Catalogue 116

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

Catalogue 116 Spring 2015

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De Búrca Ra re Books WITH MANUSCRIPT POEM 1. A.E. [George Russell] The Earth Breath and Other Poems. London & New York: John Lane, Sign of the Bodley Head, n.d. (c.1897). First edition. Small quarto. pp. 96. Printer's device on titlepage. Grey-blue paper boards printed in green with an arboraceous design, title in green on upper cover and along spine. With signed manuscript poem by the author on front free endpaper.

A very good copy. Very scarce. €475 Denson 5.

This copy with Cottie Yeats' bookplate (self-designed, probably printed at Cuala) inside front cover, and with a printed illustration signed 'AE' laid down opposite titlepage, inscribed in Russell's hand 'The Dream of the Children -- A.E.', referring to the poem of the same title on p. 30-31. The illustration shows two children looking down at a group of mystical beings under a great light.

'The children awoke in their dreaming While earth lay dewy and still, They followed the rill in its gleaming To the heart-light of the hill ..

For all the hillside was haunted By the faery-folk come again ..'

A fascinating association copy, linking 'AE' with the wife of Ireland's greatest painter.

WITH A FINE DRAWING BY AE FOR COTTIE YEATS 2. A.E. [George Russell] Homeward Songs by the Way. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1908. Third edition. Small quarto. pp. 64, uncut. Grey-blue papered boards with an arboraceous design in brown, title in brown along spine. With an original pastel drawing by the author and signed 'A.E.' From the library of Cottie Yeats with her bookplate. A very good copy. €1,450 Denson 2C.

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De BĂşrca Ra re Books George Russell (1867-1935) was born in Lurgan, County Armagh, where his father was a book-keeper.

The family moved to Dublin, and George attended the Metropolitan School of Art, where W.B. Yeats was a classmate and became a lifelong friend. He became interested in rural co-operation, and divided his time between organisation, poetry and painting. He also edited the Irish Homestead, organ of the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society, and later his own weekly journal the Irish Statesman. A pacifist and mystic, much influenced by Hindu spirituality, he wrote several powerful essays during the great Dublin strike of 1913 in defence of the rights of labour.

This copy with a most attractive original drawing by the author in coloured crayons on half-title, signed in dark blue ink 'A.E.' and inscribed "AUM" / "Faint grew the yellow buds of light", showing a cloaked figure kneeling on a hillside, praying as the sun breaks over a blue mountain peak in the distance.

Evidently this refers to the poem on p. 46 titled 'Om / A memory'.

'Faint grew the yellow buds of light Far flickering beyond the snows As leaning o'er the shadowy white Morn glimmered like a pale primrose.

Within an Indian vale below A child said 'OM' with tender heart ..'

There is no record that Russell ever went to India; hence the sub-title 'A memory' must be taken in the light of the Hindu belief that there is a spiritual continuity between past, present and future lives, so that AE's 'memory' recalls something he may have seen or remembered from a past life.

Russell's drawing was evidently made as a gift for Cottie Yeats, wife of Jack, whose bookplate is inside the front cover. Mary Cottenham White, generally known as 'Cottie', married the painter Jack B. Yeats in 1894. She was herself a competent artist in an art-nouveau style.

A delightful item. AE's drawing is in excellent condition, protected by a tissue guard, and is of frameable quality.

Provenance: originally from the Collection of Cottie Yeats, sister of Jack and W.B. Yeats, and with her bookplate on front pastedown. This work was exhibited at the Grolier Club in New York ('The Indomitable Irishry') 1962. It was subsequently sold as part of The Halsted B. Vander Poel Collection of English Literature at Christie's.

3. A.E. The Dublin Strike. By "AE" (George W. Russell). A Plea for the Workers. A Speech delivered in the Royal Albert Hall, London, November 1, 1913, to an audience of 12,000 persons. Dublin: "Irish Worker" Office, Liberty Hall, Dublin, 1913. pp. 8. Stapled wrappers with a portrait of the author on cover. Slight browning and wear to edges. A very good copy of an extremely rare item. â‚Ź675 COPAC with 2 locations only. WorldCat 4.

George Russell attended Dr Power's school in Harrington Street and night classes at the Metropolitan School of Art, before entering Rathmines school, which he left in 1884.

Russell met William Butler Yeats that year at the Metropolitan School, and the two became firm friends.

In 1890 Russell entered Pim's drapery store as a clerk. In 1897 Horace Plunkett needed an able organiser for the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society, an agricultural cooperative society, W. B. Yeats suggested Russell, who became Assistant Secretary. He was an able lieutenant and travelled extensively throughout Ireland as a spokesman for the society, mainly responsible for developing the credit societies and establishing Co-operative Banks in the south and west of the country, the numbers of which increased to 234 by 1910. Russell's increasing social militancy found focus in 1913 in the lock-out by William Martin Murphy of tram workers trying to organise as part of the ITGWU. James Larkin, the workers' leader, was imprisoned, and Russell shared a platform with James Connolly, who Russell felt was 'a really intellectual leader', at a demonstration at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 1 November. Larkin was released twelve days later.

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De Búrca Ra re Books Russell's speech, which was highly critical of state and church authorities, particularly the police and William Walsh, archbishop of Dublin, caused fury in the constitutional nationalist press, the Freeman's Journal accusing him of hiding anti-Irish sympathies in his socialism. Sinn Féin and Irish Freedom remained sympathetic. Russell was saved and his position on the Irish Homestead preserved by Plunkett's silence during the controversy. There followed an exchange of views in print between Russell and Connolly, each reading and responding to the other's theories of social and political organisation through the columns of the Irish Homestead and Connolly's books on labour in Ireland.

For all his courting with republicanism, Russell, like Yeats, was surprised by the outbreak of the Easter rising; he travelled to the home of Edward MacLysaght in County Clare on Good Friday and did not arrive back in Dublin until the following Wednesday, 26 April 1916. His first report of events was published on 13 May in the Irish Homestead, in which he argued that the rising was the logical outcome of the oppression of Dublin's working class. He was distraught at Connolly's execution.

Connolly himself asked his wife to contact Russell to arrange for his family's emigration to America; having raised £101, Russell secured permission from General John Maxwell for them to leave, but the licence was revoked when the British authorities awoke to the propaganda use to which the Connollys departure might be put.

4. ABRAHAM, George Whitley. Essays, Historical, Critical, & Political, contributed principally to the Dublin Review. London: Thomas Richardson, 1868. pp. viii, [2], 637, 3 (list of subscribers). Green cloth, title in gilt on spine with minor wear. Ex lib. Christian Brothers with stamps. Bookplate of Christian Brothers Artane. A good copy. Exceedingly rare. €275 COPAC locates the TCD copy only.

The contents include: Irish Church History; Frederick The Great; Philip Howard; Harford's Michael Angelo; Guizot's Richard Cromwell; De Montalembert's Western Monks; The Four Last Popes; Theory of Jesuit History; Miss Strickland's Mary Stuart; Cockburn's Memorials of his Time; Sale on; Germany theories of Christianity and its origin; Burke's Vicissitudes of Families; Senior's Turkey; Helps' Spanish Conquest in America; Lord Broughton's Italy; Peel's Memoirs; Education in Ireland; Principles and Parties; English and Irish Liberals, etc. George W. Abraham, LLD. of Rathgar, was a barrister-at-law.

5. ALSPACH, Russell K. Irish Poetry from the English Invasion to 1798. Philadelphia: University Press, 1943. pp. xi, 146. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €35 6. [ANON] An Essay on the Nature, Use, and Abuse, of Tea, in a Letter to a Lady; With an Account of its Mechanical Operation. Dublin: Printed by Pressick Rider and Thomas Harbin, for Edward Hamilton, at Corner of Christ-Church-Lane, 1725. pp. 63, [1]. Marbled wrappers.

Unobtrusive stain to lower right hand margin. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €675 COPAC locates 7 copies only. WorldCat 1.

Sometimes attributed to Richard Helsham.

7. [ANON] Dublin. A Historical Sketch of Ireland's Metropolis. London: Religious Tract Society, (c.1852). Small octavo. pp. vi, 192. Mauve blind-stamped cloth. A very good copy. €275 COPAC locates 4 copies only. WorldCat 3.

The righteousness that exalts a nation is the true elevation of a city.

With chapters on: Dublin Previous to the Eleventh Century; Dublin Subject to the English Papal Rule; Dublin During the British Reformation; Dublin Under James I, and Charles I; Dublin at the Commonwealth, the Restoration, and the Revolution; Dublin in the Eighteenth Century; Dublin since the Union with Great Britain to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Fifty.

ATHLONE AUTHOR 8. ATKINSON, Sarah. Essays. Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son, 1895. pp. xxiv, 533. Blue paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Repair to index leaf. A very good copy. Scarce. €165 The essays include: St. Brigid, Abbess of Kildare; Eugene O'Curry; Those Geraldines; A Citizen Saint; John Henry Foley; St. Fursey's Life and Visions; The Rapt Culdee; Hogan the Sculptor; The Dittamondo; Around and About the Rotunda, and Irish Wool and Woollens. There is also a memoir of the author by Rosa Mulholland Gilbert.

9. [BANDMASTER] Trumpet & Bugle Sounds for the Army, With Words also Bugle Marches.

Word Compiled and Arranged by A Bandmaster. Aldershot: Gale & Polden Ltd., n.d. [c.1915].

Oblong octavo. Ninth edition. pp. 61. Red stapled wrappers, title in black on upper cover. A very good copy. €25 3

De Búrca Ra re Books 10. BARRY, Sebastian. A Long Long Way. London: Faber and Faber, UK, 2005. First edition. pp. 292, [1]. Brown paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in dust jacket. €45 11. BASIL, William. Two letters from William Basil Esq; Attorney General of Ireland; The one, to the Right Honorable, John Bradshaw, Lord President of the Councel of State: The other, to the Right Honorable William Lenthal Esq; Speaker of the Parliament of England, of a great victory obtained by the Parliaments forces in the north of Ireland, on the plains of Lisne-garvy ... With a relation of the taking of Dumcree; and of the surrender of Carrickfergus upon articles. Ordered by the Parliament, that these letters be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Cleric.

Parliamenti.. London: Printed by John Field for Edward Husband, Printer to the Parliament of England, 1649. pp. 7, [1]. Title within a border of type ornaments. Modern half morocco. Small burn hole to margin of two leaves. A good copy. Exceedingly rare. €1,250 Wing B 1028. ESTC R206272. Sweeney 328. COPAC locates 8 copies only.

Dated December 12th, it reports a Parliamentary victory "on the Plains of Lisnegarvy" where 1400 of the enemy were killed and Colonel John Hamilton was taken prisoner, but General George Monro "saved himself by swimming across the Blackwater". Also news of the capture of Drumcree and the surrender of Carrickfergus upon articles.

12. BASSETT, George Henry. Wexford County Guide and Directory. A Book for Manufacturers, Merchants, Traders, Land-Owners, Farmers, Tourists, Anglers, and Sportsmen Generally. Full facsimile reprint of the Dublin, Sealy, Bryers and Walker edition of 1885.

Dublin: Hibernian Imprints, in association with The Wexford Historical Society, 1991. pp. 406.

Black paper boards, titled in gilt. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €65 INSCRIBED BY LOUISA BEAUFORT TO WILLIAM EDGEWORTH 13. BEAUFORT, Louisa C. An Essay upon the State of Architecture and Antiquities, previous to the landing of the Anglo-Normans in Ireland. With numerous engraved plates from drawings by the author. Dublin: Printed by Graisberry for the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, 1828. Quarto. pp. 101-243, 15 (plates). Contemporary worn half calf on marbled boards.

Inscribed on the titlepage from the author to William Edgeworth, Esq. Wear to spine, lacking title label. Some minor foxing to prelims. Label of J.C. Scully, Bookseller & Stationer on front pastedown. A very good copy. Very scarce. €475

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Louisa Beaufort (1781-1863), writer on architecture was the daughter of Daniel Augustus Beaufort, geographer, who is best remembered for his Map of Ireland and Memoir of Ireland. She was also a sister of Sir Francis Beaufort the renowned hydrographer, who gave his name to the 'Beaufort Scale' of wind force.

William Edgeworth (1794?-1829) civil engineer was the son of Richard Lovell Edgeworth and his third wife Elizabeth, making him one of a very large (twenty-two) Anglo-Irish family, including the novelist Maria Edgeworth. His father moved to Ireland to take care of the estate near Edgeworthstown. William Edgeworth's practical interests initially followed those of his father, such as surveying; he moved into cartography. He was involved in the construction of the Church of Ireland parish church at Collon in County Louth, where he worked with Daniel Augustus Beaufort (father of Richard Lovell Edgeworth's fourth wife).

Edgeworth's surveying work in Ireland included soundings in the River Inny and the mapping of bogs.

Irish Bogs Commission was active in the period 1809 to 1814, and under an Act from 1774 there was funding for county maps from grand juries; Edgeworth reported on issues of bog drainage and reclamation. His 1813 map of County Longford was noted, and was followed by a map of County Roscommon with Richard Griffith. Unlike some other surveyors in Ireland at the time, he encountered little opposition to his work; he took a tactful and communicative line with local people.

William was elected a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1829, and was a member of the Royal Irish Academy and the Royal Astronomical Society. He corresponded with William Rowan Hamilton. He died, unmarried, at Edgeworthstown, 21 April 1829.

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De Búrca Ra re Books SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 14. BECKETT, Samuel. More Pricks than Kicks. London: Calder & Boyars, 1970. pp. 21, (1).

Quarter white calf on brown cloth boards, title in gilt on upper cover and on spine. Edition limited to 100 copies (No. 97) signed and number by Samuel Beckett. All edges gilt. A fine copy in slipcase. €1,250 15. BEHAN, Brendan. Three Photographs. 1. Brendan Behan 'Outrages but Tender'. Camera Press London, 29th November, 1960. 2. Brendan Behan portrays 'The Old Woman of Galway' before a gathering of his friends and admirers. Camera Press London, 2nd January, 1962. 3.

Brendan Behan with his wife Beatrice Salkeld. Camera Press London, 6th March, 1964 (taken two weeks before his death). 17 x 12cm. All in fine condition. Rare. €275

Brendan Francis Behan (1923-1964) poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright was born at 13 Russell Street in Dublin's north inner city into a republican family. He wrote in both English and Irish.

He was also an Irish republican and a volunteer in the Irish Republican Army. Behan joined the IRA at sixteen, which led to his serving time in a borstal youth prison in England and was also imprisoned in Republic of Ireland. During this time, he took it upon himself to study and he became a fluent speaker of the Irish language. Subsequently released from prison as part of a general amnesty given by the Fianna Fáil government in 1946, Behan moved between homes in Dublin, Kerry and Connemara and also resided in Paris for a period.

In 1954, Behan's first play The Quare Fellow was produced in Dublin. It was well received; however, it was the 1956 production at Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop in Stratford, London, that gained Behan a wider reputation - this was helped by a famous drunken interview on BBC television. In 1958, Behan's play in the Irish language An Giall had its debut at Dublin's Damer Theatre. Later, The Hostage, Behan's English-language adaptation of An Giall, met with great success internationally.

Behan's autobiographical novel, Borstal Boy, was published the same year and became a worldwide best-seller.

He married Beatrice Salkeld in 1955. Behan was known for his drinking problem, which resulted in his suffering from diabetes, which ultimately resulted in his death on 20 March 1964. He was given an IRA guard of honour which escorted his coffin and it was described by several newspapers as the biggest funeral since those of Michael Collins and Charles Stewart Parnell.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 16. BENCE-JONES, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses. Illustrated. London: Constable and Company Limited, 1988. Revised edition. Folio. pp. xxxi, 320. Blue paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. €85 17. BENCE-JONES, Mark. The Viceroys of India. Illustrated. London: Constable, 1982. pp. xviii, 343. Red cloth, title in gilt on spine. Top edge red. Pictorial wrappers. Very good copy. €35 18. BENNETT, Eileen M. Greencastle Inishowen. Illustrated by G. Ridsdill Smith, and with a map of Inishowen. Dublin: At the Sign of the Three Candles, n.d. pp. 24. Illustrated wrappers.

Previous owner's signature on titlepage. A fine copy. €75

Greencastle, situated on the west side of Lough Foyle, was known as Caisleán Nua to the Irish and was called Northburgh by the Normans. It was built by Richard de Burgh, the Red Earl of Ulster and Lord of Connaught in 1305. It is situated on a rock in a commanding position close to the shore and directly opposite Magilligan Point. Richard received his cognomen from his complexion; he was educated at the court of King Henry III, and was so highly esteemed at Court that he was mentioned on royal documents and commissions before the Viceroys of Ireland. The de Burgo manuscript (F.4 13A) Historia et Genealogia Familiae de Burgo in Trinity College, Dublin, states: "The Red Earl was Lord in Demesne from Northburgh (Greencastle) by the sea to Luchuid in Thomond and from the west of Connaught to Ballymacscanlon near Dundalk".

19. [BENNETT, Joseph] A True and Impartial Account of the most Material Passages in Ireland since December 1688. With a particular relation of the Forces of Londonderry: being taken from the notes of a gentleman who was eye-witness to most of the actions mention'd therein, during his residing there; and now being in England, is desired to publish the same, for the further satisfaction of this nation. To which is added a description and map of Londonderry, as he took it upon the place. Licens'd July 22, 1689. J. Fraser. London: Printed for John Amery, at the Peacock, against St. Dunstan's Church, in Fleetstreet, 1689. Quarto. pp. 31, + map and advertisment. Bound by Riviere in half green morocco on green cloth boards, title in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt. A fine copy. Rare in this condition. €1,250 Sweeney 373. Wing B1855A.

20. BENSON, Richard. Morni: An Irish Bardic Story, in three cantos: and The Pilgrim of Carmel; an Eastern Tale, in one canto. By Richard Benson, Esq. Dublin: Printed for Gilbert and Hodges, Archer, Keene, Dugdale, and Larkin, by Alexander Wilkinson 1815. pp. [1], 208. Green pebbled cloth, titled in gilt; marbled endpapers. Wear to spine. Exceedingly rare. €475 COPAC locates the Camb., TCD and BL copies only. WorldCat 1.

Wilkinson was a printer in Newry.

21. BEW, Paul. John Redmond. Dundalk: Dundalgan, 1996. pp. [7], 59. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. €25 Published for the Historical Association of Ireland. Life and Times Series: No. 8.

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See item 19.

22. [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.

23. BLAKE, Robert. Disraeli. Illustrated. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1967. pp. xxv, 819.

Brown cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in repaired dust jacket. €25 24. BLAKE, William. Songs of Innocence. Illustrated by Jacynth Parsons. With a Prefatory Letter by W.B. Yeats. London and Boston: The Medici Society, 1927. First edition. Quarto. pp. xi, [1], 42, [2]. Blue cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Owner's signature on front free endpaper, bookplate removed. A very good copy in torn dust jacket. €125 LIMITED EDITION 25. BODKIN, Thomas. Hugh Lane and His Pictures. Illustrated with numerous plates in doubletone collotype. Dublin: By the Pegasus Press for the Government of the Irish Free State, 1932.

Quarto. pp. xiv, 82, [2], L (plates). Edition limited to 400 copies. Half green morocco on marbled boards. Title in gilt and harp in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt. Green silk marker. With the bookplate of Iulius Bohler (Munich Book Dealer) on front pastedown. A fine copy. €375 Printed and designed in Verona.

26. BONNER, Brian. Where Aileach Guards. A Millennium of Gaelic Civilisation. With illustrations and maps. Limerick: Salesian, n.d. pp. x, 150. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in pictorial dust jacket. €45 Among the aspects covered in this absorbing work are the boundaries of Inis Eoghain, its territorial divisions, early inhabitants and rulers. It also covers the political development of two parishes up to the 14th century.

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DE-LUXE EDITION LIMITED TO 400 COPIES 27. [BOOK OF ARMAGH] Liber Ardmachanus. Edited with introduction and appendices by John Gwynn. Dublin, for R.I.A. 1913. Royal quarto. Th. Fine copy of the de-luxe edition in full reversed calf. Bound by Galwey of Dublin to an intricate Celtic design reminiscent of the original satchel. Very scarce. â‚Ź950 The original manuscript is preserved in Trinity College. It is the only early manuscript of which we know the scribe's name, Ferdomnach, the exact date, 807, and place where it was written, Armagh. It contains the entire New Testament in Latin and documents relating to St. Patrick, his "Confession" and the "Lives" by Muirchu and Tirechan. This book was always greatly venerated because it was wrongly believed that parts of it were written by Saint Patrick, but in fact certain passages therein were copied from an original that was actually written by the saint. An interesting entry records the visit of Brian Boru to the city in 1004 and his presenting to Armagh its ancient ecclesiastical dues. The entry finishes as follows: "This have I written, namely, Maelsuthain, in the presence of Brian, supreme ruler of the Scots, and what I have written be decreed for all the Kings of Cashel".

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De BĂşrca Ra re Books According to James F. Kenney in his Sources for the Early History of Ireland: "The most important historical manuscript of Ireland prior to the twelfth century, and, in one of its sections, the only collection of the 'acta' of a saint actually compiled and written down in his own monastic church in the ages of faith, that has survived to our day, is the Book of Armagh".

For centuries the custodians of this book were the Moyre (Moyler) family. John (Mac)Moyre, pawned the 'Book' to pay his own expenses, gave evidence in 1681, at the trial of Oliver Plunket (the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh), in London, swearing that he had been engaged in soliciting foreign powers to invade Ireland. It was on his testimony and that of others, that the Saint was found guilty of high treason and hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn.

WOLFENDEN FAMILY COPY 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, Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches. Dublin: Printed by the Executors of David Hay, Assignee of the Late Boulter Grierson, 1778. 12mo. Contemporary Irish full calf binding. Covers framed by a single gilt fillet enclosing a gilt central lozenge made up flowers, circles, pointelles and dots. Flat spine richly tooled, double blue morocco labels in two compartments with gilt lyres and floral tools. Two presentation inscriptions on front endpapers: 'The gift of Sarah Hudson / To her / Beloved daughter / Amelia S Wolfenden / Belsize Ireland 1799' --- / 'Presented to John Wolfenden / by his Affectionate mother / Amelia S. Wolfenden / Baltimore August 31st 1820' --- / The Gift of John Wolfenden / to / Charlotte Wolfenden / Washington Feb 15th 1830'. Signature of Amelia Wolfenden / Belsize 1799' on titlepage. Check-pattern endpapers. All edges gilt. Wear to extremities. â‚Ź875

The Wolfenden family copy originally from Lambeg, County Antrim, who early in 1800 emigrated to Baltimore, Maryland. There are three hand-cut late paper silhouettes (c.1800) of John, Amelia? and Sarah Wolfenden attached to pages in the book with stitching and old pin.

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The name Wolfenden, reputed to have been of Dutch extraction, came to Lambeg at some date after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 although it could have been as early as the 1660s when the Lord Lieutenant attempted to promote the linen trade industry in Ireland by encouraging settlement of those with textile skills.

At some stage during the late seventeenth century Abraham Wolfenden purchased the bleach green between the old Belfast-Dublin road and the River Lagan at Lambeg. He probably built the house, originally named Lambeg House, beside the old road and close to the ford on the Lagan. There is a tradition that King William, on his way south to the Boyne in 1690, was entertained in that house by Abraham while awaiting the repair of his carriage which was damaged on crossing the ford. The family linen business prospered in the eighteenth century and expanded to include the manufacture of blankets and paper on another site beside the Lagan about 1750.

In the early part of the nineteenth century the family business, which by then included the manufacture of cotton, calico and muslin, was relocated to Dublin.

Belsize house was situated to the north of Lisburn, County Antrim, and very close to Lambeg. Sarah Hudson inscribed and presented this tome to her daughter Amelia and dated it at Belsize, 1799. In Taylor and Skinner's Maps of the Roads of Ireland 1778 the house is shown on Map 5, the Seat of Hudson Esqr. The Hudson and Wolfenden families were connected by marriage.

29. [BOOK OF FENAGH] The Book of Fenagh Supplementary volume. Edited by R.A.S. Macalister. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1939. pp. 113. Maroon buckram, titled in gilt. A very good copy. €85 30. BOWEN, Desmond. Souperism: Myth or Reality? A study of Catholics and Protestants during the Great Famine. Cork: Mercier, 1970. pp. 256. Mauve paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Map of the Dioceses of Killala and Achonry on endpapers. Minor spotting, otherwise a very good copy in dust jacket. Rare. €145 A study of a neglected aspect of Irish social history, the work of the clergy of the Established Church during the Great Irish Famine, and their relationship with the Catholic population. It is generally believed that the parsons who manned the soup kitchens during the famine gave relief only to those Catholics who were willing to attend Protestant services or 'change over'.

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De Búrca Ra re Books Special attention is paid to the ultra-Protestant proselytizers who tried to take advantage of the terrible suffering in the west by establishing missionary colonies in Dingle, Connemara and Achill, with the hope of initiating a 'Second Reformation' in Ireland.

31. BOYLAN, Lena. Castletown and its Owners. Illustrated with family portraits and residences.

Mullingar: 1982. pp. 64. A very good copy in stapled pictorial wrappers. Front cover illustration depicts speaker Conolly by Jervas. Traces of rusty clip to a few pages. A good copy. Rare. €65 The chapters include: Dungan - Castletown and its Owners; The Conollys of Castletown.

ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC BOOKS EVER PRINTED 32. BOYLE, Robert. New Experiments Physico-mechanical, Touching the Spring of the Air, and its Effects, made, for the most part, in a New Pneumatical Engine, written by way of Letter to the Right Honorable Charles Lord Viscount of Dungarvan, eldest son to the Earl of Corke. By the Honorable Robert Boyle Esq. Three parts in one volume. The third edition whereunto is added a defence of the author's explication of the experiments, against the objections of Franciscus Linus and, Thomas Hobbs. With two engraved plates. London: Printed by Miles Flesher for Richard Davis, bookseller in Oxford, 1682. Quarto. pp. [xvi], 203, [xii], 117, [viii], 102, 2 (final advertisement leaf with catalogue of Boyle's work). With half-title. Contemporary full panelled calf, spine professionally rebacked. A very good copy. €4,750 Wing B 4000. Fulton 15. Sweeney 558 quoting the 1st edition of 1660. ESTC R34412.

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De BĂşrca Ra re Books Robert Boyle (1627-1691), founder member of the Royal Society, was born at Lismore Castle, the son of Richard, first Earl of Cork. One of the greatest natural philosophers and scientists of his age, Boyle did more for science than any other Irishman. His first experiments on the properties of air were published in 1660, and in answer to criticism he enunciated the celebrated 'Boyle's Law'. His favourite study was chemistry; and there is hardly a branch of science which does not owe something to his alert and inquiring mind. A deeply religious man, he preached tolerance in an age of bigotry, wrote numerous theological works, including the first religious romance ever written. He spent large sums to propagate the study of the Bible, and was responsible for the publishing of Bedell's Bible in Irish.

The "best" edition is not the 1st but rather that of 1662 and 1682, which carries an appendix, announcing to the world a discovery that came to be known as 'Boyle's Law'. The present volume is the second publication of 'Boyle's Law', and thus one of the most important scientific books ever printed.

"Boyle's experimental proof of the basic physical property of air, namely that the volume of gas varies inversely with the pressure, constitutes one of the greatest contributions to physical science ... it was proved by using a greatly improved vacuum pump - first invented by Guericke in 1657 - which he developed together with Robert Hooke. It was further proved that air has weight, and the function of combustion and respiration in air, the conveyance of sound and the elasticity of air are all explained.

The exposition of 'Boyle's Law' occurs in part 2, which is a defence against the criticisms of part 1 by Franciscus Linus. Part 1 had been printed in octavo in 1660, and had called forth a flurry of comments and rebuttals, of which the two most learnedly critical were those of Linus and Hobbes. Boyle's reply to Hobbs constitutes part 3 of this edition.

33. [BOYLE, Robert] Reasons Why A Protestant should not turn Papist: Or, Protestant prejudices against the Roman Catholic Religion; propos'd in a letter to a Romish Priest. London: Printed by H. Clark, for John Taylor at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1687. Quarto. [6], 32, [2]. Bound by Bayntum of Bath in modern half blue morocco on blue cloth boards, title in gilt along spine. A fine copy. â‚Ź475 Wing B 4018. Fulton 175. Sweeney 578.

Robert Boyle presents a two-fold attack on the Roman Catholic Church: "first, that its alleged infallibility is nonsense, and secondly, that its pretended catholicity is a mere boast".

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De BĂşrca Ra re Books 34. [BOYLE, Roger, Earl of Orrery] An Answer to a Scandalous Letter Lately Printed and subscribed by Peter Welsh, Procurator for the Sec. and Reg. Popish Priests of Ireland. Intituled [A Letter desiring a just and merciful regard of the Roman Catholicks of Ireland, given about the end of Octob. 1660. to the then Marquess, now Duke of Ormond, and the second time Lord Lieutenant of that Kingdom.] By the Right Honourable the Earl of Orrery, one of the Lords Justices of the Kingdom of Ireland, and L. President of the Province of Munster, &c. Printed at Dublin by J.C. and Reprinted at London, 1662. Quarto. pp. [i], 66. Modern quarter morocco. A very good copy. â‚Ź950

Wing O 473. Sweeney 5517 quoting the Dublin 1st edition.

Orrery republishes the letter of Walsh in broadside form and it is possible that this is the only manner in which the letter has survived into our time. The original letter was "given about the end of October 1660, to the then Marquess, now Duke of Ormond" and Orrery makes a trenchant reply.

Roger Boyle, Lord Broghill, Earl of Orrery (1621-1679), son of Richard Boyle, Earl of Cork, elder brother of Robert the scientist, was born at Lismore, County Waterford. He was deputy in Inchiquin's Munster Command during the Confederate War and was bitterly opposed to the cessation of arms.

After the execution of Charles I, Boyle retired to his Somerset estate, and was about to leave for the Continent to plot for the restoration of the Stuarts, when he was summoned by Cromwell who offered him the choice of imprisonment in the Tower or service under the Commonwealth. He accepted the latter and set off for Ireland, and late in 1649, he met Cromwell near Waterford, with 1,500 men whom 14

De Búrca Ra re Books he had raised. He assisted at the Sieges of Clonmel and Limerick, destroyed Lord Muskerry's royalistconfederate force at Macroom and executed the Catholic bishop, Boethius MacEgan. Afterwards in England he continued to be one of Cromwell's most trusted friends and advisers.

Not satisfied however with Cromwell's successor, Boyle returned to Ireland and with Coote seized Youghal, Clonmel, Carlow, Limerick, Drogheda, Galway and Athlone for the King, and helped to end the rule of the Cromwellians there. After the Restoration he was made Earl of Orrery, Lord Justice, and President of Munster, and, in the latter capacity, he successfully defeated the attempt by the Duke of Beaufort, Admiral of France, to land at Kinsale. In 1661 he built a mansion at Charleville, which he named in honour of Charles II and: "spent the remainder of his life principally in contemplation, reading the Scriptures, and other serious studies, partly at Castlemartyr and partly at Charleville". He died in October, 1679 and was buried in the church of Youghal where there is a monument to him.

Peter Walsh, D.D. was born near Naas, County Kildare c.1618. He was educated at the Irish College at Louvain. Joined the Franciscan Order and was later Professor of Divinity at Louvain. He returned to Ireland in 1646, the following year he attacked in nine consecutive sermons the Disputatio Apologetica of Cornelius Mahony, in which the rights of the kings of England to Ireland was denied. As a consequence of his conduct Walsh was deprived of the lectureship in divinity to which he had been appointed at Kilkenny. He was driven from the house, and even forbidden to enter any town which possessed a library. Rinuccini accused him of having affected the nobility of Ireland and destroyed the cause. He also afterwards described him as "turned out of his convent for disobedience to superiors, a sacrilegious profaner of the pulpit in Kilkenny cathedral, who vomited forth in one hour more filth (sordes) and blasphemy than Luther and Calvin together in three years". Walsh sided with Ormond and wrote against the Papal Nuncio, which led to his excommunication. For his loyal services to Ormond he received a pension from the Government. He died in 1687 and is buried in St. Dunstan's-in-theWest, London. The Bishop of Salisbury said of him that "He was the honestest and learnedest man among them (Catholics), and was indeed in all points of controversy almost wholly a Protestant".

35. BRADLEY, P. Brendan. Bantry Bay. Ireland in the Days of Napoleon and Wolfe Tone.

Illustrated. London: Williams, 1931. pp. 256. Faded and worn grey cloth, title in gilt on spine. Ex lib. with stamp. A good copy. €25 36. BRENAN, John. Reflections upon Oil of Turpentine: and upon the Present Condition of the Medical Profession in Ireland. By a Country Practitioner. Dublin: Printed for the Author, and Sold by the Booksellers, 1817. pp. [6], 5-58. Modern brown wrappers over original blue wrappers. Tear to centre of titlepage, some pencil underlining. Untrimmed. A good copy. Very rare. €285 COPAC locates 5 copies only. WorldCat 1.

John Brenan (c.1768-1830) was born at Ballaghide, County Carlow, about 1768, the youngest of six children. His father, a Roman Catholic, possessed some property. He graduated as doctor of medicine in Glasgow, and established himself in that profession in Dublin about 1801. Brenan's earliest literary productions appear to have been epigrams and short poems, which he contributed to Dublin periodicals in 1793.

For some time he was a contributor of verses in the Irish Magazine, founded in Dublin in 1807 by Walter Cox. Cox was tried in Dublin in 1812 for publishing a production in favour of a repeal of the union between Great Britain and Ireland, and condemned to stand in the pillory and to be imprisoned for twelve months. While Cox was in gaol under this sentence, Brenan quarrelled with him, went over to the opposite party, and started the Milesian Magazine, or Irish Monthly Gleaner. The first number appeared in April 1812, and in it and subsequent issues he assailed Cox with great acerbity.

Brenan was ardently devoted to gymnastics, an expert wrestler, and occasionally showed symptoms of mental disorder. About 1812 puerperal fever and internal inflammation prevailed to a vast extent in Dublin. Brenan discovered a valuable remedy in preparations of turpentine, with which he successfully treated many cases.

The greater part of the medical practice in Dublin at that time was in the hands of the College of Physicians. An old bylaw of the college forbidding members to hold consultations with non-members was, according to Brenan, put in operation to curtail his practice. Brenan stated that the Dublin physicians declined to use his remedy from personal jealousy. It was, however, adopted by practitioners with success in the country parts of Ireland, as well as in England and Scotland.

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De BĂşrca Ra re Books and prose, in the Milesian Magazine, in which he satirised the prominent members of that college.

Brenan also attacked persons agitating for Catholic emancipation. A government pension was alleged to have been given for these productions.

Many of Brenan's satires were in the form of adaptations in verse of passages from the Latin classics, which he applied with much poignancy. Among these was an elaborate piece on Daniel O'Connell, then in the early stages of his career.

The Milesian Magazine was published at long intervals. The last number, which appears to have been that printed in 1825, contained a letter which Brenan addressed to the Marquis of Wellesley, lordlieutenant of Ireland, advocating an inquiry into the administration of the Lying-in Hospital at Dublin, and stating the circumstances of his discovery in connection with turpentine.

37. BRERETON, Sir William, Bart. Travels in Holland The United Provinces England, Scotland and Ireland. Edited by Edward Hawkins. London: Printed for The Chetham Society, 1844. Quarto. pp. viii, 205, 1 (errata), 8. Modern red buckram, title in gilt. All edges sprinkled. A very good copy. â‚Ź65 The author of this narrative was Sir William Brereton (1604-1661) of Handford in the County of Chester, the great Parliamentary General, whose exploits are recorded in this work through parts of England, Scotland and Ireland in the year 1635: "Jul. 16. - we left Carnue about seven hour, and went thence into the county of Wexford to Claghaman, my Lord of Baltamorae's town, where he hath a brave house, but of no great strength, nor built castle-wise. Here I saw lime burned where with they use to enrich their ground. This town is seated upon the bank of river Slane, which doth hence carry down to Ennerscoffe, and so to Wexford, all pipe-staves, boards and other timber which grows in the woods near adjoining. We passed through Sir Morgan Kavennah's woods, wherein (we were informed in the morning at Carnew) there were lurking about sixteen stout rebels well appointed, every of them with his pistols, skene, and darts".

38. BROOKING, Charles. A Map of the City and Suburbs of Dublin and also the Arch Bishop and Earl of Meath's Liberties with the bounds of each Parish. Drawn from an actual survey. Made

by Charles Brooking; To his Excellency John Lord Carteret ... Lord Lieutenant General and General Governour of His Majesties Kingdom of Ireland this map is ... dedicated ... 1728.

London: Printed and Sold by John Bowles Print and Map Seller at Mercers Hall in Cheapside, [c.1735]. Third issue. The legend engraved along the North Wall has been omitted. Framed and glazed. 1410 x 580mm. Printed from three separate plates on three sheets of paper, which were then joined as one. Light toning to upper part. A very good copy of an extremely rare map. Sold.

COPAC locates 3 copies only. WorldCat 1. Bonar Law G (iii).

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Maurice Craig relates that Brooking's map: "has one distinction which no amount of criticism can take away from it: it is the earliest separate map of Dublin to be published. It is on a considerably larger scale than either of its two predecessors, 'Speed' of 1611 and 'Pratt' of 1708. It also incorporates the earliest series of representations of Dublin buildings to be published. Just as Pool and Cash, by publishing in 1780, missed the Custom House by a year, so Brooking in 1728 missed the Parliament House by the same narrow margin. It went through three separate printings in about twelve years, two of them unauthorised. Brooking, whose name was Charles, is not known to have done any other maps, and Dr. Andrews suggests that he may have had other occupations besides cartography. Though the Dublin Corporation voted him ÂŁ10 towards his expenses in making the map, they managed to get his Christian name wrong [Thomas] in the process". Dr. John Andrews suggests that the immediate occasion for Brooking's effort seems to have been the appearance in 1726 of a superior map of Cork by John Carty, which must have put Dublin's nose out of joint.

The map is unusual for having the South point at the top of the page, but usage in this matter was not yet standardised, and the panorama of Dublin from the North which he provided is more easily read with the map up though, for other reasons, hard to interpret with certainty. Brooking captures the period of urban growth of a citizenry who lived in a rapidly expanding urban landscape. The bridged and quayed Liffey flows through an extensive urban system, the suburban developments of the Moore family on the North side and of the Earl of Meath on the South attaining prominence. In surrounding his map with vignettes of buildings, Brooking set a precedent which was taken up again in the nineteenth century by such people as J. Cooke in 1822, and Edward Heffernan of Rathmines in 1861 and 1868.

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A quite detailed picture of the life of Charles Brooking senior is provided in David Joel's book on the painter Charles Brooking: 1723-1759 published in 2002. The family had had a substantial estate in Plymouth. Brooking senior was born in Plymouth in about 1677. He was made a Freeman of the City of Plymouth in 1711. He married twice, and both wives died young. His second wife died in 1724, apparently soon after giving birth to Charles Brooking junior.

In 1715 Brooking was described as "the painter from Plymouth", and it is clear that he was employed not only for simple work, but also for figure painting and lettering. The skills required of a professional English painter at this period were broad and multiple, and encompassed all forms of decoration.

In 1718, however, Charles Brooking senior went bankrupt. The bankruptcy proceedings began in Plymouth, and dragged on until 1722 in the Guildhall, London. It appears that he had settled his debts, and then moved temporarily to Dublin. His map of Dublin was first published by Bowles in 1728.

Ireland, at least in Dublin and Cork, was a hive of development during this period, and offered opportunities for a variety of craftsmen.

Brooking received payments for carpentry and building work at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1724 and 1725. By 1729 he was working as a decorator at Greenwich Hospital. He was criticized for poor workmanship at the end of 1729, on the marbling of the columns in Thornhill's Painted Hall. The last known date of his involvement at Greenwich is 1736. He died on 27 November, 1738.

The vignettes included in the map are: The Arms of the Guilds; The Front of St Warburghs Church; A Prospect of the City Bason; A Prospect of St Stephens Green; The Linnen Hall; Dr Stevens's Hospital; The Statue of King William on Colledge Green; Front of the Colledge; The Colledge Library; Lord Mayors House; Blew Coat Boys Hospital; The Tholsel; The Poor House; The Statute of King George Ye 1st on Essex Bridge; The Castle; The Custom House; The Barracks; The Royal Hospital; The Front of St Ann's Church; The Corn Market House in Thomas Street; The Hospital in Stevens Street; A Map of the City and Suburbs of Dublin; A Prospect of the City of Dublin and Cartouches.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 39. BROWNE, Bernard. Living by the Pen. A Biographical Dictionary of County Wexford Authors. Wexford: Browne, 1997. pp. iv, 168. Signed by the author on titlepage. A fine copy in pictorial wrappers. €65 40. BROWNE, Bernard. Old Ross the Town that Never Was. A Community Biography.

Illustrated. Wexford: Sean Ross Press, 1997. pp. [1], 13. Pictorial wrappers. Limited edition.

Signed by Bernard Browne. A fine copy. Rare. €45 41. BROWNE, Bernard. Ed. by. The Wexford Man. Essays in Honour of Nicky Furlong.

Illustrated. Dublin: Geography Publications, 2007. Edition limited to 750 copies. Maroon paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Signed by the editor. A fine copy in illustrated dust jacket. €75 MONAGHAN AUTHOR "IRELAND FOR THE IRISH AN' TO HELL WITH JOHN BULL" 42. [BUCKLEY, Robert John] Ireland as it is and as it would be Under Home Rule. Sixty-two Letters written by the Special Commissioners of the Birmingham Daily Gazette, between March and August, 1893. With coloured map of Ireland showing the places visited. Birmingham: Daily Gazette, n.d. (c.1894). pp. xiv, 415, 3 (index). Decorated green cloth over bevelled boards, title in gilt on upper cover and on spine. Slight foxing to prelims. Previous owner's signature on titlepage. All edges red. A fine copy. Very rare. €250 COPAC locates 8 copies only.

The Birmingham Gazette of 27 December 1938 (page 4) reported under the heading 'Doyen of Music Critics - Death of Mr R.J. Buckley': "The Birmingham Gazette regrets to announce the death, which occurred at 43 Sandford-road, Moseley, of Mr Robert John Buckley, FRCO, for 40 years music critic of the Birmingham Gazette and associated papers and, at the time of his retirement from that position in 1926, doyen of the music critics of England ... Mr Buckley, who was born on 14 July 1847 at Monaghan, Ireland, was brought to England in infancy, and spent his childhood at Abbot's Bromley, Staffordshire. A self-taught organist - it was his boast that, though a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists and a leading authority on harmony, counterpoint and fugue, he had never had a lesson in his life - he came to Smethwick in 1878 as church organist, later going to Harborne … In 1893 Mr Buckley was sent to Ireland as special correspondent of the Gazette during the Gladstone Home Rule troubles. The brilliant series of articles he sent back during six months, and which powerfully influenced national politics, made his reputation … He was also a prolific contributor of special articles to newspapers all over the country and conducted chess columns at various times in Birmingham, Manchester, Sheffield and Liverpool journals. In 1933, his resignation from the chess editorship of the Manchester City News was signalized by a presentation from solvers of many years' standing – many of whom had never met Mr Buckley in person. In addition, he was the author of a volume of short stories, three novels and the first – and still standard – life of Sir Edward Elgar, who was an intimate personal friend".

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43. BUDGELL, E. Esq. Memoirs of the Life and Character of the Earl of Orrery, and of the Family of the Boyles. Containing several curious facts, and pieces of history, from the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, to the present times: extracted from original papers and manuscripts, never yet printed. With a short account of the controversy between the late Earl of Orrery and the Reverend Dr. Bentley; and some select letters of Phalaris, the famous Sicilian Tyrant: translated from the Greek. The second edition. With engraved portrait frontispiece of Charles Boyle, Earl of Orrery, Baron Boyle of Marston & Baron Broghill. London: Printed for W. Mears, at the Lamb in the Old Bailey, 1732. pp. xl, 258, 6 (advertisement). Contemporary full black morocco. Covers tooled in gilt with a wide floral roll. Spine divided into six compartments by plain raised bands, title in gilt on recent label in second compartment, the remainder tooled in gilt to a floral design.

Minor wear to extremities. Owner's signature on titlepage, partly erased. A very good copy. €575 ESTC T97291. Bradshaw 7332 Gilbert 97.

44. BURKE, Edmund. Burke's Politics. Selected Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke on Reform, Revolution, and War. Edited by Ross Hoffman & Paul Levack. Portrait frontispiece.

New York: Knopf, 1949. pp. xxxvii, 536, x, [1]. Blue cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and along spine. A fine copy in frayed dust jacket. €45 45. BURKE, Peter. Esq. The Public and Domestic Life of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke.

Second edition. London: Nathaniel Cooke, 1854. pp. xiv, [1], 316. Contemporary full polished calf, covers ruled by double gilt fillet border. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands. Title in gilt on maroon morocco letterpiece in the second compartment, the remainder elaborately tooled in gilt; fore-edge gilt; comb marbled endpapers; green and gold endbands. All edges marbled. Presentation inscription on front free endpaper. Some minor foxing to prelims. A very good copy. €125 46. BURKE, Very Rev. Thomas. Lectures and Sermons. Delivered by the Very Rev. Thomas N. Burke, O.P., since his departure from America. Compiled and edited, with introduction by the 20

De Búrca Ra re Books Very Rev. J.A. Rochford, O.P. Three volumes. New York and Philadelphia: P.J. Kenedy & Sons, Publishers to the Holy Apostolic See, 1888. pp. (1) 644, 103, (2) 613, (3) 426. Green cloth, covers blind-stamped with title and Celtic design, title in gilt on spines. Tear to titlepage of volume one repaired. A very good set. €150 47. BUTLER, Matthew. Waterford: An Illustrated Guide to City & County: with special Tramore and Dunmore sections. Illustrated. Waterford: Waterford News. n.d. (c.1918). pp. 66, + adverts. Staples a little rusty, otherwise a fine copy in pictorial wrappers. €85 With biographical entries of some noted Waterfordians.

48. BYRNE, Miles. Memoirs of Miles Byrne. With Ballads of 1798 and Robert Emmet's Speech from the Dock. Edited for use in schools by P. Boyne. With map, illustrations, notes and exercises. Dublin: C.J. Fallon, n.d. pp. viii, 214. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. €45 MAURICE CRAIG'S COPY 49. CALLANAN, J.J. The Poems. A New Edition, with Biographical Introduction and Notes.

Cork: Published by Daniel Mulcahy, Patrick-St., 1861. Small octavo. pp. xvi, 167. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Maurice Craig's copy with his signature on front free endpaper. A very good copy. Scarce. €235 COPAC locates 4 copies only.

50. CALWELL, H.G. Andrew Malcolm of Belfast 1818-1856. Physician and Historian.

Together with: The History of the General Hospital Belfast, and the other Medical Institutions of the Town. With Chronological Notes & Biographical Reminiscences. Two volumes in one.

Illustrated. Belfast: Brough Cox & Dunn, 1977. pp. xv, 138, 139, xxii. Black arlen, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in frayed dust jacket. €45 The History of the General Hospital was originally published in Belfast in 1851.

51. CAMBLIN, Gilbert. The Town in Ulster. An account of the origin and building of the towns of the Province and the development of their rural setting with 62 Plates and Maps from contemporary sources. Belfast: Wm. Mullan & Son (Publishers) Limited, 1951. Quarto. pp. xv, 131. Red cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. All edges red. A very good copy in torn illustrated dust jacket with partial loss. €95 52. [CANDID OBSERVER] Biographical Anecdotes, of the Founders of the late Irish Rebellion, including Memoirs of the Most Conspicuous Persons Concerned in that Foul and Sanguinary Conspiracy, among whom are those of Lord Edward Fitz-Gerald, Theobald Wolfe Tone, Esq. Arthur O'Connor, Esq., Rev. William Jackson, Sir Edward Wm. Crosbie, Bart., Cornelius Grogan, Esq., B. Bagnall Harvey, Esq., Henry and John Sheares, Esqrs., James Napper Tandy, Esq., Archibald Hamilton Rowan, Esq., Thomas Addis Emmet, Esq., Dr. Esmond, Mr. Matthew Dowling, Mr. Thomas Bacon, Mr. Miles Duigenan, Mr. Oliver Bond, John Sweetman, Esq. &c &c &c Impartially Written by a Candid Observer. London: Printed in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine; and Reprinted in Ireland, in the year 1801. pp. 71.

Recent marbled boards. Titlepage cleaned, last page in superior facsimile. Some water staining and darkening of titlepage. A good copy. Extremely rare. €475 COPAC locates the BL copy only. WorldCat 2.

53. CARLETON, William. Traits and Stories of The Irish Peasantry. Fifth edition. With an introduction, explanatory notes, and numerous illustrations, by Harvey, Gilbert, Phiz, Franklin, MacManus, &c. Two volumes. London: William Tegg, 1864. pp. (1), [vi], 427, (2), [iv], 430.

Bound in original green pebbled cloth. Covers blind stamped to a floral pattern with a harp gilt surrounded by a garland of shamrock gilt on the upper covers. Title in gilt on spine. Owner's signature on front free endpaper. Occasional light foxing. Minor wear to covers, otherwise a very good set. €225 William Carleton (1794-1869), was born in Prillisk, County Tyrone, one of fourteen children of a tenant farmer. He went to Dublin and besides his novels, he also contributed articles to many journals: the Christian Examiner; the Family Magazine; the Dublin University Magazine, etc. He also wrote for The Nation but as D.J. O'Donoghue said: "Carleton was never a Nationalist, and was quite incapable of 21

De Búrca Ra re Books adopting the principles of the Young Irelanders". As a race we are reputed to be very severe when appraising each other; a great man referring to this characteristic once said "an honest people, they never speak well of each other"!.

The Tyrone-born novelist although reared a Catholic and intended for the priesthood, became a Protestant on marriage. He wrote for hire, writing for anyone that would pay him, Catholic, Protestant, or Dissenter, and suited his material to the current clients needs and outlook.

FAR FROM A JOYFUL OR BEAUTIFUL SPECTACLE 54. CARLYLE, Thomas. Reminiscences of My Irish Journey in 1849. With a preface by J.A. Froude. London: Sampson Low, 1882. pp. vii, 263. Green buckram, title in gilt on spine. Light foxing to prelims, otherwise a very good copy. €165 This work was not intended for publication by the author, Thomas Carlyle, the noted essayist and historian, as it was based on letters to his family but on the advice of J.A. Froude it was published. The author travelled extensively throughout the country and for much of the journey was accompanied by Gavan Duffy. "Have half forcibly recalled all my remembrances, and thrown down on paper since my return. Ugly spectacle: sad health: sad humour: a thing unjoyful to look back upon. The whole country figures in my mind like a ragged coat; one huge beggar's gabardine, not patched or patchable any longer: far from a joyful or beautiful spectacle".

AUTHOR PRESENTATION COPY 55. CARMICHAEL, Rev. Robert. A Treatise on The Calculus of Operations: Designed to Facilitate the Processes of the Differential and Integral Calculus and the Calculus of Finite Differences. London: Longman, Brown, Green, 1855. pp. xii, 170, 24. Brown blind-stamped cloth, with badge of Trinity College in gilt on upper cover and in blind on lower cover.

Presentation inscription from the author to his nephew on titlepage. Also with another inscription "This volume is herewith presented to / Dr. Desmond MacHale, with the / compliments of the present owner/ John L. Synge/ 29 Oct. 1975". Spine rebacked. A very good copy. €375 56. CARNEY, James. The Playboy & The Yellow Lady. Dublin: Poolbeg Press, 1986. pp. xv, 224. Title in yellow on upper cover and along spine. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. €65 COPAC locates 6 copies only.

57. [CASTLEBAR SCRAP ALBUM] A scrap album chiefly of Mayo interest with original watercolours, poetry pieces, silhouettes, engravings, cartoons, original sketches, hand-coloured illustrations and an original oval photograph of Michael Murphy, etc. Circa 1846 - 1886. Bound in full purple blind stamped morocco, titled 'Album' in gilt on spine. Presentation inscription on front free endpaper within a raised colour decorated curtain "Beatrice Sixsmith / from her / father / 1886". All edges gilt. €575

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The album is dated at Castlebar 21st February, 1846; Newtown 31st March, 1846; Liberty, Texas 28th April, 1851; Castlebar 25th November, 1851; Pottsville 20th January, 1855; Dublin 17th June 1871; Sandymount 1st February, 1878, etc.

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De Búrca Ra re Books The original sketches include: San Antonio; Castlebar; House of the President of Texas; Darling Prince (the dog); Interior of Boyle Abbey; Sackville Street, Dublin; and Irish Dancers. The watercolours, silhouettes and sketches include portraits of: M. M.; M. Foy; C. M. F[oy]; Queen Victoria; The Countess of Lucan?; A. F[oy]; T. S. Foy; R. Taylor; I. Foy, and J. Foy. There is an interesting note on the Countess of Lucan, "a Masculine cast of beauty, tall, fair and commanding in appearance, her features are haughty, shrewd, and expressive, denoting her character which is one of much kindness and mental energy". Signed M. J. M.; Manuscript musical scores for Royal Irish Quadrilles: Donnybrook Fair; The Girl I Left Behind Me; Norah Creina; Rory O'Moore; The Emerald Isle and The Hunter's Chorus; Messages of Queen Victoria and President Buchanan dated 16th August, 1858 on the laying of the first trans-Atlantic cable; A Poem by George Booth on the "Death" of the Revd P. Pounden, Vicar of Westport, died 3rd April 1847.

Michael Murphy was the hero who helped to quell a fire on board the "St. Louis" from Liverpool to New York in 1851 on his return to Pottsville, Pennsylvania.

58. [CATALOGUE] Catalogue of Water-Colour and Oil Paintings, Chalk and Pencil Drawings, etc. By A. McGoogan. Prefatory note by J.J. Buckley, Keeper, Art and Industrial Division.

National Museum of Science and Art. With a frontispiece in colour and sixteen reproductions in black and white. Dublin: Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction, 1915. First edition. pp. [iv], 36. Illustrated green wrappers. A very good copy. €175 No copy located of this edition. COPAC locates the BL copy only of the second edition.

59. [CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION] Catholic Emancipation Centenary Celebrations. Dublin, June 16th to 23rd, 1929. Advance Programme. Illustrated. Dublin: Catholic Emancipation Committee, 1929. pp. [ii], 128, [2 (adverts)]. A very good copy in pictorial wrappers. €25 An advance programme for the 1929 celebrations in Dublin of the first centenary of the passing of the Catholic Relief Act.

60. [CECIL, Lord Burghley & NORTON, Thomas] A Declaration of the favourable dealing of Her Majesties Commissioners appointed for the Examination of certaine Traitours, and of tortures unjustly reported to be done upon them for matters of religion. [London: Printed by Christopher Barker 1583]. Quarto. pp. [8]. Bound by Riviere in full tree calf, title in gilt on spine.

With the armorial bookplates of William Marchbank and George Goyder on front pastedown and flyleaf. A fine copy. Very rare. €1,450 Sweeney 3188. COPAC locates 8 copies. WorldCat 2.

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De BĂşrca Ra re Books A typical piece of Tudor propaganda produced under the direction of William Cecil, Lord Burghley.

Public disquiet at reports of Catholics having been put to the rack for conscience sake evoked this governmental response with Cecil making use of the compositional skills of the dramatist Thomas Norton, co-author of 'Gorboduc', the earliest blank verse tragedy in English. In particular the case of Edmund Campion, Jesuit author of a History of Ireland, had touched a raw nerve, as earlier in his career he had been singled out by the Queen herself as one of the outstanding Oxford graduates of his generation. Norton claimed, "First, that the formes of torture in their severitie or rigour of execution, have not been such and in such manner perfourmed, as the slaunderers and libellers have ... published.

And that even the principal offender Campion himselfe ... that very Campion, I say, before ye conference had with him by learned men in ye Tower, wherein he was charitably used, was never so racked, but yet was presently able to walke & to write". However one suspects that even the most fervent government supporter might have found it hard to credit that "the Warders, whose office and act it is to handle the racke, were ever by those that attended the examinations specially charged, to use it in as charitable maner, as such a thing might be".

Thomas Norton (1532-1584) English lawyer, politician and writer of verse. His Calvinism grew with years, and towards the end of his career he became a fanatic. Norton held several interrogation sessions in the Tower of London using torture instruments such as the rack. His punishment of the Catholics, as their official censor from 1581 onwards, led to his being nicknamed "Rackmaster-General" and "Rackmaster Norton".

Provenance: The William Marchbank / George Goyder copy.

61. [CHAPBOOK] The Natural History of Remarkable Trees, Shrubs, and Plants. Illustrated with seven full-page wood engravings, plus some printers' devices. Dublin: John Jones, 1819. pp. xviii, 28-179. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Upper and lower joint starting, but firm. A very good copy. Scarce. â‚Ź275 COPAC locates 5 copies only.

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De Búrca Ra re Books EXTREMELY RARE DUBLIN PRINTING 62. [CHARLES II] The Mischiefs and Unreasonableness of Endeavouring to Deprive His Majesty of the Affections of his Subjects by misrepresenting Him and His Ministers. Dublin: Printed by Joseph Ray at Colledge-Green, for Samuel Helsham Bookseller in Castle-street 1681.

Quarto. pp. [2], 12, [2]. Modern half calf on marbled boards. A fine copy. Extremely rare. €1,350 Wing M 2238. Sweeney 3042. COPAC locates 4 copies only. WorldCat 2.

Authorship attributed to King Charles II in British Library Catalogue.

Dated at Dublin, May 24th, the author alleges that there is a further source of danger: "We have truly too many of that restless turbulent spirit still among us who are for the Good Old Cause, and those good days wherein the saints did kill and plunder; They remember what fell to their shares then, and be their designs and hopes which way they will, they have a secret unaccountable inclination to be at the old trade".

RARE DUBLIN EDITION 63. [CLARENDON Lord] The Lord Clarendon's History of the Grand Rebellion Compleated.

Containing, The Tracts, Speeches, and Memorials mentioned in that History; together with the LIFE of the Lord CLARENDON. Third edition. Dublin: Printed for J. Leathley, in Dames-Street, and P. Dugan on Cork-Hill, 1720. pp. [viii], 248. Later full sprinkled calf, title in gilt on black morocco letterpiece on spine. Owner's signature on titlepage. Front pastedown states that this copy was sold at the Marquis of Hastings sale, December / 68, also with shelf mark label; engraved bookplate of David Whelan on front free endpaper. A very good copy. €475 COPAC locates 4 copies only.

According to Lowndes, the text is taken from Edward Ward's 'History of the Rebellion in Verse' (1713).

64. [CLARKE, Harry] Harry Clarke 1889-1931. Ten Original Illustrations for Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales. London: The Fine Art Society, 2008. pp. 40. Black paper boards, title in silver on upper cover. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. €75 65. CLIFTON, Harry. Dielma and Other Poems. London: Duckworth, 1932. pp. 88. Blue buckram, title in gilt on spine. One page torn. Very rare. €65 Not in National Library of Ireland.

Henry Talbot de Vere Clifton (1907-1979) was the inspiration for W.B. Yeats' Lapis Lazuli (1938).

THE LAND OF IRELAND SERIES 66. COGHLAN, Daniel. The Ancient Land Tenures of Ireland. Dublin: Browne & Nolan, n.d. (c.1933). pp. [vii], 311, vii, + errata. Yellow cloth, title in black on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. Very scarce. €285 With chapters on: Review of the Laws and Institutions of Ancient Ireland; The Beginning of Written Irish Literature; Ancient Territorial Divisions; Influence of Land Laws and Customs on the Topographical Distribution of the Occupiers of Land; Ownership of Land in Ancient Ireland; The Descent of Land; Corpus Bescna; On the Taking of Lawful Possession of Land; Bee Judgements; Cain Patrick - The Law of Chief and Tenant; Forfeiture of Land for Crimes; Early Ecclesiastical Law and Its Relation to Land; The Organisation of the Kindred in The Geilfine System, etc.

67. [COLLINS & GRIFFITH] Arthur Griffith Michael Collins. A Pictorial History. Cover illustration by Harry Clarke. Numerous other illustrations. Dublin: Martin Lester, n.d. (1922).

Quarto. First edition, First issue. pp. 62. Original illustrated frayed wrappers, repair to spine.

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.

DE LUXE EDITION 68. COLLIS, Robert. Marrowbone Lane. A Play in Three Acts. Portrait of Collis after Sean O'Sullivan, R.H.A. Monkstown: The Runa Press, 1943. First edition. pp. 95. Full brown morocco, title lettered in gilt on upper cover, turn-ins gilt, splash-marbled endpapers. De Luxe edition, unnumbered. A fine copy. €75 26

De Búrca Ra re Books 69. COLUM, Padraic. Wild Earth. Poems. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1950. pp. v, 40. A superb copy in fine dust jacket. €65 Padraic Colum (1881-1972) poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer and collector of folklore. He was one of the leading figures of the Celtic Revival. He was born in a County Longford workhouse where his father worked.

In 1911, with Mary Gunning Maguire, a fellow student from UCD, and David Houston and Thomas MacDonagh, he founded the short-lived literary journal The Irish Review, which published work by Yeats, George Moore, Oliver St John Gogarty, and many other leading Revival figures. This collection of Padraic Colum includes most of his best-known poems.

SIGNED COPY 70. COLUM, Padraic. Ed. by. A Treasury of Irish Folklore. The Stories, Traditions, Legends, Humour, Wisdom, Ballads and Songs of the Irish People.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1954. pp. xx, 620.

Green cloth, title in black on spine. Signed by Padraic Colum on front free endpaper. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €85 71. CONCANNON, Kieran. Ed. by. Inishbofin Through Time and Tide. With a preface by Richard Murphy. Illustrated and with a large folding map of the island. With programme for the 1993 Inishbofin Arts Festival loosely inserted. Inishbofin: Inishbofin Development Association, 1993.

Quarto. pp. [xiv], 129. Owner's signature on titlepage. Illustrated wrappers. Very good. €65 72. CONNOLLY, James. Labour in Irish History. New York: The Donnelly Press, 1919. First American edition. pp. 137, 6 (adverts). Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and on spine. A very good copy. €145 "Ireland, as distinct from her people, is nothing to me; and the man who is bubbling over with love and enthusiasm for 'Ireland', and can yet pass unmoved through our streets and witness all the wrong and the suffering, the shame and the degradation wrought upon the people of Ireland - aye, wrought by Irishmen upon Irish men and women, without burning to end it, is, in my opinion a fraud and a liar in his heart, no matter how much he loves that combination of chemical elements he is pleased to call Ireland" - James Connolly.

73. CONRAN, Michael. The National Music of Ireland, containing The History of the Irish Bards, The National Melodies, the Harp, and other Musical Instruments of Erin. Illustrated.

Second Edition. London: John Johnson, 1850. pp. xii, 287. Black buckram, title in gilt on red spine. A very good copy. €235 74. COTTON, The Rev. S.G. The Three Whispers and Other Tales reprinted from the "University" and "Sunday School" Magazines. Dublin: John Robertson, London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1870. pp. xii, 5-256. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Gilt decoration on upper cover.

Cloth faded. A very good copy. €125 The profits of this work went to Carogh Orphanage, County Kildare.

75. COWLEY, Ultan. McAlpine's Men. Irish Stories from the Sites. Illustrated. Wexford: Potter's Yard Press, 2010. Signed by the author. Illustrated wrappers. A fine copy. €30 SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 76. COWLEY, Ultan. The Men Who Built Britain. A History of the Irish Navvy. Illustrated.

Wexford: Potters Yard Press, 2014. Quarto. pp. 272. Black paper boards, titled in silver. Edition limited to 250 copies, signed and numbered by the author. A fine copy in fine illustrated dust jacket. €75 27

De Búrca Ra re Books SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF 50 COPIES ONLY 77. CRAIG, Maurice. Notes on my Books. Dublin: The DOVS, 2006. pp. 23. Edition limited to 50 copies only, numbered and signed by the author, binder and publisher. Quarter linen on blue paper boards, title in black on upper cover and on paper label on spine. Rare. €375

A fine limited edition set in Monotype hot-metal in 12 and 14 point Plantin by Con Devlin at the National Print Museum and printed letterpress by Sean Sills at NCAD on Zerkall mould-made 210gsm paper.

Maurice Craig (1919-2011) was born in Belfast and was educated at Castle Park, Dalkey and Shrewsbury School before going on to Magdalene College, Cambridge and Trinity College, Dublin.

He has written on subjects as diverse as Irish bookbindings, biography, poetry, and topography, but it is for his books on architectural subjects that he was best known. His seminal 'Dublin 1660 - 1860' appeared in 1952 and was followed by further ground-breaking works including Classic Irish Houses of the Middle Size and The Architecture of Ireland from the Earliest Times to 1880.

78. CROMWELL, Oliver. A Letter from the Right Honourable, The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to the Honourable William Lenthall Esquire Speaker of the Parliament of England, concerning the Taking in and Surrendring of Enistery, Carrick Town and Castle, Passage-Fort, BandonBridge, Kingsale and the Fort there. 12 Decembr. 1649. London: 1649. Quarto. pp. 8. Title within a border of type ornaments. Half blue morocco on marbled boards. A very good copy.

Exceedingly rare. €1,350 Wing C 7101. Sweeney 1272. COPAC locates 6 copies only. No copy of the printed book on WorldCat. It was ordered to be read in all the churches in and around the city of London. The notion that everything went smoothly for Cromwell in Ireland is far from the truth. He reports back to the House of Commons: "I tell you, a considerable part of your army is fitter for an hospital than the field; If the 28

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enemy did not know it, I should have held it impolitique to have writ it; They know it yet they known not what to do". In the period covered by this dispatch he too had been taken ill and unable to participate in the attack on Enistery five miles from Ross. The Major General and the Lieutenant General with two Battering Guns had marched towards it, he wrote "leaving me very sick at Ross behinde them".

79. CRONIN, Anthony. The Life of Riley. Dingle: Brandon Books, 1983. Second edition. pp.

222. Brown paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in fine dust jacket. €35 80. CRONIN, Anthony. Dead as Doornails. A chronicle of life. Dublin: Dolmen Press. London: Calder & Boyars, 1976. First edition. pp. [vi], 201. Blue paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in illustrated dust jacket. €45 In this work the author tells of his association with such interesting characters as Patrick Kavanagh, Brendan Behan and Myles na Gopaleen. Their paths crossed and recrossed in the artistic Dublin of the Fifties and Sixties. Cronin analyses and muses about them with a conversational ease that is irresistible.

Comedy mixes with deep understanding is a rare sort of critical biography, which is among the best of its kind.

81. CRONIN, Anthony. Heritage Now. Irish Literature in the English Language. Dingle: Brandon, 1982. pp. 214, 1. Brown paper boards, title in silver along spine. A fine copy in dust jacket. €45 82. CRONIN, Sean. The Story of Kevin Barry. With foreword by Comdt.-General Tom Barry.

Cork: National Publications, 1965. pp. 44. A very good copy in pictorial wrappers. €45 Kevin Barry (1902-1920) was hanged in Mountjoy prison, after a trial by court martial, on 1 November 1920. He had been a student at Belvedere College and was attending the Medical School of UCD. 29

De Búrca Ra re Books Barry had already taken part in several I.R.A. actions before he was captured on 20 September 1920 after an attack on a military lorry in Upper Church Street, Dublin, in which three British soldiers were killed. At the end of October a sworn statement by Barry alleging that he had been tortured by British soldiers was released to the press. Lord French, however, confirmed the verdict of the Court Martial on 31 October and Barry was executed on the following day, All Saints Day. The religious significance of the day, combined with his youth and the manner of his death, all combined to make Kevin Barry a martyr in Ireland's cause. This pamphlet, by a former Chief of Staff of the I.R.A., provides valuable information on the life of Barry based on research and on contact with many who knew Barry.

83. CUELLAR, Captain. A Letter Written on October 4, 1589 by Captain Cuellar of the Spanish Armada to His Majesty King Philip II Recounting his Misadventures in Ireland and Elsewhere after the Wreck of his Ship. Translated from the original Spanish by Henry Dwight Sedgwick. London: Elkin Mathews & New York: Richmond, 1896. pp. viii, [1], 109, [1].80.

Grey papered boards, Spanish Galleon in gilt on cover. Wear to spine otherwise a very good copy. Scarce. €135 No copy located on COPAC or WorldCat. Francisco de Cuellar was a Spanish sea captain who sailed with the Spanish Armada in 1588 and was wrecked on the coast of Ireland. He gave a remarkable account of his experiences in the fleet and on the run in Ireland.

84. CUNNINGHAM, George. The Anglo-Norman Advance in the South West Midlands of Ireland 1185-1221. With numerous maps and illustrations. Preface by James Lydon. Foreword by John Feehan. Roscrea: Parkmore Press, 1987. Quarto. pp. xxviii, 195. Blue cloth, title in silver on spine. A fine copy in pictorial wrappers. €125 85. CURTIN, Jeremiah. Hero-Tales of Ireland. Collected by Jeremiah Curtin. London: Macmillan, 1894. pp. lii, 558. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Ex lib. Christian Brothers, with stamps. A very good copy. Rare. €95 Jeremiah Curtin (1838-1906), ethnologist and folklorist, was born in Detroit of Irish parents (his father was from Clare). He was raised on a farm in Milwaukee on lands ceded by Indian tribes in 1831/3.

Curtin was one of the greatest American scholars, and among the most remarkable of the Irish in America, a renowned polyglot who could speak some seventy languages. While on his many visits to Ireland he collected folklore in south-west Munster and all along the Gaeltacht coast from Kerry to Donegal. Myths and Folklore of Ireland was amongst the first accurate collections of folk material, and W.B. Yeats drew upon it for the myths concerning Cú Chulainn. Curtin's work attracted the attention of the editor of the New York Sun, who asked for more Irish tales which were published in that paper.

Most of these stories were reprinted in the present work.

86. CUSACK, M.F. The Life of St. Patrick, Apostle of Ireland. Illustrated with numerous engravings. London: Longmans Green. Dublin: Elwood. Boston: Donohoe. Australia: Robertson: 1871. Quarto. pp. xii, 656. Pages printed within decorated boards. With engraved half title depicting the Church and Convent at Kenmare. Gilt decorated mauve cloth over bevelled boards.

Some mild foxing. All edges gilt. A very good copy. Scarce. €275 Margaret Anne Cusack (1832-1899) was born into an aristocratic background in Dublin. She became an Anglican nun in London, later (1858) converting to Catholicism. She joined the Poor Clares, taking the name Mary Francis, in Newry and afterwards spent some time working in the famine-stricken region of Kenmare, County Kerry where the fund she founded for the destitute peasantry raised £20,000. A woman before her time, she was misunderstood and reviled and became embroiled in quarrels with the hierarchy in various parts of Ireland.

87. D'ALTON, John. The Memoirs of the Archbishops of Dublin. With list of subscribers.

Dublin: Hodges and Smith, College-Green, 1838. First edition. pp. xii, 492. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Lower corner of page 175/176 torn with no loss of text. A very good copy. €135 88. DANAHER, Kevin. In Ireland Long Ago. Cork: Mercier Press, 1967. pp. 189. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. €20 89. DANAHER, Kevin. Irish Country People. Cork: Mercier Press, 1969. Second edition. pp.

127, [1]. A very good copy in pictorial wrappers. €20 90. DANAHER, Kevin. Gentle Places and Simple Things. Dublin and Cork: Mercier Press, 1976. pp. 125, [3]. A very good copy in illustrated wrappers. €20 30

De Búrca Ra re Books 91. DAVIS, Thomas. MANGAN, J.C. & OTHERS. The Spirit of the Nation. Ballads and Songs by The Writers of 'The Nation', with Original and Ancient Music, Arranged for the Voice and Piano-Forte. Frontispiece. Dublin: James Duffy, n.d. [1882]. Quarto. pp. viii, 368.

Green cloth over bevelled boards, decorated in gilt and black. All edges gilt. A fine copy.€135 The Ballads and Songs were originally published in The Nation newspaper. The contributors include: Thomas Davis, James Clarence Mangan, William Drennan, Michael Doheny, Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, M.J. Barry, Edward Walsh, John C. O'Callaghan, Hugh Harkin, J. Keegan, D.F. McCarthy, etc.

Contains an index of Irish Phrases used in this work and an index of Places mentioned.

92. DE BLÁCAM, Aodh. ["Roddy The Rover"] The Black North. An account of the Six Counties of unrecovered Ireland: their people, their treasures, and their history.

Foreword by Éamon De Valera. With illustrations and map. Dublin: Gill, 1940. First edition. pp. 318. Green cloth, title in black on upper cover and spine. Inscribed on front free endpaper "From David and Dooge / Something to read on the / "Twelfth" / from / Leon and Cait / May your shadow never grow long! / 12.viii.1939". A very good copy. 'Leon' is the distinguished historian Leon Ó Broin. €35 EDITION LIMITED TO 150 SIGNED COPIES 93. [DE BURCA, Éamonn] A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Three Candles Collection by Éamonn de Búrca. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 1998. pp. [2], ix, 44, [2], 12, 28 (illustrations).

Edition limited to 150 copies (No. 7) signed. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. Rare. €150 Having assembled the 'Three Candles' collection over a number of years and having established there was no complete listing of their publications, we decided in the interests of scholarship to publish this unique catalogue in a limited signed edition. There are over 300 items listed with a detailed bibliography. Well illustrated, it is further enhanced by historical and biographical commentary.

94. DE BURGH, U.H. Hussey. The Landowners of Ireland. An Alphabetical List of the Owners of Estates of 500 Acres or £500 Valuation and upwards, in Ireland, with the Acreage and Valuation in each County. And also containing a brief notice of the Education and official appointments of each person, to which are added his town and country addresses and clubs.

Dublin: Hodges, 1878. pp. xxviii, 486 + errata. Modern coarse linen, title in gilt on red linen label on upper cover. A very good copy. Rare. €475 Compiled by U. H. Hussey de Burgh whose aim was in part, to correct the Government's erroneous publications on the extent and value of Ireland's larger estates and by his own confession did this with the aid of the landlords themselves. Whether or not this provided a more accurate statement of the true extent and value of Ireland's larger estates as published, for example, John Bateman's Great Landowners of 1883 is unclear. What can be said is that Hussey was only interested in Irish landowners and not the remainder of Great Britain.

In addition to the name of the landowner, the county in which land is held, the extent of land held and valuations thereon, Hussey also provides some interesting biographical information on a large proportion of the landowners noted, which must have originated with the landowners themselves. This information is predominantly biographical in nature and includes government appointments, gentlemen's clubs, marriage details, addresses, family seat and so on.

Ulysses Hubert Hussey de Burgh was born on 25 May 1850, son of Walter Hussey de Burgh and Hester McClintock. He lived in 1862 at Donore House, County Kildare.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 95. DE GENNARO, Gaetano. Pastels and Paintings. Introduction by Kees Van Hoek. With 37 mounted plates. Dublin: At the Sign of the Three Candles, 1945. Large Quarto. pp. [viii], 38, 36 (plates). Half diagonal ribbed cloth on printed boards. Special edition limited to 1,000 numbered copies, (No. 478) signed by G. De Gennaro. A very good copy. Scarce. €475 De Búrca 148.

De Gennaro, an Italian artist, worked for many years in Ireland where his paintings were highly regarded and he became widely identified as an Irish artist. The subject matter is mainly of the islanders of Inishere; portraits of Douglas Hyde, Sean Keating, Jack B. Yeats, Jerome Connor, Liam Gogan, and also some Negro and East Indian subjects.

96. DE JUBAINVILLE, H. D'Arbois. The Irish Mythological Cycle and Celtic Mythology.

Translated from the French, with additional notes, by Richard Irvine Best. Dublin: Hodges Figgis, 1903. pp. xv, 240. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Ex. libris O.F.M. Cap. with stamp.

Minor spotting to fore-edge and prelims, otherwise a very good copy. Scarce. €225 97. DENMAN, Terence. Ireland's Unknown Soldiers. The 16th (Irish) Division in the Great War, 1914-1918. With illustrations and maps. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1992. pp. 209.

Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in dust jacket. €35 The Great War of 1914-1918 saw the Irish soldier make his greatest sacrifice on Britain's behalf.

Nearly 135,000 Irishmen volunteered (conscription was never applied in Ireland) in addition to the 50,000 Irish who were serving with the regular army and the reserves on 4 August 1914. Within a few weeks of the outbreak of the war no less than three Irish divisions - the 10th (Irish), 16th (Irish) and 36th (Ulster) - were formed from Irishmen, Catholic and Protestant who responded to Lord Kitchener's call to arms.

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND HER HUSBAND, EAMON 98. DE VALERA, Sinéad. Fairy Tales of Ireland. Cover and text illustrations by Chris Bradbury. London: Four Square, 1970. pp. 159. Signed by the author her husband. A very good copy in illustrated wrappers. €275

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De Búrca Ra re Books 99. DICKSON, Richard. A Faithful Narrative of the Barbarous and Bloody Murder of P-l HFF-N, M.D. Committed by himself, on Monday the 17th day of October Inst. Being a Letter from Mr. R-d D-ck-n of S-l-r-C-t Castle-Street, Dublin, to J-n B-ne, Esq; at the Hague. [Dublin] : Printed in the year 1748. pp. 8. Disbound. From the library of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (Kirkpatrick Bequest), with stamps. Some foxing, edges frayed. Very rare. €475 COPAC locates 8 copies.

A satire on Paul Hiffernan, a minor poet of slender abilities, who occasionally associated with Foote, Garrick, and Goldsmith. He was born in Dublin in 1719. Intended for the Catholic priesthood, he was sent to study in France, and lived there seventeen years. On his return to Dublin he took the degree of Bachelor of Medicine, and conducted in 1750 The Tickler, a periodical paper in opposition to Lucas and his friends. About 1753 he removed to London, and was employed by the booksellers in the compilation and translation of various works. He wrote several short plays, trained candidates for the stage, lived the life of a literary vagabond, and died in an obscure lodging in June 1777.

100. DILLON, Geraldine Plunkett. All in the Blood. A Memoir of the Plunkett family, the 1916 Rising and the War of Independence. Edited by Honor O Brolchain. Illustrated. Dublin: A. & A. Farmar Ltd., 2006. pp. xvi, 342. Black cloth, title in gilt on spine A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. €45 101. DILLON, P. J. The Fingal Road and Some of Those Who Travelled It. Dublin: M.H. Gill and Son, Ltd., 1930. First edition. pp. viii, 99. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. From the library of the Christian Brothers with stamps. A very good copy. Very scarce. €135 A history of the old mail coach road of north Dublin, and particularly that section from Dublin to Drogheda that traverses Fingal. Includes such luminaries as Cuchulainn, Colm Cille, Brian Boru, Silken Thomas, Shane O'Neill, Red Hugh O'Donnell, Hugh O'Neill, Cromwell, James the Second, The Men of '98, James Stephens, Parnell and the Black and Tans.

102. DINNEEN, Rev. Patrick S. Focloir Gaedhilge agus Bearla. An Irish-English Dictionary, Being a thesaurus of the words, phrases and idioms of the modern Irish language. New edition, revised and greatly enlarged. Dublin: Irish Text Society, 1927. pp. xxx, 1340 (double column), 4 (publisher's list). Original green gilt decorated cloth. New endpapers. Minor wear to extremities, otherwise a good copy. €45 103. DOHERTY, William James. Inis-Owen and Tirconnell. Being some account of Antiquities and Writers of the County of Donegal. Second series. Illustrated. Dublin: Patrick Traynor, 1895. pp. [xii], 609. Brown cloth. Title in gilt on spine. Publisher's device blindstamped on both covers. A very good copy. Very scarce. €225 104. DOHERTY, William. C.C. Ed. By. Derry Columbkille. Souvenir of the Centenary Celebrations, in Honour of St. Columba, in the Long Tower Church, Derry, 1897-99. Colour illustrated titlepage and with numerous other illustrations. Dublin: Browne & Nolan, 1899. Royal octavo. pp. xi, 181. Pictorial olive green cloth, Columbkille in gilt. Name clipped from front free endpaper. Owner's bookplate on half title. Some mild staining to cover, otherwise a very good copy. €75 105. DOWDEN, Edward. A Woman's Reliquary. Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1913. pp. 59. Quarter cream cloth on paper boards, title in black on upper cover and spine. Limited to 300 copies.

Some foxing to cover, browning to endpapers and margin of pages. A very good copy. €95 106. DRENNAN, Anthony S. Catalogue of the Library of Helen's Tower, Clandeboye.

Supplement No.1 Belfast: Privately printed by A.S. Drennan, 1993. pp. 32. Printed cream wrappers. Edition limited to 195 copies numbered and signed by the compiler. One leaf loosely inserted. A very good copy. €75 COPAC locates 5 copies only.

DUBLIN PENNY JOURNAL RARE NEW SERIES 107. [DUBLIN PENNY JOURNAL] The Dublin Penny Journal 1902 - 1905. New Series. Three volumes. A magazine of art, archaeology, literature, and science. With illustrations and maps.

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The Dublin Penny Journal policies were: "As the model of our present enterprise, we have adopted the lines laid down by the conductors of the original and famous Dublin Penny Journal, which sixty years ago proved a means of bringing together a brilliant band of writers on various subjects connected with Irish art, archaeology, literature and science. Of late there has been witnessed in our midst what can only be described as a renaissance of interest in matters connected with the past history of our race and country, as well in those affecting the development of the intellectual and material resources of the nation. For all those who are inclined to assist the growth of a movement which, in our judgement, must tend towards worthy ends, it is our desire to make the new Dublin Penny Journal a medium of expression of thought and for the publication of their views on questions of the moment to the people of Ireland of all creeds, classes and sections".

With literary, scientific, political, biographical, genealogical and historical contributions by: F.J. Bigger, Martin J. Blake, E.R. M'C Dix, John Bernard, Eleanor Hodgens, Richard J. Kelly, Henry O'Hanlon, Margaret Gilman George, William Bates, M. Weber, Isaac Butt, Annie A. Preston, W.L. Beasley, F.R.M. Hitchcock, Rev. Henebery, Sir William Wilde, etc. etc.

A most interesting and important journal covering all aspects of Irish history, etc.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 108. DUNNE, Seán. Ed. by. Poets of Munster. An Anthology edited by Seán Dunne. Brandon: Anvil Press Poetry, 1985. pp. 222. Blue paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in dust jacket. €30 EXTREMELY RARE IRISH INCUNABLE 109. DUNS SCOTUS, Blessed Joannes. & O'FIHELY, Maurice, Archbishop. Commentaria doctoris subtilis Joan. Scoti in xii. li. Metaphyice Aristo. Emendata & quottationibus concor dantiis atqe annotationibus decorata per fratrem Mauritium Hibernicú. Bound with: Questiones subtilissme Scoti in metaphysicam Aristotelis. Two works in one volume. Venice: 7 June, 1501.

Folio. 322 leaves. And Venice: 20th November 1497. Folio. 131, [1] leaves. Both volumes woodcut initials throughout, and Scotus/Locatellus devices. Imprints from colophon.

Contemporary full vellum (circa 1550), titled in ink on spine. Occasional mild foxing. A fine copy of an extremely rare item. €12,750 Questiones subtilissme Scoti is the 1st of two Goff printings - D 372. The Commentaria is the1st of two Shaaber printings - D 225. COPAC locates 1 copy only. WorldCat 1. Sweeney 1603.

This edition of Duns Scotus' work on Aristotle is a landmark in Irish Bibliography as the first edition of the first book by the first Irish author to write for the printing press rather than the scriptorium. Maurice O'Fihely, a Franciscan, who saw the work through the press and provided a major commentary in the form of "Castigationes" was born in Baltimore, County Cork. Hence the name "Mauritius de Portu" by which he was widely known to his contemporaries who also bestowed on him the flattering nickname "Flos Mundi". After teaching in Milan and Padua, he became censor of the press in Venice to Octavianus Scoti and thus may also lay claim to being the first Irishman to play a major role in the new world of printing. He was appointed archbishop of Tuam by Pope Julius II in 1506. Reluctant though to exchange the comfort of Italy for the rigours of the West of Ireland, he did not take up the appointment until 1512. His apprehensions were apparently well founded for he died within the year and was buried in Galway where his grave can still be seen. As for the Irishness or otherwise of Duns Scotus, it is a matter that may never be finally resolved to every one's satisfaction. Modern scholarship argues against, but this was certainly not the opinion entertained by early Irish editors who devoted so much effort to producing a definitive edition of the corpus of this late 13th-century Franciscan (died in 1308).

As for the value of the original text, Efrem Bettani in his book "Duns Scotus: The basic principles of his philosophy" calls this the first edition of "a work of Duns Scotus' youth, very helpful for the study of the formation, and to a certain extent, of the evolution of Scotistic thought".

Commentaria doctoris subtilis Joan. Scoti is the 1st of two Shaaber printings, D 269, listing it amongst the "Doubtful and spurious works of Duns Scotus" but this would seem to be a misreading of the situation for this is Maurice O'Fihely's commentary on the preceding entry. The passages quoted from Duns Scotus are printed in large type, and the commentary, which affords the major portion of the text, is printed in small type. Not found in COPAC. WorldCat 2. Sweeney 1604.

SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY 110. ELIOT, T.S. After Strange Gods. A Primer of Modern Heresy. The Page-Barbour Lectures at the University of Virginia 1933. London: Faber and Faber, n.d. (1933). pp. 68. Black cloth, title in gilt on spine. Signed presentation copy from T.S. Eliot to Thomas MacGreevy. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €225

111. EMMET, Robert. The Speech of Robert Emmet, Esq. As delivered at the Sessions House, Dublin, before Lord Norbury, one of the Chief Justices, on being found guilty of High Treason as Leader of the Insurrection of 1803. He was Tried on the 18th, and Executed on the 20th September, 1803, in Thomas-street, Dublin, in the 22nd year of his age. London: H. Hetherington, 1836. pp. 8. Modern half calf on marbled boards. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €285 35

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Robert Emmet, patriot, was born in Dublin in 1778. Educated at T.C.D. Where he took a prominent part in the Historical Society's debates, and was a friend of Thomas Moore. He travelled to the Continent, where he interviewed Napoleon. On returning home he prepared plans for an insurrection which broke out on the 23rd July, 1803, taking the authorities by surprise. Disappointed of promised help, and horrified at the action of his followers in killing Lord Kilwarden, he retired to Rathfarnham where he was protected by his housekeeper, Anne Devlin. He would not leave Dublin until he had met his fiancée, Sarah Curran, whose father, John Philpot Curran, detested Emmet. He was captured at Harold's Cross and was tried before Lord Norbury. Emmet's speech from the dock became one of the most celebrated patriotic orations of all time, eloquently delivered on the day before his execution which took on the 20th September, 1803.

"Yes, my lords, a man who does not wish to have his epitaph written until his country is liberated, will not leave a weapon in the power of envy; nor a pretence to impeach the probity which he means to preserve even in the grave to which tyranny consigns him ... Let no man dare, when I am dead, to charge me with dishonour; let no man attaint my memory by believing that I could have engaged in any cause but that of my country's liberty and independence ... When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then let my epitaph be written" - Emmet's eloquent oration on the day before he was executed for high treason.

112. ERIONNACH [Pseud. of George Sigerson] The Poets and Poetry of Munster: A selection of Irish songs by the poets of the last century, with metrical translations. Second Series. Dublin: John O'Daly, 1860. Small octavo. pp. xxviii, 224. Recent black buckram, title in gilt on spine.

Author's signature on titlepage. A very good copy. Very rare. €175 COPAC locates the Cambridge and British Library copies only.

113. FAHY, Francis A. The Ould Plaid Shawl and Other Songs. With an introduction by P.S. O'Hegarty. Portrait frontispiece. Dublin: At the Sign of the Three Candles, 1949. pp. xii, 98.

Illustrated cream wrappers, title in green on upper cover. A very good copy in dust jacket. €45 Who that ever lived in, or ever loved Ireland can resist the appeal of 'Little Mary Cassidy', 'The Thief of the World' or 'The Ould Plaid Shawl'. Francis Fahy was born 'not far from old Kinvara' and though much of his life was spent in exile in England, Kinvara was forever in his heart. His songs have cheered many an exile, brought tears to longing eyes, and guided many a wanderer home.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 114. FALLS, Cyril. Elizabeth's Irish Wars. With seven illustrations and a map. London: Methuen, 1950. First edition. pp. 362. Red cloth, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. A very good copy in frayed illustrated dust jacket. €75 Professor Falls treats the successive rebellions against English rule as a conflict of nationalistic sentiment, of English Renaissance and Irish Celtic culture, and of England and Spain on Irish soil. His work is mainly military, designed to make clear the strategy, tactics, weapons, recruitment, transportation, supply, pay, and development of the opposing forces; but a general picture emerges of Ireland in the Elizabethan age.

115. FARRY, Michael. The Aftermath of Revolution Sligo 1921 - 1923. A chronicle of conflict.

Foreword by Michael Hopkinson. Illustrated. Dublin: UCD Press, 2000. First edition. pp. xviii, 270. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. Scarce. €75

The Irish Civil War has remained a highly sensitive topic, especially so in the regions and localities away from the high politics of Dublin where it was fought out at the grassroots. Sligo, a county of small towns and villages in the west of Ireland, had only a small part to play in the War of Independence, yet played a significant role in the Civil War that followed. Pro-Treaty forces never fully overcame Republican resistance there.

In this pioneering study, Michael Farry explores the reasons for the increased militancy, and traces the social and economic consequences of the war. "There is a strong sense of what it was like to live in that period: a wide range of social issues are studied including food prices, school attendance figures and participation in sport and leisure activities ... This book should become required reading not only for students of the Revolutionary era but also for the interested general reader" - Michael Hopkinson, in the foreword.

116. FEEHAN, John. The Landscape of Slieve Bloom. A study of its natural and human heritage. Foreword by Professor C.H. Holland with sketches by Anne Gilmore and Michael Moran. Dublin: The Blackwater Press, 1979. Quarto. pp. xix, 284. Buckram, title in black on spine. A very good copy in dust jacket. €75 117. FEEHAN, John. Laois An Environmental History. With Contributions from John Breen, Michael Conry, Eugene Daly, Declan Doogue, Peter N. Lawrence, L.S. Leech, Gillian McCall, Carmel Mothersill, Thomas Murphy, Mark Seaward, David Scott, Martin Speight, Francis Synge, Donal Synnott, Valentine Trodd. Foreword by C.H. Holland. Photography by Brian Redmond. Ballykilcavan Press, 1983. Folio. pp. 551. Blue arlen, titled in gilt. A very good copy in illustrated dust jacket. €95 This work is the first study of its kind of an Irish county, and the first detailed study of County Laois since the publication of Canon O'Hanlon's History of the Queen's County. Magnificently illustrated, this study focuses on Laois as a place, on the local landscape and all that is found in it, on the way it has influenced the lives and history of the people who have lived in it through the centuries, and on the way in which human living has shaped, and continues to shape the landscape.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 118. FEEHAN, John. Farming in Ireland. History, Heritage and Environment. Illustrated. Cork: UCC Faculty of Agriculture, 2003. Folio. pp. xvi, 605. Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine.

A fine copy. €165 This is the first book to look at the entire sweep of Irish farming through its long history, focusing in particular on the way farming has shaped the natural and cultural endowment of the island, and reviewing the state of that endowment today. Successive chapters review the main phases of Ireland's farming history from the arrival of the first farmers some 6,500 years ago. The processes and activities of farming that effect change in the environment are reviewed, as is the material legacy it has left on the ground. An important series of chapters at the centre of the book provides an overview of each of the major natural habitats on or adjacent to farmland. Over the last few decades the farmed landscape and the nature of farming - have changed more profoundly than at any time in a history characterised by change. Irish farming today stands at a critical crossroads, and the concluding chapter of Farming in Ireland attempts to trace its path into the future in the light of our new and growing awareness of the entire spectrum of environmental values.

119. FEEHAN, John. The Wild Flowers of Offaly. Photography by Damien Egan, Jackie O'Connell, Mary O'Connell. Design Bernard Kaye. Roscrea: Printed for Offaly County Council

by Walsh Printers, 2009. Folio. pp. xv, 510. Colour illustrated boards. A fine copy. €125 120. [FEMALE MODEL SCHOOLS] Simple Directions in Needle-Work and Cutting out: intended for the Use of the Female National Schools of Ireland. To which are added specimens of work, executed by the pupils of the Female National Model School. Illustrated with three plates, and thirty-nine design samples on a variety of textiles tipped onto printed green card mounts.

Dublin, Edinburgh & London: Thom, Longman, and Fraser, 1861. Small quarto. Some light spotting to text leaves. Modern half calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on maroon morocco label on upper cover. Complete with all samples. In fine condition. Extremely rare. €5,750 COPAC locates the TCD copy only. WorldCat 1.

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The idea of creating a Model School in Dublin was first entertained in Lord Stanley's letter of 1831, which outlined the terms of the proposed national education system. It charged the Board of National Education with the task of "Establishing and maintaining a model school in Dublin and training teachers for country schools". Years later the commissioners defined the fundamental objectives of an archetypal Model School as follows: To promote the united education of Protestants and Roman Catholics in Common schools; To exhibit the best examples of National schools. To give a preparatory training to young teachers.

In 1834, three years after the establishment of the national system of primary education in Ireland, the first Model School was opened in Upper Merrion Street, Dublin. This institution was central to a larger system of provincial, or District Model Schools which were established throughout Ireland over the next fifteen years. Model Schools were teacher-training institutions under the auspices of the 39

De Búrca Ra re Books Commissioners of the Board of National Education. The Model Schools were the cornerstone of the national system, providing for the vitality of the system both in their capacity to train suitable teachers and to exhibit an exemplary education.

Female student teachers were not accepted until 1842. The school system was to be funded and administered exclusively by the commissioners of the board. This last point was significant because it prompted the hostile reaction of the Roman Catholic hierarchy to the Model School system.

Compiled by Mrs. Campbell, mistress of the Central Female Model School, according to the TCD catalogue.

121. FENNELL, Geraldine. A List of Irish Watch and Clock Makers. Dublin: Published by the Stationery Office, 1963. pp. [6], vi, 42. Printed wrappers. A very good copy. €135 122. FERGUSSON, Sir James. The Curragh Incident. Illustrated. London: Faber and Faber, 1964. First edition. pp. 236. Red cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €45 123. FERRAR, John. A View of Ancient and Modern Dublin with its latest improvements. To which is added A Tour of Bellevue in the County of Wicklow. To which is annexed A Description of the principal towns and Villages near Dublin. Dublin: by Graisberry and Campbell, 1807. pp. xvi, 168. Original paper boards. Spine in need of attention. Lacking map and all plates except 'View of the Custom House'. A nice clean copy. Extremely rare. €125 COPAC locates the TCD copy only of this edition.

124. FISHER, F.R.H.S. The History of Landholding in Ireland. London: Longmans, 1877. pp.

135, [1], 30 (advertisements). Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. A fine copy. €375 No copy of this separate edition on WorldCat. COPAC 7.

In his introduction the author tells us that this work is an expansion of a paper read at the Royal Historical Society in May 1876. It is dated at Waterford, December, 1876. The work is divided into three parts: 1. The Tanistry or Communal Period. 2. The Scandinavian or Mixed Period. 3. The Norman or Feudal Period.

KATHERINE TYNAN'S COPY 125. FITZPATRICK, W.J. Secret Service under Pitt. London: Longmans, 1892. pp. x, 390 (including half title). Brown cloth, titled in gilt. Signed presentation copy from the author to Katherine Tynan on head of titlepage. Previous owner's signature on half-title. Light foxing to endpapers. A very good copy. Scarce. €265

An account of operations against Irish revolutionaries and their foreign allies during the period of the French Revolution and Irish rebellion. The chapters include: Father O'Coigly Hanged; General Napper Tandy; The Betrayer of Lord Edward Fitzgerald; Emmet's Rebellion; Arthur O'Leary, &c.

126. FLANAGAN, Marie Therese. Irish Society, Anglo-Norman Settlers, Angevin Kingship.

Interactions in Ireland in the late Twelfth Century. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. pp. ix, 350, 2 (publisher's list). Dark blue cloth, title in gilt on spine A fine in pictorial dust jacket. €35 EDITH BLAKE'S COPY 127. FORMAN, Alfred. Parsifal. In English Verse. From the German of Richard Wagner.

London: Printed for the Translator by Private Subscription, 1899. pp. xvi, 71, 4 (Reviews). From the library of Edith Blake with her engraved bookplate. Maroon cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and along spine. A very good copy. €125 Edith Blake came from a rich, but dysfunctional family with large estates in Tipperary and Waterford, including extensive copper mines along the coast. She was the elder of two daughters of Catherine Isabella and Ralph Bernal Osborne (of the same family as George Osborne, British Chancellor of the Exchequer), who had come to loathe each other shortly after their marriage in 1844. He was a liberally minded Whig MP, who was originally called Ralph Bernal and appears to have married her largely for 40

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An early dispute came when he tried vainly to have all the sheep on her estates in Ireland re-branded with his initials instead of hers.

Relations did not improve over the next thirty years. "The most violent scenes used frequently to take place between my parents", Edith later wrote. "My sister [Grace] and I often stood holding each other's hands in the corner, very much frightened. I hated my father and looked upon my mother as a suffering angel". Frightened or not, Edith was not an inhibited Victorian girl. She painted extremely well and wrote an excellent book on travelling in southern Europe. Hostilities between her mother and father persisted as Edith grew up.

Things were made only slightly more bearable by the fact that he lived mostly in England, while Catherine Isabella stayed at Newtown Anner outside Clonmel in County Tipperary. When he did visit the house she would greet him by saying: "I trust you are well, Mr Osborne, and how did you leave your mistresses?".

AWARDED TO BEATRICE ORPEN THE FRENCH SCHOOL PRIZE - BRAY 128. FOX, Arthur W. Haunts of the Eagle. Man and Wild Nature in Donegal. With 12 illustrations. London: Methuen & Co., 1924. pp. xi, 274. Red paper boards, title in blind on upper cover and in gilt on spine. Prize label on front pastedown 'The French School, Bray'. Presented to Beatrice Orpen, Easter Term, 1928. Occasional light foxing. A very good copy. Scarce. €245

See items 128 & 129.

129. FOX, Charlotte Milligan. Annals of the Irish Harpers. With portraits. London: Smith Elder, 1911. Octavo. pp. xv, 320. Blue cloth, Harp in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine.

From the Christian Brothers library with their neat stamp. Minor wear to spine ends. A very good copy. Scarce. €125 Charlotte Milligan Fox (1864-1916) musician and folk music collector was born in Omagh, the sister of Alice Milligan. In 1904 she founded the Irish Folk Song Society, and travelled all over Ireland collecting folk songs and airs on gramophone.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 130. FRENCH, Right Rev. Nicholas, D.D. The Bleeding Iphigenia; Unkind Deserter; The Sale and Settlement of Ireland. Dublin: James Duffy, 1848. pp. 143, [16], 5-202. Original red cloth, with repair to spine. Title in gilt on upper cover within a garland of shamrocks. Title in gilt on spine within a shield surmounted by a harp within a cluster of shamrocks. Ex. Lib. Michael D. Schofield, Killarney, with his stamp on front free endpaper. A very good copy. Rare. €385 No copy located on COPAC. WorldCat 1.

Nicholas French (1604-1678), Bishop of Ferns, was born in Wexford and trained for the priesthood at the Irish College in Louvain. Following his ordination he returned to Wexford as parish priest. During the rebellion he was "a violent enemy of the king's authority, and a fatal instrument in contriving and formenting all the divisions which had distracted and rent the kingdom asunder". He took an active share in the deliberations of the first Supreme Council of the Confederates, and was a bitter opponent of the Marquis of Ormonde.

After the Restoration, a long correspondence ensued between him and Fr. Walsh on behalf of Ormonde, relative to his return to Ireland, which ended in 1665, with the following words: "Seeing that I cannot satisfy my conscience and the Duke together, nor become profitable to my flock at home, nor live quietly and secure, his anger not being appeased, you may know hereby that I am resolved after dog-days to go to Louvain, and there end my days where I began my studies".

He busied himself in writing a number of political tracts: A Narrative of the Earl of Clarendon's Settlement and Sale of Ireland (1668); The Bleeding Iphigenia (1674); and an attack on Ormond, The Unkinde Desertor or Loyall Men and True Frinds (1676). All three were published in Louvain and were reprinted and published by Duffy in 1846 and 1848.

131. GAILEY, Alan. Spade Making in Ireland. With maps and illustrations. Belfast: Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, 1982. pp. viii, [1], 148. Quarto. A fine copy in illustrated wrappers. €75 132. GALLAGHER, Frank. Days of Fear. A Diary of Hunger Strike. London: John Murray, 1928. First edition. pp. 175. Quarter black morocco on black buckram, title and author in gilt on spine. A fine copy. Rare. €185 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".

133. GALLAGHER, Frank. The Indivisible Island. The History of the Partition of Ireland.

Illustrated. London: Victor Gollancz, 1957. pp. 316. Green paper boards, title in gilt along spine.

A very good copy in frayed dust jacket, with partial loss to top of spine. €45 134. GARDNER, Phyllis. The Irish Wolfhound. A Historical Sketch. With over one hundred wood engravings specially cut by the author and her sister. Illustrated. Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, 1931. pp. 253. First edition. pp. 253. Orange linen, title in gilt on upper cover and along spine. A very good copy. Very scarce. €135 A unique and valuable contribution to the literature of the Irish wolfhound.

135. GAVIN, Antonio. A Short History of Monastical Orders, In which the Primitive Institution of Monks, their Tempers, Habits, Rules, and The Condition they are in at Present, are Treated of. By Gabriel d'Emillianne. London: Printed by R. Roycroft, for Rob. Clavell, 1693. Octavo. pp. [xxxix], 312. Ex lib. Grimsby Public Library with neat stamp. Early signatures of Ann and J. Isham, dated 1692. Contemporary full mottled 42

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Gabriel d'Emillianne was the pen-name of Antonio Gavin, a native of Saragossa, was educated at the university of that city and graduated M.A. Before he was twenty-three years of age he received ordination as a secular priest in the church of Rome. He subsequently embraced Protestantism, escaped from Spain disguised as an officer in the army, reached London, where he was hospitably entertained

by Earl Stanhope, whom he had met in Saragossa, and was licensed by Robinson, Bishop of London, to officiate in a Spanish congregation. For two years and eight months he preached first in the chapel in Queen's Square, Westminster, and afterwards in Oxenden's chapel, near the Haymarket. Stanhope, wishing to obtain for him some settled preferment in the church of England, advised Gavin to accept in June 1720 the chaplaincy of the Preston man-of-war, in which capacity he would have ample leisure to master English. On the ship being put out of commission he went to Ireland 'on the importunity of a friend', and while there heard of the death of Stanhope at London on 5 Feb. 1721. Soon afterwards, by favour of Palliser, archbishop of Cashel, and Dean Percival, he obtained the curacy of Gowran, near Kilkenny, which he served nearly eleven months. He then removed to Cork, where he continued almost a year as curate of an adjacent parish, occasionally preaching at Cork, Shandon, and Gortroe.

Gavin acquired considerable notoriety by compiling works of lies and libels, interspersed with indecent tales. The British public swallowed Gavin's inventions with avidity.

136. GIBB, Rev. Harold. Record of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards in the Great War 19141918. Foreword by Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby. With regimental standard in colour and one portrait. Canterbury: 1925. pp. viii, 76. Green cloth, title and regimental badge in gilt on upper cover. Some underlining and marginalia. Inscription on half title. A very good copy. €125

137. GIBBINGS, Robert. Lovely is The Lee. With engravings by the author. London: Dent & Sons, 1949. pp. vi, 199. Yellow cloth, titled in gilt, sailing boat in gilt on upper cover. New front endpapers. A very good copy in dust jacket. €60 Travels in Galway, Connemara, Inishbofin, Lough Carra, Inishmaan, Cork, Carrigrohane, Inchigeela, Ballingeary, Iveleary, Gougane Barra.

138. GIBBINGS, Robert. Lovely is The Lee. With engravings by the author. Cork: Mercier Press, 1990. pp. vi, 199, [3 (publisher's list)]. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. €10 Travels in Galway, Connemara, Inishbofin, Lough Carra, Inishmaan, Cork, Carrigrohane, Inchigeela, Ballingeary, Iveleary, Gougane Barra.

139. [GIBBINGS, Robert] The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings with some recollections by the artist. Edited by Patience Empson and with an introduction by Thomas Balston. Part colour wood engraved frontispiece. London: Dent, 1959. Quarto. pp. xliv, 355. Black cloth, device in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Top edge green. Fine in glassine wrapper, title printed in red. A very good copy. Very scarce. €265 With reproductions of his entire output of engravings.

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Robert Gibbings (1889-1958) was an Irish artist and author who was most noted for his work as a wood engraver and sculptor, and for his books on travel and natural history. Along with Noel Rooke he was one of the founder members of the Society of Wood Engravers in 1920, and was a major influence in the revival of wood engraving in the twentieth century. Gibbings was born in Cork into a middleclass family. His father, the Reverend Edward Gibbings, was a Church of Ireland minister. His mother, Caroline, was the daughter of the Antiquarian, Robert Day, Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland and president of The Cork Historical and Archaeological Society. He grew up in the town of Kinsale where his father was the rector of St. Multose Church.

Gibbings studied medicine for three years at University College Cork before deciding to persuade his parents to allow him to take up art. He studied under the painter Harry Scully in Cork and later at the Slade School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design. During the First World War he served in the Royal Munster Fusiliers and was wounded at Gallipoli in the Dardanelles. He was invalided out and resumed his studies in London.

The catalogue raisonnĂŠ of the work of Robert Gibbings including wood engravings, engravings on copper and sculpture. Colour woodcut frontispiece and over 1000 examples of his work. There are nine pages of half-tones; List of Art Galleries, Museums and Libraries with engravings by Gibbings. There are also list of books illustrated with engravings by the artist.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 140. GIBSON, Rev. Charles B. Historical Portraits of Irish Chieftains and Anglo-Norman Knights. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1871. pp. 416, 4 (list of subscribers), 24 (publisher's list). Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Inscribed by owner on front free endpaper. A very good copy. Very scarce. €275 With chapters on: Malachy and Brian Boroimhe; The Danes or Ostmen; Diarmaid and Dervorgilla; Henry II and his designs on Ireland; Diarmaid King of Leinster returns to Ireland; The arrival of the Normans; A Battle with the Prince of Ossory; Maurice Prendergast is jealous; Maurice Fitzgerald at Wexford; the coming of Strongbow; Dublin besieged by O'Conor; The Synod of Cashel; Tiernan O'Rourke; William FitzAldelm and John de Courcy - Sir Tristram Amoricus - Howth Harbour; Hugh de Lacy; Richard de Burgo - his great possessions and power in Connaught, etc.

141. GILLIS, Liz. Military History of the Irish Civil War. The Fall of Dublin 28 June to 5 July 1922. Cork: Mercier Press, 2011. pp. 157, 2. A fine copy in pictorial wrappers. €25 142. GILMORE, George. The 1934 Republican Congress. With a new introduction by Pádraig Ó Murchú. Dublin: Fodhla, 2011. pp. 71. Illustrated wrappers. A fine copy. €15 143. GLASSE, Mrs. The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy : which far exceeds any Thing of the Kind yet published. ... To which are added, One Hundred and Fifty new and useful Receipts: Also, the Order of a Bill of fare ... And also, Fifty Receipts for different articles of Perfumery.

With a Copious Index. A New Edition, With all the Modern Improvements. Dublin: Printed for W. Gilbert, South-Great-George's Street, 1795. Octavo. pp. xlvii, [1], 473, [41]. Contemporary full tree calf, title in gilt on red morocco letterpiece on professionally rebacked spine. Early signature of Catherine Leney on titlepage. A manuscript note presumably in her hand dated August 3rd. 1806 tells us she made twenty gallons of gooseberry wine! With another recipe pasted on verso of titlepage. €575 No copy located on COPAC or WorldCat. ESTCN29936.

Hannah Glasse (1708-1770) was an English cookery writer of the eighteenth century. She is best known for her cookbook, The Art of Cookery, first published in 1747. The book was reprinted within its first year of publication, appeared in twenty editions, and continued to be published until 1843.

Glasse was the daughter of Hannah Reynolds, a widow. Her father was Isaac Allgood, a landowner of Brandon and Simonburn, in Northumberland, had recently married Hannah Clark, the daughter of a London vintner. Hannah Glasse was brought up in Allgood's home at Simonburn near Hexham, together with his legitimate children. She once described her mother in a letter as being a "wicked wretch!". The London Gazette announced that "Mrs. Hannah Glasse, (half-)sister to Lancelot Allgood, died on 1 September 1770, aged 62". In 2006, Glasse was the subject of a BBC documentary that called her the "mother of the modern dinner party".

144. [GOLDSMITH & PARNELL] Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell. Engraved woodcuts by Bewick. London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., Shakespeare Printing-Office, Cleveland-Row, 1795. Quarto. pp. xx, [2], 76. Bound by Hunt & Sons Birmingham in contemporary full straightgrained morocco. Covers ruled in gilt, spine divided into five compartments by four wide gilt bands, title on morocco letterpiece in the second the remainder ruled in gilt to a panel design. All edges gilt. Some minor wear. A very good copy of the large paper edition. Scarce. €275 145. GOOKIN, Vincent. Esquire. The Great Case of Transplantation in Ireland discussed: or, Certain Considerations, wherein the many great inconveniences in the transplanting the Natives of Ireland generally out of the three Provinces of Leinster, Ulster, and Munster, into the Province of Connaught, are shewn. Humbly tendered to every individual Member of Parliament, by a wellwisher to the Good of the Common-wealth of England. London: Printed for I.C., 1655. pp. [2], 30. Recent marbled wrappers. Titlepage in facsimile, paper repair to some leaves. Top margin close-trimmed affecting some signatures. A good copy. Exceedingly rare. €385 Wing G 1273. Sweeney 2124. COPAC locates 4 copies only. WorldCat 3.

Vincent Gookin (1616?-1659), Surveyor General of Ireland, eldest son of Sir Vincent Gookin, appears to have returned to Ireland and disposed of his Gloucestershire property shortly after his father's death in 1638. Although a firm believer in the 'plantation policy' as a means of reducing Ireland to 'civility and good government' he was one of the few colonists who genuinely had the interest of the Irish at heart, unlike his father who bitterly hated Irishmen.

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De BĂşrca Ra re Books In this pamphlet Gookin endeavoured to prove that if not indeed impossible, it was certainly contrary to "religion, profit, and safety", to strictly enforce the orders and instructions for the removal of all the Irish natives into Connaught, based upon the act for the satisfaction of the adventurers of 26 Sept.

1653.

This pamphlet is evidently very rare. It is not mentioned by Ware in his Writers of Ireland. John Patrick Prendergast, who first called attention to it, gave a fairly complete abstract of it in his Cromwellian Settlement. Though exceedingly temperate in its tone, it immediately elicited a sharp rejoinder from Colonel Richard Lawrence, a prominent member of the committee of transplantation.

Gookin replied in The Author and Case of Transplanting the Irish into Connaught vindicated from the unjust aspersions of Col. R. Lawrence, London, 1655. He had been charged with being a degenerate Englishman, and with having been corrupted by the Irish. He denied the charge, saying that he was elected by the English of Kinsale and Bandon to the 'Barebones' Parliament, and his constituents had shown their regard for him by offering to pay his expenses to England.

In July 1656 Gookin was appointed, along with Sir William Petty and Miles Symner, to the Down Survey, with the aim of apportioning to the soldiers the lands allotted to them in payment of their arrears. It appears from a letter to Henry Cromwell on 14 April 1657, petitioning for an abatement of rent on lands granted him in 1650 "for favour", that he did not turn any of his offices to his own personal advantage. He represented Kinsale and Bandon under the Commonwealth, except in 1659, when, for party purposes, he surrendered his seat to Sir William Petty, and successfully contested Cork and Youghal against Lord Broghill. He died the same year intestate.

A TRUE IRISH PATRIOT 146. GRATTAN, Henry. Memoirs of the Life and Times of the Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan, by his son, Henry Grattan, Esq. M.P. Five volumes. London: Colburn, 1839/1846. Contemporary half vellum on marbled boards, titles in gilt on red morocco labels on spines. From the library of John Perceval, Earl of Egmont, Baron Perceval of Burton and Viscount Perceval of Kanturk in the County of Cork with his armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Also with bookplate of David Whelan. A fine set. â‚Ź675

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De Búrca Ra re Books Henry Grattan (1746-1820), patriot and orator, born Fishamble Street, Dublin, 3 July 1746, educated TCD and Middle Temple, London. Called to the Bar 1772, MP for borough of Charlemont in Irish Parliament 1775. Henry Flood lost his popularity by accepting the office of Vice-Treasurer, and Grattan soon took his place as leader of the opposition. His first success was the repeal of the restrictions on trade, and he then campaigned for legislative independence for Ireland. This demand was advanced with vigour at the Dungannon Convention in 1782, and the repeal of the Declaratory Act and other important legislation soon followed. The Irish Parliament voted £50,000 to Grattan to show their gratitude, but before long Flood, who was no longer in the government service, led a movement that agitated for 'simple repeal' rather than the concessions on which Grattan hoped to build, and their differences erupted in a dramatic and bitter quarrel in the Parliament. 'Grattan's Parliament' could not become the organ of statesmanship of which Grattan himself dreamed. The great majority of the population had no representation, two-thirds of the seats were held at the nomination of patrons, and corruption was rife. Demands for parliamentary reform put forward in 1783 at a Dublin Convention were rejected. Grattan, a Protestant, had now become a strong advocate of Catholic emancipation, but there seemed little hope of progress by parliamentary reform, and the influence of the French Revolution had generated support for the United Irishmen. His health weakened, Grattan retired from parliament to his house at Tinnehinch, County Wicklow, in 1797. After the rising of 1798, he returned to the Parliament as member for Wicklow to fight against the Act of Union, but his eloquence and courage were of no avail. In 1804 he commenced a second parliamentary career, entering the Westminster Parliament to support the renewed Catholic agitation. He remained until his death a leading Parliamentary advocate of emancipation, as well as a prominent Whig spokesman on other issues. He devoted the rest of his life to the cause of Catholic emancipation, which he maintained was both the price of the Union and intrinsically just. In 1819 his health finally began to give way, but his responsibility for this cause weighed more heavily on him. In May 1820 he left Dublin for London; he was so ill that he travelled by canal from Liverpool, as he was unable to bear the jolting of a carriage.

He died in London in 1820 and is buried in Westminster Abbey close to his old opponent, Castlereagh.

His son Henry published a collection of his speeches in 1820 and this biography in 1839-46.

The great Henry Grattan was a scholar, a lover of poetry and an orator of wonderful power, who even won the support of his enemies.

147. GREENE, Richard Wilson & MONGAN, James. A Report of the Arguments and Judgements in the Court of Exchequer Chamber in Ireland, upon a Writ of Error from the Court of King's Bench, wherein Waller O'Grady, Esquire was Plaintiff, and His Majesty's Attorney General Defendant. Respecting the Right of Appointment to the Office of Clerk of the Pleas in the Court of Exchequer. By Richard Wilson Greene. Bound with: A Report of Trials before The Right Hon. The Lord Chief Justice, and The Hon. Baron Sir Wm. C. Smith, Bart. At the Special Commission, at Maryborough, commencing on the 23rd May, and ending on the 6th June. By. James Mongan. Dublin: Richard Milliken, 1818/1832. pp. (1) 581, 4 (Appendix), 1 (errata). (2) [2], 326. Light green cloth. Signature of D L Heron 1837 on titlepages. From the library of Belvedere College with their neat stamp. A very good copy. €375 No copy of either works located in COPAC or WorldCat.

148. GREENE, W. J. A Concise History of Lisburn and Neighbourhood. Comprising the Social, Industrial, Religious, and Educational Life of the People. Written in commemoration of the building of Largy More New National School, also as a Souvenir of the "Mayflower Fair" Bazaar, May, 1906. With illustrations and adverts. Belfast: Jordan, 1906. Quarto. pp. 68. Maroon cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. Staining to lower cover. All edges red. Owner's bookplate on front free endpaper. A very good copy. Scarce. €65 149. GREGORY, Vere R.T. The House of Gregory. With a foreword by Thomas Ulick Sadleir.

With illustrations and folding map. Dublin: Browne and Nolan, 1943. pp. xv, 210, (+ errata slip).

Quarter linen on paper boards, title in black along spine. A very good copy. €75 This family came to Ireland during the Cromwellian period. They first came to prominence in the defence of Derry during the siege of that city in 1689. After the siege some members of the family settled in County Kerry where they remained until 1774. The small town of Castlegregory, however, is not named after them but after one Gregory de Hora. The Kerry branch next migrated to County Galway where their principal seat was at Coole, inseparably linked with the name of Lady Augusta Gregory the well-known playwright who was prominent in the Irish Literary Revival.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 150. [GRIFFIN, Gerald] Souvenir of the centenary of Gerald Griffin: Poet and Novelist. A faithful delineator of Irish character. Cork: Guy, 1903. pp. 63. Green printed wrappers. Owner's signature on half-title. A good copy. Very rare. €65 No copy located on COPAC. WorldCat 2.

151. GUTHRIE-JONES, Winston. The Wynnes of Sligo and Leitrim. With map and illustrations. Manorhamilton: Drumlin Publications, 1994. pp. 112. A very good copy in pictorial wrappers. €45 152. HALIDAY, Charles. The Scandinavian Kingdom of Dublin. With Introduction by Breandáin Ó Ríordáin. Illustrated with folding maps and plans. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1969. pp. (ix), cxxiii, 300. Green buckram, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €65 DONEGAL INTEREST 153. HAMILTON, J.S. My Times and Other Times. With Kearney's History of Drumholm.

Foreword by J.C. Taffe MacDonagh. With numerous illustrations and pedigree. Ballyshannon: Donegal Democrat, n.d. (c.1952). First edition. pp. [xii], 212, + corrigenda. Red cloth, title in silver on spine. Signed by the author at preface. A very good copy. Scarce. €185 John Stewart Hamilton was born in 1864 the son of James Hamilton of Brownhall, Ballintra and a great grand-nephew of the Duke of Wellington. In 1895 he joined the Prince of Wales' Own Donegal Militia and served with them till 1901. He served on the Donegal Grand Jury and County Council. On the formation of the County Donegal Historical Society in 1946 Hamilton was one of four Vice-Presidents appointed and its President 1949-50. He was close on ninety years of age when he wrote his memoirs which abound with local memorabilia. He died in 1955.

154. HANBIDGE, Mary. Ed. by. The Memories of William Hanbidge. Aged 93. 1906. An Autobiography. With Appendices and Chronicles of his Family. By his daughter Mary Hanbidge.

St. Albans: Gibbs & Bamforth, 1939. pp. 306, + errata. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. For private circulation only. Signed presentation from copy from Mary Hanbidge to her cousin Bertha dated November 1945. A very good copy. €275 Originating in the Cotswold area of England, the family spread first to Ireland, and then to Canada, the US, New Zealand, Australia and beyond. "Many still own a copy of the 'Hanbidge Book' published by my great, great Aunt, Mary Hanbidge, in 1939, and begun as the life story of her father, William Hanbidge, born in Ireland in the early 19th century" Mary Hanbidge.

IRELAND GRIEVING FOR CROMWELL !!!

155. HARRISON, Dr Thomas. Threni Hybernici: Or, Ireland sympathiz-ing with England and Scotland in a sad lamentation for loss of their Josiah. London: Printed by E. Coates, and are to be Sold by John North bookseller, in Castle-Street at Dublin in Ireland, 1659. Quarto. pp. 23. Modern half morocco. Titlepage ruled by a wide black border. Lower margin of 'F' cut, otherwise a very good copy. Extremely rare. €1,250 Wing H 916. Sweeney 2248. COPAC locates 3 copies only. This was a sermon preached at Christ Church before the lord deputy, Richard Cromwell, by his "Chief Chaplian". Dr Harrison's grief at the death of Oliver Cromwell and his attempt to involve Ireland in the general mourning can have struck few answering chords amongst Catholics of the day. Dedication signed: Edward Matthews.

156. HARRISON, Henry. The Partition of Ireland How Britain is Responsible. London: Hale, 1939.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 157. HAYES, Edward. The Ballads of Ireland. Collected and edited by Edward Hayes. Two volumes. Illustrated Dublin: James Duffy and Co., n.d. Seventh edition.

Octavo. pp. (1) xxxix, 356, (2) viii, 2, 419.

Original green cloth gilt, title in gilt on spine.

Previous owner's signature on titlepage. A very good set. €165 158. HAYES-McCOY, G.A. Irish Battles. A Military History of Ireland. Illustrated.

London: Longmans, 1969. First edition. pp. viii, 326. Green cloth, title in green on spine.

A very good copy in fine dust jacket. €65 The battles described are the legendary Battle of Clontarf fought against the Viking invaders in 1014; the Norman seizure of Dublin in 1171; Dysert O'Dea and Knockdoe from the medieval period; Farsetmore, which led to the downfall of Shane O'Neill; the great battles of Hugh O'Neill's struggle against Queen Elizabeth I - Clontibret the Yellow Ford - the Moyry Pass and Kinsale; Benburb and Rathmines from the seventeenth century war of the Catholic Confederation; the famed Boyne and Aughrim from the contest between William of Orange and James II; and the battle of Arklow, the most critical of the engagements of the rebellion of 1798.

159. [HAYMAN, Samuel] The Hand-Book for Youghal. The Historical Annals of the Town, St. Mary's Collegiate Church (including memorials of the Boyles), The College, Sir Walter Raleigh's House, The Franciscan and Dominican Friaries, The Templars' House at Rhincrew, The Monastery of St. John's, The '98 Rebellion, and The Fenian Rising. Illustrated. Youghal: Printed and Published by W. G. Field, 1896. First edition. pp. [10], xvi, 99. Pictorial wrappers. Signature of T.P.S. Crosthwait on upper cover. Some wear to spine. A very good copy. Very rare. €285 COPAC locates 2 copies only. WorldCat 2.

160. HAYWARD, Richard. This is Ireland. Connacht and The City of Galway. Illustrated by Raymond Piper. London: Barker, 1952. pp. 192. First edition. Grey cloth, title printed in green on spine, arms of Galway blind-stamped on upper cover. Previous owner's bookplate on front free endpaper. Minor spotting to fore-edge. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €65 SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY 161. HAYWARD, Richard. Border Foray. With maps on endpapers. London: Barker, 1957.

First edition. pp. 190. Cream cloth, title in brown on spine. Signed presentation copy from the author and his wife dated Xmas 1962, also signed by the author on titlepage. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €85 THE RAREST OF THE SERIES 162. HAYWARD, Richard. This is Ireland: Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim & Roscommon. Illustrated by Raymond Piper. With map of the four counties on endpapers. London: Barker, 1955. pp. 224.

Printed grey green cloth, with the arms of Connaught blind-stamped on upper cover and in green on spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. The rarest of the series. €75 163. [HEALY, Maurice] Eyes of Youth: A Book of Verse by Padraic Colum, Maurice Healy, Shane Leslie, Viola Meynell and others; with four early Poems by Francis Thompson and a Foreword by Gilbert K. Chesterton. London: Herbert & Daniel, 1911. Second edition (500 49

De Búrca Ra re Books copies). pp. xvi, 96. Quarter linen on paper boards with printed label on upper cover. Signed presentation copy from Maurice Healy: "To my ancient aunt from her / ancient nephew. / 28.11.11 / Maurice F. Healy". A very good copy. €145 Contains four poems by Maurice Healy, Bantry born, Irish nationalist politician, lawyer, M.P. and brother to Tim Healy (1855-1931), first Governor-General of the Irish Free State. Maurice Healy was returned to Parliament four times between 1885 and 1918.

This copy of Eyes of Youth was presented to his aunt, the wife of T.D. Sullivan (1827-1914) the Irish nationalist, journalist, politician and poet who wrote the Irish national hymn 'God Save Ireland' in 1867. He in turn was the brother of Alexander Martin Sullivan, also a journalist and politician.

LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY SEAMUS HEANEY 164. HEANEY, Seamus. The Burial at Thebes. Sophocles' Antigone. London: Faber and Faber, 2004. First edition. pp. [vii], 56. Quarter maroon linen on gold paper boards, title in gilt on black ground on spine. Edition limited to 250 numbered copies for sale (No. 25). Signed by Seamus Heaney. A fine copy in slipcase. €875 Heaney's translation of Antigone was first performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004.

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 165. HEANEY, Seamus. District and Circle. London: Faber and Faber, 2006. First edition. pp. [viii], 76. Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Signed by the author on titlepage. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €485 166. HEARN, Mona. Below Stairs. Domestic Service remembered in Dublin and Beyond 1880 1922. Illustrated. Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 1993. pp. [5], 150. Green paper, titled in gilt. A fine copy in dust jacket. €45 167. HENEBRY, Rev. Dr. R.A A Handbook of Irish Music. Frontispiece. Cork: University Press, 1928. pp. 325. Royal octavo. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in repaired dust jacket. €135 Published posthumously from the manuscripts of Dr. Henebry. The task of transcribing the music was undertaken by Séamus de Clanndiolúin and Maighréad Ní Annagáin.

168. HENRY, Robert Mitchell. The Evolution of Sinn Féin. Dublin & London: Talbot Press and Fisher Unwin, 1920. pp. iv, 284. Blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €65 The contents includes: Irish Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century; Sinn Fein; The Early years of Sinn Fein; The Volunteer Movement; Sinn Féin and the Republicans; Ulster and Nationalist Ireland; Sinn Fein, 1914-1916; After the Rising, etc.

ANNOTATED COPY 169. HERVEY, Dr., HUMPHREYS, J.D. & POWER, Dr. Contributions towards a Fauna and Flora of the County of Cork, read at the meeting of the British Association held at Cork in the year 1843. The Vertebrata by Dr. Hervey; The Mollusca, Crustacea and Echinodermata by J.D. Humphreys; The Flora by Dr. Power. London: Van Voorst & Cork: Purcell, 1845. pp. [vi], iii, [ii], iv, 24, v, [3], 130. Original quarter linen on grey paper boards, title on worn printed label on spine. From the library of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (Kirkpatrick Bequest), with stamps. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €585 COPAC locates 6 copies only. Not in Lough Fea, Bradshaw or Gilbert.

We are told in the introduction that this publication came about: "form part of a series of communications on the local history of the County of Cork, which have, from time to time been contributed to the Cuvierian Society of this City. These, together with a list of the genera of our insects

by William Clear, Esq., were furnished to the British Association at their late meeting here, it being considered that information on the Natural History of the place visited, was suited for presentation to that body, and likely to be acceptable. In consequence of a wish which was expressed by several members of the Natural History section of the Association, and being themselves convinced of the value of local catalogues in serving to correct the materials of more extended works, the Cuverian Society have undertaken the publication of this little work. The example now set may possibly be the means of encouraging the appearance of other Catalogues, and thus, in its humble way, of contributing to the advance of the Natural History of Ireland".

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De Búrca Ra re Books 1835. The meetings were held on the first Wednesday of the Autumn and Winter months in the Library of the Royal Cork Institution. The Society was named after the noted French naturalist and zoologist, Georges Cuvier. Its early years concentrated on the natural sciences but by mid century had evolved to be mainly archaeological.

The society published in 1845 Contributions towards a fauna and Flora of the County of Cork and it contains a list of the officers of the Society for 1845.

170. HIGGINS, F.R. The Dark Breed. A Book of Poems. London: Macmillan, 1927. pp. viii, 69.

Dark blue cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. €75 Dedicated to A.E. 'most generous of givers'.

171. HIGGINS, F.R. The Gap of Brightness. Lyrical Poems. London: Macmillan, and Dublin: Browne & Nolan, 1940. pp. x, 85. Reddish brown cloth. Owner's signature on titlepage. A very good copy in slightly frayed and sun-tanned dust jacket. €85 172. [HOCKEY CLUB] A large photograph of the Maryborough Hockey Team 1913. By Lafayette of Dublin. 200 x 137mm. Mounted on thick card. Signature of Frank Meehan on verso.

In very good condition. Rare. €235

Captioned in manuscript are the names of the players and referees.

THREE CANDLES PRINTING 173. [HODGES FIGGIS CATALOGUE] Books Relating to Ireland in the Seventeenth Century. Part I Seventeenth Century Printings with a few Earlier Examples. Part II Later Printings relating to the Seventeenth Century. Illustrated. Dublin: Printed for Hodges Figgis by Colm O Lochlainn at The Sign of the Three Candles, 1956. Small Quarto. pp. 51. Illustrated wrappers. Some minor spotting. A very good copy. €45 An extensive catalogue from the renowned booksellers, listing titles of rare and sought after tomes relating to Irish history.

IRISH LANGUAGE ON RATHLIN 174. HOLMER, Nils M. The Irish Language in Rathlin Island, County Antrim. Royal Irish Academy Todd Lecture Series Volume XVIII. Dublin: For the Royal Irish Academy, by Hodges Figgis, 1942. First edition. pp. vi, 247. Recent blue buckram, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Scarce. €125 175. HOLOHAN, Renagh & WILLIAMS, Jeremy. The Irish Châteaux. In Search of Descendants of the Wild Geese. With illustrations and folding gazetteer map. Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1989. pp. [viii], 187. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. €45 The contents includes: The O'Mahonys and the Butlers of northern France; the Walshs of the Loire; the Hennessys of Cognac; the Bartons and the Byrnes of Bordeaux and Aquitaine; the MacMahons of 51

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176. HULL, Eleanor. A History of Ireland and Her People. Two volumes. Volume 1. From Earlier Times to the Tudor Period. Volume 2. From the Stuart Period to Modern Times.

Illustrated. Dublin: Phoenix, n.d. (c.1926). pp. (1) 525, (2) 487. Red cloth, titled in gilt. Light fading to spine of volume one. A very good set. Very scarce. €125 Eleanor Henrietta Hull (1860-1935) journalist and scholar of Old Irish was born in England, of a County Down family. She was educated at Alexandra College, Dublin and was a student of Irish Studies. In 1899 she was co-founder of the Irish Texts Society for the publication of early manuscripts and was honorary secretary for nearly thirty years. She was also president of the Irish Literary Society.

177. HUMPHREYS, Gerard & CRAVEN, Ciaran. Military Law in Ireland. Dublin: Round Hall Sweet & Maxwell, 1997. pp. xl, [1], 420. Red buckram, title in gilt on upper cover and along spine. A fine copy. €85 178. HYDE, Douglas. Love Songs of Connacht - Abhráin Grádh Chúige Connacht. Being the fourth chapter of the 'Songs of Connacht'. With an introduction by Mícheál Ó hAodha. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1969. pp. x, viii, 158. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Signature of Sarsfield O Sullivan on front free endpaper and on titlepage. A fine copy. €65 179. [IRELAND TOUR] Ireland Gem of the Sea. Touring for Health and Pleasure on Great Southern Railways (Ireland) Transport Services during the Season to the Tourist and Seaside Resorts in the Irish Free State. With folding map and illustrations. Dublin: Browne and Nolan, 1935. pp. [6], v-xliv (adverts). Coloured pictorial wrappers. Some light staining, otherwise a very good copy. €75 180. [IRELAND] The Groans of Ireland: in a Letter to a Member of Parliament. Dublin: Printed by and for George Faulkner, 1741. pp.

28. Light grey cloth, title in black on upper cover. A very good copy. €875 COPAC locates 9 copies only. ESTC T81187.

Modern Ireland has experienced not one but two Great Famines. One of these, that of 1845-51, needs no introduction. Its place in history is secure. The other, that of 1740-41, was more intense, more bizarre and proportionately more deadly, yet most history books acknowledge it with no more than a line or two in passing. Its existence has been all but forgotten. On the last day of 1739, Ireland awoke to find itself in the grip of what was in effect a mini Ice Age. Rivers froze, mills seized up, and houses could not be heated above freezing point. It was as if nature had gone a little crazy. Many were enchanted by the novelty of it all. Carnivals, dances and sheep-roastings were held on the ice. But the euphoria proved fleeting. In its wake came an almost biblical ordeal by drought, flood, fire, famine and plague, that has few parallels in the recorded history of the island. The author, after being absent from this country for some time tells us that Ireland was in "the most miserable scene of universal distress, that I have ever read of in history: want and misery in every face; the rich unable almost as they were willing, to relieve the poor; the roads spread with dead and dying bodies".

IN PRAISE OF WILLIAM OF ORANGE 181. [IRELAND] La Conquête d'Irlande. Dialogue en vers. London: Chez R. Baldwin, dans Warwick Lane, à l'Enseigne des Armes d'Oxford 1691. Quarto. pp. 18, 2 (List of Baldwin's 52

De Búrca Ra re Books Books). Modern half red morocco, title in gilt on spine. Paper repair to margin of spine. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare seventeenth century verse. €1,250 Wing C 5896. COPAC locates 6 copies only. WorldCat 1. ESTC R231634 locates the Cashel Cathedral copy only in Ireland.

The interlocuteurs are Ariste - Anglois; Lycidas - Irlandois Refugié; Hypomene - Francois Refugie; Alexis - Hollandois; Theophane - Anglois. The flavour of the work can be gleaned from the following verse relating to the military successes which have attended William of Orange: "Son grand cœur le porte aux hazards, Il veut surpasser les Cezars, Il vient, il voit, il vainc, il conquiert l'Hybernie; Des passages forcez qu'on ne nous parle plus, De l'Hydaspe, du Rhin, des Alpes, du Taurus, La Boyne a leur gloire ternie".

182. [IRISH ARCHITECTURE] A Quarto Album of Irish Architectural Views, mostly of Irish Churches, Convents, Schools, etc. Containing engravings and woodcuts, lithographic prints, some original drawings, photographs and watercolours. Bound in contemporary full diced morocco. Over fifty illustrations, the majority mounted on thick card. All edges gilt. Some wear to covers and corners. €475

The Buildings included are: Christian Brothers, Limerick; Proposed Convent, Mt. Sion, Waterford; St. Vincent's Church, Presbytery and House of Retreat, Cork; St. Mary's Convent, Cabra; The Ursuline Convent, Cork; Building for the Male Deaf-Mutes, Cabra; St. Patrick's College, Thurles; Schools, Convent & Church of the Immaculate Conception, Kanturk; The Mallow Schools; Christian Brothers, Cork; New Convent for Christian Brothers, Drogheda; St. Joseph's Home; House and Schools of the Christian Brothers, Richmond Street, Mountjoy Square; New Catholic Cathedral, Limerick; Christian Brothers School, Dingle; Christian School, Newry; St. Vincent de Paul Male Orphanage, Glasnevin; Enniskerry Roman Catholic Church; Church of St. Eugene, Londonderry; St. David's Church, Naas; St. Patrick's New Cathedral, Armagh; New Catholic Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Donnybrook; Original Watercolour Drawing of Convent and Schools of the Christian Brothers, Tralee; St. Joseph's College, Mill Hill; St. Mary's College, Oscott; St. Vincent's de Paul's Boys' Orphanage, Victoria, Australia; House of the Christian Brothers, Middleton, County Cork, loosely inserted with 53

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De Búrca Ra re Books Holywood, County Down [William Batt, Architect]; Mountmelleray's New Church; Dominican Church & Convent, Waterford; Subscription Card for the Proposed O'Connell Memorial Church, Cahirciveen, with a Portrait of Daniel O'Connell on verso [creased]; Church at Carraroe, Galway; Clontarf Castle; Artane Castle; Dunloh Castle; View in Londonderry; Spenser's House, Kilcolman, County Cork; Building used by Daly's Club; New Military Infirmary, Phoenix Park. Top half of a printed broadside on the rebuilding of the Abbey of St. Francis, Clonmel, County Tipperary, September, 1886.

183. [IRISH LINEN] Serviettes and How to Fold Them. Colour illustrated booklet. Belfast: Robinson & Cleaver, n.d. (c.1875). pp. [12]. Oblong octavo. Pictorial stapled wrappers. Tape repair to one leaf. A very good copy of an exceedingly rare linen item. €145

Robinson and Cleaver's store opened at Castle Place in 1874, before moving to High Street a few years later. After another seven years, Robinson and Cleaver had established the largest postal trade in the city. Young and MacKenzie built their new store at the corner of Donegall Place and Donegall Square North, making 'dramatic use of its advantageous corner site'. Originally a linen warehouse, the building had six storeys, a clock tower, ogee copper domes, and a flock of Donatello cherubs carved by Harry Helms of Exeter. Also featured were the 50 stone heads of the firm's supposed patrons, including Queen Victoria, the Emperor and Empress of Germany, Lady Dufferin, and General Washington, plus symbolic references to distant marketplaces. The Victorian building was finished in 1888.

The high-class store was very choosy in the selection of its staff. Staff knew their clientele, and stressed personal service, with customers regularly notified of new items. Known as 'the old lady', the store was noted for its attractive window displays and outstanding seasonal decorations. It also contained a magnificent marble staircase. Robinson and Cleaver prided itself for being the most famous store in the world for Irish Linens. In 1962, Robinson and Cleaver participated in the Belfast Chamber of Trade's 'Buy Ulster' week, running an exhibition of Ulster goods. Despite extensive renovations in 1963, Robinson and Cleaver closed down in 1984 and its famous staircase was auctioned.

In this booklet is demonstrated twelve ways of folding serviettes: The Mitre; The Cardinals Hat; The Fan Closed; The Greek Cross; The Casket Closed; The Muff; The Pyramid; The Water Lily; The Casket Open; The Lily; The Collegiate, and The Fan Opened.

184. [IRISH SCHOOL MAGAZINE] The Irish School Magazine and Junior Teachers' Assistant. Containing a complete course of study for Monitors Monitoresses, and Junior Teachers. Volume I, January 15, 1877 - December 15, 1877. Dublin: Albert E. Chamney [1878]. pp. 584. Contemporary half blue morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. From the library of the Franciscan Monastery, Clara. Some minor wear to corners and spine ends. A very good copy. €575 No copy located on COPAC. WorldCat 1.

The contents includes: The King's Thief; An unpublished Irish Legend by William Carleton; The Irish Adventurer. Written by himself. Edited by E.L.A. Berwick; An Episode of Irish Life by E.L.A. Berwick; Irish Celebrities - Lady Morgan, Maria Edgeworth, Sir Robert Kane, Father Prout; The Educational Written Section has contributions by female teachers on Arithmetic and Algebra with 55

De Búrca Ra re Books Answers, Geometry, Philosophy, Grammar, Lesson Books, Geography, Book-keeping; Oral Section; School Management and Organisation; Phenomena of Earthquakes; Cork in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century; Residences for Irish National Teachers, etc.

Champney's were educational publishers, printers, and school furnishers and had their 'Irish School Depot' at Lower Ormond Quay.

185. JACOB, Philip R. Compiled by. A Jacob Family. Tramore in the 1900s. Illustrated and with folding genealogical chart of the Jacob family. Dublin: Jacobooks, 2008. First edition. pp.

239. A fine copy in illustrated wrappers. €25 186. JOHNSTON, Máirín. Around the Banks of Pimlico. Illustrated. Dublin: Attic Press, 1985. pp. 135, 3 (publisher's list). Fine in illustrated wrappers. €20 187. JOLY, J. Reminiscences & Anticipations. With nine illustrations. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1920. First edition. pp. 264. Purple cloth, title in blind on upper cover and in gilt on spine. Some occasional light foxing and minor wear to spine ends. A very good copy. €150

Chapters include: Perpetual Motion; A Cruise of Inspection of Irish Lighthouses; The Origin of the Submarine; In Trinity College during the Sinn Féin Rebellion, etc.

During the Irish troubles (1916-1923) the distinguished physicist, Professor Joly of Trinity College, Dublin devised a portable electronic detector which gave an audible signal when any mass of iron such as a concealed firearm passed within a few feet of it.

188. JOYCE, P.W. A Smaller Social History of Ancient Ireland. Treating of the government, military system, and law; religion, learning, and art; trades, industries, and commerce; manners, customs, and domestic life, of the ancient Irish people. With 213 illustrations. London: Longmans, Green, 1908. Second edition. pp. xxiv, 574, 4 (author's list). Green cloth, title in black on upper cover and in gilt on spine. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. A very good copy. €65 189. JOYCE, Weston St. John. The Neighbourhood of Dublin. Its Topography, Antiquities and Historical Associations. With Numerous Illustrations from the Author's Photographs & Sketches and an Introduction by P.W Joyce. Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son, 1912. pp. xx, 463. Red cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Title printed in red and black on titlepage. Owner's signature on half-title. A very good copy. €65 THE TRIAL OF LORD HAW HAW - "GERMANY CALLING" 190. [JOYCE, William] The Trial of William Joyce. With some notes on other recent trials for treason, etc. Edited, with a Foreword by C.E. Bechhofer Roberts. Illustrated. London: Jarrolds, 1946. First edition. pp. 191. Black cloth, title in gilt on spine and image of 'Justice' in gilt on upper cover. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €45

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BARON MORNINGTON'S COPY "FORTUNE FAVOURS THE BRAVE" 191. [JUNIUS] Decii Junii Juvenalis et Auli Persii Flacci Satyræ, Ad Optimorum Exemplarium fidem Recensitæ. Engraved frontispiece. Dublin: George Grierson, 1728. 12mo. Title printed in red and black. Contemporary Irish binding of brown morocco, covers framed by a single gilt dotted fillet and an arabesque roll enclosing in the centre the badge of Trinity College, Dublin.

Spine divided into five compartments by four raised bands, title in gilt on morocco letterpiece in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner design. Comb-marbled endpapers; fore-edges gilt. With the armorial bookplate on front pastedown of Richard Colley, second son of Henry Colley, Esq., of Castle Carbery, County Kildare who took the name of Wesley in 1728 and was created Lord Mornington in 1746. All edges gilt. In fine condition. €1,250 ESTC T92132 with 6 locations in Ireland.

Richard Colley (as he was christened), was born around 1690, the son of Henry Colley and Mary, daughter of Sir William Ussher. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, BA in 1711 and MA in 1714. In the intervening year he held the office of Chamberlain of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland.

Colley inherited the estates of Dangan and Mornington, in County Meath in 1728, on the death of his cousin, Garret Wesley. Less than two months later on 15 November 1728 he legally changed his surname to Wesley. Between 1729 and 1746 Wesley represented Trim in the Irish House of Commons.

He was High Sheriff of Meath in 1734 and he was created Baron Mornington in the Peerage of Ireland in 1746. The Duke of Wellington's biographer described him as "a civilised and eccentric country gentleman". The diarist Mary Delany, (who was Garret's godmother) visiting Dangan in 1748 after a seventeen-year gap, found him "the same good-humoured, agreeable man he was on my last visit", and praised him as the man with most merits and fewest faults of anyone she knew, valuing wealth only as a means to make others happy. He was proud of, and fostered, his son's musical talent: he was also extravagant, and died in debt, beginning the cycle of indebtedness which led to his eldest grandson Richard selling Dangan forty years later.

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The Colley or Cowley family had come to Ireland from Rutland about 1500; Sir Henry Colley (d.1584) married Catherine Cusack, whose grandmother was a Wellesley. Wesley married Elizabeth, daughter of John Sale, Registrar of the Diocese of Dublin, in 1719. They had one son and two daughters: Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington. His offspring included, Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington and Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley, Frances, who married William Francis Crosbie, Elizabeth, who married Chichester Fortescue.

A SUPERB COPY 192. KAVANAGH, Patrick. A Soul For Sale. Poems. London: Macmillan, 1947. pp. vi, 55.

First edition. Green cloth, title in gilt along spine. A superb copy in fine dust jacket. Rare in this condition. €375 In this, his second collection of poems, Kavanagh takes his themes from the life about him in his native Ireland, or from her tragic past, treating them sometimes in the mood of the mystic, sometimes with a sharp realism. His portrait of an old Irish peasant in the famous poem, The Great Hunger, shows his qualities as a writer of marked power and insight.

WITH AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 193. KAVANAGH, Patrick. Collected Poems. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1964. First edition. pp. xv, 202. Natural linen, title in silver on blue paper label on spine. Loosely inserted is a autograph letter signed by Patrick Kavanagh to the bookseller Frank McEvoy regarding a poetry reading session that Kavanagh is to give in Kilkenny, dated 9th February, 1958, 62 Pembroke Road, Dublin. A very good copy in dust jacket. Scarce. €575 194. KENNA, G.B. [Fr. John Hassan] Facts & Figures of the Belfast pogrom, 1920-1922.

Folding plan of Belfast. Dublin: The O'Connell Publishing Company, 1922. pp. [3], 213. Green cloth, title in black on upper cover and spine. Some wear to covers and browning to margins. A good copy of an exceedingly rare book. €375 Only 1 copy located on COPAC and WorldCat. 58

De Búrca Ra re Books It is believed that this book was withdrawn on the day of publication in 1922 or soon afterwards. The Catholic Church authorities in the North of Ireland and the Government of the Irish Free State feared it would cause an upsurge of sectarian violence that had begun in 1920 but which had shown signs of subsiding in the late summer of 1922. Facts and Figures is an eyewitness account of the violence that marked the beginnings of Northern state under its own Government. In much the same way the Civil War in the South marked the emergence of the Irish Free State. There was one terrifying difference between the Civil War in Southern Ireland and the sectarian war that was waging in Belfast. In the Civil War most of the casualties were military belligerents, soldiers of the Free State Army or members of the IRA. While in Belfast the people who suffered and died were just ordinary civilians, men, women and children. The author of the book was Fr. John Hassan who wrote under the pseudonym "G B Kenna". He was curate in St. Mary's Church in Belfast during the years of the pogrom. Many people may recognize their own parents, grandparents among the names mentioned in the book.

The folding plan of Belfast depicts the Protestant and Catholic areas; the streets mentioned are those chiefly affected by the recent disturbances.

See items 192 & 193.

195. KENNEDY, Rev. P.G. S.J., RUTTLEDGE, Robert F., & SCROOPE, C.F. The Birds of Ireland. An account of the Distribution, Migrations and Habits as Observed in Ireland. Illustrated.

Edinburgh & London: Oliver and Boyd, 1954. First edition. pp. xv, 437. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. From the library of Kimmage Manor with stamps. A very good copy. €75 SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 196. KENNEDY, S.B. David Crone Paintings, 1963 - 1999. Foreword by Michael Longley.

Essay by Slavka Sverakova. Catalogue by Martyn Anglesea. With colour and mono plates.

Dublin: Four Courts Press in association with the Ulster Museum, National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland. 1999. Quarto. pp. 72. Special limited edition of 50 copies only for sale. Signed by Jarlath Hayes, S.B. Kennedy, David Crone. Bound in full classic Avon buckram.

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De Búrca Ra re Books SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 197. KENNELLY, Brendan. The Singing Tree. Coloured frontispiece. Newry: Abbey Press, 1998. First edition. pp. 46, [1]. Black paper boards. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies (No. 15) signed by the author. Maroon dust jacket with title in black on upper cover. A fine copy. €65 198. KEOGH, Dermot and McCARTHY, Andrew. The Making of the Irish Constitution 1937.

Bunreacht na hÉireann. Cork: Mercier Press, 2007. pp. 511. Black paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in illustrated dust jacket. €35 Few things have shaped and controlled Irish political and legal culture as decisively as the constitution of Ireland but the circumstances in which it was created have, until now, remained obscure.

ROBERT LYND'S COPY 199. KETTLE, T.M. Professor. The Ways of War. By Professor T.M. Kettle, Lieut. 9th Dublin Fusiliers. With a memoir by his wife Mary S. Kettle. Portrait frontispiece. London: Constable, 1917. pp. ix, [1], 240, 4 (advertisements). Quarter brown cloth on grey boards, occasional light foxing to prelims. Robert Lynd's copy with his signature on front endpaper. A very good copy.

Scarce. €150 In addition to the 'Memoir' there are chapters on: Why Ireland Fought; Under the Heel of the Hun; Treating Belgium Decently; Belgium in Peace; G.H.Q.; "Zur Erinnerung" - A Letter to an Austrian Fellow-student; Silhouettes from the Front - The Way to the Trenches, The Long Endurance, Rhapsody on Rats; The New France; The Soldier-Priests of France; The Gospel of the Devil - Bismarck, Nietzsche, Treitschke and the Professors; Trade or Honour.

Thomas Michael "Tom" Kettle (1880-1916) was an economist, journalist, barrister, writer, poet, soldier and Home Rule politician. A representative of the Irish Parliamentary Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for East Tyrone from 1906 to 1910. He was a gifted speaker with an incisive mind and devastating wit. Kettle joined the Irish Volunteers in 1913. On the outbreak of World War I in 1914 he enlisted for service in an Irish regiment and was killed on the Western Front in 1916.

200. KICKHAM, Charles J. For the Old Land. A Tale of Twenty Years Ago. Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son, n.d. New edition. pp. [ii], 384. Cream wrappers, title in black on upper cover and along spine. A very good copy. €45 201. KIELY, Benedict. A Journey to the Seven Streams. Seventeen Stories. London: Methuen & Co., 1963. First edition. pp. 285. Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in pictorial dust jacket. €85 SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY TO ALAN SILLITOE 202. KIELY, Benedict. The Cards of the Gambler. London: Millington, 1973. pp. [4], 242.

Pictorial wrappers. Signed presentation copy from the author to the English writer Alan Sillitoe.

A very good copy. €35 203. [KILLADOON LIBRARY SALE] Catalogue of A Selected Portion of the Well-known Library from Killadoon, County Kildare formed by the late H.J.B. Clements, Esq. The Property of Col. H.T.W. Clements. In two parts. Sold by Sotheby over five days: First part Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 4th - 6th July. Second part - Monday, 31st October and Tuesday, 1st November, 1966. At eleven o'clock precisely each day. Illustrated. London: Sotheby's & Co., 1966. pp. 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. €385 Loosely inserted in both volumes is a listing of prices realised and the names of the purchasers.

204. KING, Marion. Taimín. Illustrated. Baile Átha Cliath: Oifig an tSoláthair, 1943. An Triú Cló. pp. 52. Coloured pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. Rare. €275 Marion King was a cartoonist, illustrator and painter on glass. Born in Trim, County Meath, she spent much of her early life with her family in Leeds, England where she studied at Leeds College of Art. She returned to Ireland in 1922 and exhibited in the Angus Gallery, St Stephen's Green and the Academy of Christian Art, Upper Mount Street, Dublin. She lived for a time in Paris where in 1936 she exhibited at the Salon des Femmes Peintres and the Salon des Artistes Français.

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205. KING, Marion. Gug. Illustrated. Baile Átha Cliath: Oifig an tSoláthair, [1950]. Oblong octavo. An Cead Cló. pp. [12]. Coloured pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. Rare. €275

206. KING, Marion. Banba. Illustrated. Baile Átha Cliath: Oifig an tSoláthair, [1950]. Oblong octavo. An Cead Cló. pp. 48. Coloured pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. Rare. €275

207. KINGSTON, Bob. Achill Island. The Deserted Village at Slievemore. With maps and illustrations. Achill Island: 1990. pp. 85. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. €15 208. KINGSTON, Very Rev. John., P.P. Ed. by. Parish of the Sacred Heart Donnybrook.

Illustrated. Dublin: John T. Drought, 1966. pp. 143. Red cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and along spine. A fine copy. €35 The contents include: Introductory letter by John McQuaid, Primate of Ireland; Schools of Donnybrook; Interesting Houses of the Eighteenth Century; Donnybrook Fair; Montrose; The Fitzwilliams of Merrion; Simmonscourt; The Healy Window; Muckross Park; A Donnybrook Directory of 1835; Succession of Pastors Since 1615, etc. The contributors include: An Ath. Benedict, Joseph Redmond, Leon Ó Broin, Rev. S. Galvin, and Dr. Thomas MacGreevy.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 209. KINSELLA, Anna. The Windswept Shore. A History of the Courtown District. With illustrations, maps, and genealogies of the Kings of Leinster. Dublin: Graphic Services, 1994.

Second edition. pp. 205. A fine copy in stiff printed illustrated wrappers. Scarce. €65 THE FINEST BOOK OF ITS TIME 210. KINSELLA, Thomas & Louis Le BROCQUY. The Tain. Translated by Thomas Kinsella from the Irish Táin Bó Cuailgne. Brush Drawings by Louis le Brocquy. Dublin: Dolmen Press 1969. First edition. pp. vi, [1], 300, [4]. Small folio. Black buckram, image of the bull by Le Brocquy in white on upper cover, title in white on spine. Limited to 1,750 copies of which 750 copies are for sale in the United States of America. With evenly toned dust jacket. A fine copy in original illustrated slipcase. €675 The Táin Bó Cuailgne – the Cattle Drive of Cooley – is the central story in the great old-Irish sagacycle featuring the Sons of Usnech, Cuchulain, Ferdia, Maeve and the rival bulls of Connaught and Ulster, culminating in the 'battle of the bulls'. The distinguished poet Thomas Kinsella began translating parts of the Tain while still a young man; short sections were published by Liam Miller's Dolmen Press in 1954 and 1960. This, the original limited edition of 1,750 copies published in 1969 sold out within months.

211. KIRKPATRICK, T. Percy C. Dun's Library in the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.

Dublin: R.T. White Ltd., n.d. pp. 11. A fine copy in cream stapled wrappers. €20 212. [KNIGHT ERRANT] DUBOIS, Edward. My Pocket Book; or, Hints for "A Ryghte Merrie and Conceitede" Tour, in Quarto; To be called "The Stranger in Ireland", In 1805.

Illustrated with folding frontispiece and four aquatints. London: Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, Poultry; and J. Archer; R. Dougdale; M.N. Mahon; M. Keene; C. Legrange, and L. Tuggis, Dublin, 1808. pp. xxxii, 228. Contemporary half worn green morocco. From the library of Thomas Haviland Burke, with his armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Occasional light foxing, with minor wear to extremities of bindings, otherwise a very good copy. €125

A satire, set in Ireland, based upon the travel writings of Sir John Carr, by Edward Dubois. The victim of the satire, John Carr, objected, and brought the publishers of My Pocket Book, to court, suing for libel. The booksellers ultimately won the suit.

213. KNOX, Hubert Thomas. The History of the County of Mayo to the Close of the Sixteenth Century. With illustrations and three maps. Castlebar: De Búrca, 1982. Royal octavo. pp. xvi, 451. Light brown cloth, title in gilt along spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €75 Prime historical reference work on the history of the County Mayo from the earliest times to 1600. It deals at length with the De Burgo Lordship of Connaught. Illustrated with a large folding detailed map of the county, coloured in outline. There are 49 pages of genealogies of the leading families of Mayo: O'Connor, MacDonnell Galloglass, Bourke MacWilliam Iochtar, Gibbons, Jennings, Philbin, Barret, Joyce, Jordan, Costello, etc. Our first venture into publishing.

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BY A DUBLIN SCHOOLMASTER 214. LAMB, R. An Original and Authentic Journal of Occurrences during the Late American War, from its Commencement to the Year 1783. Dublin: Printed by Wilkinson & Courtney, 1809. First edition. pp. iv, xxiv, 5-158 [2] 159-438 (i.e. 442). Contemporary full tree calf, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. A good copy. €385 COPAC locates 8 copies only. "Originally published in eleven parts" (Sabin).

Lamb enlisted in the 9th regiment of foot in 1773; three years later he embarked for Canada and served initially in the operations at the siege of Quebec. Subsequently he "joined in General John Burgoyne's successful operations against Fort Ticonderoga, and was with the British army as it pursued the fleeing rebels southward to Fort Anne" (ODNB). Captured at Saratoga, he was held as a prisoner near Boston for a year, then escaped and made it to the British lines at New York. Lamb there joined the 23rd, or Royal Welch Fusiliers, and served throughout the southern campaigns until Yorktown, where he again entered captivity, and yet again escaped and made his way to New York: "He returned to England with the 23rd regiment on 5 December 1783 and was mustered out of the army a year later when peace was declared in Europe". On his return to Ireland he became a schoolmaster at the free school in White Friar's Lane, Dublin, where he remained for the rest of his life.

Lamb was a keen observer and a careful writer, and his account of the American war is considered one of the best sources for the genuine experience of the soldiery in the war. Graves, who, like Lamb, served in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, fictionalized Lamb's services in two wartime novels, Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth (1940) and Proceed, Sergeant Lamb (1941).

The extensive subscriber list includes: Sir Jonah Barrington, Henry Blennerhassett, Lady Cecilia Brabazon, Sir Charles Coote, Captain Clements, Captain Durnford, Thomas Disney, James Digges La Touche, W. Espinasse, Col. French, Miss Foley, J. Ferrar, W. Figgis, A. Guinness, Mary Ann Howard, Miss Heaney, Richard Kirwan, Esq., Hickman Kearney, Sir John Lees, Major Legge, R. Litton, BookBinder, Chatham Street, J. Lodge, Countess Dowager of Meath, W.P. M'Alpin, T.G. Newcomen, Miss Napper, T.H. Orpon, Myles O'Reilly, Jonathan Pim, Sir Richard Steele, Major Shorthall, W. Stoker, Mrs. Teeling, Col. Vessey, Rev. J. Whitelaw, etc.

THE PATRIOT PRIEST OF PARTRY 215. LAVELLE, Rev. Patrick. P.P., Cong. The Irish Landlord Since The Revolution. With notices of Ancient and Modern Land Tenures in various countries. Dublin: W.B. Kelly, 1870. pp.

541, + erratum and advertisements. Maroon cloth, titled in gilt. Owner's signature on titlepage.

Occasional light foxing. A very good copy. €275 Fr. Pat Lavelle was perhaps the best-known individual Irish priest in the mid-nineteenth century. At that period everybody in the British Isles, because of him, knew where Partry was. This was due to the fact that he had made a name for himself in his relentless struggle to protect his parishioners from eviction at the hands of the local landlord, Thomas Plunket, Church of Ireland Bishop of Tuam, Killala and Achonry since 1839. The bishop at that time lived in Tourmakeady on the estate which he bought from George Henry Moore after the Famine (see Gerry Moran's The Mayo Evictions). Fr. Lavelle was born in Mullagh, Murrisk, County Mayo, in the year 1825, the son of a prosperous farmer. He entered St Jarlath's, Tuam, when he was aged fifteen and Maynooth in 1844, just before the Famine, in that same year Fr. Peter Conway began the construction of Partry Church. After his ordination in 1854 he was appointed Professor of Philosophy at the Irish College, Paris. In addition to his philosophy lectures, he taught the students who would need it, as priests, the Irish language, at which he was equally as proficient as he was in English. To these he was shortly to add a third language - French.

Even in Paris his abrasive temperament was evident and his prolonged squabble with the Rector of the Irish College, Dr. Miley of Dublin, ultimately brought about his removal from that college in 1858.

Back home in his diocese, Fr. Lavelle was sent to work as a curate in Mayo Abbey, but his stay there was very short. Dr. John MacHale badly needed a man of his mettle elsewhere. In that same year he was appointed Parish Priest of Ballyovey. He resided in Tourmakeady, which he always referred to as "Mount Partry", later he became known as the "Patriot Priest of Partry".

This work contains chapters on: General Retrospect; Tenure of Land; Land Tenure throughout Europe Prussia; Belgium and the Netherlands; France and Switzerland; Austria, Italy, Russia; The Channel Islands - Norway; Spain; India; America, Canada, The Cape; England in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; Ancient Italy; Irish Clearances; Agrarian Outrages; Absenteeism; Waste Lands; The Remedy, etc.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 216. LAWRENCE, Richard. The Interest of Ireland in its Trade and Wealth. In two parts. First part observes and discovers the Causes of Irelands not more increasing in Trade and Wealth from the first Conquest till now. Second part proposeth Expedients to remedy all its Mercanture Maladies, and other Wealth-Wasting Enormities, by which it is kept poor and low ... And mixed with some observations on the politics of the government, relating to the encouragement of Trade and Increase of Wealth. With some Reflections on Principles of Religion, as it relates to the Premises. Dublin: Printed by Jos. Ray, for Jos. Howes, and are to be sold by Awnsham Churchill at the Black Swan in Pater-noster-Row, near Amen Corner, London, 1682. pp. [94], 89, [15], 272. Contemporary full calf, spine expertly rebacked. A very good copy. Very scarce. €750 Gilbert 465 Bradshaw 275 Wing L 680a Sweeney 2576 Colonel Richard Lawrence was Marshal-General of the Horse in Cromwell's new Model Army.

Appointed Governor of Waterford he was given the task by General Ireton of settling 1,200 soldiers on the forfeited lands in Waterford, New Ross and Carrick-on-Suir. He was one of the commissioners appointed to treat with the Confederate Irish and he also acted as intermediary in the disputes of Ludlow with Fleetwood and Henry Cromwell. An advocate of transplantation (Hell or Connaught), he staunchly defended army interests in print against the schemes of Vincent Gookin. Lawrence was on the committee for the survey of forfeited lands, and quarrelled with Sir William Petty, stating that he and his brother officers were badly treated.

After leaving the army, Lawrence, as a member of the council of trade occupied himself for about twenty years in schemes for the improvement of Ireland, where he had his old protagonist Petty as a colleague. This major work was published two years before his death, and it sheds much light on Ireland under Charles II. It is dedicated to James, Earl of Ossory, and the first part states the reasons why Ireland "so long under the Government of England, whose Policies in Trade are inferior to few Countreys, should be so little improv'd in Trade and Wealth". The second part proposes "Expedience for Ireland's Relief against its Trade-obstruction and Wealth-consuming Maladies hinted in the first Part".

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 217. LE BROCQUY, Anne Madden. Seeing His Way. Louis le Brocquy a painter. Illustrated.

Dublin: Gill, 1994. pp. xvi, 317. Quarter natural calf on white buckram boards. Tree in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt along spine. Edition limited to 100 numbered copies signed by Anne Madden. Loosely inserted is lithograph, self portrait by Louis Le Brocquy, signed and numbered by him. Top edge gilt. In fine slipcase with silk pull. A superb copy. Rare. €495 SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM LOUIS LE BROCQUY 218. LE BROCQUY, Louis. Images, Single and Multiple 1957 - 1990. Catalogue for the large scale exhibition in Japan of major works by Louis Le Brocquy, which were exhibited in Kanagawa, Hyogo and Hiroshima between January 5th and May 12th 1991. In English and Japanese. With colour and black and white illustrations. Dublin and Japan: 1991. Quarto. pp.

109. Signed presentation copy from Louis to Máire on half-title. Printed wrappers. €195 219. LEAMY, Edmund. By the Barrow River and Other Stories. With a foreword by Katherine Tynan. Portrait frontispiece. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers and Walker 1907. First edition. pp. viii, 281.

Titlepage printed in red and black. Original green cloth titled in gilt on upper cover and spine.

Spine suntanned, otherwise a very good copy. €245 COPAC locates 4 copies only. Loeber L61.

Edmund Leamy was born in Waterford and educated there and at Tullabeg College. He became an nationalist M.P. for Waterford and later Kildare. He remained a staunch supporter of Parnell throughout his career.

220. LEASK, Harold G. Irish Castles and Castellated Houses. With map and illustrations.

Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, 1977. pp. x, 170. Red paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's signature on titlepage. A fine copy in frayed illustrated dust jacket. €35 221. 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 64

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

222. LENOX-CONYNGHAM, Mina. An Old Ulster House and the People who lived in it.

Illustrated. Dundalk: Tempest, 1946. Quarto. pp. [xiv], 254. Quarter linen on illustrated boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. Scarce. €125 Springhill was the ancestral home of the Lenox-Conynghams, one of the oldest Ulster plantation families. The author's husband William was Deputy Lieutenant for County Londonderry.

223. LESLIE, Shane. St. Patrick's Purgatory. A Record from History and Literature. With illustrations and maps. London: Burns Oates & Washbourne, 1932. First edition. Quarto. pp. xlvii, 216. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Wear to corners and spine ends.

Occasional light spotting. A very good copy. Scarce. €95 COPAC locates 4 copies only.

Lough Derg was internationally celebrated in the later Middle Ages as the place of St. Patrick's Purgatory. A cave where Patrick was said to have fasted for forty days and to have had a vision of the 'Otherworld'.

HAND-COLOURED COPY 224. [LEWIS, R.] The Post Chaise Companion: or Traveller's Directory through Ireland. Containing a new and accurate Description of the Direct and principal Cross Roads, with particulars of the Noblemen & Gentlemen's Seats, Cities, Towns, Parks, Natural Curiosities, Antiquities, Castles, Ruins, Manufactures, Locks, Glens, Harbours, &c. &c. Forming an Historical & Descriptive Account of the Kingdom. To which is added, A Travelling Dictionary, or Alphabetical Tables, Shewing the distances of all the Principal Cities, Boroughs, Market and Sea Port Towns, in Ireland from each other. The 3rd Edition, corrected and enlarged.

With an entire new set of plates. Dublin: Printed and published by J. & J.H. Fleming, n.d. (c.1803).

Third edition. pp. [i], xxvii, 660 (double column), 19 (index). Contemporary full calf, spine and corners professionally repaired. Folding map and plates hand-coloured. Paper repair to titlepage. A very good copy. Scarce. €950 In addition to the large folding map of Ireland there are views of: The Giants Causeway; The Waterfall near Powerscourt; The Waterfall of Poll a Phuca near Russborough; Plan of the Lakes of Killarney; Scene of a Round Tower and ruined church, all handcoloured.

225. [LOFTUS, Dudley?] The Wish, being the tenth satyr of Juvenal peraphrastically rendered in Pindarick verse. By a person, sometimes fellow of Trin. Col. Dublin Dublin: Printed by Benjamin Tooke, Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty 1675. Quarto. pp. [4], 37. Modern full calf. A very good copy. Very rare. €1,250 Wing J 1295. Sweeney 2646. ESTC R16717 gives 2 locations only in Ireland and 2 in UK. Sweeney attributed the authorship of this translation to Dudley Loftus the great-grandson of Archbishop Loftus, first Provost of Trinity College, Dublin. A remarkable linguist, he supplied the Ethiopic version of the New Testament in Walton's Polyglott Bible (1657). His involvement in the Power / Fitzgerald marriage controversy would fit the reference in the preface.

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226. [LOFTUS, Edward] Joyfull Newes from Ireland, or, A True relation of the great overthrow which the English gave the Rebels before Droheda: sent in a Letter bearing date the 27 of February, to Sir Robert King Knight at Cecill House in the Strand. And ordered by the Parliament to be Printed. London: Printed for Iohn Franke, and are to be sold at his shop next doore to the Kings head in Fleetstreet 1642. pp. [i], 4. Modern quarter morocco, titled in gilt.

Titlepage dusted and browned. A British Museum 1787 duplicate sale copy, with stamp on verso of titlepage, paper with lot number on title, not affecting text. Very rare. â‚Ź1,350 Wing L 2831. ESTC R21813 (8 Copies). Sweeney 2884.

Much of the printed newsletters of this time carry exaggerated accounts of misery and deprivation.

Edward Loftus however can not be censured on that score here. Dealing with the siege and relief of Drogheda, he writes: "For when our men there were driven to that extremitie to eat horse-flesh, Sir Henry Tichbourne sallied out of the Towne with only fourty Musketiers and fourty Horse, and beat off foure hundred of the enemies, killed above three score of them, recovered foure score cowes and oxen and two hundred sheepe, burned four townes, and brought home two of their Collours".

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De Búrca Ra re Books 227. LONG, A. W. Irish Sport of Yesterday. Sports, Types and Yarns of Western Ireland life.

With nine illustrations. London: Hutchinson, n.d. (c.1920). pp. [vi], 288. Green faded cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €95 BOUND BY MARGUERITE DUPREZ LAHEY

228. LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858. First edition, first issue. pp. iv, [5]-215, [1], pp. plus 11, [1] (publisher's advertisements). Bound by Marguerite Duprez Lahey in contemporary full dark blue crushed Cape levant morocco. Covers framed with double gilt fillets and a single dotted gilt line with an inner frame of brown leather onlays elaborately tooled in gilt at corners with arabesque and floral tooling. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands. Title in gilt direct within a gilt framed border in the second, the remainder tooled with a double gilt framed border enclosing in the centre a gilt flower 'Boston 1856' in gilt at heel. Corners of fore-edge decorated in gilt turn-ins with double gilt fillet border and 'M.J.D. Lahey' stamped in gilt on lower margin of inner front board. Marbled endpapers. Blue and white endbands. White, red and gold silk marker. All edges gilt. A fine example. €2,500

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De Búrca Ra re Books Marguerite Duprez Lahey (1880-1958) was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Isauah Anthony Lahey, an Irish emigrant from County Cavan and Margaret Ayton Duncan, a New Yorker of Scottish extraction. She is often acclaimed as America's best binder. A graduate of Brooklyn and Adelphi college, she served a two year apprenticeship at New York's Old Chelsea Bindery and went on to study book binding in Paris, to learn the techniques which make the difference between an art and a craft. Ms. Lahey received instruction and practice in binding from Henri Noulhac; in edge-gilding from Chapuis and Edmond Koch; in gold-tooling from Jules Domont and Emile Mercier. On her return to New York she went to work for Pierpont Morgan, whose private library was to form New York's Morgan Library & Museum. Marguerite was responsible for the luxurious bindings and cases of many of the finest books and manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library. For many years she worked in her own studio, 156 Fifth Avenue, without any assistance in the execution of the various processes involved, forwarding, edge-gilding, designing, and tooling the decoration. In 1941 she moved all her equipment to the Morgan Library. Every summer Marguerite travelled to Paris to work in her studio there, and to select choice Cape leathers which were carefully dyed to her order, also wooden-block papers, gold-leaf and the various tools necessary to her work. Cape levant was a very fine leather made from the skins of goats native to the Cape of Good Hope, in South Africa.

Marguerite was the only living artist ever to have an exhibition of her fine bindings at the Pierpont Morgan Library, a just reward for a lady who worked for over 50 years for J.P. Morgan, binding a large proportion of his and his father's fabulous collection, as well as his personal pocket agendas. She was perhaps most celebrated for the re-binding of the only perfect copy of Caxton's 'The Recuyeil of the Historyes of Troye', the first book printed in English.

Miss Lahey dedicated her life to the creation of beautiful books, and the shelves of gleaming masterpieces in the Pierpont Morgan Library will be an everlasting monument to her art. It was in 1958, during one of her annual trips to Paris to purchase her favourite Cape levant leathers, that she died at the age of seventy-eight.

This is the first edition, first issue of the American classic by a truly masterful craftsman of narrative poetry. With October adverts and unbattered type in all places and with p. 124, line 3 reading: The revel of the treacherous wine ...'.

A rare opportunity to acquire this magnificent binding.

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 229. LONGLEY, Michael. Patchwork. With drawings by Jim Allen. Dublin: The Gallery Press, 1981. First edition. pp. 24. Quarter linen on grey boards, title on printed label on upper cover and in black on spine. One of 500 copies signed by the author and the illustrator. A Fine copy in acetate dust jacket. €135 SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 230. LONGLEY, Michael. Poems 1963 - 1983. Edinburgh: Salamander & Dublin: The Gallery Press, 1985. First edition. pp. 206. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Author's signature on front free endpaper. Slight fading to cloth, otherwise a fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. €125 Poems include: Emily Dickinson, Graffiti, Freeze-Up, The Osprey, In Memoriam, etc.

231. LONGLEY, Michael. Gorse Fires. London: Secker & Warburg, 1991. First edition. pp. [xi], 52. Title in black on upper cover and along spine on French flaps. A very good copy.

Scarce. €65 'Gorse Fires' won the Whitbread Poetry Prize.

232. LONGLEY, Michael. Baucis & Philemon. After Ovid. Drawings by James Allen. London: Poet & Printer, 1993. pp. [vi], 8. A Fine copy in stitched, illustrated wrappers. €35 SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF 50 COPIES ONLY 233. LONGLEY, Michael & Sarah. Out of the Cold, Drawings & Poems for Christmas.

Newry: Abbey Press, 1999. First edition. pp. 63. Black paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Edition limited to 50 numbered copies, signed by the author and his daughter, the illustrator. A fine copy in slipcase. €225 A collaboration between father and daughter to form what is in effect a Christmas card with 63 pages.

234. LYDON, J.F. The Lordship of Ireland in the Middle Ages. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1972. pp. 295. Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Ex library copy with number. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. Scarce. €65 68

De Búrca Ra re Books This work examines the feudal lordship of Ireland as a whole, and in tracing the origins of the conflicting Gaelic and Anglo-Irish traditions which were to determine the whole pattern of Irish history in succeeding centuries.

235. LYDON, James. Ed. by. The English in Medieval Ireland. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1984. pp. iv, 168. Brown paper boards, title in black on spine. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. €75 After the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland in the twelfth century, settlers imported new customs and language. These essays examine the cultural mix, which eventually led to their becoming 'Hibernis Ipsis Hiberniores' and, much later, in some instances the Anglo-Irish.

SIGNED BY PATRICIA LYNCH

236. LYNCH, Patricia. The Cobbler's Apprentice. With many illustrations by Mildred R. Lamb.

Dublin & Cork: The Talbot Press, n.d. (c.1931). Small quarto. Pictorial boards. Signed by Patricia Lynch on front endpaper. From Mount Anville Library with stamp and docket. Paper repair to a few margins and joints. Occasional light foxing. Repair to spine with tape. A good copy of an exceedingly rare item. €575

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De Búrca Ra re Books COPAC locates only 2 copies of this edition. WorldCat 1.

Patricia Lynch (1894-1972) was born in Cork. She was the author of some 48 novels and 200 short stories. She received her education at schools in Ireland, England, Scotland and Belgium. The young Patricia Lynch was a strong supporter of the cause of the Suffragettes, and was full of admiration for Sylvia Pankhurst. After finishing her schooling she joined Pankhurst, who, as well as campaigning for women's votes, carried out political and social work in the East End of London. Patricia loved the direct, no-nonsence Cockneys and retained their accent to the end of her days. She became a journalist and in 1916, and on the outbreak of the Easter Rising she was sent to Dublin by Pankhurst to report on events for The Workers' Dreadnought. Patricia married socialist historian R. M. Fox in Dublin in 1922 and they settled in Glasnevin. She never lost sight of her Irishness and was an active member of the Gaelic League, which was committed to establishing an Irish-speaking nation and to fostering Irish culture and customs. She died in Monkstown, and is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery with her husband.

Her semi-autobiographical A Story-Teller's Childhood was published in 1947.

237. LYNCH, Patricia, STAUNTON, Helen, & DEEVY, Teresa. Lisheen at the Valley Farm and Other Stories. Illustrated by Beatrice Salkeld. Dublin: The Gayfield Press, 1945. Folio. pp.

63. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. Scarce. €235 COPAC locates 3 copies only. WorldCat 4.

238. LYONS, Rev. J. P. Report of the Trial of an Action for Libel, had before Baron Sir Wm. Cusack Smith, Baronet, at Nisi Prius, in the Court of Exchequer, in the sittings after Michaelmas Term, on Wednesday, the 11th of December, 1833, wherein The Rev. J. P. Lyons, Parish Priest of Kilmore, Barony of Erris, and County Mayo, was Plaintiff, and Major Bingham, William Bingham, Esq. and Patrick Lavelle, were Defendants, With the Evidence and Speeches of Counsel, and the Charge of the learned Judge; Taken down by Walter Glascock, Esq. A.M. Dublin: Printed by George Folds, and Sold by Thomas Webb, 1834. pp. 102, [1]. Reddish-brown cloth, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. Inscribed on titlepage 'Christian Schools / Nth. Richmond Street / Dublin' with shelf number. A very good copy of an extremely rare book. €950 COPAC locates 1 copy only. WorldCat 1.

239. LYONS, J.B. Surgeon-Major Parke's African Journey 1887-89. Illustrated and with maps on endpapers. Together with: Parke Centenary Exhibition. The Mercer Library, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Twelve page illustrated catalogue in stapled wrappers, undated. Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1994. pp. xiv, 281. Red cloth, title in gilt on spine. Owner's signature on titlepage.

A fine copy in pictorial wrappers. €65 Surgeon-General Thomas Heazle Parke (1857-1893) was a doctor, explorer, soldier and naturalist.

Parke was born in 1857 at Clogher House, Kilmore, County Roscommon and was brought up in Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim. He graduated from the College of Surgeons in Dublin and was appointed to a post in Ballybay, County Monaghan. In 1881 he joined the British Army and served in Egypt as a surgeon. He volunteered for active service wishing to join the Nile expedition for the relief of General Gordon, besieged at Khartoum by the forces of the Mahdi.

Parke's statue (1896) by Percy Wood stands outside the Natural History Museum on Merrion Street, Dublin. On the granite pedestal is a bronze plaque depicting the incident on August 13, 1887 when Parke sucked the poison from an arrow wound in the chest of Capt. William G. Stairs to save his life.

He is also commemorated by a bust in the Royal College of Surgeons.

240. McANALLY, Sir Henry. The Irish Militia 1793-1816. A Social and Military Study. With coloured frontispiece. Dublin: Clonmore and Reynolds, 1949. pp. vii, 337. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. Scarce. €95 In 1793 after lengthy discussions a militia based on the English model was created in Ireland. The Irish Militia, unlike the Irish Volunteers, had not received due recognition from historians. This book, the only work available on the subject, is based on an examination of all available original and contemporary sources, Irish newspapers of the period, unpublished papers, etc. These militias were originally limited to Ireland. However interchangeability of the English and Irish militias was inevitable and we are given an interesting picture of the Irish Militia units in England. There is also a comprehensive account of the force's role in the 1798 rebellion and its aftermath.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 241. McARDLE, Dorothy. Earth-Bound. Nine stories of Ireland. Worcester: Harrigan Press and Dublin: Emton Press, 1924. First edition. pp. 108. Quarter blue cloth on marbled boards, title in black on upper cover and along spine. Inscribed on front free endpaper, "To F.O. Ebbs, / 8th August 1931 / T.F. O'Breslin". A very good copy. Very scarce. €125 Dorothy Macardle (1889-1958) was a member of the Gaelic League and later joined Cumann na mBan in 1917. In 1918 she was arrested by the R.I.C. while teaching at Alexandra College. She was eventually dismissed in 1923, towards the latter end of the Irish Civil War, because of her antiTreatyite sympathies and activities. When the republican movement split in 1921-22 over the AngloIrish Treaty Macardle sided with Eamon de Valera and the anti-Treaty Irregulars. She was imprisoned by the fledgling Free State government in 1922, during the Civil War and served time in both Mountjoy and Kilmainham Gaols, where she wrote this collection of stories dedicated to fellow Republican prisoners Iseult (Gonne) Stuart, Sighle Humphreys, Rosamund Jacob, Lily O'Brennan, Teresa O'Connell, Eithne Coyle, Nora Connolly and other fellow members of Cumann na mBan.

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242. MACAULAY, Lord. Lays of Ancient Rome with Ivry and the Armada. New edition.

London: Longmans, Green, 1877. pp. 167, 12. Maroon cloth, title in gilt on rebacked spine.

George Russell's copy with his signature on front free endpaper. Loosely inserted is an envelope with his signature and an address presumably to visit on a Sunday night. A very good copy. €125 243. MacBRIDE, David, M.D. A Methodical Introduction to the Theory and Practice of the Art of Medicine. The Second Edition, Enlarged and Corrected. In Two Volumes. Dublin: Printed for W. Watson, [No. 7.] Capel-Street, 1777. pp: (1) xiv, [ii], 400, (2) xi, 499, [12]. With the bookplates of Thomas Reade, M.B. "a former student to Mercer's Hospital 1872" on both volumes. Original grey paper boards. Spines re-backed. Untrimmed. A very good set. €495 COPAC locates only 1 complete set.

David MacBride, M.D., 1726-1778, was one of the most eminent Dublin physicians of his day. Born at Ballymoney, County Antrim, he served for many years as surgeon in the navy, and made those observations which resulted in his valuable treatise on scurvy, published in 1767. After the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle he left the service, and studied anatomy under Hunter, and midwifery under Smellie.

He settled at Ballymoney in 1749, and moved to Dublin in 1751, where his bashfulness kept him in the background for many years.

In 1764 Dr. MacBride published his Experimental Essays on the Fermentation of Alimentary Mixture, a work which, translated almost immediately into French and German, gained him a European reputation. The value of his improvements in the art of tanning were recognized by the presentation of medals from more than one learned society. The results of his medical experience were given to the world in 1772 in the current work, translated into German, French, and Dutch and with a second edition in 1777.

Dr. MacBride died from the effects of a neglected cold, at his house in Cavendish-row, Dublin, in December 1778, aged only 52.

244. MacBRIDE, Maud Gonne. A Servant of the Queen. Reminiscences. Dublin: Golden Eagle Books, 1950. New edition. pp. 319. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Owner's signature on front free endpaper. A very good copy in rare frayed dust jacket. €65 Maud Gonne was born on December 21, 1866 near Farnham, Surrey, England. She founded the Irish Nationalist group, The Daughters of Ireland. She had a relationship with poet, William Butler Yeats 71

De Búrca Ra re Books and was the inspiration for some of his poems. In 1903, she married Major John MacBride and the couple's son, Sean MacBride, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974.

245. McCARTHY, Joe. Ireland. Life World Library. By Joe McCarthy and the Editors of Life.

With numerous illustrations in black and white and colour. With maps printed on endpapers.

New York: Time Inc., 1964. Quarto. pp. 160. Title printed in green and black. Colour illustrated boards. A very good copy. €45 With chapters on: In Island Isolation; An Elusive Unmistakable Character; The Bitter Years; Undying Echoes of a Heroic Past; The Troubles; Revolution, Civil War, and a Different Freedom; Devotion to the Church; Masters of Language; Artists Constructing the Conscience of their Race; The Northern Irish; The Farmer's Hard Struggle; The Advancing Middle-Class; Ourselves no Longer Alone, etc.

246. McCARTNEY, Donal. W.E.H. Lecky. Historian & Politician 1838-1903. Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 1994. pp. vii, 271. Blue buckram, titled in silver. A fine copy in dust jacket. €45 247. 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 Celtic Cross in green on upper cover. Signed presentation copy to Harry from the dedicatee.

Cloth evenly soiled from handling. A very good copy. €185 248. McCIONNAITH, L. Foclóir Béarla agus Gaedhilge. English-Irish Dictionary. Dublin, S.O. 1935. pp. xxxiv, 1546, xxv-xxxii (I.M.C. publications). Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Signature of D.R. MacAmhlaigh on front pastedown. Some minor wear to covers, otherwise a very good copy. €65 249. Mac CLÚIN, An t-Ath. Seóirse. Réilthíní Óir. Two volumes. Baile Átha Cliath: Comhlucht Oideachais na hÉireann, 1922. pp. (1) [xi], 272, (2) [v], 272. Green paper boards, title in gilt on upper cover and along spine. Spines faded, otherwise a very good set. €150 250. MacCUMHAILL, Fionn. Sé Dia an Fear is Feárr. Baile Átha Cliath agus Corcaigh, Comhlucht Oideachais na hÉireann Teóranta, n.d. pp. 107. Owner's signature on front free endpaper. Some annotations to margins. Illustrated stiff covers. Spine rebacked. €35 251. MacDONAGH, Oliver. The Hereditary Bondsman Daniel O'Connell 1775 - 1829. With illustrations and map. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988. pp. viii, 328. Grey paper boards, title in silver on spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €50 Professor MacDonagh traces O'Connell's life in France and Ireland; his secret marriage; his financial irresponsibility and cares; his thirty years' practice at the Irish bar - and the knowledge of local politics and power structures which this brought him; his political agitations and mobilization of Irish opinion and the achievement of his primary goal, Catholic Emancipation, in 1829.

252. McDONALD, Theresa. Achill 5000 B.C. To 1900 A.D. Archaeology, History, Folklore.

With map and Illustrations. I.A.S. Publications, 1992. pp. 223. Pictorial wrappers, with title in red on upper cover. A very good copy. €25 253. McDONNELL, John. The Ulster Civil War of 1641, and Its Consequences; with the History of the Irish Brigade Under Montrose in 1644-46. Dublin: Gill, 1879. pp. [viii], 187, with errata. Recent brown cloth, title in gilt on spine. Signature of J.R.B. Jennings, Senior Inspector, R.I.C. Ferbane, Kings County on half title. A very good copy. €275 No copy located on COPAC. WorldCat 1. Not in Bradshaw. Gilbert 513.

An answer to Froude's libels on the Irish Catholics of 1641. In his introduction the author tells us: "I propose in the following pages to review some of the principal incidents of a period, perhaps the saddest in the sad history of Ireland, including about the last eight years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the reigns of James the First of England, and of Charles the First, and five or six years of the reign of the Sword, commonly, but surely facetiously, called the Commonwealth. The history of Ireland, and of this period especially, has usually been written in the light of the orange or green ray: I am earnestly desirous of writing in the pure white light of truth, which, the scientific reader will recollect, contains both the orange and green, each in its due proportion; but, writing in this spirit, I am well aware that I shall often deeply offend both the factions who have persistently travestied and deformed the history of Ireland from 1172 to 1878. Both parties must admit my facts. To enable them to make what deductions they can with truth from my inferences from my facts, I will furnish them with a few particulars of my biography".

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254. McDONNELL-GARVEY, Máire. Mid-Connacht. The Ancient Territory of Sliabh Lugha.

Illustrated. Manorhamilton: Drumlin Publications, 1995. First edition. pp. 208. A fine copy in illustrated wrappers. €25 255. [McGARRITY, J.] Resistance. The Story of the Struggle in British-Occupied Ireland.

Illustrated. Dublin: Irish Freedom Press, 1957. pp. 120. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy.

Scarce. €85 The chapters include: Ireland Today; Revolt in the North; They Keep Faith; Operation Harvest; Our Better Government; Guerrilla Warfare; In Preparation Election by Court Order; A Felon's Cap; The Cost is High; For Law and Order; Ulster is Ours; Out of the Past; Towards the Future.

256. M'GREGOR, John James. New Picture of Dublin: Comprehending a History of the City, an accurate account of its Various Establishments and Institutions, and a correct Description of all the Public Edifices connected with them; with an Appendix, containing several useful tables; forming a Complete Guide to every thing Curious and Interesting in the Irish Metropolis.

Illustrated by a large Map of the City and fifty-six views of Public Buildings, &c and collected from authentic Documents, and Personal Inspection. Dublin: C.P. Archer, Bookseller to His Majesty, His Royal Highness the Duke of York, No. 34 Dame-street, 1821. pp. x, [4], 336.

Contemporary full dark blue straight grained morocco, covers framed by a gilt chain-link roll; title in gilt direct on flat gilt decorated spine. Professional rebacking to spine, preserving original backstrip. Label of Joseph C. Scully, Bookseller, 3 Mass Lane, Near the Four Courts, Dublin on front pastedown. A very good copy. €875

No copy of this edition, with the Archer imprint located on COPAC. Not in NLI. Complete with 16 plates and large folding map.

257. MacHALE, Conor. Inishcrone and O'Dubhda Country. Inis Crabhann agus Dúiche Uí Dhubhda. Illustrated. Dublin: IHR Publications, 2003. pp. v, 183. With the signature of the author dated 13th September 2003. A fine copy in illustrated wrappers. €15 258. MacLIAMMÓIR, Micheál. Ill Met By Moonlight. Dublin Gate Theatre Productions.

Programme. Presented by Micheál MacLiammóir and Hilton Edwards, January 1947. Dublin: 1947. Four page octavo folded. Some crease marks from folding. €75 73

De Búrca Ra re Books 259. MacLIAMMÓIR, Micheál. The Ford of The Hurdles, A Masque of Dublin. An Historical Pageant-Play to be performed at the Mansion House, Dublin, on September 9th - 15th at Eight o'clock pm. Programme. Illustrated. Dublin: Browne & Nolan, n.d. (c.1929). Quarto. pp. 20.

Printed stapled wrappers. Loosely inserted is 'Dublin Civic Week' letterhead. A fine copy. €175 260. MacLYSAGHT, Edward. Some Observations on the Arms of the Four Provinces.

Centenary Volume, 1949. Dublin: Reprinted from The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 1949. pp. 60-63. Illustrated stapled wrappers. A very good copy. €15 WITH A POEM ON JAMES JOYCE'S ULYSSES 261. MacMANUS, M.J. "So this is Dublin!". Illustrated by Sean O'Sullivan. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1927. pp. 123. Quarter linen on boards. €75 Loosely inserted is a printed poem by the author on James Joyce's Ulysses. A very good copy.

DEDICATED TO F.R. HIGGINS 262. MacMANUS, M.J. A Green Jackdaw. Adventures in Parody. Dublin & Cork: Talbot Press, n.d. (c.1925). pp. 73. Illustrated green pebbled cloth, title in dark blue on upper cover and on spine. A good copy. €65 With prose and poetry contributions from England supposedly by G.K. Chesterton; John Drinkwater; John Masonfield; W.H. Davies; A.E. Housman; Harold Munro; Sir Henry Newbolt; Hilaire Belloc; Robert Graves; Edith Sitwell; Walter de la Mare. And from Ireland by Susan Mitchell; W.B. Yeats; A.E.; James Stephens; Padraic Colum; Joseph Campbell; Lady Gregory; Seumas O'Sullivan; F.R. Higgins; Austin Clarke, Brinsley MacNamara; Richard Rowley. And from America by Masters and Lindsay.

DEDICATED TO SUSAN MITCHELL 263. MacMANUS, M.J. A Jackdaw in Dublin. A Collection of Parodies and imitations of Irish Contemporaries. Dublin & Cork: The Talbot Press, n.d. (c.1925). pp. 48. Illustrated reddish brown wrappers. A very good copy. €95 With prose and poetry contributions supposedly by Susan Mitchell; W.B. Yeats; G. Bernard Shaw; Á.É; James Stephens; James Joyce; Padraic Colum; Joseph Campbell; Lady Gregory; Seumas O'Sullivan; Brinsley MacNamara; Austin Clark; Richard Rowley.

264. MacMANUS, M.J. Dublin Diversions. Embellishments by Victor Brown. Dublin & Cork: Talbot Press, 1928. pp. 80. Quarter linen on grey boards, title on printed label on upper cover and in gilt on spine. A good copy. €45 265. MacNEILL, J.G. Swift. Titled Corruption. The Sordid Origin of some Irish Peerages.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1894. pp. vii, 140, 39 (Publisher's Catalogue). Cream linen, with some staining, title in gilt along spine. A good copy. Very scarce. €175 "The majority of Irish titles are historically connected with memories not of honour, but of shame" Lecky. Those dealt with in this volume are Lords: Ashtown; Castlemaine; Henniker; De Blaquiere; Clanmorris; Langford; Adare; Dufferin; Ventry; Castlecoote; Clanricarde; Cloncurry; Dunalley, Ennismore, Erris, Hartland (Mahon), Limerick; Sandford, Tara, Lady Newcomen, Norbury, Ely, Clare, Rossmore, Enniskillen, Kilmaine, Clancarty, Clonmell, Donoughmore, Muskerry, Mayo, etc.

266. M'PARLAN, James. M.D. Statistical Survey of the County of Sligo, with Observations on The Means of Improvement; drawn up in the year 1801, for the consideration of, and under the direction of the Dublin Society. Illustrated with a folding map of the county of Sligo engraved by I. Taylor at Donnybrook. Dublin: Graisberry & Campbell, 1802. pp. xix, 122. Later quarter maroon morocco on marbled boards. A fine copy. Rare. €745 267. MacSWINEY, Terence. Principles of Freedom. Portrait frontispiece of MacSwiney.

Dublin: Talbot Press, 1921. Second Irish edition. pp. xi, 244. Olive green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover, spine faded. A very good copy. €45 Originally published serially in Irish Freedom in 1912, MacSwiney had intended to revise these articles before publishing in book form but died before this could be done. The preface in which he mentions this was partly written and partly dictated on his death-bed in Brixton Gaol at different times during September 1920.

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268. McTERNAN, John C. Historic Sligo. A Bibliographical Introduction to the Antiquities and History, Maps and Surveys, MSS. and Newspapers, Historical Families and Notable Families and Notable Individuals of County Sligo. Illustrated. Sligo: Yeats Country Publications, 1965. pp. vii, 156. Recent red buckram, titled in gilt. Author's signature on titlepage. A very good copy. €45 SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 269. McTERNAN, John C. Sligo: The Light of Bygone Days. Two volumes. Volume I: Houses of Sligo & Associated Families. Volume II: Sligo Families. Chronicles of Sixty Families Past and Present. Lavishly illustrated with photography by John McTernan and Kieran Regan. Sligo: Avena Publications, 2009. Quarto. pp. (1) xiv, 504, [10 (index)], (2) xix, 409. Edition limited to 1,000 copies. With signature of the author on titlepage of both volumes. Fine in fine illustrated dust jackets. €100 270. MADDEN, Richard Robert. The History of Irish Periodical Literature, from the end of the 17th to the Middle of the 19th Century, its Origin, Progress, and Results; with Notices of Remarkable Persons Connected with the Press in Ireland during the Past Two Centuries. Two volumes. London: Newby, 1867. pp. (1) vii, 338, (2) [ii], 531, + errata. Green blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine. Ex lib Christian Brothers, with stamps. Volume two recased. Some light browning. A very good set. Very rare. €285 Richard Robert Madden, 1798-1886, miscellaneous writer, youngest son of Edward Madden, silk manufacturer, of Dublin, by his second wife, Elizabeth, was educated at private schools. He studied medicine in Paris, Italy, and St George's Hospital, London. While in Naples he became acquainted with Lady Blessington and her circle. He returned to England in 1828, and in the following year was elected a member of the College of Surgeons, of which he was made a fellow in 1855, and practised as a surgeon in Curzon Street, Mayfair.

Madden was employed in the British civil service from 1833, first as a justice of the peace in Jamaica, where he was one of six Special Magistrates sent to oversee the eventual liberation of Jamaica's slave population, according to the terms of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. From 1835 he was Superintendent of the freed Africans in Havana. In 1839 he became the investigating officer into the slave trade on the west coast of Africa, in 1847 the secretary for the West Australian colonies.

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Madden is best known as the author of The United Irishmen, their Lives and Times, published in London, 1843-6. He was a devout Roman Catholic, a patriotic Irishman, and an excellent host and raconteur. He died at his residence in Vernon Terrace, Booterstown, on 5 Feb. 1886, and was buried in Donnybrook graveyard. Madden married in 1828 Harriet, youngest daughter of John Elmslie of Jamaica, who survived him and died on 7 Feb. 1888. By her he had issue three sons, of whom two survived him.

271. MAGENNIS, B. Lamh Dearg; or, The Red Hand, and other National and Miscellaneous Poems. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker, 1887. pp. viii, 300, [6 (advertisements)]. Blue cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and along spine. A good copy. €95 A GUIDE TO WHIST AND BRIDGE SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR 272. MAINWARING, Captain Arthur. Cut Cavendish or Whist in a Few Whiffs. With a Postscript on Bridge. Second edition. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1900. pp. ix, 54, 8 (list of books on games). Presentation copy from the author with a verse on playing cards, signed and dated by the author at Naas, 9th May 1903. Maroon cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. €185

See items 272 & 277.

273. MÁIRE [Seamus Ó Grianna] Mo Dhá Róisín. Baile Atha Cliath: Faoi Chomhartha na dTrí gCoinneal, 1935. pp. [iv], 124. Brown wrappers, title in black on upper cover and along spine.

Previous owner's signature on titlepage. Light fading and staining along spine, otherwise a very good copy. €45 Seamus Ó Grianna (1889-1969), novelist, born in Donegal, was educated locally and qualified as a teacher at St. Patrick's College. He contributed regularly to Irish periodicals for many years. He joined the Customs and Excise division of the civil service in 1932. A contributor to Irish dictionaries, he was active in controversies over the orthography of Irish.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 274. MÁIRE [Seamus Ó Grianna] Mo Dhá Róisín. Baile Atha Cliath: Faoi Chomhartha na dTrí gCoinneal, 1942. pp. [iv], 122, [2]. Green wrappers, title in blue on upper cover and along spine.

Some annotations and corrections in ink (intended for a new edition?). A very good copy. €75 275. MALLORY, J.P. & McNEILL, T.E. The Archaeology of Ulster from Colonization to Plantation. With illustrations and maps. Belfast: The Institute of Irish Studies, 1991. pp. x, 367.

Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in frayed dust jacket. €20 276. MALONE, Andrew E. The Irish Drama. London: Constable, 1929. pp. 351. Green faded cloth, title in green on spine. A very good copy. €85 The contents include: The Irish Literary Theatre 1899-1903; The Founders and their Ideals - W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn, George Moore; The Subsidised Theatre 1904-1910; The Irish National Theatre 1911-1928; The Poet in the Theatre; The Folk Dramatists; The Realistic Dramatist; The Necessity for Comedy; Fantasy and Symbolism; Managers, Actors and Producers; Plays and Players of Today; The Future of Irish Drama, etc.

277. MANGAN, James Clarence. Dark Rosaleen. Decorations by George A. Cogan and Joseph Tierney. Dublin: The Talbot Press, n.d. (c. 1920). pp. 12. 12mo. Decorated wrappers, stitched with pink silk ribbon. Three full-page coloured plates, each text page with stylised floral border printed in red, in original titled envelope. A fine copy, rare in this condition. €150 A most attractive item. A presentation edition in art-nouveau style of Mangan's celebrated patriotic poem, loosely based on the Gaelic 'Róisín Dubh'.

278. MASON, Thomas H. The Islands of Ireland. Their Scenery, People, Life and Antiquities.

Illustrated from Photographs by the Author. Third edition. London: Batsford, 1950. pp. viii, 135.

Green cloth, titled in gilt on spine. Maps on endpapers. Spine darkened, otherwise a very good copy. €55

In The Islands of Ireland the author demonstrates his great love for those isolated parts of Ireland. His keen eye for the unusual in nature, the ancient in man's handywork and his intense feeling for island people emerges strongly from every chapter.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 279. [MATHIAS, Thomas James] The Pursuits of Literature. A Satirical Poem, in Four Dialogues. The eighth edition. Dublin: For J. Milliken, 1798. pp. [ii], 2, xxxi, 381. Bound in later half calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt bands. Owner's signature 'Harriett Sharples 1799' on titlepage. A very good copy. Scarce. €375 ESTC T121919 with 3 locations only in Ireland and 2 in UK. De Quincey in his Essay on Parr speaks of this work as marred by "much licence of tongue, much mean and impotent spite, and by a systematic pedantry without parallel in literature".

RARE TICKETED BINDING 280. [MAYNOOTH COLLEGE] St. Patrick's College Maynooth. An Album of Views and Portraits. From Maynooth College Its Centenary History 1795-1895. Dublin: Browne and Nolan, Ltd., 1895. Quarto. pp. 63. Bound by J. Duffy & Co. with their label on lower pastedown in contemporary half maroon morocco on cloth boards. Title in gilt on upper cover. Upper joints starting, otherwise a good copy. €85 A selection of the most interesting illustrations from Most Rev. Dr. Healy's Centenary History of Maynooth College published separately as a souvenir marking the hundred years celebration of the founding of the College of Maynooth.

281. MEAD, Richard. A Mechanical Account of Poisons in Several Essays. Dublin: Printed by S. Powell for John Watson, 1729. pp. [8], 109 [3], with a final advertisement leaf. Wanting a plate. From the library of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (Kirkpatrick Bequest), with stamps. Old paper wrappers. A good copy of an exceedingly rare book. €475 COPAC locates 7 copies only. ESTC with 3 locations only in Ireland.

282. MEADOWS, J. McC. A Review of The Peat Question; Its Position and Prospects, in Four Papers Upon Peat: With Suggestions for the Promotion and Extension of Turf Industry. Dublin: McGlashan and Gill, 1873. pp. 85. Stiff cloth boards, title on printed label on upper cover.

Owner's signature on titlepage. With annotations and some scoring. Occasional foxing. New endpapers. A good copy. Extremely rare. €275 COPAC locates 2 copies only.

Peatlands have been exploited in Ireland for over a thousand years. From the 17th century there was pressure to develop bogs, seen as wastelands, for agriculture. In the 19th and early 20th centuries the emphasis changed to encouraging the development of Ireland's peatlands for fuel and improving the quality of turf as a fuel. The author was a member of the Irish Peat-Fuel Commission.

283. MEAGHER, Most Rev. Daniel. Notices of the Life and Character of His Grace Most Rev. Daniel Murray, Late Archbishop of Dublin, as contained in the Commemorative Oration … with Historical and Biographical notes. Dublin: Bellew, 1853. pp. 203. Original frayed and faded blind stamped cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Ex lib. Kimmage Manor with stamps, previous owner's stamp on titlepage. All edges gilt. Scarce. €45 284. MEEHAN, Patrick F. The T.D.'s and Senators for Laois and Offaly 1921-1986. Illustrated.

Portlaoise: Published by Leinster Express Newspaper, 1987. Red illustrated wrappers, with title in white on upper cover and along spine. A very good copy. €40 285. MEENAN, James & CLARKE, Desmond. Ed. by. RDS. The Royal Dublin Society 17311981. Illustrated. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1981. Quarto. pp. [xi], 288. Blue buckram, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in dust jacket. €65 The Royal Dublin Society was founded on 25th June 1731 in the rooms of the Philosophical Society, Trinity College, Dublin. Its aims were the improvement of Husbandry, Manufactures and other Useful Arts. Many of the country's national institutions owe their origin to the R.D.S., including the Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin; the National Library and the National Gallery. The Society hosts many conferences and trade shows each year and is also the venue for the world famous 'Dublin Horse Show'.

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De BĂşrca Ra re Books Chapters include: The RDS 1731-1981, by James Meenan and Desmond Clarke; The Society's Buildings, by Maurice Craig; The Library, by Desmond Clarke; The Society's Role in Agriculture since 1800, by Simon Curran; History of the Society's Shows, by Denis J.D. Purdon; One Hundred Years of Show Jumping, by F.B. Barton; The Irish Veterinary College, by P.A. McGeady; Fisheries, by A.E.J. Went; Mineralogy and Geology, by G.F. Mitchell; Chemistry, by Denis Crowley; Botany and the Botanic Gardens, by Phyllis E.M. Clinch; Science and its Industrial Applications, by Charles Mollan; Art: Painting and Sculpture, by James White; The Development of Crafts, by Muriel Gahan, and The Society and Music, by Anthony Hughes.

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De Búrca Ra re Books THE HUTH COPY 286. MESSINGHAM, Thomas. Florilegium Insulae Sanctorum seu Vitae et Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae. Quibus accesserunt non vulgaria monumenta Hoc est Sancti Patricii Purgatorium, S. Malachiae Prophetia de summis de summis Pontificibus, Aliaque nonulla quorum Elenchus post Praefationem habetur. Paris: Sebastiani Cramoisy, 1624. Folio. pp. [xlvi], 441, + errata. Bound by Clarke & Bedford in nineteenth century full brown morocco, covers framed by blind and gilt fillets with gilt and blind inner and outer fleurons. Spine divided into seven compartments by six gilt raised bands. Title and place of publishing in gilt on brown morocco letterpieces in the second and third, the remainder tooled in gilt. Fore-edges and turn-ins ruled in gilt. Cream endpapers. Red and gold double end bands. All edges gilt. The Huth Library copy with their oval dark green morocco bookplate tooled in gilt on front pastedown. Some light wear, otherwise a superb copy. Very rare. €3,250 COPAC locates 6 copies only. WorldCat 7.

Thomas Messingham, born at the close of the sixteenth century, a native of County Meath, educated in Paris where he became a secular priest and later Moderator of the Irish College in that city. In 1620 he published Officia S.S. Patricii, Columbae, Brigidae ... &c. This was followed four years later by his Florilegium which contains the lives of the chief Irish saints with commentaries including that on St. Patrick from Jocelin, St. 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 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, numerous decorated capitals and woodcuts throughout the text.

287. MILLER, Liam. The Dun Emer Press, later The Cuala Press. With a List of the Books, Broadsides and Other Pieces Printed at the Press. With a preface by Michael B. Yeats. Illustrated.

Dublin: Cuala Press, 1973. Small folio. pp. 131. White stiff wrappers. A fine copy in illustrated dust jacket. €65 FIRST APPEARANCE OF HANDEL IN DUBLIN 288. MILTON, John. L'allegro, il penseroso, ed il moderato. In three parts. Set to musick by Mr. Handel. Printed [by George Faulkner] in the year, 1741. Quarto. pp. [2], 3-22. Large paper copy.

Disbound. With contemporary manuscript corrections. Light foxing to some pages, a few creases.

A very good copy. Extremely rare. €5,875 ESTC T124047 locating 3 copies only: Dublin City Public Library, British Library and Berkeley.

On October 2, 1741, the new Musick Hall in Fishamble Street opened under the management of Mr. William Neale, one of a remarkable musical family who did much to further the appreciation and performance of music in the city of Dublin. Opposite to it was situated the famous Black Bull Tavern where the Charitable Musical Society held their practices. Fishamble Street, in the lee of Christchurch Cathedral, has an illustrious history. It once boasted fine examples of Dublin architecture, dating back to the reign of Queen Anne, included in a number of tall narrow houses a high-peaked gable to the road. In one of these Henry Grattan, son of a physician, was born in 1746. Among other residents of note was Dr. Arnold Boate, brother of Gerald, the author of Ireland's Natural History. From the press of John Harding in Molesworth-Court, off Fishamble Street, Swift's famous Drapier's Letters, were issued in 1724. It is, difficult to appreciate today the importance or relevance of this street to the history of the city, but it occupies no less than forty-five pages in Gilbert's History of Dublin.

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his concerts were being poorly attended was delighted to receive an invitation from the Duke of Devonshire to visit Dublin, he was ready for a new venture and change of scenery. Moreover, the Governors of Mercer's Hospital, and of the Charitable Infirmary, had asked Handel to compose something special in aid of the Dublin sick. This special work, the immortal Messiah, was finished by Handel on September 14th, 1741, having written it in three weeks - a marvellous tour de force.

Handel, always one to enjoy life, may have shared his biographer's opinion of Dublin as a city: "Famous for the gaiety and splendour of its court, the opulence and spirit of its principal inhabitants, the valour of military, and the genius of learned men". When the Lord-Lieutenant's invitation was followed by that of the Charitable and Musical Society, now proudly established in its new Musick Hall, the maestro's mind was decided and he departed London for Dublin via Chester where he was detained for nearly a fortnight by bad weather. The weather duly abated Handel boarded the packet from Hollyhead, and arrived safely in Dublin on November 18, 1741. He took lodgings in 26 Abbey Street with a family by the name of Chumley, at which address tickets for his musical performances were sold.

George Faulkner heralded his arrival and published L'allegro for the performance of his first concert which was announced by Handel to a public eager with anticipation: "At the new Musick Hall in Fishamble-street, on Wednesday next, being the 23rd day of Dec., (1741).

Mr. Handel’s Musical Entertainments will be opened, in which will be performed L’Allegro il Penseroso, il Moderato, with two Concertos for several instruments, and a Concerto on the Organ. To begin at 7 o’Clock. Tickets for that night will be delivered to the Subscribers (by sending their 81

De Búrca Ra re Books Subscription Ticket), on Tuesday and Wednesday next, at the place of Performance, from 9 o’Clock in the Morning till 3 in the afternoon; and attendance will be given this Day and on Monday next, at Mr. Handel’s House in Abby-street near Liffey-street, from 9 o’Clock in the morning till 3 in the afternoon, in order to receive the subscription money, at which time each Subscriber will have a ticket delivered to him, which entitles him to three tickets each night, either for ladies or gentlemen. N.B., Subscriptions are likewise taken in at the same place. Books may be had at the said place, price, a British sixpence".

This copy is one of the Wordbooks referred to in Faulkner's Advertisement.

An instantaneous success is recorded - the performance being described by a reporter as "superior to anything of the kind in this kingdom before". Handel's own verdict was equally satisfactory, and he tells his friend, Charles Jennens (who wrote the libretto of the Messiah and the Moderato of this libretto), that the subscription list of six hundred persons was quite filled. He also added that he was looking up voices for the performance of the oratorio, and that the Irish singers were good, especially "the basses and counter-tenors", praising, too, the acoustic properties of Mr. Neale's "charming room", and the high appreciative faculties of the nobility, clergy, and "persons of distinction of this generous nation". By command of the Viceroy this concert was repeated on January 13th, 1742.

Dean Swift at this date permitted six of his Vicars' Choral and two of his choristers to assist at the weekly performances of the Charitable Musical Society, "upon account of their being chiefly intended for the benefit of Mercer's Hospital".

On April 13, 1742 Messiah, was introduced to the world at the Musick Hall in Fishamble Street. So unanimous was the approval of Handel's masterpiece that, on the announcement of the first public performance, the Stewards of the Charitable Musical Society, in view of a crowded attendance, requested the ladies to come "without hoops", and the gentlemen without their swords. The actual first performance of Handel's sublime oratorio took place on Tuesday, April 13th, at 12 noon. Neale's Musick Hall was densely packed with a most enthusiastic and discriminating audience, and the Messiah "made its impression once and for ever". Handel himself forwarded to Mr. Jennens the critical observations of "the Bishop of Elphin - a Nobleman very learned in Musick" on the performance, and also a copy of the printed word-book, issued by George Faulkner, of Dublin", price, a British sixpence".

Charles O'Conor, of Belanagare, has left it on record that Handel said he would rather have been the author of "Eibhlin a ruin" than of all his own compositions, but, be that as it may, it is certain that the composer of the Messiah was charmed with the Irish folk-songs, one of which, "Der arme Irische Junge" (The Poor Irish Boy) may be seen in Handel's Manuscripts and Sketches in the Fitzwilliam Museum. Most probably he heard the air in Dublin.

Handel left Dublin on August 13, 1742 with fond memories of a city to which he resolved to soon return. Sadly for Dublin, and perhaps for music, this ambition of Handel's was never fulfilled. The musical public of the city did not forget the composer of his music, and the Musick Hall, which continued to thrive long after Handel's departure, included his compositions regularly in its repertoire.

The item is of exceptional rarity. There are only 3 other copies recorded for this libretto on the ESTC (T124047) with one further copy at the Gerald Coke Handel Collection at the Foundling Museum bringing the total to 4 copies worldwide. Our copy of L’allegro is wanting the half-title page giving "Price a British Six Pence" as is the Coke copy. It has however the identical contemporary manuscript corrections as the Dublin City Library copy in Pearse Street and in the same ink although these corrections appear to be absent from other copies. This raises the interesting possibility that they may have been inserted at either the Printers or at the house on Abbey Street occupied by Handel before they were sold in, as outlined on Faulkner's Advertisement.

An almost unique memento of one of the world's greatest musical events held in our great city in the middle of the eighteenth century, it represents the first collaboration between all of the parties who gave us the Dublin performance of the Messiah.

289. MITCHELL, Frank. The Irish Landscape. With numerous maps and illustrations. London: Collins, 1976. First edition. pp. 240. Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in pictorial dust jacket. €75 290. [MOLIERE] The School for Wives. Being a translation into English Verse by the Earl of Longford of L'École des Femmes by Jean Baptiste Poquelin commonly called Molliere. With illustrations by the Earl of Longford. Dublin: Hodges Figgis, 1948. Quarto. pp. 56. Brown pictorial boards. A very good in illustrated dust jacket. €75 82

De Búrca Ra re Books SIGNED BY ÉAMON DE VALERA 291. MOODY, T.W. & MARTIN, F.X. Ed. by. The Course of Irish History. With maps and illustrations. Cork: Mercier Press, 1967. pp. 404. Blue arlen, title in gilt on spine. Signed by Éamon de Valera on front free endpaper. A very good copy in frayed illustrated dust jacket. €185 292. MOORE, George. Fragments from Héloïse & Abélard. London: Privately printed for subscribers only by Cumann Sean-eolais na h-Éireann, 1921. pp. 23. Printed stitched wrappers, in binders folder, housed in quarter morocco slipcase. A very good copy. €225 Gilcher A41.

293. MOORE, Thomas. The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore. Including his Melodies, Ballads, etc. Complete in One Volume. Paris: Published by A. and W. Galignani, 1829. pp. xxii, 407 (mostly double column, text within ruled border). Full black calf gilt, covers framed by triple gilt fillets and blind palmette roll. Splash-marbled endpapers. Green, white and orange silk markers. Owner's signature on front free endpaper and half-title. Some underlining, and inscription to margin of p.301. All edges gilt. Corners lightly bumped, minor water staining, otherwise a very good copy. Very rare. €225 294. MORIARTY, Christopher. A Natural History of Ireland. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. Cork: Mercier Press, n.d. (c.1972). pp. 192. Stiff pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. €30 The contents includes: Cities, towns and suburbs; Rich Pasture; Poor Pasture; Forests; Wetlands and Bog; Inland Waters-Rivers; Inland Waters-Still Waters; Coast and Sea / The Coastal Counties; The Inland Counties; Bibliography.

295. MOSS, Warner. Political Parties in the Irish Free State. With diagrams and map. New York: Columbia University Press, 1933. pp. 233. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Rare. €185 The political system in the early years of the Irish Free State. With chapters on: 1916 to 1926, A Decade of Transition; The Establishment of a Party System; The Background of Irish Elections; Irish, British and American Parties; Election Law; The Government of the Irish Free State; Description of Party Organisations; The Party in the Dáil; Annual Conventions; National Party Finance; Constituency Organisation; Local Clubs; Candidates and Campaigns; The June 1927 General Election; The September 1927 General Election; The 1932 General Election; Biographies of Irish Politicians, etc.

296. MOULD, Daphne D.C. Pochin. The Mountains of Ireland. Illustrated. London: Batsford, 1955. First edition. pp. 160. Green buckram, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front free endpaper. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. See illustration opposite. €45 297. MULCAHY, Michael. A Short History of Kinsale.

With map and illustrations. Cork: 1966. pp. 68. Signed presentation copy from the author to Dr. Hadden. A very good copy in pictorial wrappers. €25 SIGNED COPY 298. MULDOON, Paul. Poems 1968-1998. London: Faber and Faber, 2001. First edition. pp. xv, 479. Author's signature on titlepage. A fine copy in printed wrappers.€85 KILKENNY LORETTO CONVENT PRIZE 299. MULHOLLAND, Rosa. The Late Miss Hollingford.

Illustrated. London: Blackie [1896]. pp. 160, 32 (Blackie's list). Brown pictorial cloth, title in black, and flowers in gilt on upper cover and spine. Kilkenny Loretto Convent Premium Prize awarded to Miss F. Doyle, Midsummer 1897 with prize label on front pastedown. Some mild fading and soiling, otherwise a very good copy. €135 83

De Búrca Ra re Books SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY 300. MURPHY, Richard. Sailing to an Island. London: Faber and Faber, 1963. First edition. pp.

63. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Signed presentation copy from the author on titlepage. A fine copy dust jacket. €125 301. NELSON, Justin. Michael Collins. A Fitting Farewell. Profusely illustrated. Dublin: Nelson, 2008. Oblong octavo pp. 110. Pictorial wrappers. Signed by the author. A fine copy. €65 302. Ní CHEANNAIN, Áine. The Heritage of Mayo. Illustrated. Dublin: F.N.T. 1982. First edition. pp. 123. Previous owner's label on front free endpaper. A very good copy in illustrated wrappers. Scarce. €65 Illustrated guide to the history and antiquities of one of Ireland's most interesting counties.

303. 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. A very good copy in fine dust jacket. €75 304. O'BRIEN, Donal. The Houses and Landed Families of Westmeath. Illustrated. Athlone: Temple Printing, 2014. Folio. pp. 236. Green paper boards. Signed by the author. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €150 Although published in the fall of 2014, this work is now sold out.

305. O'BRIEN, Donat Henchy The Narrative of Captain O'Brien, R.N : Containing an Account of his Shipwreck, Captivity, and Escape from France, after undergoing a series of sufferings which lasted for nearly five years / re-printed from The Naval Chronicle, with additions by Captain O'Brien. London: Printed by and for Joyce Gold, at the Naval Chronicle office, 103, Shoe Lane, Fleet Street. And may be had of all booksellers 1814. pp. iv, ii, [3]-212.

Contemporary worn half calf on marbled boards. Bookplate of James Walker, Christ Church and prize label of St. Michael's School, The Convent, Oxford on front pastedown. Occasional light foxing. A very good copy. Very rare. €485 COPAC locates 5 copies only. WorldCat 5.

Donat Henchy O'Brien (1785-1857), Rear-Admiral, second son of Michael O'Brien of Ennistymon, his mother was a sister of Counsellor Fitzgibbon Henchy a well-known Dublin lawyer. He entered the navy in 1796, as a midshipsman when he was 11 years of age, on board the Overyssel, later serving in the Amphion. He passed his lieutenant examination in January 1803 in London, returning for a short time to the Amphion, but after a few months he served as a master's mate on the Hussar, a new thirtyeight gun frigate commanded by Captain Wilkinson. On February 8th 1804, she ran onshore on the Saints (Ile de Sein) rocks and became a total wreck. The majority of the crew struggled ashore and fell into the hands of the French. O'Brien was imprisoned at Verdun. He made two unsuccessful attempts at escaping before eventually getting away with two companions in November 1808. They made their way to Trieste, where they were picked up by a boat of the Amphion, one of O'Brien's old ships.

Donat became a lieutenant of the Warrior in March 1809. He assisted at the reduction of the Ionian Islands. As Lieutenant on the Amphion he served in action off Lissa in 1811 and was appointed Commander two years later. Donat returned to England in October of that year, and his last service afloat was in command of the Slaney which cruised on the South American Station from 1818 to 1821.

He was promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral in March 1852. The rest of his life was spent in enforced retirement at half-pay.

FOR THE LOVERS OF IRISH LITERATURE 306. O'BRIEN, Rev. Paul. A Practical Grammar of the Irish Language. Dublin: Printed by H. Fitzpatrick, 4 Capel-Street, Printer and Bookseller to the R.C. Coll. Maynooth, 1809. First edition. pp. x, 3-214. Printer's device on titlepage. Folding table of Ogham characters. Quarter cloth on original grey boards. Wear to extremities. Untrimmed. A very good copy. €225 Paul O'Brien (1750-1820), Professor of Irish at Maynooth, was born near Moynalty, County Meath. He was a great-grand-nephew of Turlough O'Carolan, the great Irish harper, and great-grandson of William O'Brien, a poet of County Clare, who married a daughter of Bethagh, owner of Moynalty. His grammar was published in 1809. Seven stanzas of Irish verse by the professor are prefixed, in which Fodhla or Ireland is made to incite her children to the study of their ancient speech. John O'Donovan (Irish Grammar, preface) speaks of O'Brien's work as: "the worst of Irish grammars, but it has some 84

De Búrca Ra re Books interest as illustrating the dialect of Meath". It was intended for the clerical students of Maynooth.

The publisher Hugh Fitzpatrick in the preface to this work states: "Three years have elapsed since the Manuscript Copy of the following work was delivered to me by the Rev. Doctor O'Brien … All necessary arrangements were then made for its being immediately committed to press; nay, so certain was I of being enabled in a short time to gratify the under-graduates of Maynooth, for whose particular use it was originally designed, and the lovers of Irish literature in general, that I actually announced, in my Catalogue, its speedy publication".

307. O'CARROLL, Gerald. Robert Day (1745-1841). The Diaries and the Addresses to Grand Juries 1793-1829. Illustrated. Tralee: Polymath Press, 2004. Royal octavo. pp. xxvi, 318. Black paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in dust jacket. €30 308. Ó CEALLAIGH, Séamus. Gleanings from Ulster History. Punann ó Chois Bhanna. With folding maps and large folding genealogical chart. Cork: University Press, 1951. pp. 118. Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €165 This work concentrates on lesser known facets and episodes of the history and way of life of the Bannside country prior to the Plantation of Ulster. The chapters include: Cineal Eoghain, The Territorial Distribution of Cineal Binnigh, The Keepers of Patrick's Bell, Cineal Binnigh and the Ó Briain Kingship at Telach Óg, The Culture of Trian Conghail and Cois Bhanna.

THE ORATORS OF IRELAND SERIES 309. O'CONNELL, John. Ed. by. The Select Speeches of Daniel O'Connell, M.P. Edited with Historical Notices by his Son. Two Volumes. Dublin: James Duffy,1867. pp. (1) 456, (2) 472.

Green blind-stamped cloth, title in blind on upper cover within a garland of shamrocks and in gilt on spine. Owner's signature dated 1868 on titlepage. A very good set. €75

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310. O'CONNELL, Mrs. Morgan John. Munster Land-owning. London & Dublin: Ridgway and Hodges Figgis, 1886. pp. 46. Printed stitched wraps. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €275 COPAC locates 3 copies only. WorldCat 3.

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De Búrca Ra re Books The author opens this work "I made acquaintance with Munster Land-owning the day I was six years old. My father, the late Charles Bianconi, Carman, (as he loved to be styled), invested all his savings in land in the County Tipperary ... All the property bought by the once "Alien Papist" was purchased from Protestants, whose ancestors had got the forfeitures of old native Catholic families ... Twenty-one years ago I was brought into contact with the real native Irish side of Munster Land-owning when I married one of the Liberator's nephews, Morgan John O'Connell, the pleasantest and most popular Irishman".

Mrs. Morgan John O'Connell also wrote an interesting life of her father, Charles Bianconi.

311. O'CROLY, Rev. David. An Essay Religious and Political on Ecclesiastical Finance, as regards the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland. Cork: Barry Drew, Dublin: Curry, London: Groombridge, 1834. First edition. pp. [ii] 94, [2]. Recent grey wrappers, with title on printed label on upper cover. Signature of Richard Trench on titlepage. A very good, uncut copy. €195 The author was Parish Priest of Ovens and Aglis.

RARE PRINTING OF THE NEW TESTAMENT 312. O'DOMHNUILL, hUilliam. Tiomna Nuadh ar dTighearna Agus ar Slanuigheora Iosa Criosd: Ar na Tharruing go Firinneach ar Ghreigis go Goidheilg. London: A. Shacklewell, 1816. pp. 527. Contemporary full calf, spine professionally rebacked and titled in gilt. A very good copy. €165 313. O'DONOGHUE, D.J. Ed. by. The Prose Writings of James Clarence Mangan. (Centenary Edition). With an essay by Lionel Johnson. Portrait frontispiece. Dublin: O'Donoghue & Co., and M.H. Gill & Son, 1904. pp. xv, 329, [3] (notes and publications), 8 (Opinions of the Press).

Reddish brown cloth, title in red on upper cover and along spine. A very good copy. €65 314. O'DONOGHUE, John. In A Quiet Land. With a foreword by Sean O'Faolain. London: Batsford, 1957. First edition. pp. 208. Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's signature and bookplate on front free endpaper. A very good copy in repaired dust jacket. €35 315. O'DONOGHUE, John. In a Strange Land. London: Batsford, 1958. First edition. pp. 218.

Red arlen, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's signature and bookplate on front free endpaper.

A very good copy in repaired dust jacket. €35 NO MORE LONELY SCAFFOLDS SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY BY THE AUTHOR 316. O'DONOVAN, Donal. Kevin Barry and his Time. Illustrated. Dublin: Glendale, 1989. First edition. pp. 244. Grey paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Signed presentation copy from the author dated 1989. A very good copy in pictorial dust jacket. €165 317. O'FAOLAIN, Sean. An Irish Journey. Specially illustrated by Paul Henry. With an itinerary map. London: Longman, 1940. Second edition. pp. x, 308. Green cloth, title in silver on spine. Owner's signature on front free endpaper. A fine copy. €65 318. Ó FIAICH, An tAthair Tomás. Irish Cultural Influence in Europe VIth to XIIth Century.

Map designed by Thurlough Connolly. Cork: Mercier Press, 1971. pp. 44. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. €25 THE OGYGIA AND OGYGIA VINDICATED BY ONE OF THE MOST LEARNED MEN OF EUROPE 319. O'FLAHERTY, Roderic. Esq. Ogygia, or, A Chronological Account of Irish Events: Collected from very ancient documents, faithfully compared with each other, and supported by the genealogical and chronological aid of the sacred and prophane writings of the first nations of the globe. Written originally in Latin and now translated by Rev. James Hely. With list of subscribers. Together with: The Ogygia Vindicated: Against the Objections of Sir George MacKenzie, King's Advocate for Scotland in the Reign of King James II ... To which is annexed An Epistle from John Lynch, D.D. to M. Boileau ... With A Dissertation on the Origin and Antiquities of the ancient Scots, and Notes, critical and explanatory, on Mr. O'Flaherty's Text, by C. O'Conor, Esq. Three volumes. Dublin: Printed by W. M'Kenzie, No. 33, College-Green, and G. Faulkner, in Parliament-Street, 1775/1793. pp. [1] lxxxiii, 8 (List of Subscribers and errata), 86

De BĂşrca Ra re Books 292, [2] [iii], 419, [3] 6 (List of Subscribers), lxxxii, [ii], 299. Contemporary half diced russia on marbled boards, title and volume number in gilt on spine. From the Franciscan library at Clara with their blind-stamp. Armorial bookplate of Daniel Haliday on front pastedowns. Some minor wear to spines, one joint starting, occasional light foxing. A very good set. Very rare. â‚Ź1,250

Bradshaw 2394 Gilbert 602.

Roderick O'Flaherty, the noted historian and antiquarian of west Connaught was one of the most learned men of Europe during the seventeenth century. He was born at Moycullen Castle, County Galway, in 1629. His father Hugh, the last chieftain of that proud race, married Elizabeth Darcy, who was of the family of the celebrated lawyer of same name. At that time there was the most renowned school in Ireland near O'Flaherty's home - the Free School of Galway founded by Dominic Lynch, where gathered twelve hundred students from all over Ireland. The fame of Galway students and their erudition made it the intellectual capital of the country, as Mrs Green tells us in her work The Making of Ireland and its Undoing - "Here Mac Fhirbhisigh, Lynch, Francis Browne, Patrick Darcy, the celebrated lawyer; Sir Richard Blake, Dr. Kirwan, Edmund de Burg, Peter French, John O'Heyne, and others of distinction frequently assembled, and here were planned, and partly executed, some of those learned works which have ever since ranked among the most valuable Irish history". 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 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 live 87

De Búrca Ra re Books a banished man within the bounds of my native soil; a spectator of others enriched by my birth-right; 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.

The list of subscribers includes the bookseller Pat Byrne who ordered 25 copies; Lord Charlemont; Lord Clonmell; Lord Cloncurry; Lord Clonbrock; Lord Donoughmore who ordered 20 copies; John Foster; John Ferrar of Limerick who ordered 49 copies; Henry Grattan; numerous members of the Hely Hutchinson family; John Kelly of Carraroe; The Duke of Leinster; David Latouche; Hugh M'Dermot of Culavin; William M'Kenzie bookseller; Charles O'Conor of Belenagar; The Early of Ormond; Chevalier O'Gorman; Sylvester O'Halloran; Viscount Powerscourt; Sir Lawrence Parsons; Dominick Trant; Col. Vallancey; Rev. Mr. Wade; numerous members of the O'Callaghan family; Archbishop Troy; Barry Yelverton, etc.

WITH BOOKPLATE BY ELIZABETH C. YEATS 320. O'GRADY, Standish. Lost on Du-Corrig or 'Twixt Earth and Ocean. With frontispiece and map. Dublin: The Talbot Press, n.d. pp. ix, 284. Maroon paper boards, title in black on upper cover and in gilt on spine. With a fine decorative bookplate for Dame Christian by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats at the Cuala Press. A very good copy. €150 321. O'HART, John. The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry when Cromwell came to Ireland; or, A Supplement to Irish Pedigrees. Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son, and James Duffy & Sons, 1884. pp. xviii, 773, + errata. Original cloth with gilt armorial shield on upper cover and spine. All edges gilt. A very good copy. Scarce. €275 This work contains a wealth of information for the students of sixteenth and seventeenth century Ireland. Its chief value lies in the extracts of documents appended to the main text. The originals of these documents which relate to seventeenth century land settlements, were lost in the destruction of the Public Record Office in 1922, making the appendix more valuable than the author ever imagined.

Includes a three page list of subscribers.

322. Ó MÓRÁIN, Pádraig. Annála Beaga Pharáiste Bhuiréis Umhaill. A Short Account of the History of Burrishoole Parish. Illustrated. With a folding map. Westport: Covie Publications and Recordings Ltd., 2004. pp. ix, 102. Black paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. Rare. €45 323. Ó MORDHA, An Choronail Muiris Tús agus Fás Oglách na hÉireann, 1913-1917. Liam Ó Rinn d'aistigh. Baile Atha Cliath: 1936. pp. xvi, 347. Red ribbed cloth, title in gilt on spine.

Owner's signature on front free endpaper and fore-edge. A very good copy. Very Scarce. €65 324. O'NEILL, David. The Partition of Ireland. How and Why it was Accomplished. With illustrations and coloured map. Dublin: M.H. Gill, 1947. Fourth edition. pp. 38. Stapled pictorial wrappers. A fine copy. €30 88

De Búrca Ra re Books FULL SET OF ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS 325. [ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS] Ordnance Survey Maps of all of Ireland. Sheets 1 to 16 (folding). Scale: 1/4 Inch to a Mile. Hand-coloured in outline. Each map is overlaid with a grid depicting 6-inch sheets for all counties. Depicting: County Boundaries, Cities, Market Towns, Roads, Railways, Churches, Mountains, Lakes, Woods, Bays and Harbours, Islands, Navigable Rivers, etc., etc. Dublin: Ordnance Survey Office, 1904. Very good. Very rare. €275 Old maps are invaluable sources of topographical, social and economic history. They show the changing shapes of coasts, rivers, woods, bogs and parkland. Archaeologists can use them to locate the sites of churches and castles now vanished. The locations of modern towns and villages can be studied in relation to early roads, rivers and railways.

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 326. ORPEN, Sir William. Stories of Old Ireland & Myself. With thirty-five full page illustrations. London: Williams & Norgate, 1924. First edition. Quarto. Cream cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Edition limited to 100 large paper copies signed and numbered (73) by the author. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €950

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De Búrca Ra re Books Sir William Orpen (1878-1923), was born at Stillorgan County Dublin. He studied at the Metropolitan School of Art in that city, where he later taught for many years. He painted contemporary Irish portraits for Sir Hugh Lane and greatly influenced the naturalistic style of Irish painting as a teacher. He had a brilliant and prolific career. In his capacity as official British war artist. In 1917 he travelled to the Western Front and produced drawings and paintings of privates, dead soldiers and German prisoners of war along with official portraits of generals and politicians. His large paintings of the Versailles Peace Conference captured the political wranglings and the vainglory of the gathered politicians and statesmen, whom Orpen came to loathe but relied upon for post-war commissions. Most of these works, 138 in all, he gave to the British government on the understanding that they should be framed in simple white frames and kept together as a single body of work. They are now in the collection of the Imperial War Museum in London. For his war work, he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 1918 King's birthday honours list. He was elected a Royal Academician (member of the Royal Academy of Arts) in 1919. One of the most successful portraitpainters of his day, who is also remembered for his amusing self-portraits.

327. Ó SÚILLEABHÁIN, Seán. Irish Wake Amusements. Cork: Mercier Press, 1969. pp. 188, 3 (publisher's list). Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. €25 ROYAL SCHOOL ARMAGH PRIZE 328. PALMER, Roundell. The Book of Praise From the Best English Hymn Writers. Selected and Arranged by Roundell Palmer. London: Macmillan and Co., 1867. pp. xiv, 512.

Contemporary purple morocco, title in gilt on spine. Badge of Royal School Armagh in gilt on both covers. Prize binding presented to Charles C. Fenton "for diligence in the Study and Superior answering in the Holy Scriptures". By Herbert Colthurst, Midsummer 1873. All edges gilt. A very good copy. €125

See items 328 & 329.

329. PARLEY, Peter [Samuel Griswold Goodrich?] Peter Parley's Tales about Ireland and the Irish. With numerous engravings, coloured engraved map of Ireland and half title. London: Darton and Clark, n.d. (c.1856). Small quarto. pp. xv, 256. Gilt decorated red cloth. Signature of Elizabeth Walker on front free endpaper and half-title; Walker armorial bookplate on front pastedown. A very good copy. Rare. €275 COPAC locates 3 copies only.

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De Búrca Ra re Books The author dedicated this work to 'The Neglected People of Ireland'. With chapters on: Physical Geography of Ireland; Ancient History of Ireland; Nativity of St. Patrick; Battle of Clontarf; Dermot M'Morrough - Henry II - Strongbow; Charter of Dublin; Invasion of Edward Bruce; Ireland under the Reigns of Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth - Rebellion of Thomas Fitzgerald Earl of Desmond's Conspiracy - Earl of Tyrone's Rebellion; Ireland under James I and Charles I Cromwell in Ireland - James II and William III - Battle of the Boyne, etc. With concluding chapters on the author's travels around Ireland. Added engraved titlepage has title: "Tales about Ireland".

330. [PEARSE, P.H.] The Pearse I Knew.

By Desmond Ryan. Published in The Tribune, Friday, April 2, 1926. Cork: The Lee Press, 1926. Quarto. pp. 24. Staples a little rusty. In very good condition. €65 With articles on: The Revolution in Ireland. By Prof James Hogan; An Irish Critic. By T.F. O'Rahilly; The League Crisis. By Our Geneva Correspondent; The Lamplighter. By Hubert E. O'Toole, etc.

331. [PEARSE, Patrick] The Home-Life of Padraig Pearse. As told by himself, his family and friends. Edited by his sister Mary Brigid Pearse. Illustrated with family portraits. Dublin: Browne & Nolan 1934. pp. 167. Black cloth, titled in green on upper cover and along spine. Previous owners' signatures on front endpaper. Top edge green. Some wear to spine ends. A very good copy. 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.

TO "CHEVALIER THOMAS MacGREEVY" FROM JACK B YEATS 332. PEARSON, Hesketh. Beerbohm Tree. His Life and Laughter. London: Methuen, 1956.

First edition. pp. xiv, 250. Red cloth, titled in gilt. Signed presentation copy with two verses of poetry from Jack B Yeats to 'Chevalier Thomas MacGreevy'. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €250 333. 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. Light 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. 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.

334. PETER, A. Sketches of Old Dublin. Profusely illustrated. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker, 1907. pp. viii, 331, 5 (publisher's list). Red pictorial cloth. Ex lib. With stamps. Cover a little faded, otherwise a very good copy. €125 With chapters on: Dublin, Ancient and Modern; The Four Great Libraries of Dublin [TCD, NLI, Marsh's Library, and RIA]; The Story of the RDS; Old Dublin Pleasure Gardens - Rotunda, Portobello, 91

De BĂşrca Ra re Books Ranelagh, Coburgh, Marlborough Green, Curious Old Dublin Shop Signs; Christmas Week in Dublin in 1458; Blackrock Worthies of Olden Times; The Kings House Chapelizod; A Glimpse into Dublin in the Seventeenth Century; Cost of Travelling in the Eighteenth Century; Family Life in Dublin 150 Years Ago; The "Down" Survey and its Maker; The Hell-Fire Club; Robert Emmett; Vanishing Dublin; George IV in Dublin, 1821; Flowers in the Dublin Streets; The Old Clothes Market; An Old Dublin Love Story - My Great Grandmother's Wedding.

335. [PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM] An Extensive Collection of Photographs of Irish Families circa 1880 to early 1900s. Including the following: Butler, Fitzgerald, Anderson, Gosset, Le Fanu, Tottenham, Beresford, Lefroy, Shakerley, Gore Booth, Duchess of Leinster, Miss Kennedy (Governess to the Leinster family), Geraldine Kildare, Lady Constance Mary Butler, Ellen Terry, Mr FitzGerald, Colonel FitzGerald, Mrs J. Taaffe, Rose Persse, Mrs Fortescue, R. M. Brady, Arthur Courtenay, Coxhead Family, and many others, mostly portraits. There are also photographs of horses, dogs, and gentlemen's seats, including Powerscourt, Carton, a group at Mullingar Barracks, Polo Pavilion, Jamaica (1886). There is also a wash drawing, presumably of Mabel Coxhead, on front pastedown. Quarto album, sixty-six pages (thick card) numbered in ink.

Bound in contemporary half black morocco over cloth boards. Spine divided into six compartments by five raised bands, 'Mabel / Coxhead's / Album' titled in gilt direct in second compartment, year in gilt direct at heel, the remainder tooled in gilt with a floral design. â‚Ź1,350

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Mabel Howard Coxhead came from the well-connected Paget-Butler family which was related to several aristocratic Irish lines, the senior being the FitzGeralds, Dukes of Leinster. Mabel married James Alfred Coxhead in 1887, he became a professional soldier (Royal Artillery), eventually retiring as a Brigadier-General in 1908 after a rapid rise through the commissioned ranks.

She travelled extensively before the Great War, to India, Europe and Australia, and the album finishes with some of these later pictures. There are some fascinating photographs mainly of relatives and friends, the majority of them Irish. Rose Persse, Mabel's friend, her photograph captured so beautifully on page 10, was a celebrated beauty much admired by the young male Irish aristocracy at that time, she died tragically when she was thrown from her horse into a tree.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 336. [PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM] Large Quarto Album of original photographs by William Lawrence, J. Valentine and others, containing approximately seventy pictures, various sizes, including carte-de-visite. Bound in gilt decorated vellum parchment for Richard C. Jackson, President of The Dante Society of Britain by Ulderico Donnini, Rome with his ex libris on front pastedown. 'Roma' in gilt on upper cover with a depiction in gilt of Romulus and Remus being suckled by the she- wolf. €375 Photographs included are: Glendalough - Black Castle - Devil's Glen - Powerscourt Fall - Harbour, County Wicklow, Kilkee, Ballynahinch, Aughrim, Roscrea, Belleek, Galway, Killarney, Westmoreland Street - Viceregal Lodge - Four Courts - Killiney, Dublin, Belfast, Derry, Enniskillen, Adare, Glengarriff, Kilkenny, New Ross, Navan, Duleek Abbey, 'Graduates at T.C.D.' c. 1905, and other rare earlier views. Together with a set of six eighteenth century Irish topographical engravings by J. Milton: The Scalp, Shane's Castle, Malahide Castle, Marino, Belan House, Tullymore Park.

337. [PSALMS] A Selection of Psalms and Hymns, for the use of the Presbytery of Antrim and the Congregation of Strand-Street, Dublin. Belfast: Printed by Francis D. Finlay, 1818. pp. vi, [2], [306]. Contemporary full calf, covers framed by a gilt roll enclosing enclosing in the centre owner's name 'Robert Montgomery' in gilt. Flat spine, title in gilt. Minor wear to binding.

Previous owners' bookplate and stamp. A very good copy in a fine Belfast binding. €175 338. PUTTOCK, Roger. Good and True Newes from Ireland. being the Copy of a Letter sent from Mr. Rodger Buttock, one of the chief ministers in the City of Dublin, to a brother of his a merchant, living in Alderman-Berrie in London. Shewing in a true and reall Relation, how 400 foot, and 100 horse sent from Dublin, under the command of Sir Charles Coot marched towards Ardee 8: miles from thence, and beat them out of their quarters, defeating the whole army. Also, how they slew 1100 men at Dundalk, 15, officers, took 4 pieces of ordinance, and great store of good pillage, with the losse of 20 men. Dated from Dublin the 4 of Aprill, and received here the 12. 1642. London: Printed for Andrew Coe, 1642. Quarto. pp. [8]. Modern half blue morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €1,350 Wing P 4252A. Sweeney 4414. COPAC locates 2 copies only. WorldCat 1.

The correspondent goes on to describe an action when on Friday last "an army of them came down from the mountains within four miles of Dublin. Our horse went to meet them, on Saturday very early, put them all to flight, and pursued three hundred of them into the Castle of Carrigmayne, six miles from Dublin, by nine of the clock in the morning. Messengers came to Dublin for two peeces of ordnance, to batter the castle; but with consultation and advising with long delayes of a cunctator maximus in our state, Saturday was passed over .... to the Lord's Day; so that the taking of that castle that day cost dearly, the loss of a few, not past ten men, but five of them were officers of great note on whose name my pen is loath to write, the flower of the English army, our dearly beloved for his valour, discretion, and religion, Sir Simon Harcott, chief commander that day, slaine by a bullet shot of the castle, as he was overseeing the planting of the ordnance, a man much lamented".

339. [RARE BOOKS CATALOGUE] Catalogue 77. A Selection of Extremely Rare and Important Printed Books and Ancient Manuscripts. Offered for Sale by William Robinson Ltd, Dealers in Rare Books and Ancient Manuscripts. London: 1948. Quarto. pp. x, 189, cx. White paper boards, title in black on upper cover and spine. Minor thumb marks and small stain to lower cover. A very good copy. €150 Illustrated with numerous photographs of early books and manuscripts, some folding. Included in this fine collection are the first book printed in the English language, in 1475, to the second book printed in Australia, in 1805, and in the manuscript field from Anglo-Saxon writing of the eighth century to historical records of the eighteenth. There are also some early Irish books in this catalogue.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 340. READ, Donald & GLASGOW, Eric.

Feargus O'Connor Irishman and Chartist.

Portrait frontispiece. London: Edward Arnold, 1961. pp. 160. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine.

A fine copy in fine price-clipped dust jacket.

See illustration opposite. €45 This is the first biography of the colourful Irish demagogue who made himself leader of the Chartists. The authors stress that although O'Connor made himself a Chartist he was always an Irishman; and as well as drawing on the familiar sources for Chartist history - including O'Connor's own 'Northern Star', the first great British popular newspaper - they have used previously little-known sources in Ireland. They have written a very readable book about a very lively character.

341. REDICAN, Noel. Shadows of Doubt.

Cork: Mercier Press, 2008. pp. 223. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. €15 Ireland in 1928 was a place of conflicted loyalty, changing politics and intense subterfuge. When Seán Harling, a civic guard and former republican, shot dead a known I.R.A. member, Timothy Coughlan, his former friends in the wider republican movement cried foul. Harling claimed he had been ambushed but, though cleared of wrong-doing by a tribunal and inquest, he was forced to give up his job and flee the country. He eventually returned to Ireland but his family suffered years of rumour and suspicion. A native of Dublin, Noel Redican is a nephew of Seán Harling and writes for the first time of his family's efforts to clear his uncle's name.

342. REID, Captain Mayne. The Tiger Hunter. London: Routledge, n.d. (1890). pp. [iv], 370.

Pictorial cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and in black on rebacked spine. A very good copy. €85 COPAC locates 2 copies only of this edition.

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344. REID, Captain Mayne. The Wood-Rangers. London: The Londoner Press, n.d. (1910?). pp. 339. Dark blue cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Previous owner's label and signature on front free endpaper. A very good copy. €75 No copy located on COPAC. Adapted from the French of Luis de Bellemare by Captain Mayne Reid, The Wood-Rangers was first published in London in 1860.

345. REID, Captain Mayne. The Castaways. With colour plates. London: Thomas Nelson, n.d.

(1920). pp. 239, 2. Olive-green cloth, title on upper cover and spine. Previous owner's label and signature on front free endpaper. A very good copy. €85 COPAC locates 4 copies only of this edition.

First published: London, 1870. This edition dated from other copies in COPAC.

346.

[RELIGIOUS MANUSCRIPT] Nineteenth Century Religious Manuscript of the Lives of the Saints. Written in a neat, clear and legible forward-slanting hand with headings in red ink, presumably by Mary Anne Crane who has signed and dated the manuscript (1862) on front free endpaper.

The writer gives brief biographical sketches of the Saints of the Church for every day from 1st January to September 16th. Three hundred and forty pages written in black ink.

Bound in the style of George Mullen in contemporary straight grained blue morocco.

Covers framed by a wide gilt roll border decorated in gilt to a floral pattern with dots in the background. Flat spine divided into six compartments by gilt fillets with a floral design in centre. Board edges and turn-ins gilt. A.e.g. Some minor surface wear. Very good. See illustration opposite. €650 SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 347. RICE, Adrian. Impediments. Newry: Abbey Press, 1998. pp. 30. Black paper boards. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies (No. 16) signed by the author. Green dust jacket with title in black on upper cover.

A fine copy. €65 348. 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 very good copy. Very scarce. €65 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.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 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".

SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY 349. ROBINSON, Lennox. I Sometimes Think. Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1956. First edition. pp. 166. Brown paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Signed presentation copy from Lennox Robinson dated November, 1956. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €95 Lennox Robinson (1886-1958), playwright and theatre manager, was born in Douglas, Cork. Following the death of Synge in 1909, Robinson was taken on as manager and director of the Abbey. The following year he incurred the wrath of Annie Horniman by failing to close the theatre in mourning for Edward VII, resulting in the loss of her subsidy. On leaving the Abbey in 1914 he became organising librarian for the Carnegie Trust under Sir Horace Plunkett, staying with the painter Dermod O'Brien and his wife Kitty at their country home at Cahirmoyle, County Limerick. In this setting he wrote his first and most enduring comedy The Whiteheaded Boy.

350. RONAN, Myles V. The Reformation in Ireland under Elizabeth 1558-1580 (from original sources). With folding map of Ireland in the 16th century. London: Longmans, 1930. First edition. pp. xxxii, 662. Navy blue cloth, title in gilt on spine and blind stamped on upper cover.

Cloth faded on lower board. A very good copy. €75 351. RONAN, Sean G. Ed. by. Irish Writing on Lafcadio Hearn and Japan. Writer, Journalist and Teacher. Illustrated. Kent: Global Oriental, 1997. pp. xxxi, 351. Black paper boards titled in gilt on spine. A very good copy in pictorial dust jacket. €45 Lafcadio Hearn was born in 1850 on the Greek island of Santa Maura. His father was Irish, a surgeon in the British Army. His mother was a young Greek woman of great beauty and a restless spirit. The family moved to Dublin when Lafcadio was six, and he was sent to school at Ushaw College in Durham, where he was said to have no respect for authority. While in Dublin his parents separated, his mother eloped with a native of her own country, and was never heard of again.

Before he was twenty he emigrated to America and took up journalism in which he excelled, especially in New Orleans, where he remained for ten years. In the winter of 1890 he set off for Japan, on what he thought would be a journalistic tour that might last two or three years at the most. In fact, it lasted for the remainder of his life.

352. [R.H.A EXHIBITION] Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts. Acadamh Ríoghdha Ibearnach na n-Ealadhna. Catalogue of the One Hundred and Sixteenth Exhibition, 1945. Held in the National College of Art. By kind permission of the Minister for Education 23 April to 2nd June, 1945 10 a.m. To 6 p.m. Dublin: Printed for the Royal Hibernian Academy by Browne and Nolan, 1941. pp. 34, 4 (adverts). Stitched printed wrappers. €145 The President of the Royal Hibernian Academy was Dermod O'Brien and the Academicians included: Maurice MacGonigal, Mrs. Harry Clarke, Letitia Hamilton, John Keating, Harry Kernoff, Charles Lamb, Frank McKelvey, Seán O'Sullivan, Leo Whelan, Jack B Yeats, etc.

The exhibitors included: Bea Orpen, Micheál De Búrca, Leo Whelan, John Keating, Maurice MacGonigal, Harry Kernoff, Charles Lamb, William J. Leech, Frank McKelvey, Seán O'Sullivan, Jack B Yeats, Lilian Davidson, Mrs Kitty O'Brien, Miss Margaret Stokes, Louis Le Brocquy, Lady Glenavy, Basil Rákóczi, Estella Solomons, the late James Humbert Craig etc.

353. [R.H.A EXHIBITION] Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts. Acadamh Ríoghdha Ibearnach na n-Ealadhna. Catalogue of the One Hundred and Twelfth Exhibition, 1941. Held in the National College of Art. By kind permission of the Minister for Education. 31 March to 17th May, 1941. Dublin: Printed for the Royal Hibernian Academy by Browne and Nolan, 1941. pp.

45, 4 (adverts). Stitched green printed wrappers. €145 The President of the Royal Hibernian Academy was Dermod O'Brien and the Academicians included: Maurice MacGonigal, Mrs. Harry Clarke, J.H. Craig, John Keating, Harry Kernoff, Charles Lamb, Frank McKelvey, Seán O'Sullivan, Jack B Yeats, etc.

The exhibitors included: J. Crampton Walker, Leo Whelan, John Keating, Maurice MacGonigal, Mrs. Harry Clarke, J.H. Craig, Harry Kernoff, Charles Lamb, Frank McKelvey, Seán O'Sullivan, Jack B Yeats, Lilian Davidson, Dermod O'Brien, Mrs. Bower, Carmel Flynn, Louis M. Le Brocquy, Lady Glenavy, Cecil ffrench Salkeld, Estella Solomons, the late John Lavery etc.

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356. RUSSELL, Sir William Howard The Atlantic Telegraph. Illustrated with twenty-five coloured lithographs by T. Picken from drawings by Robert Dudley London: Day & Son, [1866].

Small folio. pp. v, 117, 25 (plates), 4 (advertisements). Green cloth, upper cover decorated in gilt to a naval design with the flags of the United Kingdom, United States, the Atlantic and Britannia in medallion interlaced with rope and the Royal Arms above the American Eagle in centre, design repeated in blind on lower cover. Spine professionally rebacked. All edges gilt. A fine copy. €975

No copy located on COPAC or WorldCat. In 1854, Cyrus West Field conceived the idea of the telegraph cable and secured a charter to lay a wellinsulated line across the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. Obtaining the aid of British and American naval ships, he made four unsuccessful attempts, beginning in 1857. In July 1858, four British and American vessels - the Agamemnon, the Valorous, the Niagara, and the Gorgon - met in mid-ocean for the fifth attempt. On July 29, the Niagara and the Gorgon, with their load of cable, departed for Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, while the Agamemnon and the Valorous embarked for Valentia, Ireland. By August 5, the cable had been successfully laid, stretching nearly 2,000 miles across the Atlantic at a depth often of more than two miles. On August 16, President James Buchanan and Queen Victoria exchanged formal introductory and complimentary messages. Unfortunately, the cable proved weak and the current insufficient and by the beginning of September had ceased functioning.

Sir William Howard Russell CVO (1820-1907) was born in Tallaght, County Dublin. He was a reporter with The Times, and is considered to have been one of the first modern war correspondents, after he spent 22 months covering the Crimean War including the Charge of the Light Brigade. Russell was 98

De Búrca Ra re Books described by one of the soldiers on the frontlines thus: "a vulgar low Irishman, [who] sings a good song, drinks anyone's brandy and water and smokes as many cigars as a Jolly Good Fellow. He is just the sort of chap to get information, particularly out of youngsters".

His dispatches were hugely significant; for the first time the public could read about the reality of warfare. Shocked and outraged, the public's backlash from his reports led the Government to reevaluate the treatment of troops and led to Florence Nightingale's involvement in revolutionising battlefield treatment. In July 1865 he sailed on the Great Eastern to document the laying of the Atlantic Cable and wrote this work about the voyage. In this volume he discusses submarine telegraphy in general as well as the trans-Atlantic telegraph he witnessed being laid.

The magnificent lithographs are of outstanding quality and include the five scarce South Kerry Views: Valentia in 1858; The Bay-Valentia; Foilhummerum Bay-Valentia from Cromwell Fort; The Cliffs Foilhummerum- landing of the Shore end of Cable, July 22; General view of Port Magee from the heights below Cora Beg. The Caroline laying the Shore end of the cable July 22.

He published diaries of his time in India, the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War, where he describes the warm welcome given him by English-speaking Prussian generals such as Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal.

He was awarded the title of Commander of the Royal Victorian Order by King Edward VII, who reportedly told Russell "Don't kneel Billy, just stoop" during the ceremony.

357. RYAN, Rev. John. S.J. Irish Monasticism. Origins and Early Development. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1931. pp. xv, 413, xiv. Green cloth, title in black on spine. A very good copy. €95 Every point of importance in early Irish ecclesiastical history is discussed, and there are incidental references to social, economic and literary conditions which make the whole course of Irish history more intelligible.

358. [SABHAT, Sean] They Kept Faith. Dublin?: Roinn Eolais na Poblachta, 1957. pp. 20.

Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. €75 Account of death of Sean Sabhat (South) and Fergal O'Hanlon, in the I.R.A.'s Border campaign of 1957.

359. SALKELD, Blanaid. Hello, Eternity! London: Elkin, Mathews & Marrot, 1933. pp. 60.

Grey paper boards with original glassine wrapper, title in black on upper cover. Uncut copy. A very good copy. €45 Includes poems 'Terenure', 'Templeogue' and 'Butterfield Lane'.

Blanaid Salkeld (1880-1959) was a poet, dramatist, and actor, whose well-known literary salon was attended by, among others, Patrick Kavanagh and Brian O'Nolan. Her son, Cecil ffrench Salkeld was one of the leading Irish artists of the day; her granddaughter Beatrice married Brendan Behan. 'Hello, Eternity' was reviewed favourably by Samuel Beckett in his 1934 appraisal of 'Recent Irish Poetry' for the 'Bookman'.

WICKLOW AUTHOR 360. SANDFORD, Francis. A Genealogical History of the Kings and Queens of England, and Monarchs of Great Britain, &c. From the Conquest, Anno 1066 to the Year 1707. In seven parts or books. Containing A Discourse of their several Lives, Marriages, and Issues, Times of Birth, Death, Places of Burial, and Monumental Inscriptions. With their Effigies, Seals, Tombs, Cenotaphs, Devises, Arms, Quarterings, Crests, and Supporters, All Engraven in Copper Plates … And continued to this time, with many new sculptures, additions … descents of divers illustrious families … descended from the said monarchs, or from collateral branches of the Royal Blood of England; By Samuel Stebbing, Esq; Somerset Herald. London: Printed by M. Jenour, for John Nicholson at the King's-Arms in Little Britain, and Robert Knaplock at the Bishop's Head in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1707. Second edition. Large folio. pp. [12], 878, [25].

Title in red and black. Modern quarter sprinkled calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on maroon morocco letterpiece on spine with raised bands. A fine copy. €875 Francis Sandford (1630-1694), herald and genealogist, descended from an ancient family seated at Sandford, Shropshire, was born in the castle of Carnew, County Wicklow, in 1630, being the third son of Francis Sandford, Esq., by Elizabeth, daughter of Calcot Chambre of Williamscot, Oxfordshire, and of Carnew. Chambre had come to Ireland during the Stuart confiscations of the 1620s, and in 1636 gave 200 tons of squared oak timbers from his lands for the building of TCD. His father, according to Fuller, was a royalist who was "very well skilled in making warlike fortifications".

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In 1641, on the outbreak of the rebellion in Ireland, the son sought an asylum at Sandford. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated B.A. He was appointed rouge dragon pursuivant in the College of Arms on 6 June 1661. In 1666, when attending the king at Oxford, he studied in the Bodleian Library, and he was appointed Lancaster herald in 1676. Being conscientiously attached to James II, he obtained leave in 1689 to resign his tabard to Gregory King, rouge dragon pursuivant, who paid him 220l. for his office. He then retired to Bloomsbury or its vicinity. He died on in January, 1693-4, "advanced in years, neglected, and poor", in the prison of Newgate, where he had been confined for debt, and was buried in St. Bride's upper churchyard. By his wife Margaret, daughter of William Jokes of Bottington, Montgomeryshire, and widow of William Kerry, he had several children.

The first edition of the magnificent work was published in 1677. It was compiled by the direction and encouragement of Charles II. During a severe illness with which the author was attacked, a part of the text was furnished by Gregory King, who assisted in preparing the work for the press. The plan of the performance is excellent, and the plates are by Hollar and other eminent artists. The present edition was brought out by Samuel Stebbing, Somerset herald. Everything in this edition beyond p. 615 is fresh material; there are fourteen new plates, and the index is greatly enlarged.

DEDICATED TO THE DUKE OF LEINSTER 361. SCALE, Bernard. Tables for the easy Valuing of Estates, from one Shilling to five Pounds per Acre: Also the Parts of an Acre, From three Roods to one Perch. Engraved title and dedication. Dublin: Printed by S. Powell for the author, Sold by G. Faulkner, P & W Wilson … & J. Vallance Booksellers, 1771. pp. [viii], 107, 1 (Advertisement). Engraved title and dedication leaf. Contemporary full calf, title in gilt on maroon morocco letterpiece in second compartment of gilt decorated spine. A fine copy. Very rare. €575 COPAC locates 4 copies only of the printed book. WorldCat 1. Not in Bradshaw.

Bernard Scalè dominated a school of land surveyors in mid-eighteenth century Ireland. He was a foremost student of Rocque, and put the best face on his publication by pointing out how few of his Irish competitors, were qualified to equal it.

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362. SCOTT, David H. The Medical Topography of Queenstown : Being An Examination into the Climate, and the Influence it Exercises on Disease, especially Pulmonary. With Some Notice of the Natural History of the Locality. Cork: Bradford & Company, 1849. pp. [2], vi, 102. Green ribbed cloth, covers framed with a blind Celtic design, title in gilt on spine. From the library of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (Kirkpatrick Bequest), with stamps. Presentation inscription from the author to Edward Hatton on front free endpaper. A very good copy. €1,350 COPAC locates the BL and TCD copies only.

TRINITY COLLEGE PRIZE 363. SCOTT, Sir Walter, Bart. The Lay of the Last Minstrel, A Poem; by Sir. Walter Scott.

The sixteenth edition. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row; and A. Constable and Co. Edinburgh, 1823. pp. 352. Contemporary full polished calf. Badge of Trinity College in gilt on both covers. Trinity Prize label awarded to Henry Jacob Leslie (1827) on front pastedown. Spine divided into six compartments by five raised bands ruled in gilt, title in gilt on blue morocco letterpiece in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt and blind. Slight surface wear to joints and corners and minor worming affecting a few leaves at the end. A very good copy. €225 BOUND BY J.W. HEAPE 364. SEDGWICK, Miss. Clarence; or, A Tale of Our Own Times. Belfast: Simms and M'Intyre, 1846. pp. 382. Bound in contemporary half calf on marbled boards by J.W. Heape, with their yellow engraved rectangular label on front pastedown (Bound by / J.W. Heape / 4 Sth. Anne St. / four doors from Grafton St. / Dublin). Flat spine divided into six compartments by double gilt fillets, title in gilt direct in the second, the remainder tooled with a gilt star. Some wear to extremities. A rare example from this Dublin Bookbinders shop. €125 365. SETTLE, Elkanah. Eusebia Triumphans : The Protestant Succession as now Establish'd, and inviolably Secur'd, by the Happy Union of the Imperial Crowns of Great Britain. An heroick poem. London: Printed for the Author in the Year 1709. Small folio. pp. 73, [1]. Contemporary full calf. Covers tooled in gilt to a panel design enclosing in the centre armorial bearings in gilt.

Upper joint cracked, but firm and holding. In very good condition. Exceedingly rare. €475 COPAC locates 4 copies only. ESTC T086261. Foxon S260.

Elkanah Settle (1648-1724) English poet and playwright was born at Dunstable, and entered Trinity College, Oxford, in 1666, but left without taking a degree. His success as a playwright led to friction with John Dryden which was encouraged by the Earl of Rochester. Through his influence, Settle's Empress of Morocco (1673) was twice performed at Whitehall, and very well received.

From 1700 he initiated what has been called a "successful racket" where he would write occasional poems, typically eulogistic or nuptial verse, have them bound up in notably ostentatious armorial bindings, which he would send to the wealthy person whose arms he used. The economics of the practice are unclear; he may have had them commissioned, or been offering them for sale, or (a subtle distinction) have offered to present them in return for literary patronage in cash or some other form. If the book was returned he would try another patron with a new set of arms, altering personal references as required.

The books were bound for Settle by an unknown binder, whose work is remarkable for being "the only instance in which a particular binder has consistently ornamented a large series of bindings with heraldic designs" outside of Royal binders. The bindings are sufficiently distinctive to be known as Settle bindings. In his old age he kept a booth at Bartholomew Fair, where he is said to have played the part of the dragon in a green leather suit devised by himself. He became a poor brother of the Charterhouse, where he died. Settle is one of the dunces in Alexander Pope's The Dunciad.

A reissue of the 1705 edition, with additional text. p.58 is misnumbered 59. Parallel English and Latin texts; with a Latin titlepage: 'Eusebia triumphans. Carmen succesioni protestantium hæredum ..

Auctore Elkanah Settle', Londini, 1709.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 366. SHAW, James J. Mr. Gladstone's Two Irish Policies: 1868 and 1886. A Letter to an Ulster Liberal Elector. London: Marcus Ward & Co., Ltd., 1888. pp. 40. Grey stapled wrappers. A very good copy. €45 COLLECTED WORKS "THE GREATEST LIVING NOVELIST" - TOLSTOY 367. SHEEHAN, P.A. Canon. The Works of Canon Sheehan of Doneraile in twelve volumes: The Graves at Kilmorna; Luke Delmege; My New Curate; Literary Life; Queen's Fillet; The Blindness of Dr. Grey; A Spoiled Priest; Tristram Lloyd; Glenanaar; Miriam Lucas; Lisheen; and The Triumph of Failure. Dublin: Phoenix, n.d. (c.1930). Fine set in full black buckram. €375 Patrick Augustine Sheehan, priest, poet and novelist was born in Mallow on March 17th 1852. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1875 and his first appointment was as acting chaplain to Dartmoor Prison in Exeter, where the Irish patriot and my fellow Mayoman, Michael Davitt was then interned. In 1895 he was appointed parish priest of Doneraile and there wrote the novels which made his own name and that of his parish famous throughout Europe and the English-speaking world. He was one of the first, if not the greatest, of priest novelists. In an age which produced Hardy, Kipling, Wells and Barrie, his books were bestsellers and were translated into several languages.

Canon Sheehan of Doneraile was styled the 'greatest living novelist' by Tolstoy.

368. [SHOWBAND] Showband Folk and Beat Annual 1968. Profusely illustrated. Dublin: Universal Publishing Company, n.d. (1968). pp. [106]. Colour illustrated boards. A very good copy. Very scarce. €225 With articles on: Miamifever; This Recording Business; 'Bigger they are - easier to handle' by Jimmy Magee; 'A Bandleader Speaks' by Eamonn Keane; The Dance Scene - Past and Present; 'The West's Awake' by Terry Reilly; 'The Folk Scene' by Joe Kennedy; The Cilla Black Story; Tom Jones; The Beatles; Pete Seeger; Danny Doyle; The Dubliners; The Seekers, etc.

369. SIGERSON, George. History of the Land Tenures and Land Classes of Ireland, with an Account of the Various Secret Agrarian Confederacies. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1871. pp. Xiv, 333, [1], 2 (advertisements). Green cloth, titled in gilt. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Covers a trifle dull otherwise a good copy. Very rare. €225 WorldCat 1 only.

George Sigerson [pseud. 'Erionnach'] (1836-1925) was born near Strabane, County Tyrone. Educated at Letterkenny Academy, and Galway and Cork Universities. Married Hester Varian, 1865, and they lived in Dublin. He was Professor of Botany and later Zoology at the Catholic University and lectured at St. Cecilia's School of Medicine, attended by James Joyce (who cites him in Ulysses).

"As an Irish scholar he was the last link that connected us with the era of O'Donovan and O'Curry, and one of the last that connected us with the men of '48, with Kickham and with Mitchel. He had known them all, shared their counsels and aspirations, befriended and sheltered many of them, and could tell of them from the intimacy of close association in a way that was the privilege of no other living person.

He was not the child of any one province; he was all-Ireland, and one might even say cosmopolitan.

Born and reared near Strabane, but with a Kerry ancestry, educated partly in Galway, partly in Cork, and later on in Paris, he typified all the best and broadest and sanest in our race" - Douglas Hyde.

370. SIGERSON, George. Political Prisoners at Home and Abroad. With appendix on dietaries.

With introductory letter by James Bryce, M.P. London: Kegan Paul, 1890. pp. xvi, 223. Maroon pebbled cloth, title in gilt on spine. Covers ruled in black. Owner's initials on front endpaper. Top edge uncut. A fine copy. Very scarce. €275 COPAC locates 5 copies only. WorldCat 4.

Bryce states in his introduction: "I have read the details you give regarding the recent treatment of political prisoners in Ireland as compared with that followed in other countries, not only with interest, but with regret and shame, for I had not know how much the recent practice of the English Government in Ireland falls below that of other countries, and even below that of English authorities 60 years ago ...

There is, however, another ground, and a stronger one, for condemning the methods followed of late years in Ireland. They are not only cruel, they are foolish and impolitic … Experience has amply shown that to treat the political prisoner like the common criminal does not deprive him of the sympathies of those who agree with him politically, but may rather endear him further to them".

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De Búrca Ra re Books 371. SIGERSON, George. Bards of the Gael and Gall. With a preface by Dr. Douglas Hyde.

New York: Lemma, 1974. pp. [iv], xxviii, 432. Green cloth, titled in gilt. A fine copy. €65 The chapters include: Lays of Milesian Invaders; The Cuchulainn Period; The Fionn Period; Ossianic Age of Laminations; The Christian Dawn; Gael and Norse; Gael and Norman; Seventeenth Century; Eighteenth Century - Patriotic; Eighteenth Century - Songs of the Emotions; Folk-Songs, Lullabies, Occupation-Chance, and Mariner's Songs, etc.

372. SIMON, James. An Essay towards an Historical Account of Irish Coins, and of the Currency of Foreign Monies in Ireland, with an Appendix Containing Several Statutes, Proclamations, Patents, Acts of State, and Letters Relating to the Same. By James Simon, of Dublin, Merchant, F.R.S. Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, For the Author, in Fleet-street, 1749.

Quarto. pp. xv, 184, 8, 10 (plates, some folding). Errata at foot of page 184. Modern half calf over marbled boards, title in gilt on red morocco letterpiece on spine. Small surface tear to first page of appendix. Occasional light foxing as usual. An attractive copy. €375 In Wilson's Dublin Directory 1801 James Simon is listed as a Merchant, with his premises at 26 Great Strand Street. This copy has the scarce supplement by Thomas Snelling and additional two plates.

In addition to the Nobility and Gentry of the Realm the list of subscribers included are: Rev. Theo Philus Brocas; Thomas Callaghan; Col. Philip Chenevix; Henry Coghlan; Matthew Concannon; Rev. Charles Congreve; Edmond Costello; Sir Richard Cox; Patrick Darcy; Rev. Patrick Delany; Mrs. Delany; David Latouche; Edward Ledwich; Rev. Samuel Madden; Rev. Richard Pococke; Charles Smith, Dungarvan; Thomas Tower; James Ware, etc.

373. SIMPSON, Robert. The Annals of Derry, Showing the Rise and Progress of the Town from the earliest accounts on Record to the Plantation under King James I - 1613. And thence of the City of Londonderry to the Present Time. With map and illustrations. Londonderry: Hempton, 1847. Small octavo. pp. iv, 5-275. Brown cloth, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's signature. Bookplate stamped in two places: 'Honneur sans Repos' - the motto of the Montgomery family. A very good copy. Scarce. €165 THE NOBLE SIR CHARLES COOTE 374. [S.M.] A Discourse concerning the Rebellion in Ireland, Wherein these following particulars are observable: First, a commemoration of the noble Commander Sir Charles Coot deceased; with some other persons of quality yet living. Secondly, the horridnesse of the Rebellion, is set forth by way of expostulation with the Irish Catholiques. Thirdly, meanes are prescribed both to destroy the growing of Popery in that Kingdom, and to reduce the remaining Irish to conformity with us in Religion and manners. Lastly, advertisements and cautions, touching the present War in agitation; with some other not impertinent observations. By M.S. London: Printed for Richard Lownes, 1642. Quarto. pp. [i], 26. Title within a border of type ornaments. Bound by Riviere in nineteenth century full tree calf, covers framed by triple gilt fillets. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title in gilt on brown morocco letterpiece in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner design; fore-edges and turn-ins gilt; splash-marbled endpapers. Light brown spots to title. Fine. €1,650 Wing S 113. Sweeney 4574. COPAC locates 9 copies. WorldCat 3.

Included is "a commemoration of the noble commander Sir Charles Coot deceased". Amongst the author's various ideas on how the Irish Catholics should be dealt with are the following: "It is necessary to deprive them of all probable meanes whether of armes or places of trust, that they neither dare nor can rebell without infinite disadvantage ... Where their numbers (as in Ireland) doe much exceed the Protestants, I would wish that the generality of the common sort might be kept (like the Gibeonites) in a most severe and strict condition of servitude and vassalage to the English, till time reduce them to conformity with us ... No papist should be suffered to beare any office in Towne or Country ... What taxes, impositions or Customes, which other his Majesties subjects are legally liable to, I wish may be doubled on all Catholiques".

Sir Charles Coote, Bart., first landed in Ireland late in the sixteenth century, as a captain in Mountjoy's army. He was present at the siege of Kinsale, was appointed Provost-Marshal, and afterwards VicePresident of Connaught. In 1620 he was sworn on the Privy Council, and next year was created a baronet. He received large grants of land, principally in Connaught, out of which, at the breaking out of

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the War of 1641, he was, according to Carte, worth ÂŁ4,000 per annum. He raised a considerable body of troops to act against the Irish, and soon distinguished himself. His first action in the war was the relief of the Castle of Wicklow, a service he executed with success. He was hastily recalled by the Lords-Justices to place Dublin in a proper state of defence. On his way, he was attacked by, but routed Luke O'Toole at the head of 1,000 native troops. Carte says Dublin "was but sorrily fortified, for the suburbs, which were large, had no walls about them; and the city wall, having been built about four hundred years, was now very much decayed, and had no flankers on it, nor places where on the garrison might stand to fight. Sir Charles . . was a man of courage and experience, but very rough and sour in his temper, and these qualities of his nature being heightened by a recent sense of the very great damages he had sustained from the rebels in his forges [iron smelting works] and estate, put him upon acts of revenge, violence, and cruelty, which he exercised on all occasions with too little distinction between the innocent and the guilty". He raised the sieges of Swords and other strong places near Dublin, and repelled repeated incursions of the Irish upon the suburbs. His severity and intemperate language at the council board tended to send over many of the Catholic Lords of the Pale to the Confederate Irish. Carte speaks of "his inhuman executions and promiscuous murders of the people in Wicklow;" and his condemnation of Father Higgins, brought to Dublin on safe-conduct by the Marquis of Ormond, is specially animadverted on by the same author. On 10th April 1642 he showed great bravery in the relief of Birr, and other strongholds in the vicinity, and after being forty-eight hours on horseback, returned to his camp without the loss of a man. "This," says Cox in his History, "was the prodigious passage through Montrath woods, which, indeed, is wonderful in many respects, and therefore justly gave occasion for the title of Earl of Montrath to be entailed upon the posterity of Sir Charles Coot, who was the chief commander of this expedition."

Soon after his return to Dublin, he again marched out to the relief of Geashill. Being warned concerning the difficulty of retreating from some difficult passes he entered, he rejoined: "I protest I never thought of that in my life. I always considered how to do my business, and when that was done I got home again as well as I could, and hitherto I have not missed by forcing my way". He next occupied Philipstown, and then Trim. His death, early in May 1642, in the defence of that town, is thus related by Cox: "The Irish, to the number of 3,000, came in the dead of the night to surprise him; but the sentinel gave the alarm, and thereupon Sir Charles Coot, with all the horse he could get, being not above seventeen, issued out of the gate, and was followed by others as fast as they could get ready. The success was answerable to so generous an undertaking, and the Irish were routed, without any other considerable loss on the English side except that of Sir Charles Coot himself, who was shot dead; but whether by the enemy or one of his own troopers is variously reported. Upon his death, the government of Dublin was given to the Lord Lambert".

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De Búrca Ra re Books 375. SMITH, Agnes. The Brides of Ardmore. A Story of Irish life. London: Elliot Stock, 1880. pp. [vi], 393. Green patterned cloth with a shamrock in gilt in centre of upper cover and in blind on lower cover, title in gilt on spine. A little dull, otherwise a very good copy. Rare. €235 COPAC locates 6 copies only.

376. SMITH, Charles Hamilton. Selections of the Ancient Costumes of Great Britain and Ireland from the Seventh to the Sixteenth Century, out of the Collection in the Possession of the Author. With numerous coloured illustrations. London: Printed by William Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare-Press, 1814. Folio. First edition. Folio. Extra hand-coloured pictorial title, engraved dedication and sixty full-page hand-coloured aquatint plates. Bound in contemporary full straight-grained red morocco. Covers tooled in gilt and blind to a panel design, spine divided into six compartments by five wide gilt raised bands, title in gilt direct in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner design; fore-edges and turn-ins gilt. Red endbands, splashmarbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate of Nicholas Toke on front pastedown. Spine and corners professionally restored. Some surface wear to covers. Plates bright and fresh with tissue guards.

All edges gilt. A very good copy. €950 Tooley 455.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 377. SMITH, Charles. The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Waterford.

Containing a natural, civil, ecclesiastical, historical, and topographical description thereof.

Portrait frontispiece of the author. The third edition, edited by Donald Brady. Waterford: County Library, 2008. pp. xxv, 331. Blue paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Edition limited to 600 numbered copies, signed by the editor. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €95 378. SMITH, Daragh. Dissecting Room Ballads from the Dublin Schools of Medicine fifty years ago. With an introduction by Eoin O'Brien. Dublin: The Black Cat Press, 1992. pp. 25.

Green arlen, title in gilt on spine. Edition limited to No. 500 copies (No. 201). A fine copy. €60 Published four years after the author's death. The 'Ballads' capture in an unique way a period of Dublin medical life that has passed into the mists of time. For all their licentiousness these verses from the dead-room express an innocence that cannot be submerged in their content.

379. SMITH, Raymond. The Football Immortals. A comprehensive history of Gaelic Football.

Illustrated. Dublin: Bruce Spicer, 1968. pp. 382. Pictorial wrappers. Author's signature on front free endpaper. A very good copy. Scarce. €45 380. SMITHSON, Annie M.P. Nora Connor. A Romance of Yesterday. Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1945. pp. 222. Maroon paper boards, title in black on spine. Printed bookplate of D.M. Skelly, on front free endpaper. A very good copy. Scarce. €30 Annie M.P. Smithson (1873-1948), was born in Sandymount and educated in Dublin and Liverpool.

She trained as a nurse and midwife and from 1929 to 1942 she was organiser and Secretary of the Irish Nurses Organisation. Born to a Protestant family, following a broken romance she became a Catholic.

On discovering that her father had been a Fenian involved in the 1867 Rising she became strongly Nationalist and Republican. During the Civil War she was involved in the dramatic siege of Moran's Hotel.

381. SMITHSON, Annie M.P. Wicklow Heather. Dublin & Cork: The Talbot Press, 1943.

Third edition. pp. 250. Green paper boards. A very good copy. Scarce. €45 382. SPENSER, Edmund. The Shepheardes Calender. Conteyning Twelve Aeglogues Proportionable to the Twelve Monethes. Entitled To the noble and vertuous Gentleman most worthy of all titles both of learning and chevalrie Maister Philip Sidney. Coloured title and twelve coloured vignettes by John Nash. London: The Cresset Press, 1930. pp. xxiii, 133, 1 (limitation). Folio. With colour illustrated half title. This edition was printed on Barcham green handmade paper, the text was printed in sixteen-point lino type Granjon old face. Edition limited to 350 copies (No. 92). Armorial bookplate of Haughton on front free endpaper. Quarter vellum on white linen, with minor wear and soiling. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. €275 The typeface used in this work is named after Robert Granjon, the great French type cutter and printer of the sixteenth century. The illustrations by Mr. John Nash have been coloured in the stencil process by the Curwen Press, London.

383. STANNUS, Mrs. Graydon. Old Irish Glass. New edition: revised and enlarged. Illustrated. London: The Connoisseur, 1921. Quarto. pp. [vii], 15, 60 (plates). Worn linen with colour illustration of glass mounted and title on upper cover and in gilt on spine. Internally a very good copy. Scarce. €65 384. STEPHAN, Enno. Spies in Ireland. Translated from the German by Arthur Davidson. With illustrations and map.

London: Macdonald, 1963. pp. xiii, 311. Green cloth, title in silver on spine. A very good copy. Scarce. €50 A thorough and well documented study of the German espionage effort in Ireland during World War II, is based on conversations which the author has had with the surviving protagonists, both Irish and German; on official sources, such as the telegrams between the German Foreign Minister and the German Ambassador in Ireland; and on the entries in the logbook of the German Abwehr (Military Espionage).

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De Búrca Ra re Books SIGNED PRESENTATON COPY 385. STEPHENS, James. Reincarnations. London: Macmillan, 1918. First edition. pp. viii, 66.

Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and on spine. Signed presentation copy from James Stephens to Alice and Harry Lappin. Previous owner's signature on titlepage, on front free endpaper and on upper cover. A very good copy. Scarce. €125

386. STEVENSON, Burton E. The Charm of Ireland. With many illustrations from photographs from the author and folding itinerary map. London: Murray, 1915. pp. [xiii], 576. Green cloth, title in black on upper cover and in gilt on spine. A very good copy. See illustration above. €75 387. STOKER, Bram. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, 2 Whitehall Gardens, 1897. pp. x, 392, 16. Later issue of the first edition with advert for 'The Shoulder of Shasta' on page 392, followed by a 16 page catalogue dated 1898. A very good copy in original yellow cloth with author and title printed in red on both covers and spine. €4,850

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De Búrca Ra re Books Bram [Abraham] Stoker (1847-1912), novelist and theatre manager was born in Dublin. Stoker inherited his love of the theatre from his father and while working as a civil servant he was the unpaid drama critic of The Evening Mail. He was responsible for the great success of Henry Irving's visit to Dublin in 1876 and two years later left Dublin and took up the position of secretary, business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, a post which he held for thirty years.

He supplemented his income by writing a large number of sensational novels, his most famous being the vampire tale Dracula which he published in 1897. Before writing Dracula, Stoker spent eight years researching European folklore and stories of vampires. Dracula is an epistolary novel, written as collection of diary entries, telegrams, and letters from the characters, as well as fictional clippings from the Whitby and London newspapers.

Dracula has been the basis for countless films and plays, the most notable of recent times being that starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. Legal action followed the first film production. Florence, Stoker's widow, was neither asked for permission nor paid any royalty. Eventually the matter was resolved in her favour in 1925.

Stoker wrote several other novels dealing with horror and supernatural themes, but none of them achieved the lasting fame or success of Dracula. His other novels include The Snake's Pass (1890), The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903), and The Lair of the White Worm (1911).

Dracula tells the story of a vampire Count, pursued relentlessly by those who would see him destroyed.

Written in diary format, the story begins with Jonathan Harker, a solicitor, being summoned to Dracula's palace in Transylvania under the guise of helping the Count secure property in London.

While there, he learns Dracula's terrible secret, and Harker decides, with help from few other characters, to kill the Count.

388. STOKER, Bram. Dracula. Seán Ó Cuirrín do chuir i nGaedhilg. Baile Átha Cliath: Oifig Díolta Foill. Rialtais, 1933. pp. 450. Grey cloth, title in black on upper cover and spine. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. A very good copy. Very rare in dust jacket. €575 This translation into Irish of Dracula is published with the kind permission of Mrs. Bram Stoker.

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389. SWAN, Harry P. Romantic Inishowen. Ireland's wonderful peninsula. A conspectus of information and descriptive articles relating to the Barony of Inishowen, County Donegal.

Illustrated. Dublin: Hodges Figgis, 1947. First edition. pp. 160. Quarter blue linen on paper boards, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Previous owner's signature and bookplate on front free endpaper. A very good copy in torn dust jacket. €75 LIMITED TO 250 COPIES ONLY 390. SWEENEY, Tony. Ireland and the Printed Word. A short descriptive catalogue of early books, pamphlets, newsletters and broadsides relating to Ireland, printed: 1475-1700. Illustrated.

Dublin: De Búrca, 1997. pp. 1000. Folio. Full maroon buckram, title in gilt. Illustration inset on upper cover. Limited edition of 250 copies only. Inscribed presentation copy from the author. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €675 With over 5,700 entries this book was published on November 20th 1997, to coincide with the 500th anniversary of the first edition of the first book by an Irish author who wrote for the printing press, rather than the scriptorium. Maurice O'Fihely (Mauritius de Portu) the founding father of 'Irish Writing' was censor to the Press of Octavianus Scotus in Venice.

WITH HARRY CLARKE'S SIGNATURE AND ANNOTATIONS 391. 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. Top edge gilt. Unique item. €285 Synge's poem Queens was the basis for a series of nine stained glass panels by Clarke.

THOMAS FRENCH OF MOYCULLEN'S COPY 392. TAYLOR, G. & SKINNER, A. Taylor and Skinner's Maps of the Roads of Ireland, Surveyed in 1777. With large folding map of Ireland and 289 road maps. List of subscribers.

Published for the authors as the Act directs 14 Nov. 1778. Sold by G. Nichol, Strand; I. Murray, Fleet-Street, London and by W. Wilson, No. 6, Dame-Street, Dublin. Royal octavo. pp. xvi, 288, 16 (List of Subscribers). Contemporary signature Thomas French of Moycullen, County Galway on verso of titlepage, with an ink drawing of the family crest. Some offsetting and browning, titlepage dusted. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards. A good copy. €850 Martin J. Blake states that John French Fitz Stephen was given 2,200 acres by the Cromwellian Commissioners, at Moycullen, County Galway, as a transplanted person. His son Thomas was confirmed in his possession by patent under the Acts of Settlement. Four generations of Frenchs held this estate until the death of Thomas French of Moycullen in the early 1780s. He is recorded as residing at Moycullen on the Taylor and Skinner map (p.90). The French's Moycullen estate was sold following a law suit after the death of Thomas. At least some of the estate was in the possession of Andrew Henry Lynch in 1851 when he sold it to Lord Campbell.

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De Búrca Ra re Books Taylor & Skinner produced the only strip road maps of Scotland and Ireland generally available. Their maps were well engraved and included a wealth of detail. Their Maps of the Roads of Ireland was published in 1778 at a price of £1 4s. Both men afterwards served with the army in America, in their capacity as surveyors.

An essential work for the students of eighteenth century Ireland, especially those interested in the landed gentry and their seats.

393. TEMPLE, Sir John, Kt. The Irish Rebellion: or, an History of the beginnings and first progress of the General Rebellion, raised within the Kingdom of Ireland, upon the three and twentieth day of October, 1641. Together with the Barbarous Cruelties and Bloody Massacres which ensued thereupon. Publish'd in the year 1646. By Sir John Temple ... within the Kingdom of Ireland. To which is added, Sir Henry Tichborne's History of the siege of Drogheda, in the year 1641. As also, the whole tryal of Connor Lord Mac-Guire, with the perfect Copies of the Indictment, and all the Evidences against him. Together with the Pope's Bull to the Confederate Catholicks in Ireland. Engraved frontispiece depicting the barbarous cruelties. Dublin: Printed by and for Aaron Rhames, 1724. Quarto. pp. xvi, 245. Titlepage in red and black. In three parts, the second, 'A letter of Sir Henry Tichborne to his lady', and the third, 'The whole tryal of Connor Lord Mac-Guire', with separate titlepages; pagination and register are continuous. Nineteenth century half calf on marbled boards. Title in gilt on red morocco label in second compartment of spine. Engraved bookplate of David Whelan on front free endpaper; armorial bookplate of the Earl of Clarendon on front pastedown. Paper repair to titlepage, frontispiece and to margin of two leaves at end. Unobtrusive water stain to a few leaves, corners lightly bumped. A very good copy. Rare. €950

ESTC T136591.

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De Búrca Ra re Books John Temple (1600-77), master of the rolls in Ireland, first published this work in 1646. The book caused a great sensation, supposedly written by an eye-witness to the events, and did much to inflame hatred and bigotry in England against the Irish, and thereby justifying Cromwell's later harsh treatment of them. When the 1679 edition appeared, it infuriated the Irish so much, that it was condemned by their Parliament to be burnt by the Common Hangman in Dublin. This partisan work, written in the Parliamentarian interest, for the purpose of holding up the native Irish to execration for attempting to regain their lands, of which they had been dispossessed by force, forms the standard authority of most of the English writers on those times, and frequently reprinted with the object of exciting, through a sectarian medium, political and religious animosities. "The falsehoods it contains", says Dr. John Curry, "are so glaring and numerous, that even the Government, in the year 1674, seems to have been offended at, and the author himself ashamed of the republication of it".

394. THACKERAY, William M. The Irish Sketch-Book 1842. With an introduction by John A. Gamble. Illustrated. Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1985. pp. xiii, 368. Blue paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Presentation inscription on front free endpaper. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. €35 William Makepeace Thackeray, the celebrated author, was born in India of English parents. His wife Isabella Shaw, whom he met in Paris was from Doneraile in County Cork, and a relative, Elias Thackeray was Vicar of Dundalk. A master of irony and wit, he began his tour of Ireland in 1842. The book is a masterpiece, cleverly written and gives a straightforward account of Ireland as it appeared to the observing intelligent traveller before the Great Famine.

395. [THE IRISH GENEALOGIST] Official Organ of the Irish Genealogical Research Society. Vol.1 No.1, 1937 to Vol.12, No. 4, 2009. Eighty issues. Complete run in original parts as issued including two volumes of indices. London & Gillingham: 1937/2009. Quarto. Yellow wrappers, title and contents printed on upper cover. €2,350 The destruction in 1922 of the records deposited in the Four Courts, Dublin had rendered exceedingly difficult the task of tracing the descent of Irish families. Since that appalling event, great efforts were made by those interested in Irish genealogy to fill this gap by collecting copies of abstracts of Wills, Parochial Records, Chancery Proceedings and other documents known to have been made before the originals were destroyed. At a meeting held in the office of York Herald at the College of Arms, London, on September 13th, 1936, it was decided to found the 'Irish Genealogical Research Society', devoted exclusively to Irish family history and genealogy. The Society has remained in existence and still flourishes, having a wide appeal to those of Irish descent throughout the world.

396. THOMAS HIBERNICUS. Flores Omnium Fere Doctorum. Venetiis: ad Signum Spei 1550. 16mo. 542 leaves. Roman letter, italic side notes, woodcut printer's device. Later vellum parchment, titled in ink on spine. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €675 COPAC locates the Cambridge and Edinburgh copies only. WorldCat 4. This edition not located in Sweeney.

This work consists of extracts from classical and patristic literature arranged in alphabetical order according to subject. The most frequently reprinted 16th century title by an author whose Irishness is beyond question. Richard and Mary Rouse in their most detailed bibliographical analysis of Thomas Hibernicus Preachers, Florilegia and Sermons locates twenty-six printings between 1550 and 1596 and suggested that there were probably another seven that could be added to the list. The places of publication are named as Venice, Lyons, Paris, Antwerp and Cologne. They also state that Guillaume Rouillé commissioned a work compiled on the same basis and variously titled Flores Bibliae or Flores Bibliorum, (first published Lyons, 1554). This appeared anonymously and was first attributed to Thomas Hibernicus by John Steele's widow in Antwerp thirteen years later, even though it lacked any medieval provenance.

The Rouses uncovered a confusion perpetrated by Sir James Ware in which three different individuals were fused into a single writer. The first, a Franciscan, Thomas Hibernicus who died in the convent of Aquila in Abruzzi circa 1270; the second, a secular priest, Thomas Hibernicus, with University of Sorbonne connections, who died between 1329 and 1338; the third a Dominican, Thomas of Palmerstown, who was Prior Provincial of his Order in the closing years of the 14th century and died no earlier than 1415. Tony Sweeney in Ireland and the Printed Word following the Rouses, states that the second of these is the real author and someone who achieved renown throughout Europe as the large number of extant manuscripts indicates. The Rouses show that Thomas drew upon two Cistercian florilegia in compiling the Manipulus Florum, and that his organisation of material helped it to succeed in a crowded market. "This combined" they said, "the advantages of alphabeticised index and of topical 112

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Thomas de Hibernia or Hibernicus flourished between 1306 and 1316. He studied at Paris where he became a Fellow of the Sorbonne, and took the degree of Bachelor of Theology about 1306. He was neither a Franciscan nor Dominican but has been called both. In his will he bequeathed '16l.' to the Sorbonne along with copies of his own works and many other books. His name is mentioned seven times in the Sorbonne Catalogue of 1338, and some of his books are now in the Bibliotheque Nationale - DNB. Since the Rouses' extensive research in 1979 the importance of this work has been greatly enhanced thanks to the scholarship of Ann Moss in her work: Printed Commonplace-Books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought, published by the Clarendon Press in Oxford. The author reveals that "One Florilegium (and one only) took on a new lease of life in the sixteenth century, developing and expanding and contributing to future generations of commonplace-books. The book which made the successful transition was the 'Manipulus Florum' composed by Thomas of Ireland at Paris in 1306 …

Of all the medieval Florilegia it was the 'Manipulus Florum' which converted most easily to commonplace-book. It was also the one which answered and continued to answer the specific needs of a large community of users".

397. [TRADE CARD] Trade Card for Gibbons & Williams's Public Notaries and Stockbrokers, 38 Dame Street, Dublin. Printed by Allen Lithographers, Dame Street. In fine condition. €125 On verso of the card, dated 7/9th September, 1831, written in ink by Edward Vernon, Esq., M.D. are details of stocks he sold to the value of £125. Gibbons & Williams were also bankers in Dublin with their premises at 39 Dame Street, next door to their Stock Broking business.

398. [TRADE LABEL] Trade Label of John J. Hall's Watch, Clock & Time Piece Maker. 9 College Street, Dublin. Engraved circular label (44mm in diameter). In very good condition. €75 399. [TRADE LABEL] Trade Label of Robt. Neill, Watch and Clock Maker. Jeweller & Silversmith, Belfast. Engraved circular label (46mm in diameter). In very good condition. €75 400. TROLLOPE, Anthony. Castle Richmond: A novel. London: Chapman & Hall, 1861. New edition. pp. [2], iv, 440, [2]. With a half-title and a final advertisement leaf. Original beige coloured cloth with title in black and red printed on front cover and spine. Advertisement on front pastedown and at end. Brown to cloth, wear to corners and spine ends, stamp of Dublin Bookshop on front pastedown. Some minor spotting to prelims, otherwise a good copy. €95 COPAC locates 4 copies only. WorldCat 1. Loeber T 132.

In this story of the Irish famine, Trollope opens the novel by attacking the common misconception of the Irish: "That there is a strong feeling against things Irish it is impossible to deny. Irish servants need not apply; Irish acquaintances are treated with limited confidence; Irish cousins are regarded as being decidedly dangerous; and Irish stories are not popular with the booksellers. For myself, I may say that I ought [to know] anything about any place, I ought to know something about Ireland; and I do strongly protest against the injustice of the above conclusions".

Set around Mallow, County Cork during the Famine years, which are described in harrowing detail, the novel contrasts the lives of two Irish families, one of which has hung onto the old Gaelic traditions, and the other who has become more English.

SIGNED BY HILTON EDWARDS 401. USSHER, Arland. The Magic People. London: Victor Gollancz, 1950. pp. 158. Faded black cloth, title in ink on recent white labels on spine. Corner of front free endpaper cut off.

Signature of the theatre director Hilton Edwards dated at Dublin 1961 on front free endpaper.

Spine faded, some minor spotting to fore-edge, otherwise a good copy. €60

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De Búrca Ra re Books 402. WADDELL, Helen. Beasts and Saints. Translations by Helen Waddell. Woodcuts by Robert Gibbings. London: Constable, 1934. Quarto. xx, 151. Red cloth with woodcut in black on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front free endpaper. Cloth a little faded, otherwise a very good copy. €45 403. WALKER, J. & A. A New and Improved Map of Ireland compiled from the most recent Surveys and Adjusted by Numerous Astronomical Observations. Scale in English and Irish miles.

London and Liverpool: J & A. Walker, 1827. Hand-coloured linen-backed map, 520 x 670mm.

In very good condition. €275 RARE CORK ITEM 404. WALLER, John Francis. Inauguration Ode: Performed at the Opening of The National Exhibition of the Arts, Manufacturers, and Materials of Ireland, Cork, 10th June, 1852. Written

by John Francis Waller, M.R.I.A. Composed by Robert P. Stewart. Cork: J.J. Bradford & Dublin: James M'Glashan, 1852. Quarto. pp. [vi], 31. Title and ode within a double red ruled border and music within a decorated border by W.M. Morison, Lithographer. Quarter linen on illustrated boards. Signed presentation copy from the composer Robert P. Stewart to his friend T.C. Fitzgerald dated July 9th, 1856. Mild water stain, minor wear to corners. A very good copy of an exceedingly rare item. €475 COPAC locates 4 copies only.

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De BĂşrca Ra re Books HARRY CLARKE ILLUSTRATED SIGNED LIMITED EDITION IN FULL VELLUM 405. [WALTERS, L.D'O.] 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: Harrap, 1920. First edition. Quarto. pp. 128. Edition limited to 250 copies; signed and numbered (27) by Harry Clarke. Fine copy in full vellum with illustration of a girl in a diaphanous dress by Clarke stamped in gilt on upper cover; title, author, illustrator and lozengeshaped design of tendrils in gilt on spine. Very rare. â‚Ź2,650

Steenson A3.a 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.

The published price in 1920 was 5 guineas.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 406. [WATSON, Joseph] The Last and Best Newes from Ireland: Declaring First the warlike and cruell proceeding of the rebels who are all papists and Jesuits of that kingdome.

Secondly, the entrance of some English and Scottish companies into the north-parts of Ireland under the command of these foure noblemen; the Lord Grandison, the Lord Chichester, the Lord Conway, the Lord Cromwell, also the late incounters which they have had with those rebels.

Thirdly, how the rebels would have fired and burnt up the city of Dublin with wild-fire: and likewise the taking of some Irish Lords and other commanders prisoners, both of horse and foot.

Fourthly, divers letters from severall persons of good worth in Ireland touching the cruell proceedings of the rebells to this very day.

Fifthly, Irelands complaint, and Englands reliefe sent by the honorable house of parliament to ayde and assist their brethren; together with the names of those commanders that are appointed for this religious designe.

Sixthly, the proclamation made by the Lords and Justices of Ireland. London: Printed for F. Coules and T. Bates, 1641. Quarto. pp. [8]. Engraved titlepage. Bound by Mackenzie in full green morocco. Covers framed by a wide gilt roll, fore-edges and turn-ins gilt. Spine divided into six compartments by five raised bands, title in gilt on maroon morocco letterpiece in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner design. Comb-marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Some minor spotting. A fine copy. Exceedingly rare. €2,750

Sweeney 2729. Wing L 470 COPAC locates 6 copies only. WorldCat5.

A highly unusual woodcut decorates the opening page of this very early account of the commencement of the rebellion of 1641. It is surely of significance that in between proclamations and letters is to be found a highly coloured account of wild-fire: "About the dead time of Thursday night being the 11. of Nov. 500 of them or thereabouts, came out of the caves in the Earth, with balls of Wild-fire in their hands, casting and tossing them over the City Walls of Dublin. There were five houses burnt downe thereby equal to the ground and the fire took hold of many other houses, but (as it was God's great mercy) they were suddainly quenched by the great labour of the people". The writer's suggestion that an English merchant, whose house was burnt, lost most of his estate worth "no lesse than £35,000" sounds suspiciously like a dodgy insurance claim. Includes a letter from Mr. Joseph Watson, Merchant in Dublin, to Mr. Waterhouse, Citizen of London in which he relates the Papist rebellion and how they tried to take the Castle.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 407. WATT, J.A. MORALL, J.B. & MARTIN, F.X. Ed. by. Medieval Studies Presented to Aubrey Gwynn, S.J. Foreword by Michael Tierney (President U.C.D.). Illustrated with portrait frontispiece, folding map and plates. Dublin: Printed by Colm O Lochlainn at the Sign of the Three Candles, 1961. pp. xii, 509. Red paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Ex lib. Kimmage Manor with stamps. With glassine wrapper. Scarce. €65 Presented as a tribute to Rev. Prof. Aubrey Gwynn S.J. on his retirement as Professor of Medieval History. With various historical contributions by leading scholars of their day. In three parts, dealing with Ireland, England and Europe; and includes essays on Norman Monastic Foundations in Ireland; The Rebellious First Earl of Desmond; The English Bishops 1070-1532 and Pope Lucius III, and the Bigamous Archbishop of Palermo.

408. [WHATELY, Richard] Easy Lessons on Money Matters : For the Use of Young People.

Published under the Direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, Appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian knowledge.

Illustrated with woodcuts after Thomas Bewick.

London: John W. Parker, West Strand, 1833. First edition. 12mo. pp. xvii, [13]-86, [2]. Original cloth, title on printed label on spine. A very good copy.

Exceedingly rare. See illustration opposite. €175 COPAC locates 3 copies only.

Authorship attributed to Richard Whately, in the catalogue of the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books, 1566-1910.

409. WHEELER, H.A. & CRAIG, M.J. The Dublin City Churches of the Church of Ireland. An illustrated handbook. Dublin: A.P.C.K. 1948. pp.

48, 16 (plates). Red wrappers. Very scarce. €35 Maurice Craig wrote in Notes on my Books: "Henry and I wrote this for our satisfaction and were pleased when APCK accepted it, complete with a clause about film and musical rights in the contract. It was rather indifferently produced, especially in contrast to The Legacy of Swift".

THE MULLET & INISKEAS 410. WHITE, T.H. The Godstone and The Blackymor. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.

London: The Reprint Society, 1960. pp. 224. Maroon cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in frayed pictorial dust jacket. €45 The quest for the Godstone (naomh óg) around the Mullet and Iniskeas.

IN FINE CALDWELL BINDING 411. WICKLOW, Earl of. Illuminated Address to The Right Honourable The Earl of Wicklow.

Presented to him by the Tenants of his Lordships Estate in the County of Wicklow: "Take the earliest opportunity of offering our best congratulations on your victorious and well merited triumph over the attempt made to deprive your Lordship of your lawful and hereditary rights".

Magnificently illuminated by J. Hopkins of Dublin, 1870. A quarto album bound by Matthew Caldwell of Dublin in full brown morocco to a grolieresque style. Covers decorated by a double gilt fillet border and dotted triangular roll surrounding a magnificent binding with red, brown, and blue onlays; sunken rectangular panel incorporating four circular corners with onlays of red, brown and blue morocco to a geometrical diamond shaped design in centre; fore-edges and turnins gilt; water-silk pastedowns. Corners decorated with pearls. All edges gilt. Housed in a fine full leather box, covered in brown morocco, title in gilt within decorated border on upper cover.

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The illuminations are of the highest standard executed by G. Hopkins, 39 Great Brunswick Street, Dublin: Embellished with eight finely hand-illuminated pages all decorated with flowers, foliage leaves and scrolls in an assortment of wonderful colours with beautiful foliate borders including: The Earl of Wicklow's coat-of-arms; Decorated title dated June 1870; four pages of address - the initial one with a fine watercolour of Shelton Abbey; tenants signatures; illuminators name and business address.

Ramsden records Caldwell residing at 31 Frederick Street South in 1846. Caldwell was a prize-winner for his innovative binding exhibited at the Irish International Exhibition, held in Dublin in 1865.

For close on three hundred years, the Howard family held court at Shelton Abbey outside Arklow.

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From the outset they were an unusual clan with a tremendous penchant for the arts. Hugh Howard emerged as one of the great collectors of the early eighteenth century while his brother acquired the great library of Lord Chancellor West. The Howards were equally adept at collecting wealthy wives.

Marriages with the Boleyns, Forwards, Arnolds, Darnleys, Charlemonts, Powerscourts and Abercorns ensured their position in high society. Created Viscounts in 1776 and subsequently elevated to the Earldom, four sons of the family sat as Representative Peers between 1800 and 1905. The 7th Earl was a Senator in the Irish Free State and the last Countess sat in the Irish Seanad in 1948. The family's 119

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artistic bent was emphasized by friendship with the hymn-writer Fanny Alexander and the preRaphaelite poet, Dante Rossetti. Protestant by birth but often Catholic by persuasion, the family was caught up in one of the most extraordinary legal battles of Victorian times (see following item). In the last century, Billy Wicklow was one of Evelyn Waugh's great friends and a renowned figure in Dublin society. His cousin Lady Katherine Howard established a charitable foundation and was the last of the Howards. See The Landed Gentry & Aristocracy of County Wicklow by Turtle Bunbury.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 412. WICKLOW, Earl of. Minutes of Evidence taken before the Committee for Privileges on the Earl of Wicklow's claim to vote for Representative Peers for Ireland. London: Ordered to be printed 22d June, 1869. Folio. pp. 529. Recent buckram. A very good copy. Scarce. €245 In this petition, the Right Honourable Charles Francis Arnold, Earl of Wicklow, Viscount Wicklow, and Baron Clonmore sought his right to vote at the elections of Peers for Ireland to sit in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Another petition purporting to be that of the Earl of Wicklow in the Peerage of Ireland, an infant of the age of five years, by Ellen Howard, widow, his mother and guardian, praying their Lordships that he may be allowed to appear and be heard before their Lordships and before the Committee for Privileges, in opposition to the before-mentioned Petition.

413. WILDE, Sir William R. Lough Corrib, Its Shores and Islands: with notices of Lough Mask. Illustrated with numerous wood engravings by Wakeman, Rogers, Lover, Wilde, et al.

Dublin: MacGlashan, 1872. Second edition. Small quarto. pp. x, 306. Green blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine with shamrock motif. From the library of St. Ignatius, Lower Leeson Street, with three stamps. A very good copy. €275 Sir William Wilde (1815-1876), surgeon, antiquarian and topographical writer, was born at Kilkeevin, County Roscommon, the son of Dr. Thomas Wilde and his wife, Emily Fynne, a native of Ballymagibbon, near Cong, County Mayo. He had a successful private practice specialising in eye and ear treatment, and opened an Ophthalmic Hospital and Dispensary for Diseases of the Eye and Ear in 1844. In November 1851, Wilde married Jane Francesca Elgee ('Speranza' of The Nation), with whom he had three children, among them Oscar Wilde.

414. WOOD, Michael. The Saint and the Outlaw and Other Stories. London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1904. pp. 236, 4. Publisher's green pictorial cloth, title in black on upper cover and along spine. Some spotting to titlepage, otherwise a very good copy. €135

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De BĂşrca Ra re Books Michael Wood was the pseudonym of Joy Hooper who was a regular contributor to the Theosophical Review. This collection of thirteen tales blend religious mysticism with the turn of the century vogue for rural folklore and legend, (itself an offshoot of the Arts & Crafts desire to return to a more fulfilling and wise era in the history of the isles). The tales have been praised for their vivid vitality, and their ability to convey the incommunicable mysticism of existence. The short stories are entitled : The Saint and The Outlaw, The Dream Garden, "Lox", The House of Hate, The Fool and the Folk of Peace, The Prince and The Water Gates, The Way of the Herb Gatherer, The Land of Marvellous Night, The Sinner's Requiem, The Preacher, The Teller of Drolls, The Guardian of the City, The Tumultuous Shadows.

415. [WYNNE FAMILY CASTLEBAR] A Collection of sixty photographic postcards of members of the Wynne family of Castlebar, County Mayo 1893-1931. â‚Ź585

In 1861 Thomas J Wynne set up his business in Castlebar, selling books and newspapers. At first he was in Castle Street, and then moved to Main Street, where the business was to remain open for more than a century. Six years later in 1867, he opened his photographic studio. Thomas is thought to have been born in America, and while the identity of his father remains unknown, his mother was the daughter of Richard McEvilly from Ballyglass. The young Thomas probably acquired his photographic skills in America before making his way back to Ireland.

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Included in this collection are: A portrait photograph of Thomas J. Wynne and another of him standing beside Richard McEvilly of Ballyglass; twelve varied portrait photographs of Richard J. Wynne youngest son of Thomas between 1897-1906. Richard took over the business when his father died in 1893. Other photographs include the towns people. There are fifteen photographic cards with images of Misses Martha and Teresa Wynne. There are an assortment of other photographs depicting images of family members, children, and one of five people on a horse and trap with Thomas standing beside them. There are five postcards addressed to Wynne's Photographers - one from a Sergeant Malone of the Connaught Rangers regarding photographs; a Christmas greeting card from Newark, U.S.A. in 1913 plus a card from Richard's daughter, Carmel saying "she likes Dublin too much to leave it too soon". Other images include that of Arthur and Betty as children in May, 1914; Arthur and Gussie in August, 1925, etc.

The collection of postcard size photographs provides a unique record of this large Mayo family spanning over 50 years.

416. WYNNE, George Robert. The Light of the City. Short Chapters on some Principles, Duties and Trials of Spiritual Life. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers and Walker, 1897. Octavo. pp. viii, 182, [1]. Cream cloth, with decoration in gilt on upper cover. Owner's inscription on half-title. A fine copy. Exceedingly rare. €165 COPAC locates 3 copies only.

SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY TO THOMAS McGREEVY 417. YEATS, Jack B. Ah Well. A Romance in Perpetuity. Frontispiece illustration by the author.

London: Routledge, 1942. First edition. pp. 89, [3]. Quarter black cloth on green paper boards.

Signed presentation copy from the author to Thomas MacGreevy, dated October 15, 1942. A fine copy in dust jacket. €285 This a tale of a small town, where no one ever spoke the truth but all thought about it.

SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY TO THOMAS McGREEVY 418. YEATS, Jack B. And To You Also. Illustrated with twenty-two pages of drawings by Jack B. Yeats. London: Routledge, 1944. First edition. pp. 148. Quarter black cloth on green paper boards. Signed presentation copy from the author to Thomas MacGreevy, dated October 10, 1944. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €285 The illustrations are fine examples of Yeats' late style.

419. [YEATS, John B.] The Dreams of Dania. By Frederick Langbridge. With five illustrations

by John B. Yeats. London: James Bowden, 1897. pp. viii, 309, 2 (publisher's list). Green ribbed cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. From the library of Bethel Solomons with his decorative bookplate on front pastedown. A very good copy. Scarce. €175 123

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THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED AT THE CUALA PRESS 420. YEATS, W.B. & JOHNSON, L. Poetry and Ireland: Essays. Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1908. pp. [ii], 54. Text printed in red and black. Quarter cream linen on blue paper boards. Wear to spine. A very good copy. €225 Wade 242. Miller XII.

HESTER TRAVERS SMITH'S COPY 421. YEATS, W.B. The Wild Swans at Coole. London: Macmillan, 1919. First edition. pp. ix, 114. Dark blue cloth with design in gilt by Sturge Moore. Hester Travers Smith's copy with her bookplate on front pastedown. A very good copy. €475 Wade 124.

Contains the first publication, in book form, of the poems in memory of Major Robert Gregory.

In addition to the 29 poems first published in the Yeats' sisters limited Cuala Press, Dundrum edition in 1917, this edition of The Wild Swans at Coole includes the first book appearances of "In Memory of Major Robert Gregory" and "An Irish Airman foresees his Death", two of Yeats's most important poems, both concerning the death of the son of Lady Augusta Gregory, Yeats's patroness and the chatelaine of Coole Park. The collection also includes the title poem, "The Collar Bone of a Hare", "Upon a Dying Lady", "Broken Dreams", "Ego Dominus Tuus", "Phases of the Moon", "The Scholars", and "To A Young Beauty".

Hester Dowden (1868-1949), or Hester Travers Smith, was an Irish spiritualist medium who is most notable for having claimed to contact the spirits of Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare and other writers. Dowden's spirit-communications were published by various authors. She wrote Voices from the Void (1919), an account of her life as a medium, and Psychic Messages from Oscar Wilde (1923).

Dowden was the daughter of the distinguished Shakespearian scholar, Professor Edward Dowden. She used both her maiden name and her married name Hester Travers Smith. Her husband was a prominent Dublin physician. Dowden was closely linked to the Irish literary world through her father, knowing, among others W.B. Yeats and Bram Stoker. She was probably the model for the medium in Yeats's play, The Words upon the Window Pane. Her daughter married the playwright Lennox Robinson.

Though she wrote only two books under her own name, her spirit-communications provided the basis for approximately twelve books published by other authors.

422. YEATS, William Butler. Seven Poems and a Fragment. With woodcut on titlepage by Sturge Moore. Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1922. First edition. pp. [iv], 25. Quarter linen on grey paper boards, title printed in black on upper cover. Edition limited to 500 copies. A very good €175 copy. Wade 132 Miller 32. Very scarce.

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SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY 423. YEATS, W.B. Later Poems. New York: Macmillan, 1924. pp. Xiii, [1], 363. Green blindstamped cloth designed by Charles Ricketts. Title in gilt on spine; white end-papers with design of Unicorn. Signed on front endpaper 'T. MacGreevy yours WB Yeats / April, 24 1924'. All edges untrimmed. A very good copy in very good price-clipped dust jacket. €1,375 Wade 135.

The contents includes: The Wild Swans at Coole; An Irish Airman Foresees his Death; The Song of Wandering Aengus; The Fiddler of Dooney; At Galway Races; Red Hanrahan's Song, etc., etc.

424. 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 blueish-grey boards, title printed in black on upper cover and on paper label along spine. Edition limited to 450 copies. A fine copy. Very scarce. €275 ABRAHAM BRADLEY KING BINDING 425. [YORKE, Hon. Philip, Earl of Hardwicke & Others] Athenian Letters; or, the Epistolary Correspondence of An Agent of the King of Persia, Residing at Athens during the Peloponnesian War. Containing The History of the Times ... Besides Letters on various Subjects between Him and his Friends. Two volumes. Dublin: John Archer, No. 80, Dame-Street, 1792. pp. (1) xlvi, 397, (2) xxxi, [1], 525, [1]. Bound in contemporary tree calf from the bindery of Abraham Bradley King. The covers decorated with an outer narrow roll; flat spine in six compartments elaborately tooled with asymmetrical corner flourish and a pelican tool in the centre, red and green letterpieces; fore-edges gilt; red and gold endbands; edges of the leaves sprinkled blue; yellow endpapers. Some very minor surface wear and traces of old worm hole on one pastedown, otherwise a fine set. €1,250 Provenance: Armorial bookplate with the initials T.G.D. A very striking and elegant Dublin binding from the shop of the last Parliamentary Binder.

Abraham Bradley King (1773-1838), son of James King and Eliza Bradley, was born in 1773. In 1793 he married Anne, daughter of Plato Oulton. Abraham held the patent as king's stationer in Ireland. He was elected high sheriff of Dublin in 1802, in which year he was also elected a member of the Dublin Society.

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His proposers were Edward Houghton and James Henthorn. He was elected an alderman of Dublin Corporation in 1805, and Lord Mayor in 1812-13 and 1820-1. He was also deputy grand master of the Orange Order, and printed revised rules for that body. On the issue of publicly celebrating King William's birthday he took the side of the government in 1821 and banned public ceremonies. When his prohibition was disobeyed by a dissident group of tailors, he resigned from the Orange Order. As Lord Mayor in 1821 he joined with the catholic Lord Fingall at a public dinner in Morrison's hotel to demonstrate unity and amity for the royal visit of George IV. In the following year he resisted the passage of resolutions, in the merchant's guild of Dublin Corporation, for repeal of the act of union.

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Between 1803 and 1815 he proposed or seconded nine candidates for membership of the Society, including Captain John D'Esterre (1809), killed in a duel with Daniel O'Connell in 1815. King's stationery business was conducted from offices in 36 Dame Street, and he was also a committee member of the Atlas Assurance Company. His Dublin residence was Bloomsbury, and he had a country seat at Corrard, County Fermanagh. He died on 27 February 1838.

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426. [COLLINS, Michael] An Saorstát. The Free State. No. 28. Vol. I. Dublin, Wednesday, August 30, 1922. Second edition. Michael Collins Memorial Number. Broadside. 16 pp.

Profusely illustrated. Light crease mark at centre fold. A very good copy. €125 The report of the shooting of Michael Collins, illustrated with many photographs. Black-bordered titlepage with headline 'Michael Collins Memorial Number'. With contributions by Eoin MacNeill, Kevin O'Higgins, Seamus Ó hAodha, Alice Stopford Green, 'R. H.', Piaras Beaslai, Margaret Gavan Duffy, Mary Frances McHugh, Ignatius Phayre, Diarmuid Fawcett and P. Brennan. There is a poem on titlepage by 'O. G.' [Oliver St John Gogarty], and a poem on 'Bealnablatha' by Shane Leslie. Also included is a full transcript of General Mulcahy's Oration at the Graveside.

The cost of this issue in 1922 was two English pounds!.

427. DE COURCY IRELAND, John. Ireland and the Irish in Maritime History. With four maps. Dublin: Glendale Press, 1986. pp. xiv, 449. Dark grey paper boards, title in gilt on spine.

Signed presentation copy from the author. Index pages misbound as usual, but complete. A fine copy in dust jacket. Very scarce. €125 428. MORAN, G. & Ó MURAÍLE, N. Ed. by. Mayo History & Society: Interdisciplinary Essays on the History of an Irish County. Dublin: Geography Publications, 2014. pp. xxiv, 920.

Green paper boards, titled in gilt. A fine copy in dust jacket. €60 429. Ó CADHAIN, Máirtín. Irish above Politics. Dublin: Cuchulainn, n.d. (c.1964). pp. 16.

Fine in printed wrappers. Rare. €95 In this pamphlet Ó Cadhain suggests a plan of action for those interested in saving the Irish language.

He goes on to attack the politicians: "Let Garret Fitzgerald have his scorched earth, his culture-neutral no-man's land, peopled solely with his figure goddesses. It is evident he rates the I.Q. of the Irish people rather low, so low in fact that he thinks he can easily recruit them to the sole adoration of his figure goddesses". Mairtín O Cadhain (1907-1970), writer and republican, was born at Cois Fharraige, Connemara. He was a school teacher by profession and taught at various places in Galway, but lost his post for being a member of the I.R.A. Imprisoned at the Curragh during the Emergency he taught Irish and other subjects to his fellow prisoners. Fluent in eight languages, he became a Lecturer and later Professor of Modern Irish in Trinity College, Dublin.

430. O'HANLON, Rev. J. Canon. & O'LEARY, Rev. E. & LALOR, Rev. M. History of The Queen's County. History of the Territory from the earliest times till 1900. With coloured maps and illustrations. Two volumes. Kilkenny: Roberts, 1981. Second edition. pp. (1) [10], xii, 439, 4, (2) [10], 441-814. Blue cloth, titled in gilt. Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. From the library of Roscrea Heritage with stamps. A fine set. Scarce. €285 431. O'TOOLE, Jimmy. The Carlow Gentry. What Will The Neighbours Say! Illustrated.

Carlow: Published by the Author, 1993. pp. xv, 234. Red paper boards, title in gilt on spine.

Presentation inscription on front endpaper. A fine copy in dust jacket. €75 With notices of the following families: Alexander; Bagenal; Baillie; Pack-Beresford; Blackney; Cornwall-Brady; Browne; Bruen; MacLintock-Bunbury; Burton; Butler; D'Israeli; Doyne; Duckett; 127

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432. [PRISONER'S FUND] Fete in Aid of Irish Republican Prisoners' Dependents' Fund.

September 29th-October 9th, 1921. Souvenir Programme. Illustrated. Dublin: O'Loughlin, Murphy & Boland, n.d. (1921). pp. [32], including adverts. Illustrated wrappers, with portrait of Éamon de Valera. Staple rusted, some foxing and staining. Very rare. €285 In the foreword President De Valera states: "The dependence of our soldier dead, and of our prisoners, are a sacred charge ... Fears for what might become of their dear ones were the only fears that troubled our heroes' souls as they faced the sacrifice".

Mrs. Margaret Pearse headed the committee. There were numerous stalls each with the name of the republican fallen. The event included a ceilidh, brass and reed bands, fife and drums and pipers. There was also sports events including girls and boys races, tug-o-war, trotting, a donkey derby and pony races. The numerous names of committee members and participants enhanced the historical value of this rare pamphlet.

433. [WALL FAMILY] The Wall Family in Ireland 1170 - 1970. With maps, coloured armorial frontispiece, numerous illustrations and genealogical charts. By Hubert Gallwey. Kildare: Leinster Leader, 1970. Royal octavo. pp. xxiv, 317. Blue paper boards, titled in gilt. Covers faded. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. Very scarce. €145 In this work the Wall family is traced from a fief in Normandy. One of the first knightly families to occupy Irish lands after the Norman invasion of 1169. A unique insight into Irish genealogy and a most thorough piece of historical investigation.

434. WALSH, Louis J. Old Friends: Being Memories of Men and Places, with An Aguisín by Monsignor Lyons & and the Late Professor Arthur Clery. Illustrated. Dundalk: Dundalgan, 1934.

First edition. pp. 115, 13 (plates). Mauve cloth. (illustrator). Large presentation inscription from the author to Mr. Justice Charles A. Flattery dated October, 29, 1934. Some fading to spine. A very good copy. €145 Louis Joseph Walsh (1880-1942), author and district justice, was born in Maghera, County Londonderry, son of Louie Walsh, owner of a local hotel, and Elizabeth Walsh (née Donnelly) of Maghera. Educated at St Columb's College, Derry, he went to Dublin to study law at UCD. He became involved with the Gaelic League in his matriculation year in 1899 and was taught Irish by Patrick Pearse. His contemporaries at UCD included Thomas Kettle and James Joyce, whom he defeated in the 1899 election for treasurer of the college's Literary and Historical Society. He took exception to Joyce's lecture (February 1902) on James Clarence Mangan because Joyce did not stress Mangan's Young Ireland connections; he thus earned himself the caricature of Hughes, the ‘boy orator’ in Stephen hero.

After graduation he practised as a solicitor in Maghera before moving to Ballycastle, County Antrim.

He was an active propagandist for the Irish language movement and lectured widely. A constitutional nationalist until the Easter rising, Walsh became a militant republican after 1916.

With chapters on: Patrick H. Pearse; Joe Dolan; Father Tom Hegarty; John Rogers; Hunt W. Leech; Our Old Classical Schools; Louis Smyth; Nial MacGiolla-Bhrighde; Andy Dooey; Ballycastle and the Glens; The Lammas Fair; Rathmullan; My Own Town of Maghera.

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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.

Burke Bourke People and Places.

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.

Messiah, 1986.

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 135

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. 140

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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.

Dr. Nollaig Ó Muraíle states: “This, the single most substantial work produced by one of the great pioneering figures who laid the foundations of modern Irish scholarship in the fields of Gaelic language and literature, 145

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”.

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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 148

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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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FORTHCOMING PUBLICATION B38. McDONNELL, Joseph. Cork Gold-Tooled Bookbindings of the 18th and 19th Centuries. A Forgotten Heritage. Folio. A limited edition of 250 copies. Illustrated with colour and mono plates.

Ninety six pages, quarto. There will be a printed list of subscribers and we would very much appreciate your patronage. Price approximately â‚Ź150.

This new study reveals for the first time the importance of Cork as a centre of de luxe bookbinding during the eighteenth century, and dispels the widely held belief that only Dublin produced sumptuous gold-tooled bindings during the same period. Examples range from school book prizes, estate maps, to the grandest folios, many previously described in library and booksellers’ catalogues as Dublin workmanship.

Cork is well known for its famous 18th. and 19th. century silver and glass, but now its forgotten heritage of fine bookbinding will be revealed as equally rich and distinctive, attesting to the flourishing book trade in the city.

The limited edition volume will consist of an introductory essay, followed by a fully illustrated and detailed catalogue of the bindings and tools.

We apologise for the delay in publishing this important work. We hope to have it available shortly. Your patronage, as always, will be very much appreciated. For those of you who have already subscribed, can you please confirm that you still want to go ahead.

New subscribers are indeed most welcome.

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