Irish History

1922. Keep This List for Reference" [Broadside]. [Irish Civil War]. The Murder Members: The Following are the Names of the Members of the Partition Parliament Who Voted for the Murder Bill:-...Keep This List for Reference. [N.p.: S.n., 1922]. 13" x 8" broadside, main text in two columns. Light toning and edgewear, horizontal and vertical fold lines, a few with tears, two repaired on verso with cellotape, "Con's Doctor" in contemporary hand near center. $1,250. * Known to its opponents as the "Murder Bill," the Public Safety Act of 1922 was enacted by the recently-established Irish Free to suppress the Irish Republican Army (IRA), which rejected the legitimacy of the Free State because it did include the counties of Northern Ireland. It was one of the key events of the Irish Civil War. The act imposed death sentences on any IRA member or supporter captured with a firearm or ammunition. Our pro-IRA broadside lists the members of the "Irish Partition Parliament" who voted for this bill. It clearly… Read More

Dublin: J. Carson for Jer. Pepyat in Skinner-Row, 1718. Thick 12mo, pp (10), 457, [45], 39, the title page a little soiled and with a faint splash mark, a little light staining, the occasional mark, lacking the front endpaper and a half-title (if called for), the joint at the title page cracked but not weak, a signature and date (1862) on the title page, the rear endpaper a bit soiled and with another early signature, otherwise remarkably clean and tight internally, full polished calf, the upper and lower covers blind-stamped marginally and with a single gilt line, the spine with blind-stamping and gilt decoration, slightly worn and rubbed. SCARCE. . First Edition. Full Leather. Good.

1834 1ed Scenes in IRELAND Dublin Catheral Abbey IRISH Legends Wright Topography
A highly rare first edition of the Rev. George Newenham Wright's illustrated historical treatise, 'Scenes in Ireland.' Wright provides detailed descriptions of a wide variety of Irish scenes including its topography, architecture, historic figures, noteworthy landmarks, observations regarding traditional Irish folklore, and much more. Also included are 12 engraved plates containing a total of 36 engravings.
Item number: #40656
Price: $499
WRIGHT, Rev. G.N.
Scenes in Ireland. With Historical Illustrations, Legends, and Biographical Notices.
London: Thomas Tegg and Son; Glasgow: R. Griffin and Co.; Dublin: W.F. Wakeman, 1834. First edition.

Details:
· Collation: Complete
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viii, 235, [1]
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12 engraved plates (containing 36 engravings)
· Provenance: Handwritten
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A. Hartley
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Frances Brown
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
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Size: ~7in X 4.25in (18cm x… Read More

Rare Original 1877 First Irish Edition Good to Good- Hardcover 224 pp. B/W illus. NOT a library copy. A good deal of mottling on front and back green boards. Spine clean. Gilt titles and gilt embossed Cover. Foxing on first 20 pages the rest clean and free of writing. Both a deeply devotional and a serious 19th century academic work showing all the Lives of St.Brigid plus notes, Discusses besides Irish the Irish lifes of Brigit of Kildare also Scottish claims and Glastonbury's Beckery site of Brigid, Many b/w illus. Binding solid. See all eight of our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans

First Edition of this Tony Award winning play

Tales of Irish Life. Illustrative of the Manners, Customs,and Condition of the People. With Designs by George Cruikshank. Two volumes. [8], iv, 242 + [2] ad; [4], 249, [1] + [2] ad pp. With six woodcuts by George Cruikshank, three in each volume. (12mo) 17.5x10.5 cm. (6¾x4"), original boards, paper spine labels. First Edition.
About this book
Michael James Whitty (1795 - 1873), newspaper editor and proprietor, native of Enniscorthy, Co Wexford, commenced his literary career in London, and among his earliest friends were Sir James Bacon and George Cruikshank. He published anonymously in 1824 two volumes of Tales of Irish Life stories which depict the customs and condition of the people of his homeland, and were a great success, being reprinted in America and also translated into French and German.
George Cruikshank (27 September 1792 – 1 February 1878) was a British caricaturist and book illustrator, praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his life. His book illustrations for his friend Charles… Read More

Sinn Fein Rebellion Handbook, Easter 1916.
Compiled by the Weekly Irish Times. The second edition which appeared in 1917 with a price of sixpence net.
Binding is contemporary half calf over cloth bound boards. Gilt titles on spine. Very good condition showing little wear. 248 pages including advertisements. Leaves are browned due to quality of paper. No markings or inscriptions except for name and address of a previous owner on first blank. There is a bookplate of a previous owner on front pastedown and a small stamp of bookseller.Some fading of boards.
Published in 1917 and based on articles published in the Irish Times in 1916, it provides a fascinating insight into the 1916 Easter Rising. It contains a wealth of information including photographs, an official list of casualties, names of prisoners etc (see images for summary of contents).
A very scarce volume in very good condition and in an attractive and durable binding.
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Red calf spine with black title plate, raised gilt binding and title. Red marbled boards.

Tan leather binding with black title plate, gilt banding and title on the spine.
A good read. Strictures on the ecclesiastical and literary history of Ireland: from the most ancient times . Also, an historical sketch of the constitution and to the year 1783. Thomas Campbell (1733–1795) was an Irish Protestant clergyman, best known as a travel writer and for his accounts of the circle of Samuel Johnson. Campbell was born at Glack in County Tyrone on 4 May 1733. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin (B.A. 1756, M.A. 1761), and took orders in 1761. He was curate of Clogher until 1772, when he was collated to the prebend of Tyholland, and in 1773 he was made chancellor of St Macartan's Cathedral, Clogher. He was a preacher. He died on 20 June 1795 in London. In 1777 he published (anonymously in London) A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland in a series of letters to John Watkinson, M.D. (a second edition was published in Dublin in 1778). It is supposed to record the tour of an Englishman in… Read More

London: Oxford University Press, 1952. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published London: Oxford University Press, Geoffrey Cumberlege, Publisher to the University, 1952, first printing, 8vo., 7" x 10", xiii+517pp., illustrated with plates, a few in color, map endpapers, 4 folding maps at rear. Bound in green cloth with gilt tiles and gilt cover crest. A near fine, clean, bright, attractive copy, folding maps fine. Light dust spotting on top edge, minor nicking front edge of page block. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with a short, closed tear. Scarce.. 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.