481. Hutton, Mary A.

The Táin – An Irish Epic Told in English Verse by Mary A. Hutton.

Dublin, Maunsel & Co., 1907. Small Quarto (18 cm x 22 cm). XII, 495 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine and board. Top edge gilt. The Volume now in collector’s Mylar. Binding with some fraying and rubbing to spine. As usual, the text deckled edges with some foxing. Last page of the Appendix unopened with a small tear. A very rare and important book with all the History and insight into “The Táin”.

482. [Barnes, Peter] Fairfield, Letitia.

The Trial of Peter Barnes and others (The I.R.A. Coventry Explosion of 1939).

London / Edinburgh / Glasgow, William Hodge, 1953. Octavo. XIII, 284 pages. With illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. The dustjacket slightly frayed and with some tears and loss. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare ! [Notable British trials – Volume 77].

483. Berleth, Richard.

The Twilight Lords – An irish Chronicle. [The Fierce Doomed Struggle of the Last Great Feudal Lords of Ireland Against the England of Elizabeth I].

New York, Barnes & Noble, 1978. Octavo. XV, 316 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

484. Mansergh, Nicholas.

The unresolved question – The Anglo-Irish settlement and its undoing 1912 – 1972.

New Haven/London, Yale University Press, 1991. Octavo. X, 386 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

485. Whyte, Louis.

The Wild Heather Glen: The Kilmichael Story of Grief and Glory.

Co. Cork, The Kilmichael/Crossbarry Commemoration Committee, 1995. 15 cm x 21 cm. 171 pages, illustrated throughout. Original Softcover. Excellent condition ! Rare !

486. Bowers, Fergal.

The Work – An investigation into the history of Opus Dei and how it operates in Ireland today.

Dublin, Poolbeg, 1989. 20 cm. iii, 150 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear. From the library of an irish university lecturer and council man. Name of preowner on endpaper.

487. [O’Flanagan, Michael] Carroll, Denis.

They have fooled you again. Michael O’Flanagan (1876-1942), priest, republican, social critic.

Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Columba Press, 1993. 22cm. 271 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

488. [Thom, Alexander] / [Famine Year / Famine Year Almanac].

Thom`s Irish Almanac & Official Directory for the Year 1845 [including “Peerage of Ireland with alphabetical Index”].

First Edition. Dublin, Alexander Thoma, 1845. Octavo (13 cm x 18.5 cm). VIII, 906 pages. Original Hardcover (Publisher’s blindstamped cloth with gilt lettering and ornament to spine). Very good and firm condition with some minor signs of wear only. This is one of the most important and rarest sources for Statistics in Ireland in 1845 and one year prior of The Great Famine [Gorta Mór / Irish Potato Famine].

489. [Davis, Thomas].

Thomas Davis: Essays and Poems with a Centenary Memoir 1845-1945. Foreword by An Taoiseach Eamon de Valera.

Dublin, M.H.Gill and Son, 1945. Octavo. Frontispiece, 240 pages. Original Hardcover. Some markings within the etxt. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name and address of preowner on endpaper.

490. [Johnson, Thomas] Gaughan, J. Anthony.

Thomas Johnson, 1872-1963 – First leader of the Labour Party in Dáil Éireann.

Mount Merrion, County Dublin, Kingdom Books, 1980. 22 cm. 513 pages with many illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper. Very rare publication !