Dwyer, James A.

The Dominicans of Cork City and County.

Illustrated. Cork, Guy and Company Limited, 1896. 13.5 cm x 19.5 cm. 199 pages. 21 illustrations. Missing frontispiece. Hardcover [publisher’s original cloth] with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Gilt embossment to front board also. Good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Fading to spine. Staining to front board. Board corners bumped and rubbed. Gutter between endpaper and titlepage cracked with exposed cloth. Binding still firm and strong. Some foxing to front endpapers. Interior bright and clean. Front pastedown carries presentation bookplate of Presentation College, Mardyke, Cork detailing prize awarded to “Master A Swanton” for “maintaining second place in English” signed by “M J O’Connor”.

A history of the Dominican Order “through weal and woe” in Cork.
Includes, for example, the following: First Part – City / Introduction / The Years of Prosperity /The Long Dark Night of Persecution / The Dawn of a Brighter Day / Unexpected Blessings / Second Part -County / Youghal and the Miraculous Statue / Castlelyons – Convent of the Blessed Virgin / Glanworth – Convent of the Holy Cross / Appendix – List of Deaths – Memorial of the Regulars of Ireland addressed to Members of both Houses of Parliament, April 1829 / The Penal Laws versus The Dominican Fathers / Index etc.

• Keywords: 19th Century · Bookplate · Catalogue Irish History Three – From Famine to Free State · Catholic Church · Catholic Church in Ireland · Catholicism · Catholics · Cork · Cork (City) · Cork (County) · Cork City · Dominican · History · Ireland · Penal Laws · Religious Groups · Religious Orders
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 120262AB

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