1. Pearse, Pádraic H.

Plays – Poems – Stories.

Sixth Edition. Dublin/Cork/Belfast, The Phoenix Publishing Co., [1924]. 8°. Portrait of Pearse as Frontispiz, XIX, 340, VIII pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Preowner’s name on endpaper (″Katie O’Shea”). [Collected Works of Pádraic H. Pearse].

2. [Plunket, Lord William] Plunket, David.

The Life, Letters and Speeches of Lord Plunket. [With chapters on Wolfe Tone / Irish Whigs in 1798 etc.] By his Grandson, the honourable David Plunket. With an introductory Preface by Lord Brougham.

In two Volumes. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1867. 8°. Volume I: XI, 410 pages / Volume II: VII, 380 pages. Original Hardcover (Original cloth with gilt lettering on spine and blindstamped boards). Recently rebacked and professionally repaired, this volume is now in excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Very firm and tight. Very rare in this condition !

3. O’Sullivan, Donal.

Songs of the Irish – An Anthology of Irish Folk Music and Poetry with English Verse Translations. [With a section on “Songs of the Harpers” and “Songs of Occupation”]. Compiled and edited by Donal O’Sullivan.

New York, Bonanza Books, 1960. Quarto (23.5 cm wide x 31 cm). 199 pages with severla scores printed but mainly lyrics, divided beautifully into Laments, Historical Songs, etc. (see detail below), Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. With private gift-inscription in Philadelphia, 1967, to endpaper. RARE !

4. Shorter, Dora Sigerson.

The Tricolour – Poems of the Irish Revolution.

Dublin, Maunsel and Roberts, Limited., 1922. 11 cm x 17 cm. 71 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some minor smudging and discolouration to pastedowns and endpapers. Foxing to edges.

5. Twohig, Patrick J.

Green Tears for Hecuba: Ireland’s Fight for Freedom [Black & Tan War in Ireland].

Dublin, Gaelic Press Ltd., 1979. Octavo. 63 pages. With Illustrations. Original Softcover. Small stains on pages 36 and 37, otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare !

6. Clarke, Thomas J.

Glimpses of an Irish Felon’s Prison Life. With an Introduction by P.S. O’Hegarty.

Cork, The National Publications Committee, 1970. 14 cm x 22 cm. 63 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear.