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. 46