171. 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.

172. 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.

173. [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.

174. McBride, Lawrence W.

The Greening of Dublin Castle – The Transformation of Bureaucratic and Judicial Personnel in Ireland, 1892-1922.

Washington, D.C., Catholic University of America Press, 1991. 23 cm. xii, 337 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

175. McCarthy, Justin Huntly.

Ireland since the Union – Sketches of Irish history from 1798 to 1886.

London, Chatto & Windus, 1887. 20 cm. XVIII, 368 pages plus 32 pages of a catalogue of books by Chatto & Windus in the rear of the publication. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

176. McCoole, Sinead.

Easter Widows – Seven Irish Women who lived in the shadow of the 1916 Rising.

Dublin, Doubleday Ireland, 2015. 24 cm. xvii, 444 pages. With illustrations (black and white, and colour). Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

177. McCormack, W. J.

Roger Casement in death, or, Haunting the free state.

Dublin, University College Dublin Press, 2002. 24 cm. xv, 256 pages, [4] pages of plates : illustrations. Softcover. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear.

178. McGee, Brian (Editor) / Coughlan, Stuart (Designer) / Cork City and County Archives Service.

Voice of the Many – Local archives from Cork 1914-1916.

Cork, Cork City and County Archives Service, 2016. Folio. XII, 177 pages with illustrations throughout the publication (in colour and black-and-white). Hardcover with dustjacket. Bookblock detached from the binding (like most of the Hardcover editions of this publication). Overall in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. This is now an extremely rare and hard to find-publication !

179. McLoughlin, Michael.

Great Irish speeches of the twentieth century. [compiled by] Michael McLoughlin.

Dublin, Poolbeg, 1996. 22 cm. 430 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

180. McMahon, Paul (Paul Andrew).

British spies and Irish rebels – British intelligence and Ireland, 1916-1945.

Woodbridge, NY, Boydell Press, 2008. 25 cm. viii, 516 pages. 12 pages of plates. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. [History of British intelligence ; 1].