaedia.

Short Title Catalogue of Books Published in England and English Books Published Abroad.

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A SELECTION OF FINE BOOKS FROM OUR PUBLISHING HOUSE B1. BÉASLAÍ, Piaras. Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland. Two volumes. A new introduction by Brian P. Murphy, O.S.B. With two portraits in full colour by Sir John Lavery, and other illustrations to each volume. This major work on Michael Collins is by one of his closest friends. An item which is now commanding in excess of four figures in the auction houses. Dublin: De Búrca, 2008. pp. (1) xxxii, 292, (2) vi, 328.

The limited edition in full green goatskin gilt with a medallion portrait and signature of Collins also in gilt. Housed in a fine slipcase. It includes the list of subscribers. Last few copies. €475 The general edition is limited to 1,000 sets superbly bound in green buckram, with a medallion portrait embossed in gilt on the €95 upper covers, and in slipcase.

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.

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Edmund Burke Publisher Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland is the official biography of a great soldier-statesman and the first authentic history of the rebirth of a nation. Written with inner knowledge by an intimate friend and comrade-in-arms who served with Collins on Headquarters Staff and who shared in many of his amazing adventures and hairsbreadth escapes.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PETER HARBISON B2. BORLASE, William G. The Dolmens of Ireland. Their distribution, structural characteristics, and affinities in other countries; together with the folk-lore attaching to them; supplemented by considerations on the anthropology, ethnology, and traditions of the Irish people. With over 800 illustrations (including 3 coloured plates), and 4 coloured folding maps.

Three volumes. Full buckram decorated in gilt to a Celtic design. With slipcase. Edition limited to 300 sets, with 'List of Subscribers'. â‚Ź295.

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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Edmund Burke Publisher 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 illustrated wraps.

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 d.j. €20 LIMITED EDITION ONE OF THE RAREST OF ALL IRISH BOOKS B5. COLGAN, John. Triadis Thaumaturgae, seu Divorum Patricii, Columbae et Brigidae, trium veteris et maioris Scotiae, seu Hiberniae Sanctorum Insulae, Communium Patronorum Acta, a Variis, iisque pervetustis, ac Sanctis authoribus Scripta, ac studio R.P.F. Joannis Colgani, in Conventu FF Minor, Hibernor. strictior. observ. Louanii, S. Theologiae Lectorius Jubilati. Ex variis Bibliothecis collecta, Scholiis et commentariis illustrata, et pluribus Appendicibus aucta: complectitur Tomus Secundus Sacrarum ejusdem insulae Antiquitatum - Louvain 1647. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, 1997. We have republished ‘one of the rarest of all Irish books’, with a new introduction by Pádraig Ó Riain. The edition is limited to 300 copies, and handsomely bound in blue quarter morocco, title on spine, top edge gilt, red silk marker. Fine in slipcase. €190 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.

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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.

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Edmund Burke Publisher B7. COSTELLO, Willie. The Rambling House. Tales from the West of Ireland. Illustrated by Gerry O Donovan and front cover water-colour by James McIntyre. Dublin: De Búrca, 2003. pp. x, 111. Fine in French flaps. €15 B8. CUSACK, M.F. A History of the Kingdom of Kerry. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 1995. pp. xvi, 453, 6 (extra maps), lxxxiii. Fine in full buckram, with illustrated coloured dustjacket 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 Kilkenny Castle, the calendared and uncalendared Irish State papers, the King’s Letter Books and Entry Books at the Public Record Office for the names of Officers serving on the Irish Establishment, 1661-1685.

In December 1660, Sir Maurice Eustace, Lord Chancellor, Roger, Earl of Orrery, and Charles, Earl of Mountrath were appointed Lord Justices. Under the able rule of Orrery and Mountrath the Army in Ireland was reduced and remodelled. King Charles’s new army dates from 11th February, 1661 and when the Irish parliament met in May the Lord Chancellor informed the House that “there were twenty months” arrears due to the army.

The patrons of military history while glancing at the list of officers appointed to command this army, will recognise the names of many Cromwellian field officers who had served in Ireland during the Commonwealth. One may wonder how these ‘renegades’ found their way into the new Royalist levies.

The answer is that these same officers not only supported the Restoration but were eager in the King’s service afterwards. It transpired that many Cromwellians were retained in the Army of Ireland and had equal rights with those Royalists who had fought for Charles I and had shared the long exile of Charles II. From a purely military point of view they had learned the art of war under the most successful soldier of his time.

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Edmund Burke Publisher 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. T.e.g. A fine binding from the Harcourt Bindery, Boston. €500

Dun Laoghaire harbour, recognised as one of the most picturesque in Europe, was built early in the 19th century as the consequence of an explosion of popular anger at the continuous deaths from shipwreck in Dublin Bay. The most competent and experienced navigators at that time described the port of Dublin as the most perilous in the whole world for a ship to leave or approach in certain circumstances. Thanks largely to the efficiency and foresight of Captain Hutchison, the first Harbour Master, the port built as an ‘Asylum’ harbour or port of refuge, became with the introduction of steamdriven 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 d.j. €20 B12. DONOHOE, Tony. The History of Crossmolina. Foreword by Thomas Gildea Cannon.

Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 2003. Roy 8vo. pp. xviii, 627. Buckram gilt in d.j. Very scarce. €90 The author Tony Donohoe, farmer and keen local historian has chronicled in great detail the history his ancestral parish from the early Christian period to the present. This authoritative work is the result of thirty years of meticulous research and is a most welcome contribution to the history of County Mayo.

In the 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 108

Edmund Burke Publisher bridge the dark gap between seventeenth-century documents detailing the changeover in land ownership from native to settler, and nineteenth-century sources”.

B13. [FAMINE IN IRELAND] Transactions of the Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends during the famine in Ireland, 1846 and 1847. With an index by Rob Goodbody. Dublin: De Búrca, 1996. pp. xliii, 529. Fine in buckram gilt. €35 It is difficult to read unmoved some of the detailed testimony contained in this volume of the reports of the envoys sent out by the Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends, who found out for themselves what was really going on during the Famine in remote country areas.

B14. GLEESON, Rev. John. Cashel of the Kings. A History of the Ancient Capital of Munster from the date of its foundation until the present day. Including historical notices of the Kings of Cashel from the 4th century to the 12th century. The succession of bishops and archbishops from St. Ailbe to the present day. Notices of the principal abbeys belonging to the territory around Cashel, together with items of local history down to the 19th century. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 2001. pp. [ii], xix, 312. Fine in fine d.j. €40 Cover design by courtesy of Mr. Patrick Meaney, Cashel, County Tipperary.

An important and scholarly work on one of the most celebrated places of historic interest in Ireland. In medieval times it was the ecclesiastical capital of Munster. Conquered by the Eoghanacht tribe (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.

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Edmund Burke Publisher 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 d.j. €35 The book introduces us to 17th and 18th century Ireland and to the interface between the two languages and the two cultures. It is a fascinating study of the troubled period after the Battle of the Boyne, encompassing historiography and antiquarianism; contemporary linguistic study and the sociolinguistics of the two languages in contact; Swift and his friends in that context; and the printing and publishing of books in Stuart and early-Georgian Ireland.

A CLASSIC OF THE GALLOGLAS FAMILIES B16. HAYES-McCOY, Gerard A. Scots Mercenary Forces in Ireland (1565-1603). An account of their service during that period, of the reaction of their activities on Scottish affairs, and of the effect of their presence in Ireland, together with an examination of the Gallóglaigh or Galloglas.

With maps, illustrations and genealogies of the MacSweeneys, Clan Donald and the O’Neills of Tír Eoghain. With an introduction by Professor Eoin MacNeill. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, for Edmund Burke Publisher, 1996. pp. xxi, 391. Superb facsimile reprint, bound in full buckram, with head and tail bands. In coloured dustjacket depicting three galloglasses and an Irish Foot Soldier of the 16th century. €45 They were a force to be reckoned with. An English writer of the period described them as follows: “The galloglasses are picked and selected men of great and mighty bodies, cruel, without compassion.

The greatest force of the battle consisteth in their choosing rather to die than to yield, so that when it cometh to handy blows, they are quickly slain or win the field. They are armed with a shirt of mail, a skull, and a skeine. The weapon they most use is a battle-axe, or halberd, six foot long, the blade wherof is somewhat like a shoemaker’s knife, and without pike; the stroke wherof is deadly”.

ANNALS OF ULSTER B17. HENNESSY, William M. & MacCARTHY, B. Ed. by. The Annals of Ulster, otherwise Annala Senait. A chronicle of Irish Affairs from A.D. 431 to A.D. 1540. With translation, notes, and index. New introduction by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. Dublin: De Búrca, 1998. Four volumes. Full buckram gilt in slipcase. €285 Also available in a special limited edition of 50 sets, bound in full brown morocco gilt, signed by the publisher. €850 The important Annals of Ulster compiled by Cathal Og Mac Maghnusa at Seanaidh Mac Maghnusa, now Belle Isle in Lough Erne, were so named by the noted ecclesiastic, Ussher, on account of their containing many chronicles relating to that province. They contain more detail on ecclesiastical history than the Annals of the Four Masters, and were consulted by Br. Michael O’Clery, Chief of the Four Masters, for his masterpiece.

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Edmund Burke Publisher LIMITED EDITION B18. HENNESSY, William M. Ed. by. The Annals of Lough Cé. A chronicle of Irish affairs from A.D. 1014 to A.D. 1590. Edited and with a translation by W.M. Hennessy. With folding coloured plate of the TCD Ms. Two volumes. Dublin: De Búrca, 2000. Third. pp. (1) lix, 653, (2) 689. Bound in half green morocco on splash marbled boards. Spine divided into six compartments by five raised bands, title and volume in second and fourth, third and fifth tooled in gilt to a centre Celtic design. Green and gold head and tail bands. T.e.g. Superb in presentation slipcase. €450 These Annals were compiled under the patronage of Brian MacDermott, Chief of Moylurg, who resided in his castle on an island in Lough Key, near Boyle, County Roscommon. They begin with the Battle of Clontarf and continue up to 1636 treating on the whole with Irish affairs, but have many entries of English, Scottish and continental events. They are a primary source for the history of North Connaught. The compilers were of that noted learned family of O’Duignans. The only original copy of these Annals known to exist is a small vellum manuscript which was presented to Trinity by Dr. Leland in 1766.

B19. HENNESSY, William M. Ed. by. The Annals of Lough Cé. A chronicle of Irish affairs from A.D. 1014 to A.D. 1590. Edited and with a translation by W.M. Hennessy. With folding coloured plate of the TCD Ms. Two volumes. Dublin: De Búrca, 2000. Third. pp. (1) lix, 653, (2) 689. Superb set bound in full buckram gilt and in presentation slipcase. €110 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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Edmund Burke Publisher 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 d.j. €29.50 No period in Irish history is quite so full of drama, heroism and tragedy as the eighty-odd years from the mid 16th to the early 17th centuries: the age of the fall of the Gaelic lords. This intriguing and moving narrative recounts the passing of Gaelic Ireland when the Tudor Crown sought to subdue the island and the Irish chiefs defended their ancient territories and way of life.

Beginning in 1534 with young Silken Thomas’ defiant stand at the gates of Dublin Castle, it tells the story of Red Hugh O’Donnell’s capture and escape, the rise of the Great Hugh O’Neill and the bloody Nine Years War culminating in the Battle of Kinsale, and finally, the Flight of the Earls.

Animated with details from The Annals Of The Four Masters and other contemporary accounts, Fall Of The Gaelic Lords is a lively intelligent book aimed at both the historian and general reader.

Patricia Kilroy was born in Ireland in 1925. As one of the daughters of Seán Lester, who would become the last Secretary-General of the League Of Nations, she spent most of her childhood in The Free City Of Danzig and in Geneva. She studied Modern History and Political Science in Trinity College Dublin. She then worked with the Irish Red Cross, settling refugees from Eastern Europe who had been displaced during World War II. After marrying and while raising her four children, her interest in history continued to grow. Family holidays in Connemara sparked her interest in local history, and talking with the people of the area, as well as academic research, led to the publication in 1989 of The Story Of Connemara. That book focused on a small part of Ireland, and covered from the Ice-Age to the present day; after which she felt she would like to cover the whole of Ireland, whilst focusing on one period in time. And so Fall Of The Gaelic Lords was researched and written. Patricia lives in Dublin.

B22. KNOX, Hubert Thomas. The History of the County of Mayo to the Close of the Sixteenth Century. With illustrations and three maps. Castlebourke: De Búrca, 2000. Roy. 8vo. pp. xvi, 451. Fine in fine d.j. €45 Prime historical reference work on the history of the County Mayo from the earliest times to 1600. It deals at length with the De Burgo Lordship of Connaught. Illustrated with a large folding detailed map of the county, coloured in outline. There are 49 pages of genealogies of the leading families of Mayo: O’Connor, MacDonnell Galloglass, Bourke Mac William Iochtar, Gibbons, Jennings, Philbin, Barret, Joyce, Jordan, Costello, etc.

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Edmund Burke Publisher 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 d.j. €65 Many Irish poems remain hidden in the periodicals and were published under pseudonyms. Therefore, the identity of hundred of Irish poets often is elusive. The discovery of a manuscript of pseudonyms of Irish poets made this volume possible. It lists over 1,200 pseudonyms for 504 Irish poets whose work appeared in over 500 early periodicals published in Ireland, England, North America, and Australia.

Rolf Loeber and Magda Loeber are researchers at the medical school of the University of Pittsburgh.

They have both extensively published on Irish history and literature. Their most recent book is A Guide to Irish Fiction (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006).

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 fieldmonuments he noticed on his patrols. His discovery of four ogham stones led to a correspondence with Hubert Knox, a renowned Mayo Antiquarian; Lyons provided Knox with important descriptions of field monuments, contributing to 19 published papers. Out of modesty, and fear that the R.I.C. would 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 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. 113

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Michael MacEvilly’s meticulously researched life of Dr. Andy Cooney sheds valuable light on a chapter of Irish republicanism which has hitherto been seriously neglected. No student of Irish republican history can afford to ignore this book, which is also to be commended for its selection of many hitherto unpublished photographs. - Tim Pat Coogan.

Michael MacEvilly narrates the life story of Andy Cooney in compelling fashion. Readers will be fascinated by the manner in which a young man combined his studies to be a doctor with his duties as an IRA Volunteer from 1917 onwards. In terms of the wider historical narrative of the period, the book, using much original source material, makes an important new contribution. It makes clear the command structure of the IRA, at both a national and local level, during the War of Independence, the Civil War and beyond. The strengths and weaknesses of individuals are also delineated with remarkable clarity. In particular new information is provided on ‘Bloody Sunday,’ November 1920; the role of the IRB and Michael Collins at the time of the Treaty; and the differences between the IRA and de Valera when Fianna Fail was founded. Above all the book is extremely well researched and eminently readable. - Brian Murphy OSB. Michael 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 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.

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Edmund Burke Publisher 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. 4to. Bound in qtr green morocco on cloth boards. Spine divided into six compartments by five raised bands. Title and author/editor on maroon morocco letterpieces in the second and fourth, the remainder tooled in gilt to an interlacing Celtic design.

White endbands. Top edge gilt. Edition limited to ten sets only, signed by the Publisher and Editor. €1,650 The great Connacht scholar Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh (c.1600-1671), from Lackan, County Sligo, compiled his monumental Great Book of Genealogies in Galway at the height of the Cromwellian Wars in the mid-seventeenth century. The work has long been recognised as the most important source for the study of Irish family history, and it is also of great importance to historians of pre-17th century Ireland since it details the ancestry of many significant figures in Irish history - including: Brian Boroimhe (d.1014); Ulick Burke, Marquis of Clanricarde (d.1657); James Butler, Duke of Ormonde (d.1688); Somhairle Buidhe (Sorley Boy) MacDonnell (d.1589); Randal MacDonnell, Marquis of Antrim (d.1683); Garrett Óg Fitzgerald, Earl of Kildare (d.1536); Diarmuid Mac Murchadha (d.1171); Myler Magrath, Archbishop of Cashel (d.1622), Murrough O’Brien, Baron of Inchiquin (d.1674); Feagh MacHugh O’Byrne (d.1597); Rory O’Conor.(d.1198); Red Hugh O’Donnell (d.1602); Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone (d.1616); Owen Roe O’Neill (d.1649), and many, many more.

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. 4to. Full buckram gilt. Over 3,600 pages. Full buckram gilt, in presentation box. €635

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The original text, both prose and poetry, of both works is accompanied by a painstaking English translation. But, perhaps most important of all, the edition includes, in addition to several valuable appendices, a comprehensive series of indices which provide a key to the tens of thousands of personal names, surnames, tribal names and place-names that the work contains. In fact, the portion relating to personal names is the largest Irish language names index that has ever been compiled.

B28. MARTIN, Edward A. A Dictionary of Bookplates of Irish Medical Doctors. With short biographies. Illustrated. Dublin: De BĂşrca, 2003. pp. xiv, 160. Illustrated boards in d.j. â‚Ź36

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Edmund Burke Publisher 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 size of the county and complexity of changing estate history prevents the book from being exhaustive or a complete history of all estates and gentry families. These Anglo-Irish families (the term is unsatisfactory) became largely sidelined, irrelevant and forgotten by the modern nationalist Irish state. Their numbers and variety in Galway is made clear through a large range of house illustrations.

Many of the old landed class and nobility embodied values worthwhile in society. The wealthiest were patrons of much of the culture and art of old Europe. They stood for continuity, tradition, a sense of public duty, standards and refinement in manners. Many of them fostered the pursuit of outdoor sports and horseracing. They linked their frequently remote places to the wider world and they were at the same time cosmopolitan and local without being parochial. Although a declining social force they frequently held liberal attitudes against the power and dominance of

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The contents include: Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Origins and Establishments of Estates; Estates and Estate Management; The Social Life of the Gentry; Marriage, Family and Careers; The Gentry as Landlords; The County and Local Roll of the Gentry; The Gentry and Politics; Ideas of Class and Historical Identity; Review and Retrospect.

B30. NELSON, E. Charles & WALSH, Wendy F. An Irish Flower Garden Replanted. The Histories of Some of Our Garden Plants. With coloured and Chinese ink illustrations by Wendy F. Walsh. Second edition revised and enlarged. Dublin: Edmund Burke Publisher, 1997. pp. x, 276. €65 “This book has been out of print for almost a decade, and in the intervening years many things have happened both in my own life and in the interwoven lives of my friends and colleagues, and gardens and their plants. I have also learnt more about the garden plants that we cultivate in Ireland. A new edition was required, and I have taken the opportunity to augment the original text. I have added a chapter on roses, based on my address to the ninth World Rose Convention held in Belfast during 1991, and I have drawn into this book, in edited form, a scattering of essays that were published elsewhere and the unpublished scripts for talks which I gave on Sunday Miscellany broadcast by Radio Telefis Eireann. I have also made corrections, and altered a few names to bring them up-to-date. In a few instances, the previously published history has been revised in the light of my more recent research” - Dr. E.C. Nelson.

The book is lavishly illustrated by Wendy Walsh, with 21 coloured plates (including ten new watercolours for this edition), eighteen figures in Chinese inks and nine vignettes in pencil.

A MONUMENT TO ONE OF OUR GREAT CELTIC SCHOLARS B31. O’CURRY, Eugene. On The Manners and Customs of The Ancient Irish. A series of lectures delivered by the late Eugene O’Curry, M.R.I.A., Professor of Irish History and Archaeology in the Catholic University of Ireland. Edited, appendices etc, by W.K. Sullivan.

With a new introduction by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. Three volumes. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, for Edmund Burke Publisher, 1996. Bound in full green buckram, with harp in gilt on upper covers. Head and tail bands. pp. (1) xviii, 664, (2), xix, 392 (3) xxiv, 711. Fine. €235 O’Curry’s twenty-one Lectures on the Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History, delivered at the College during the terms 1855 and 1856 were published with an appendix in one volume. They are a mine of information on the subject of our Irish manuscripts and are illustrated with numerous facsimile specimens.

His thirty-eight lectures On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, delivered at the University between May 1857 and July 1862 (the last one only a fortnight before his death) were published in Dublin in three volumes. These were edited with an introduction (which takes up the whole of the first volume), appendices and other material by Dr. W.K. Sullivan. O’Curry’s works stand to this day as a monument to one of our greatest Celtic scholars.

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Edmund Burke Publisher 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”.

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 4to. Superb set in gilt and blind stamped green buckram, in presentation box. €865

This is the third and best edition as it contains the missing years [1334-1416] of the now lost Annals of Lecan 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 119

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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 d.j. €135 Compiled from records of holdings by Cathedrals, Churches, Religious Houses, Colleges, Municipal Corporations, Museums & Art Galleries. Further information has been obtained from those who deal in and those who collect Antique Silver, with special regard to Auction Sales.

DE-LUXE LIMITED EDITION 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.

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Edmund Burke Publisher over a period of thirty-five years. Dr. Sweeney was also a form analyst with the Irish Times, and author of two previous books Irish Stuart Silver, a Catalogue Raisonné (1995) and Ireland and the Printed Word (1997), for which he was awarded a Doctorate of Literature by the National University of Ireland.

His late wife Annie, a former French stage and screen ballet dancer whose film credits included L’Homme au Parapluie Vert starring Fernanded and Chanteur de Mexico with Luis Mariano. For over a quarter of a century, in her role as turf statistician, she supplied the Irish Times with course facts and figures.

Francis Hyland a former stockbroker turned bookmaker is currently chairman of the Irish National Bookmakers Association. A passionate racing researcher, he co-authored with Guy St. John Williams, histories of the ‘Irish Derby’ and the ‘Jameson Irish Grand National’.

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 121

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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 which, unfortunately he was given too little time to develop in practice. Rare interviews with Arthur Griffith and Eoin MacNeill further enhance this book, which has long been out of print and hard to find in the antiquarian book market.

Originally published in 1922, our edition has a new introduction and an index which was not in the first edition.

B37. WALDRON, Jarlath. Maamtrasna. The Murders and The Mystery. With location map and engineers map of the route taken by the murderers in 1882, depicting the roads, rivers, mountains, and houses with names of occupants. With numerous illustrations and genealogical chart of the chief protagonists. Dublin: De Búrca, 2004. Fifth edition. pp. 335. Mint in illustrated wrappers with folding flaps. €20 “This is a wonderful book, full of honour, contrast and explanation … driven with translucent compassion … The author has done something more than resurrect the ghosts of the misjudged. He has projected lantern slides of a past culture, the last of Europe’s Iron Age, the cottage poor of the west of Ireland”.

Frank Delaney, The Sunday Times.

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