71. De Blaghd, Earnán.

Slán le hUltaibh – Imleabhar II de chuimhní cinn.

Baile átha Cliath (Dublin), Sairséal & Dill, 1970. 22cm. 200 pages. With some portraits. Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

72. De La Salle Past Pupils’ Union, St. Fachtna’s Branch, Skibereen.

And Time Stood Still – A Pictorial History of Skibbereen and District.

Skibereen, De La Salle Past Pupils’ Union, St. Fachtna’s Branch, Skibereen. 2002. 25.5 cm x 36 cm. 268 pages. 700 black and white photographs throughout. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. some minor foxing to endpapers and edges. The price for this heavy book includes international shipping per Courier !

73. [de Valera, Éamon]

Collection of eleven (11) important publication on Éamon de Valera, including some interesting newspaper-clippings. The collection of books include: 1. Diarmaid Ferriter – Judging Dev – A Reassessment of the Life and Legacy of Eamon de Valera / 2. Tim Pat Coogan – De Valera – Long Fellow, Long Shadow (Paperback Edition)/ 3. Ronan Fanning – Éamon de Valera – A Will to Power / 4. J.P.O’Connell and John A. Murphy – De Valera and his Times / 5. Owen Dudley Edwards – Éamon de Valera / 6. John Bowman – De Valera and the Ulster Question 1917-1973 / 7. Joseph Lee and Gearoid O Tuathaigh – The Age of de Valera / 8. Kevin J. Browne – Éamon de Valera & The Banner Country. With a Foreword by Thomas P.O’Neill / 9. Kevin Boland – Up Dev ! / 10. T.Ryle Dwyer – De Valera’s Finest Hour (1932-1959) / 11. Proinsias Mac Aonghusa – Quotations from Éamon de Valera – With a Preface by Charles J. Haughey, TD / Two very interesting newspaper-clippings and a xeroxed pamphlet: “The Anglo-Irish Treaty and Mr.de Valera’s Alternative.

Dublin / Cork / Oxford, Mercier / Glendale / Oxford University Press / and others, c. 1982 – 2007. Octavo. More than 1500 pages. Four Volumes in original Hardcover with dustjacket and several Volumes in orginal softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

74. Deasy, Liam.

Brother Against Brother. [Including two important newspaper-clippings with interesting articles: 1.″The Man who stood next to Collins’ killer and grabbed the gun to stop him firing twice” / 2. “Sharing Collins’s legacy of democracy /

Cork, Mercier Press, 1982. 11cm x 18cm. 126 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear. Very Rare !

75. Denieffe, Joseph.

A personal narrative of the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood – giving a faithful report of the principal events from 1885 to 1867, written, at the request of friends. To which is added, in corroboration, an appendix containing important Letters and Papers written by James Stephens, John O’Mahony, John Mitchel, Thomas J.Kelly and other Leaders of the Movement. Introduction by Seán Ó Lúing.

Unabridged Facsimile of the first edition (1906). Shannon, Irish University Press, 1969. 23 cm. xiii, x, 293 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper.

76. Devane, James.

Isle of Destiny – The Clash of Cultures [With a chapter: The Three Societies: The Irish / The Anglo-Irish / The Scots-Irish].

First Edition. Clonskeagh, Browne & Nolan, no year [c.1920]. Small Octavo. 256 pages with a printed map to pastedowns and endpaper, titled “Imperium Celticum – Circa 350 B.C.” (with Ireland shown as “Hibernia”, The Irish Sea as “Oceanus Hibernicus” and the River Shannon as “Senus”). Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

77. Devoy, John.

Recollections of an Irish Rebel – The Fenian Movement – Its Origin and Progress. Methods of Work in Ireland and in the British Army. Why it failed to achieve its main object but exercised great influence on Ireland’s Future. Personalities of the Organization. The Clan-Na-Gael and the Rising of Easter Week, 1916. A Personal Narrative by John Devoy.

New York, Young/Estate of John Devoy, 1929. Large-Octavo. III, 491 pages with the portrait of John Devoy as frontispice (with original tissue-guard present). Original Hardcover with the extremely rare, original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. With a Bookplate to the endpaper, identifying this copy as a Presentation-copy from the “Friends of Irish Freedom – New York”, presented to the Library of the Sisters of Mercy Schools in Macroom (County Cork).

78. Documents of irish History [ Poblacht na hEireann ] – Clarke, Thomas J.

This is one of the rare 1940 original Lithographic Reproduction Posters of the 1916 Declaration-Poster of the Provisional Government: Poblacht na hEireann – The Provisional Government of the Irish Republic to the People of Ireland. Signed on behalf of the Provisional Government: Thomas James Clarke, Sean Mac Diarmada, P.H.Pearse, James Connolly, Thomas MacDonagh, Eamonn Ceannt, Joseph Plunkett.

Colour Lithograph with celtic ornamented border and portraits of the signees. Cork, Paramount, [c.1940]. 39.5 cm wide x 53.5 cm high. olding creases, small tear, colours bright and strong. One of the few remaining reproductions made by Paramount in 1940. The artwork of the reproduction is magnificent. Highly collectable and a very beautiful reminder of how meaningful this document was for those who signed it, reflected in the beauty of the original design of this Poster.

79. Doherty, Gabriel / Keogh, Dermot.

1916 – The Long Revolution. Edited by Gabriel Doherty and Dermot Keogh. [Conference “The Long Revolution : the 1916 Rising in Context” (2006 : University College Cork)].

Douglas Village, Cork, Mercier Press, 2007. 22 cm. 469 pages with numerous illustrations. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

80. [Doyle, James Warren] J.K.L. [acronym for “James / Kildare / Leighlin”] / [James Charles Coffey (1815-1880)].

Letters on the State of Ireland – Addresses by J.K.L. to a friend in England [With a section: “Administration of Justice and Spirit of the Penal Laws”].

First Edition. Dublin, Printed by Richard Coyne [Printer and Bookseller to the Royal College of St.Patrick, Maynooth, and Publisher to the Roman Catholic Bishops of Ireland], 1825. Octavo (15 cm x 21 cm). VIII, 364 pages. Hardcover / Recently restored and rebacked original binding. Excellent condition after the restoration. From the library of Judge James Charles Coffey, with his name signed on the titlepage and dated May, 1860. Some mild foxing to first 10 pages, otherwise very good. Extremely rare publication !