171. Macready, General – The Rt. Hon. Sir Nevil.

Annals of an Active Life. With sixteen Illustrations.

Two Volumes. London, Hutchinson & Co., [c.1924]. Octavo. Frontispiece, 694 pages [continuous pagination through both volumes]. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

172. [Magnetic Telegraph Company / The Magnetic / British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company / Bright, Edward Brailsford (1813 – 1913)].

British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Co. (Limited) – Large Fold-Out-Sheet with: “Instructions for Forwarding Messages by other Companies – (For Private Information Only)”. This exceptional piece of Ephemera comes with an Original piece of the 19th century undersea-cable. The very rare, original Instruction-Sheet which was meant to hang inside of the first Telegraph Offices was published by Edward B.Bright in the Chief Offices in Liverpool, July, 1862 [and it automatically cancelled the one which dated December 1860].

Liverpool, British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Co. (Limited), 1862. Elephant Folio SHett (51.5 cm wide x 82 cm high). Folded into an original cloth folder sized: 14.2 cm wide x 21.8 cm high. Original Hardcover with fold-out-sheet (Poster) inside. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

173. Magnier, Noel.

Is that you boy ! – Humourous short stories of growing up in Cork in the 1940s and 50s. [Signed by the author]

Cork, Springfield Press, 2005. 21 cm. 74 pages with illustrations. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Including the often missing sheet with explanations of local exclamations (Ten Bob, Fag Boxes etc.). Signed by Noel Magnier.

174. Maguire, John.

IRA internments and the Irish government – Subversives and the state, 1939-1962. Foreword by Ruán O’Donnell.

Dublin / Portland (Oregon), Irish Academic Press, 2008. 24 cm. XIV, 274 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

175. Mansergh, Nicholas.

Nationalism and Independence – Selected Irish papers. Edited by Diana Mansergh ; Foreword by J. J. Lee.

Cork, Cork University Press, 1997. 24 cm. XVII, 264 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

176. [Markievicz, Constance]

Collection of two important biographies on Constance Markievicz including two interesting newspaper-clippings with articles on Markievivz. The books in the collection are: 1. Anne Marreco – The Rebel Countess – The Life and Times of Constance Markievicz / 2. Diana Norman – Terrible Beauty: Life of Constance Markievicz, 1868-1927.

London / Dublin, Phoenix Press / Poolbeg, 1988 / 2000. Octavo. 330 / 320 pages. Illustrated with photographs. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

177. Martin, F.X.

The Irish Volunteers 1913-1915 – Recollections and documents.

Dublin, James Duffy & Co., 1963. Small Octavo. 207 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

178. Martin, Francis X.

The Irish volunteers 1913 – 1915 / Recollections & Documents. Foreword by Eamon de Valera.

Dublin, James Duffy & Co.Ltd., 1963. Small Octavo. XVIII, 207 pages. Original Softcover with illustrated dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of an irish Councilman and University lecturer, with his name on endpaper.

179. Maye, Brian.

Fine Gael, 1923-1987 – A general history with biographical sketches of leading members.

Tallaght, Dublin, Blackwater Press, 1993. 24 cm. vi, 406 pages with 16 pages of plates with illustrations. Softcover. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear.

180. [Maynooth / Colehill – County Longford] – Handcock, Reverend William / Handcock, Robert Ball.

Two Manuscript Notebooks of Reverend William Handcock and his son, Robert Ball Handcock. The Notebook of William Handcock is titled: “Letters & Addresses on various subjects by Revd. William Handcock” and are of special interest since he had the habit of transcribing in it complete letters he sent and received from noteworthy people in Ireland during the Famine – years 1842 (February) – 1854. These letters are often meaningful appeals to newspapers, church administrators or clergymen like William Baillie Kirkpatrick (1802 – 1882), Irish Peers (e.g. William Trench, 3rd Earl of Clancarty) etc./ The Manuscript Notebook of William’s son, Robert Ball Handscock, was started in June of 1846 (in Maynooth) and is simply a manuscript scrapbook with poetry and stories of favourite poets of the time (including an Index).

Maynooth / Radanstown (Meath) / Cole Hill (Longford) etc., 1841-1854. Octavo. 181 pages [Diary of William Handcock] / 140 pages plus 4 pages of Index [Diary of Robert Ball Handcock]. Hardcover / Original 19th century half-leather with paper-covered boards. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.