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historiographical. But for the first half of the 19C their importance was
considerable as the only gateway to early Irish history. (ODNB &
CDIB).
(4)
€400-€600 (£320-£480 approx.)
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O’DONNELL (Peadar).
For or against the ranchers?
Irish working farmers in the economic war.
No publisher or date,
Mayo News, Westport, circa
1930
Pages (2), 8, (2, blank), 8vo, unbound, wire stitched as issued,
lightly stained: a good copy.
Representing the republican struggle in terms of class conflict. The only
printing. O’Donnell, of Meenmore, Co Donegal, ITGWU organiser,
described as the greatest agitator of his generation. He recruited some of
Derry city’s unemployed for permanent IRA service in Donegal
(O’Farrell).
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
[SMYLLIE (Robert Maire)].
By
“Nichevo” in the “Irish Times”. 1938.
Originally published serially in The Irish Times. “More conscious than
most Irish editors of the nature and seriousness of the impending
European crisis, he carried in The Irish Times a series of news reports
and editorial warnings which earned him the order of the White Lion
of Czechoslovakia (1939), one of that country’s most prestigious awards
(CDIB).
(2)
O’SULLIVAN (Seumas).
1930-1938. Being number four of
the Tower Press booklets. Third series. 1938. a very good copy.
Limited edition of 300 copies.
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BONI (Giacomo).
Hibernica. Notes on some burial places
and customs of ancient Ireland. Translated from the “Nuova
Antologia”.
Dublin, for H. M. S. O. by A. Thom,
1906. FIRST
EDITION THUS, pp 30, (1), roy 8vo, original printed wrappers:
very good.
With introductory note by Horace Plunkett (?the translator). Boni
(1859-1925), noted Italian archaeologist, remembered for his
excavations at the Roman Forum.
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CROOKSHANK (Anne): - Fenlon (Jane), et al.
ed.
New
Perspectives. Studies in art history in honour of Anne
Cruikshank.
Dublin: Irish Academic Press,
1987. With
illustrations, pp (2),228, 8vo, original cloth-backed boards: as
new in clear wrapper
Limited edition, this being one of one hundred numbered copies,
specially bound.
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€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1152
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O’DONNELL (Peadar).
For or against the ranchers?
Irish working farmers in the economic war.
No publisher or date,
Mayo News, Westport, circa
1930
Pages (2), 8, (2, blank), 8vo, unbound, wire stitched as issued,
lightly stained: a good copy.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
COUSINS (James H.).
Above
the Rainbow, and other poems.
Madras: Ganesh & Co., (The M. L.
J. Press, Mylapore),
1926. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, with
a frontispiece, 40-pages, 8vo, original paper wrapper with
printed paper label: a very good copy.
Cousins (1873-1956), the Belfast-born poet and catalyst in the early
days of the Irish theatre movement, reacted against continual
discouragement from Yeats by setting out for India with his wife
Margaret, where he made a lasting impact with his teaching and his
books. This present collection includes some poems previously published
in ‘The Madras Mail’, ‘The Japan Advertiser’ and other periodicals.
(2)
[SMYLLIE (Robert Maire)].
Carpathian Contrasts. By
“Nichevo” in the “Irish Times”.
Dublin: Printed and Published by
The Irish Times, Limited, February
1938. FIRST SEPARATE
COLLECTED EDITION, with 45 illustrs, some full-page, 80-
pages, roy 8vo, original printed paper wrappers, wire stitched as
issued: a very good copy.
Originally published serially in The Irish Times. “More conscious than
most Irish editors of the nature and seriousness of the impending
European crisis, he carried in The Irish Times a series of news reports
and editorial warnings which earned him the order of the White Lion
of Czechoslovakia (1939), one of that country’s most prestigious awards
(CDIB).
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IRELAND, POST OFFICE GUIDE, 1931-32.
1931-32
Eóluidhe an Phuist (Post Office Guide). Published annually in
April.
Dublin
(1931). Pages 440, 8vo, original orange printed
wrapper: wrappers worn, otherwise very good.
Includes postal codes for all the principal Dublin streets.
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WARREN (John).
The Biretta Blight.
Dublin J. K. Mitchell,
1914. FIRST EDITION,5 plates, pp 95, (1, ads), 8vo, original
brown printed wraps: very good/nice
Warren (1873-1947), a TCD scholar, rector of Ardmore and
Templemichael, Waterford, 1925-48. Also wrote ‘Ireland (Cinderella
Hibernica) and Her Fairy Godmother’ (Dublin 1909), ‘The Ardagh
Chalice and the witness it bears’ (Undated): all in the category of
religious polemical works, containing criticisms of the Catholic Church,
some equally valid today. A distinct eccentric, known locally as ‘Very
Raw Warren”, he was extremely frugal in his way of life.
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BRETHERTON (Cyril H. E.).
A Zoovenir [: verse]. By C.
H. B. Illustrated by Lilian Davidson & Anne Other [sic].
Dublin:
Royal Zoological Society of Ireland,
1919. FIRST COLLECTED
EDITION, 64-pp, 8vo, original printed wraps: very good to nice.
Humorous poems with zoological themes: a fundraiser for the RZSI.
Uncommon.
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€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1153
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O’GRADY (Standish Hayes),
ed.
Toruigheacht
Dhiarmuda agus Ghrainne; or, the pursuit after Diarmuid
O’Duibhne, and Grainne, the daughter of Cormac Mac Airt,
King of Ireland in the third century.
Dublin: Printed for the
Ossianic Society (as volume three of their transactions for the year
1855),
1857
FIRST EDITION, pp 324, 10, 8vo, original cloth: little wear at
headbands yet very good.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
CRONNELLY (Richard F.).
A
history of the Clanna-Rory, or Rudricians, descendants of
Roderick the Great, monarch of Ireland: compiled from ancient
records … Forming Part I. of Irish Family History. To which is
added by way of appendix, a paper on the authorship of the
“Exile of Erin”, by a septuagenarian.
Dublin: Printed for the
Author by Goodwin, Son and Nethercott.
1864. FIRST EDITION,
pages 135, (1), 8vo, with the original printed paper wrappers
bound in, edges uncut: a very good copy neatly bound in cloth.
Three further parts were later published.
(2)
O’RAHILLY (Cecile),
ed.
of Gruaidh Ghriansholus.
Edited and translated. 1924. the binding dull but sound and
strong and otherwise a very good copy.
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BRENDAN, St.: - O’Donoghue (Denis).
Brendaniana. St.
Brendan the Voyager.
Dublin: Browne & Nolan,
1893. FIRST
EDITION, with 5 plates, pp xxviii, 399, 8vo, original cloth: a
very good-nice copy.
Saint Brendan (c. 484-578): the story of his legendary voyage in the
Atlantic to the “Promised Land of the Saints”, later designated “St
Brendan’s Island”, ranks amongst the most celebrated of the mediaeval
sagas of Western Europe.
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€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1154
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O’GRADY (Standish J.).
History of Ireland: The heroic
period. [and, Cuculain and his contemporaries].
London [Dublin
printed]: Sampson Low … Dublin: E. Ponsonby …,
1878-80
FIRST EDITION, with a map, pp (2), xxii,267 and errata slip:
(2), iv, 348, (2, adverts), (2, blank),2 vols, cr 8vo, original dark
purple cloth by Galwey of Dublin, with ticket: a nice, copy with
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