221. O Mahony, Colman.

Mansions and Monuments – People and Places of bygone Passage West and Monkstown.

Limited Collector’s Edition: No.279 of only 300 copies printed. Monkstown, Rosmathun Press, 2011. Quarto. XI, 420 pages. Hardcover / Original cloth with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. This is an extremely rare book !!

222. Ó Tuama, Seán Óg.

An Chóisir Cheoil. [The Music Party] – Volume IX.

Baile Átha Cliath, Comhlucht Oideachais na hEireann, 1965. 8°. 16 pages with notations (songs set to music). Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

223. O’Brien, Niall.

Blackwater and Bride – Navigation and Trade, 7000 BC to 2007 [This book is dedicated to the landowners, merchants and sailors who made navigation and trade possible on the Blackwater and Bride Rivers].

Niall O’Brien Publishing, 2008. Octavo. XII, 562 pages with plenty of illustrations throughout the volume. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Absolutely mint condition. SIGNED and dated by the author on the endpaper. Extremely Rare Book !!

224. O’Brien, Brendan.

The Long War – The IRA and Sinn Fein 1985 to TODAY.

Dublin, O’Brien Press, 1993. 25 cm. 320 pages. Illustrated with diagrams and photographs. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear.

225. O’Callaghan, Sean.

The Easter Lily – The Story of the I.R.A. (IRA).

First Edition. London, Allan Wingate, 1956. Octavo. Frontispiece portrait of Jimmy O’Callaghan and Sean O’Callaghan, 219 pages. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of an irish university lecturer and council man. Name on endpaper.

226. O’Connor, G.B.

Irish and other Fragments. [Includes the following essays: Irish Ethical Problems / Marshal Saxe and Diminishing Populations / The Irish Republican Demand / The Anglo-Saxon Myth / Irish Facts and Foreign Fictions / The Irish and the Law / Some Anglo-Irish Writers / A National Delusion / The Irish Lord Lieutenant].

Dublin, Hodges, Figgis & Co., no year (c. 1920). Small Octavo. 73 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. A very rare book !!

227. O’Donnell, Peadar.

The Gates Flew Open [An Irish Civil War Prison Diary].

Cork, The Mercier Press, 1966. Octavo (11.2 cm x 17.9 cm). 106 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare !!

228. O’Donnell, F.Hugh.

The Ruin of Education in Ireland and the Irish Fanar [including a chapter: “The Priestly Boycott and the Irish Language” and with an Appendix: “The Mind of the Jesuit Order To-Day on the Killing of Heretics and the Liberty of Peoples”].

London, David Nutt, 1902. Large Octavo (17 cm x 23 cm). XXIII, 202 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine and board. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only.

229. O’Donnell, F.Hugh [Major George Bernard O’Connor / IRA].

The Ruin of Education in Ireland and the Irish Fanar [including a chapter: “The Priestly Boycott and the Irish Language” and with an Appendix: “The Mind of the Jesuit Order To-Day on the Killing of Heretics and the Liberty of Peoples”].

London, David Nutt, 1902. Large Octavo (17 cm x 23 cm). XXIII, 202 pages. Hardcover / Recently professionally restored. Modern half-leather-binding with dustjacket. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Some pages with some minor browning. From the library of Major George Bernard O’Connor, with his name “O’Connor” on titlepage and his Rochestown address (″Illane Roe, Rochestown, Co.Cork”, to endpaper). O’Connor, of the 6th Dragoons, was identified as spy and executed by the IRA on July 10th, 1921.

230. O’Donoghue, Bruno.

Parish Histories and Place Names of West Cork.

Kerry, The Kerryman Ltd., no year (c. 1960). 21.3cm x 14.2cm. 345 (4) pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. One of the rarest publications on the History of West Cork. A Dictionary with name-explanations and lots of lost historical wordings.