81. Sheehy, Michael.

Divided we stand – A study of partition. With a foreword by John J. Horgan.

London, Faber & Faber, 1955. 21cm. 104 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

82. [Casement, Roger] MacColl, Rene.

Roger Casement – A New Judgement.

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1956. Octavo. Frontispiece, 328 pages with several illustrations. Original Hardcover with original, unclipped dustjacket. The rare dustjacket with some minor tears and fraying. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes an interesting newspaper-clipping regarding the Casement Diaries.

83. Mac Liammóir, Micheál:

Aisteoirí faoi dhá sholas. Dialann mheánmhara.

Baile Átha Cliath, Sáirséal & Dill, 1956. (8º). 203 pages. [With plates, including portraits.]. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

84. 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.

85. Gaelic Fairy Tale Illustrations – [Mac Liammoír, Micheál] Ó Floinn, Tomás / Proinsias Mac Cana.

Scéalaíocht na Ríthe – [Stories of the Kings]. Tomás Ó Floinn agus Proinsias Mac Cana. A chuir in Eagar. Micheál Mac Liammoír a Mhaisigh.

Baile Átha Cliath, Saírséal & Dill, 1956. 18.1cm. 220, [4] pages. Including 6 plates with beautiful, tipped-in illustrations and their often missing, lettered tissue-guards. Hardcover. / Original, illustrated blue publisher’s cloth. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear / An underestimated publication with all illustrations in place. While the book was also published in softcover-cardboard, the first edition we offer here is the much better version.

86. Noyes, Alfred.

The Accusing Ghost or Justice for Casement.

London, Victor Gollancz, 1957. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. 191 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Cover is slightly torn in places especially at the top of spine. Some dogears and some foxing to the pages. Otherwise very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper.

87. [Ruiséil, Tomás] Mac Giolla Easpaig, Séamus N.

Tomás Ruiséil.

Baile Átha Cliath, [1957]. 8vo. 263 pages. [With plates, including portraits, facsimiles and a map.]. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

88. McGarrity, J.

Resistance – The story of the struggle in British-occupied Ireland.

N.p., Irish Freedom Press, 1957. 18cm. 120 pages. Illustrated Softcover with the excellent cover design (irish flag to the rear cover). Spine slightly damaged. Binding somewhat shaky but still in good condition with some signs of external wear.

89. ffolliott, Rosemary [Poole].

The Pooles of Mayfield and other Irish Families. With a Preface by Basil M. O’Connell.

Dublin, Hodges and Figgis & Co., 1958. 4°. Frontispiece-Portrait of Joanna Meade Townsend, 294 pages with XIII plates showing 53 portraits and illustrations. The Volume contains over eighty “Pedigrees” [Genealogical Tables with Family Trees connecting to two thousand persons from families like: Allen, Baldwin, Barry, Becher, Bowdler, Boyle, Browne, Brydges, Capenhurst, Chavasse, Clayton, Conner of Connerville, Corker, Courthope, Cummins, Daunt, Davies, Dunscombe, Field, FitzGerald, Fleming, ffolliott, Freke [Capt. John ffreke of Knocknameel with a complete Pedigree starting with Robert Freke of Shroton] / , Fowle, Hayman, Hewitt, Holmes, Hull, Hungerford, Jellett, Langton, Latham, Lucas, McCall, Meade, Moore, Morgan, Morris, Morrison, Nevill, Nisbett, Newton, Poole, Riggs, Rogers, St.John, Sarsfield, Somerville, Stannard, Symes, Synge, Townsend, Townshend, Travers, Turner, Vaughan, Waring, Wynn and others], List of Subscribers and a comprehensive Index with reference to over four hundred surnames are also included. Original Hardcover with the rare dustjacket. Original blue cloth with only very minor traces of external wear and overall in excellent condition (minor staining to the binding). Interior unbelievably clean and bright with no markings. No.488 of only 500 numbered copies. This extremely rare publication is a key-publication of Irish Genealogy and has set new standards of genealogical research. In the Obituary for Rosemary ffolliott, the Irish Times wrote in 2009: “In 1958, when she was 23 years of age, Rosemary ffolliott compiled “The Pooles of Mayfield”, a history of Settler Families in the Cork area. The publication of this Munster gentry, which some who appeared in it described as “the Dead Sea Scrolls”, initiated a career in the difficult field of Irish genealogy, made the more arduous by the destruction of records at the Four Courts. Her dedication to a discipline that had been considered vague, imprecise and colourful, had an acknowledged effect in raising the standards of genealogy in Ireland. Her research methods were meticulous and she is remembered as a genius in the use of the Registry of Deeds in Henrietta Street. In 1966 she became a Fellow of the Irish Genealogical Research Society, the first woman to be recognised in this way.” The publication is an important source for the History of Family-Connections for the two Irish Country-House-Libraries we currently have on offer: “The Richard Meade Collection (Ballymartle)” and “The Danile Conner – Collection (Connerville and Manch House)”. Both families are mentioned as subscribers to this publication [″H.L.Conner, Esq. – Manch House, Ballineen, Co.Cork” and “Mrs. G.W.Meade – Pitch Place Farm, Thursley, Surrey / Captain J.A.Meade – Chatley, Metchosin, British Columbia / Mrs. Meade – Templenoe House, Fermoy, Co. Cork”]. Especially the many portraits of members of the Meade-Family,as well as the family-connection to the Townshend / Townsend-Family in Castletownshend, near Skibbereen, make this an invaluable source for Irish Genealogy.

90. Máire [Ó Grianna, Séamus].

Tarngaireacht mhiseóige.

Baile Átha Cliath, Oifig an tSolathair, 1958. Octavo. 370 pages. Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.