221. Roche Ardill, John.

The Closing of the Irish Parliament.

Dublin/ London, Hodges, Figgis & Co./ Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1907. 18.4cm x 12.4cm. 146 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very rare in any condition but scarce in this excellent condition !

222. Rose, Richard.

Governing without consensus – An Irish perspective.

First American Edition. Boston, Beacon Press, 1971. Octavo. 567 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Unusually excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

223. Ryan S.J., John.

Irish Monasticism: Origins and Early Development. With a new introduction and bibliography.

Facsimile of 1931 edition. Dublin, Four Courts Press, 1992. 16 cm x 23.5 cm. XV, 492 pages. Original hardcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. Some highlighted and underlined sections of text (with pink marker). Inscription by preowner.

224. Ryan, James G.

Irish Church Records – Their History, availability and use in family and local history research.

Dublin, Flyleaf Press, 1992. 17.5cm x 25 cm. 207 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket and protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare. Out of print.

225. Rynne, Colin.

Industrial Ireland 1750-1930 – An Archaeology.

Cork, Collins, 2006. 28 cm. 500 pages with numerous illustrations and maps. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, as new condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare !

226. Rynne, Colin.

The Industrial Archaeology of Cork City and its Environs.

Dublin, The Stationery Office, 1999. Folio. XIII, 325 pages. Illustrated throughout the whole volume with photographs, diagrams etc. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, close to new condition. A very substantial, extremely Rare and Important Publication !

227. Rynne, Colin / Wigham, Billy.

Forgotten Cork – Photographs from the Robert Day Collection.

Cork, The Collins Press, 2004. Oblong Quarto. 131 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent,close to new condition. Very rare now and usually never in this close to new condition !

228. Sandes, Elise.

Enlisted; or, My Story. Incidents of Life and Work Among Soldiers. Reprinted from “Forward” and edited by her Co-Worker M.T.Schofield.

Fourth Edition. Curragh / London, Office of “Forward” – Sandes’ Soldiers’ Home / S. W. Partridge & Co., 1915. 8°. 277 pages. Original Softcover with gilt lettering to the frontcover. Very good condition.

229. Shannon, Martin.

Sixteen Roads to Golgatha – The Life Stories of the Sixteen Executed Leaders of the Easter Rising.

First Edition. Dublin, Red Hand Books, no year [c.1966]. Octavo. 195 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper. Rare ! Especially in this condition !

230. Sheppard’s Irish Auction House.

Loughton House : September 27-30, 2016. The Entire Contents and Other Important Clients.

2 volumes. Durrow, Sheppard’s Irish Auction House, 2016. 17 cm x 23.6 cm. 400 pages including colour photographs of 2573 items. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Slight bump on the right top corner of the front cover of Vol.I.

231. 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.

232. [Sinn Féin].

Sinn Féin Constitution.

Dublin, Sinn Fein Headquarters / Ard-Fheis, 1950. Octavo. 6 pages. Original Softcover. Good condition with dogears, some browning. Extremely Rare !

233. [Sinn Féin Information Office / Oifig Eolais Sinn Féin]

Ireland: The Facts / Eire – Na Fiorais [Bilingual booklet in english and gaelic, “published to explain to the Irish people at home and in exile, and to the people of the world at large the justness of the demand for the unity and freedom of Ireland].

Dublin, Sinn Féin Information Office [1971]. Folio. 24 pages including aseveral photographic illustrations (also an image of a shrine for Harry Thornton). Illustrated Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

234. [Sinn Fein] O’Hegarty, P.S.

The Victory of Sinn Fein – How it won it and how it used it.

First Edition. Dublin, The Talbot Press, 1924. Octavo. VIII, 218 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Modern Ireland in the Making]

235. Smith, Charlotte.

Desmond – A Novel in Two Volumes.

First Irish Edition. Two Volumes (complete set). Dublin, Printed for P.Wogan, P.Byrne, J.Moore, J.Rice, W. McKenzie, H.Colbert, G. Folingsby etc. etc., 1792. Small-Octavo (11 cm x 17 cm). VII, 276, 306 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th-century leather with original spinelabels. Both Volumes in protective Mylar and now housed in a bespoke Solander Box. Bindings rubbed with loss to labels. Bookplate / Exlibris of Richard Meade of Ballymartle attached to pastedown of Volume I.

236. Smithson, Annie M.P.

Her Irish Heritage [″With the Printed Dedication: Dedicated to the Men who died Easter 1916”].

First Edition of her first book. Dublin, The Talbot Press, [no year (1917)]. Octavo. 270 pages. Hardcover / original publisher’s cloth-binding with decroative Celtic-Knot-Design. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. This is the best preserved version of this work we have ever seen. With a gift-inscription from the year 1934 (not from Smithson).

237. Somerville, Edith / Ross, Martin [Violet Martin].

A Patrick’s Day Hunt. [Engraved & Printed at the Racquet Court Press by Edmund Evans].

Westminster [London], Archibald Constable & Co., no year [c.1902]. Oblong Folio. 47 pages with eight (8) plates in colour and several illustrations in black-and-white. Original, illustrated Hardcover, now in professional colloctor’s Mylar. Some of the plates with some minor staining, one plate cleanly detached. But all plates in wonderful and vibrant condition overall (see photographs).

238. [St.Columba].

St. Columba’s / Record of the League of St.Columba – St.Patrick’s College in Maynooth – 1901 – 1906 [6 Volumes in 3 Volumes]. Printed for private circulation only. Issued by The League of St.Columba, Maynooth College. With many photographs and illustrations, poems and essays in english and gaelic (Gaeilge).

Six Volumes in Three. Dublin, O’Brien & Ards, 1902 – 1906. Octavo. Volume I:(includes Fourth Year 1901 – 1902) – 123 pages and 111 pages / Volume II: (includes Fifth Year – 1902 – 1903) 136 pages and 138 pages / Volume III: (includes Sixth Year – 1905 – 1906) 128 pages and 137 pages. Original Hardcover (green cloth in protective Mylar). Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. One of the rarest publications of Irish Local History. With several important essays.

239. [Stafford, Thomas] Carew, Sir George / O’Grady, Standish.

Pacata Hibernia. Or A History of the Wars in Ireland during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. Especially within the Province of Munster under the Government of Sir George Carew and compiled by his Direction and Appointment. Edited and with an Introduction and Notes by Standish O’Grady. With Portraits, Maps and Plans. [This late 19th century version of the Pacata Hibernia is the so-called Fourth Edition, with a new impression of the titlepage of the first edition from 1633 and excellent reproductions of the original plates].

Limited Edition: No.252 of only five hundred copies printed. Two Volumes (complete set). London, Downey & Co. Limited, 1896. Octavo. Volume I: Frontispiece – Portrait of Sir George Carew, XXII, 302 pages with 14 illustrations (maps etc.) / Volume II – Volume II: Frontispiece – Portrait of Donnell O’Sulevan Beare [O’Sullivan Bere], XI, 357 pages with 8 illustrations (maps etc.). Original red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Both Volumes in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Both bindings firm and all illustrations in excellent condition.

240. Stanhope, Earl Philip Henry.

Miscellanies. With some supplementary letters.

Second Edition. London, John Murray, 1863. 12 cm x 19 cm. 144 pages. Original Hardcover (full brown calf with gilt lettering to spine). Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen – Translator Erik Haugaard. With his Exlibris to the pastedown.