181. [Sinn Féin Information Office / Oifig Eolais Sinn Féin]

Ireland: The Facts / Eire – Na Fiorais [Bilingual booklet in english and gaelic, “published to explain to the Irish people at home and in exile, and to the people of the world at large the justness of the demand for the unity and freedom of Ireland].

Dublin, Sinn Féin Information Office [1971]. Folio. 24 pages including aseveral photographic illustrations (also an image of a shrine for Harry Thornton). Illustrated Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

182. [Spring, Dick] Ryan, Tim.

Dick Spring – A safe pair of hands !

Dublin, Blackwater Press, 1993. 22 cm. [vii], 224 pages with 24 pages of plates/illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes a loosely inserted newspaper-clipping of an article in which Noel Browne talks about the irish Labour party and its future.

183. Sweeney, Paul.

The Politics of Public Enterprise and Privatisation [Including a chapter: The Origins of Irish Public Enterprise].

Dublin, Tomar, 1990. 21 cm. 244 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Front hinge broken at the border to the endpaper. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper.

184. Tansey, Paul.

Ireland at work – Economic growth and the labour market, 1987-1997.

Dublin, Oak Tree Press, 1998. 24cm. XXI, 273 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Business and research series].

185. [The Council of National Action]

National Action – The Political Programme of the Council of National Action [A National Non-Party Plan for the establishment of an Original Irish System of Government based on Christian Social Teaching and on National Unity]

Fifth Edition. Dublin, The Council of National Action, 1952. Small Octavo. 61 pages. Original Softcover. Good condition with some stronger signs of external wear.

186. The Workers’ Party of Ireland.

Patterns of Betrayal – The Flight from Socialism / Papers and Viewpoints which set out “The Struggle for the Workers’ Party”.

Ireland, 1992. Octavo. 84 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

187. Tormey, Dr.Bill.

Ten Years’ Hard Labour – A Personal Political Odyssey.

Dublin, Blackwater Press, 1994. Octavo. 221 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

188. [United Irishman].

“British Troops must Go” – “Throughout the towns, villages and countryside of our six occupied counties British Crown Forces move and operate. They are there to maintain a military bridgehead in Britain’s Imperial interests. But they are there contrary to the wishes of the Irish people. To-day, as in past generations, the men and women of the Irish Republican Movement are striving to end British occupation and enthrone the Irish Republic”.

First Edition (possibly only edition). Dublin (1 Gardiner Row), United Irishman [″Voice of the Republican Movement”], no year [c.1957]. Octavo. 20 pages with many photographs. Stapled, original, illustrated softcover pamphlet. Overall in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Extremely rare Anti-Partition and commemoration-pamphlet, celebrating three men who died for Ireland: “Oliver Craven, Newry” / “Patrick MacManus, Kinawley” / Paul Smith, Bessbrook” /.

189. Valera, Eamon de.

Ireland’s stand – Being a selection of the speeches of Eamon de Valera during the war (1939-1945).

Dublin, M.H.Gill and Son, 1946. Small Octavo. Frontispiece portrait of de Valera, 102 pages. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some fraying to the brochure.

190. Walsh, Dick.

Inside Fianna Fáil.

Dublin, Gill and Macmillan, 1986. 21cm (pbk). 161 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of an irish university lecturer and council man, including an important newspaper-clippings “Fianna Fail needs direction – any direction” by Charlie McCreevy. Name of preowner on endpaper.