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Irish Biography20730. : Catalogue of the 3rd exhibition of Irishmen in Science and Engineering Sir John Macneill, John B. Dunlop, Harry Ferguson. Belfast: Q.U.B>Science Library November 1974. 21 x 14.5 cm. 13 pp. card covers, In good condition. £5.006610. W & G Baird Ltd: Last Honours to Ulster's Leader Lord Carson of Duncairn. Belfast: W. & G. Baird, 1935. Reprinted from the Belfast Telegraph of Saturday 26th October 1935. Commemorative Booklet. 35 pp. 25 .5 x 19.5 cm. Illustrated. Purple matt card covers. Slight wear, otherwise a good copy of a scarce item. Carson was given a State Funeral in Belfast, and is the only person buried in St Annes Cathedral. £20.0013951. Albert, TM: Tales of an Ulster Detective. Bangor, County Down: TM Albert Publications, 1989. 96 pp. 21 x 15 cm. Sixteen humorous short stories, illustrated with b&w line drawings. In pictorial matt card covers. £10.0018276. Anon.: Memoirs of the Life and Family of the Most Illustrious Duke of Hamilton &c.... London: (printed for T Warner), 1717. First edition. 120 pp. 19 x 12.5 cm. Portrait frontispiece. Full calf binding, with a new professionally-laid, gold-blocked spine. The title page is missing. Label for an Exeter shop, "Sold by Edward Store, bookseller in Exon". A good tight copy of a very scarce item. £175.0019624. Arnold, J.C: R.M.Jones of Inst, A Memoir. Belfast:: McCaw Stevenson & Orr 1952. 22 x 14.5 cm. 52 pp, 3 illustrations, black blocked tan boards, in very good condition, in a slightly worn and dusty dustwrapper. Jones was head of classics, Principal and a major figure in the Belfast school's history. £10.006150. Arts Council of Great Britain: Daniel Maclise 1806-1870. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1972 25 by 19 cms. 124 pp. illustrated, paper covers, good. The catalogue of an exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery, London and the National Gallery in Dublin 1972. A great Victorian History painter born in Cork. £10.0018033. Baker, Joe: Hooligan to Historian The Life and Times of Joe Baker ( So Far! ) Belfast: Glenravel Local History Project, 2009. 141 pp. 29.5 x 21 cm. Biography of Belfast historian. Profusely illustrated. Pictorial semi-matt card covers. In very good condition. £10.0016981. Bickley, Francis: J.M.Synge and the Irish Dramatic Movement. London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1912. Modern Biographies. 95 pp. 17 x 12.5 cm. Frontispiece portrait. Gold-blocked blind-stamped green boards. In very good condition. £10.0019879. Biggar, Francis Joseph: The Northern Leaders of '98 ( No. 1 ) William Orr. Belfast: The United Irishmen Commemoration Society Facsimile Reprint 1998 20 x 16 cm. 80 pp. 25 illustrations, Softcovers, in very good condition almost as new. The original edition is now extremely scarce. "Remember Orr" William Orr was cruelly hanged in Carrickfergus in October 1797. "I am no traitor! I die a persecuted man for a persecuted country." £12.0019758. Bowen, Elizabeth: Bowen's Court London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1942. First Edition. viii + 341pp. 22 x 14.5 cm. 8 illustrations and folding map. Bibliography. Red-blocked green boards, in the very-rare war-time dw. Edge spotting, and wear to spine extremeties. Contents clean and tight. £12.0020575. Boylan, Henry: A Dictionary of Irish Biography. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan 1998. Third Edition m.xviii+462 pp. illustrated, gold blocked black boards, in very good condition, in a good dustwrapper.A standard work. £10.0018127. Boylan, Henry: Wolfe Tone. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1981. Gill's Irish Lives. 145 pp. 18.5 x 12 cm. Biography. References. Index. Pictorial glazed card covers. Name neatly written inside front cover, o/w in very good condition. £10.0019031. Brett, C.E. B.: Roger Mulholland Architect, of Belfast, 1740-1818. Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 1976. 20 pp. 25 x 20 cm. Seventeen plates, two plans, and one map. Pictorial glazed card covers. In good condition. This has become quite scarce. £15.0017677. Brunicardi, Niall: John Anderson Entrepreneur. Fermoy: Eigse Books, 1987. xii +177 pp. 20.5 x 14.5 cm. The story of John Anderson and Fermoy, County Cork. 27 illustrations, and 2 endpaper plans. Chronology. Bibliography. Index. Pictorial semi-matt card covers. In very good condition. £15.0020702. Brunicardi, Niall: John Anderson of Fermoy. The Forgotten Benefactor. Fermoy: Eigse na Mainistreach Publications 1980. Being a Paper read to the Fermoy Field Club, 23 January 1980, with illustrations and further material annexed. 21 x 14.5 cm. 45 pp.18 illustrations, including a map,card covers, in very good condition. A Scot who took up residence in Co. Cork in the late 18th Century he became an important benefactor to his adopted country. He founded the town of Fermoy and is accepted as the father of the Mail Coach System in Ireland. £15.0012737. Buchanan, Professor R; Mitchel, N; Thompson, G; Mallory, Professor J; and Evans, D: Mourne Country Revisited A tribute to Estyn Evans. Belfast; Ulster Folklife Society, 2005. Second Printing. 80pp. 21 x 15 cm. "Father of the Ulster Folk Museum First Professor of Geography in Ireland Archaeologist and Folklorist Writer, Artist and Broadcaster with extracts from his classic book Mourne Country. Personal memories of Gwyneth and Alun Evans". A useful biography of Estyn Evans and history of the Ulster Folk Museum. Pictorial glazed card covers. Vg condition. £10.0017676. Burls, John, editor: Nine Generations A History of the Andrews Family, Millers of Comber. Comber: Isaac Andrews & Sons, 1958. 170 pp. 22 x 14 cm. 22 illustrations. Pictorial boards, in very good condition, in a matching very-good dustwrapper. From the manuscript of Sydney Andrews £20.006157. Cameron, C. A: Reminiscences of Sir Charles Cameron C.B. Dublin: Hodges Figgis 1913. 181 pp. illustrated. Cameron was the author of A History of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, President of that Royal College, knighted for his scientific researches and work for public health. A little wear, spine title faded otherwise good. £20.003347. Campbell College: The Campbell College Register 1894-1954. Belfast: Campbell College, 1954. Fourth edition. 420pp. Illustrated, green boards. Everything you need to know about staff and pupils of this famous Belfast School. Covers a bit stained. £10.009145. Campbell College: The Campbell College Register 1894-1982. Belfast: Campbell College, 1982. Fifth edition. 699 pp. Illustrated, green boards, gold crest on front cover. Everything you need to know about staff and pupils of this famous Belfast School. In very good fresh condition. Previous editions in 1913, 1927, 1938, and 1954. £15.0016289. Carr, Barney: Summerhill Warrenpoint A Memoir. Warrenpoint: Barney Carr, c2010. vi + 316 pp. 24 x 16.5 cm. Memoirs of a lifetime in Warrenpoint, from 1923. Includes involvement in Education, the SDLP, and the author's management of the Down G.A.A. team in 1960/61, particularly. Profusely illustrated. Pictorial semi-matt card covers. Title page neatly removed, o/w in good condition. £20.0017680. Clarke, Desmond: Thomas Prior 1681-1751 Founder of the Royal Dublin Society. Dublin: Published for the Royal Dublin Society by Colm O Lochlain at the Sign of the Three Candles 1951. 60 pp. 22 x 14 cm. Frontispiece portrait, and two illustrations. Matt green covers, printed black. Spine darkened, otherwise in very good condition. £10.0019338. Colgan, Brendan: Vere Foster English Gentleman, Irish Champion 1819-1900. Belfast: Fountain Publishing, 2003. xv + 126 pp. 22 x 16 cm. 23 illustrations. Family tree. Bibliography. Gold-blocked black boards. In very good fresh condition, in a vg dustwrapper. Foster was born into an upper class English family with an estate in Louth. Moved by the suffering in the Great Famine he devoted his life to the social improvement of the Irish poor. He immersed himself in the welfare of emigrants, travelling on coffin ships, for example, and spent his fortune in building and equipping schools. He founded the Irish National Teachers Organisation in 1868. Ironically he died in penury in an attic, but remains one of the great philanthropists of this island. Brendan Colgan sadly died at a young age before the book was quite ready, and it was prepared for publication by Dr. Eamon Phoenix. It now seems scarce. £25.006197. Connolly, Colm: Michael Collins. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1996. 94 pp. The first illustrated biography of this charismatic leader. Very good in a price clipped dustwrapper. £9.5013392. Costello, Nuala: John MacHale Archbishop of Tuam. Dublin and Belfast: The Phoenix Publishing Company, 1938. Famous Irish Lives Series. 159 pp. 18.5 x 12 cm. MacHale was Archbishop of Tuam, 1834-1881. A staunch supporter of O'Connell, he opposed the National School system and the Queen's Colleges. He argued against Papal Infallibility and was hostile to the Land League. Hardback, no dw, in good condition. £45.0018169. Craig, Patricia: A Twisted Root Ancestral Entanglements in Ireland. Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 2012. First edition. xxiv + 277 pp. 21.5 x 13.5 cm. family tree. 16 illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Pictorial semi matt card covers. Author inscribed on title page, o/w in very good condition. £12.0019442. Crone, John S.: A Concise Dictionary of Irish Biography. Dublin: The Talbot Press 1928. 21.5 x 14 cm. vii+290 pp. goldblocked bue boardsin good condition in a dustwrapper with chipped spine extremities. £23.0015335. Crowe, W. Haughton: Beyond the Hills An Ulster Headmaster Remembers. Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, 1971. viii+239 pp. 22 x 14.5 cm. Sixteen illustrations. A very appealing read. Gold-blocked dark-red boards, in a v.g. dustwrapper. There is a faint old circular library stamp on the margin of one page, otherwise a very fresh attractive copy. £15.0014647. Crowe, W. Haughton: The Brontes of Ballynaskeagh. Dundalk: Dungalgan Press, 1978. ix+106 pp. 19 x 13 cm. Illustrated by Morris Ferguson. The ffep has the inscription "Betty & Wilfred Tallentire". At one time Mr & Mrs Tallentire had a really wonderful antiques gallery in Rostrevor. Hardback. The dustwrapper is a little rubbed and worn, but overall in very good condition. £20.0015138. De Burgh, Lydia: Another Way of Life. Downpatrick: The Coolatin Press, 1999. 23 by 15 cms. xiii+142 pp. More biographical material from this Irish artist. Autographed by author on title page. Forty illustrations. Pictorial card covers. In very good condition. £20.0018706. Deane, Arthur: The Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society Centenary Volume 1821-1921. Belfast: Published by the Society, 1924. (6) + viii + 212 pp. 21 x 14 cm. 43 tipped-in illustrations. Gold-blocked blue boards. Spine and boards are a little faded, but otherwise the book is in very good condition. A review of the activities of the Society for 100 years, with historical notes, and memoirs of many distinguished members. List of papers read to the Society 1821-1921. Index. The memoirs and illustrations are particularly valuable. £32.0017489. Deane, Arthur, editor: The Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society Centenary Volume 1821-1921. Belfast: The Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society, 1924. viii + 212 pp. 21 x 14 cm. "A review of the activities of the Society for 100 years with historical notes, and memoirs of many distinguished members." Inscribed on the ffep "With the Editor's compliments." Bookplate of the local historian, and prominent Belfast surgeon, Robert William Magill Strain. Forty-three mounted plates, as per the list of Illustrations, and a further mounted plate opposite page ix. Where two plates are mounted back-to-back the page is not included in the pagination. Gold-blocked and lined, textured, blue boards, with the gold a little faded, but otherwise very good. No dw. A very nice association copy, with biographies and plates of many of the leading men of letters and science in nineteenth-century Belfast. £75.006070. Dudgeon, Jeffrey: Roger Casement The Black Diaries with a Study of his Background, Sexuality and Irish Political Life. Belfast: Belfast Press, 2002. xx + 659 pp. 24 x 15.5 cm. For the first time all the Black Diaries are published together, including the erotically charged 1911 diary. This is a rigorous study of Casement, the public and political figure, and his private, personal life, along with usually neglected aspects of his life, and, of course, the authenticity controversies. This is a uniquely fresh and original study of this great Irish humanitarian and patriot, tragically hanged by the English authorities in 1916. 65 illustrations. Gold-blocked black boards, in very good condition, almost as new, in a very good dustwrapper. This is a heavy book - 1,600g - which may incur extra postage for shipping outside the U.K. £35.0016009. Dunlop, Eull, compiler.: Sandy's Story. Early 'Memoirs' of Alderman Sandy Spence, MBE, JP, the longest-serving Mayor of Ballymena. Ballymena: Ballymena Borough Council, 1991. Ballymena Borough Research Series: no 15. 40 pp. 24.5 x 17 cm. Foreword by Jack McCann. Incorporating 'The Langest Thing a Mine', 1988. Forty-six plates, and four drawings in text. Pictorial matt card covers. In very good condition. Includes as a loose insert a newspaper photo of the staff and workers of John Dinsmore & Sons (Oldgreen), outside their mill in 1939. Really wonderful local history. £23.009374. Dunlop, Eull, editor, and Hanna, Robert: McIlmoyle of Dervock Pastor of Two Flocks. Ballymena: Mid-Antrim Historical Group 1991. 180 pp. illustrated, soft covers, in very good condition. A book about this Minister in the Reformed Presbyterian Church for Ballyclare and for Dervock, famous for public speaking, preaching and story telling, he was also involved with the Ulster Farmers Union, and was an expert on sheep. £15.006777. Dwane, David, T: Early Life of Eamon de Valera. Dublin: The Talbot Press Limited, 1927. xii + 236 pp. 18 x 12 cm. Yellow boards, worn, in brown back strip. The front board is printed with a portrait of Dev. Six portraits: Dev's mother; Edmund Coll who brought Dev to Ireland; his step-brother Thomas Wheelright; Patrick Coll who raised Dev; and Dev as a graduate at 22; and at 36 during the 1918 General Election. Paper has some browning. Neat inscription on front ffep. £45.0014107. Fitzgerald, Desmond: Memoirs of Desmond Fitzgerald 1913-1916. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul1968. xiii+201 pp. illustrated, hardback, in a quite rubbed dustwrapper. These memoirs cover the author's part in Dublin in 1916 when he fought at the Post Office at Pearse's side. He died in 1940. Apart from the d.w. in good condition. £25.0015009. Fitzpatrick, W.J.: A Mourne Man's Memories. Newcastle: Mourne Observer Press, 1980. vi + 69 pp. 21 x 13.5 cm. Ten illustrations. The autobiography of this acclaimed columnist, playwright and broadcaster. Pictorial card covers, in near mint condition. £8.0020608. Forristal, Desmond: The Second Burial of Bishop Shanahan. Dublin: Veritas 1990 329 pp.illustrated with 10 photographs, softcovers, in very good condition. In 1902 Father Shanahan was sent to Southern Nigeria and remained there as Priest and Bishop for thirty years.He founded the Holy Rosary Congregation and was one of the great figures of the Irish Missionary movement. £15.003743. Fowweather, Arthur: One Small Head. Downpatrick: Down Recorder, 1980. 288 pp. illustrations and dustjacket by Rowel Friers, foreword by Walter Love, very good, in a dustjacket with some rubbing and chips to the topfront . The first of two volumes of biography and reminiscences from this distinguished educationalist. £20.0012203. Fowweather, Arthur: One Small Head. Downpatrick: Down Recorder 1980. 288 pp. illustrations and dustjacket by Rowel Friers, foreword by Walter Love, in a mint dustjacket. Ffep carries a signed cartoon of Fowweather by Rowel Friers, the signature of Walter Love who wrote the foreword, as well as Paul Evans (Prod.), followed by a signed inscription by Fowweather to his wife Iza. This was Fowweather's wife's copy.The first of two volumes of biography and reminiscences from this distinguished educationalist. In very good condition. £55.001737. Fowweather, Arthur: Up Down. Newcastle, County Down: Mourne Observer Press, 1981. 190 pp. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Memoirs of the charismatic Headmaster of Down High School, Downpatrick. Illustrations and d.w. by cartoonist Rowel Friers, and 27 photographs. Gold-blocked green boards, in very good condition, In a good dustwrapper. £15.0011589. Fraser, Sir Ian: The First Three Professors of Surgery. Belfast: Reprinted from The Ulster Medical Journal Vol. 45 1976. 24 by 16.5 cms. no pagination, (34 pp. ), illustrated, with an autographed inscription from the author on the cover, blue paper covers, in very good condition. Deals with the first 3 Professors of Surgery at Queen's College, University Belfast. Prof. Alex Gordon, Prof. Thomas Sinclair and Dr. Andrew Fullerton. Prof. Gordon's patients always did well but he was neither polite or presentable. When asked to see a notable from Belfast by the family Doctor, Dr Purdon, who had called to escort him, Gordon appeared at once in his old tweed hat. Pudon suggested that since the patient was a man of importance perhaps a top hat would be more appropriate. Gordon went inside at once, closed the door, and sent out a top hat on a tray held by a manservant, with the note saying, "I see it is the hat you want and not the man." £20.0012124. Friers, Rowel: Drawn From Life An Autobiography. Belfast: Blackstaff Press 1994. 216 pp. softcovers, in very good condition. On the endpaper Friers has written a dedication along with a cartoon self portrait, very charming. Friers has been one of the best cartoonists in the north of Ireland. £20.0015103. Gaskell, Ernest: Ulster Leaders Social and Political. London: The Queenhithe Printing and Publishing Co. Ltd, 1914. Printed solely for private circulation at three guineas. 27.5 x 20.5 cm. No pagination. Biographies of some 117 men (no women) with photographs of many of them. Nine-two of the subjects are Justices of the Peace, including, and alongside, Lords Lieutenant, Earls, owners of large estates, the Archbishop of Armagh, County Councillors, doctors, James Craig and Edward Carson. Ernest Gaskell seems to have been Carrie Amy Campion, later Mrs North, died 1910. The series of Leaders Social and Political may have run to about twenty-five volumes, published between 1890 and 1920. This volume, which covers the former nine-county Ulster, was probably the only Irish volume published. Half red morocco and red cloth, six panelled spine, gilt shamrock to panels, gilt spine titling, gilt title to front board, a.e.g., and original gold-and-brown decorative endpapers. Original spine professionally relaid. Showing some wear, and some fading to boards. There are small pencilled ticks against some of the names on the contents list. A very scarce item. £500.001874. Gillespie, Gordon: Albert H. McElroy The Radical Minister 1915-1975. Belfast: The Albert McElroy Memorial Fund 1985. A Memorial Volume 46pp. illustrated, hardback, owner inscription on front pastedown, otherwise in very good condition. Concentrates on his work in the Ulster Liberal Party, though he was also a Minister in the Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church. £15.0017495. Graham, Mary: Ring the Doctor. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1967. One of an edition of only 500 copies. 80 pp. 21 x 14 cm. Gold-blocked red boards. In very good condition, in a dustwrapper which is rubbed at the upper spine extremity, and this has been strengthened with peelable tape. The dw is not price-clipped, but the price has been blacked out. Mrs Graham's husband was a respected Irish doctor, at one time President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. A scarce title. £50.0020792. Greenlee, Graham, Gordon Lucy and William Roulston: Thomas Sinclair Ulster's Most Prominent Citizen. Belfast: The Ulster-Scots Agency first edition 2016. 24.5 x13.5 cm. 180 pp. illustrated, softcovers, in very good condition. Great Ulster Scots £10.0016976. Grindle, Harry: Reprise An Irish church musician looks back. Belfast: published for the author, 2009. xviii + 217 pp. 23 x 15.5 cm. Forty-seven illustrations. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. Autographed by the author on the half-title page. £15.0017295. Guenot, C.: Le Comte de Tyrone ou L'Irlande et Le Protestantisme au XVI Siecle. Tours: Alfred Mame et Fils Editeurs, 1867. Nouvelle Edition. 350 pp. 26.5 x 16.5 cm. Four full-page illustrations. Red leather tooled binding, with a six panelled spine with gilt decorative panels and titling. Aeg. The spine extremities are a little rubbed and the corners are a little bumped, and there is some shelfwear and minor discolouration to the boards. The endpapers are watered silk. A bookplate has been removed from the front pastedown, and a former owner has written his name and address on the ffep. Internally a couple of pages are lightly marked where a leaf has been pressed, otherwise in good condition. This is a useful French study of the 17th century in the north of Ireland. Text in French. £50.0020276. Hamilton, Charles Stewart Parnell: East West An Irish Doctor's Memories. London: Christopher Johnson 1955. 223 pp. map, 14 illustrations, black blocked green boards, in a good dustwrapper, in good condition. £15.0010791. Hamilton, Mary: The Silver Road. London: Allan Wingate 1951. 287 pp. hardback, good in a worn dustwrapper. The life of an Irish gentleman retold by his widow.- boyhood in Ireland, a crack cavalry regiment, service in the Gold Coast, farming in Ireland, the stormy years after 1914. £15.0010709. Hanna, Ronnie: Woodrow Wilson A Presbyterian President. Lurgan: Ulster Society Publications 1992. 85 pp. illustrated, softcovers, in very good condition. President Wilson was the grandson of James Wilson from Strabane and the son of a Presbyterian Minister. £12.0014685. Hanvey, Bobby: The Mental. Belfast: Wonderland Press, 1996. iii + 156pp. 20 x 13 cm. Recollections of a radio journalist, psychiatric nurse in Downpatrick, and well-known local photographer. Pictorial glazed card covers. Covers are creased. Discolouration of first and final pages. £19.5018544. Henderson, J.W.: Methodist College Belfast 1868-1938 A Survey and Retrospect. Belfast: Mehodist College, 1939. In two volumes. Volume 1, xi + 477 pp, Volume II, vii + 479-958 pp. Extensively illustrated. Gold-blocked navy blue boards. No dustwrappers. The original dw was plain cream cloth. Contains staff and pupil lists, biographies of those who served in WWI, etc. Photographs and family histories of many past pupils and staff. A major resource for genealogists. In very good condition, near mint. The standard history. Please note that the unpackaged weight of these two books is 2,500g. Overseas shipping will require extra postage. £30.0015918. Houston, Rene: The Youngest Stone. Ballymena: Rene Houston, 2005. 192 pp. 21 x 15 cm. An Autobiographical Journey from Biggin Hill, Kent, via Donegal to North Antrim. Profusely illustrated. The author was born in Kent and after marriage came to live in Donegal, and later on a farm at Castlegore, near Ballymena. Pictorial semi-matt card covers. There is a vertical crease on the front cover, o/w in good condition. £10.007394. Hyde, H Montgomery: A Victorian Historian being some Private Letters of W.E.H. Lecky 1859-1878. London: Home & Van Thal first edition 1947. 19 by 13 cms. 90 pp. frontispiece portrait, edited with an introduction and notes by Hyde. These previously unpublished letters began as an undergraduate in Dublin, recount his varied travels in London and describes mid-Victorian society in London . £10.0013583. James, Kenneth: Canon Grainger Country Rector, Magpie Collector and Father of the Ulster Museum. Belfast: Ulster Museum Publication No. 269. Ulster Museum Publication No. 269. An offprint from The Glynns, Volume 19, 1991. 7pp. 27 x 20 cm. 4 illustrations. Card covers. In very good condition. £5.0020806. Jones, Davina: Parallel Lives. Belfast: Appletree Press 2005. 206 pp. illustrated, in very good condition in a good dustwrapper. Life of Col. William Brownlow of Ballywhite House and Agnes White who worked as a maid in the house. Lots of interest on Portaferry/Downpatrick. £15.0012948. Kenny, Colum: Tristram Kennedy and the revival of Irish Legal Training 1835-1885. Dublin: Irish Academic Press in association with The Irish Legal History Society 1996. xviii+270 pp. illustrated, hardback, with a dustwrapper, a little wear but good overall. Kennedy, from Londonderry, founded the modern Carrickmacross lace industry and represented Louth in Parliament. Attention is paid to the Dublin Law Institute. £20.005807. Kerr, W. S., Dean of Belfast: Walker of Derry. Londonderry: Printed for the Author, 1938 144 pp. 19 x 13 cm. A biography and study of the City's Governor during the Seige of 1689. Frontispiece portrait, and one other Plate. Black-blocked red boards, with very slightly foxed yellow backstrip. Good in a rather edgeworn, dusty dustwrapper. £20.0016833. Kinahan, Coralie: Behind Every Great Man..? Templepatrick: Studio Press, c1992. viii+408 pp. 22.5 x 22 cm. More than just a family history or biography. Material about Castle Upton at Templepatrick, and the de Burgh family. Illustrated. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £18.0020803. Latimer, W.T.: Ulster Biographies relating to the Rebellion of 1798. Belfast: Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland n.d. a modern reprint of the 1897 original. \biographies of Henry Joy McCracken, Henro Monro, Samuel Neilson, James Hope, Rev James Porter, Rev William S. Dickson and David Bailie Warden. The last biography is reprinted from the Ulster Journal of Archaeology, Vol XIII, 1907. In very good condition. £12.0020812. Latimer, W.T.: Ulster Biographies relating to the Rebellion of 1798. Belfast: Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland n.d. a modern reprint of the 1897 original. \biographies of Henry Joy McCracken, Henro Monro, Samuel Neilson, James Hope, Rev James Porter, Rev William S. Dickson and David Bailie Warden. The last biography is reprinted from the Ulster Journal of Archaeology, Vol XIII, 1907. In very good condition. £12.0020521. Lecky, Elizabeth: A Memoir of the Right Hon. William Edward Hartpole Lecky by his wife. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. first edition 1909. 22 x 14.5 cm.379 pp. 5 illustrations, gilt blocked dark green boards, minor shelfwear otherwise in good condition. £15.0016171. Livingstone, Aubrey R.: Not Always a Dreamer. Belfast: John Adams, 1941. 156 pp. 18 x 12.5 cm. Gold-blocked blue boards, no d.w. The author had previously published "Newfoundland. Our Oldest Colony" which is very scarce and may be self-published. £23.0016095. Lockhart, Elayne: Marie Richenet From Switzerland to Ireland Her Amazing Life Story. Toronto: ShopMyBook.com, 2012. 126 pp. 28 x 21.5 cm. Profusely illustrated. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £23.001468. Loeber Rolf: A Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Ireland 1600-1720. London: John Murray, 1981. 127pp. d.w. v.g. This was a major achievment in the study of Irish architects and architecture. A lateral extension of Colvin's Biographical Dictionary of British Architects. £10.0018490. Londonderry, The Marquis of: Recollections of a Tour in the North of Europe in 1836-1837. London: Richard Bentley, 1838. Two Volumes. 22 x 14 cm. Volume 1, xii + 275 pp, 3 plates, and folded plans of St Petersburg and Moscow. Volume II, vii + 228 pp, and 2 plates. Half leather and marbled boards, marbled foreedges, six panelled spine with raised bands, and original spine labels. The binding of both volumes is seriously damaged, with loss of the leather altogether on the lower spine of each volume. There is scattered foxing and old damp stains to the bottom of the title pages, and frontispieces, as well as a couple of the plates. These are poor copies only, which we would suggest are reading copies. The Marquis of Londonderry hoped to be appointed Ambassador to Russia. £95.0018738. Londondery, The Marquis of: The Londonderry Album Portraits from a Great house in the 1890s. London: Blond & Briggs,1978. introduced by the Marquess of Londonderry. 96 pp. 21.5 x 25 cm. 93 illustrations. Gold-blocked brown boards, in a good, price-clipped, dustwrapper. Showing a little wear, but overall good. £12.0010828. Long, Helen: The Life and Times of Harry Long. privately printed 2007. 152 pp. illustrated softcovers, in very good condition. Mr Long served in the RUC, in Carrickmore and Kilrea and in Traffic division and went on to become a Minister in the Church of Ireland, serving in Belvoir outside Belfast. £12.0013431. Long, Rev. S. Ernest: Carson Dromara: Slieve Croob Press, 1969. Reprint. 24 pp. 21.5 x 14 cm. First published in 1968. Card covers, in very good condition. Rev. Long was Rector of Dromara and Garvaghy in County Down. £10.0017069. Loudan, Jack: O Rare Amanda! The Life of Amanda McKittrick Ros. London: Chatto & Windus, 1954. First Edition. 200 pp. 20.5 x 13.5 cm. Eight illustrations. No dustwrapper. Amanda Ros was one of the great literary characters. Regarded by many as the world's worst novelist she saw herself as it finest. An extraordinary character by any standards. Of a letter from the bank manager she replied to him that "she had his letter before her and shortly it would be behind her". Always with a cult following her books are increasingly scarce and quite valued. Gold-blocked pink boards, no dustwrapper. Spine slightly sunfaded, otherwise a nice clean tight copy. £30.0020284. Luke, G. P: Boyhood in Antrim. Antrim: 1994. 61pp. illustrated, card covers, very good fresh condition. Memories from the 1920s onwards. £10.0012703. Lyons, J.B: What Did I Die Of? The Deaths of Parnell, Wilde, Synge and other Literary Pathologies. Dublin: Lilliput Press 1991. 234 pp. 21.5 x 14 cm. Illustrated, paperback. In good condition. £8.002965. Lyttle, W.G.: Betsy Gray or Hearts of Down A Tale of Ninety-Eight. Newcastle, Co Down: Mourne Observer, 1968. "A reprint of the original book ... with Other Stories and Pictures of '98 as collected by and published in The Mourne Observer". xv + 191 pp. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. Thirty-one iillustrations. A very fresh copy in near fine condition, in a good dustwrapper. This historical novel has always been very popular here in County Down, but never stays in print for very long. £14.0020818. M.R. ( Lady Rennell of Rodd ? ): Louisa Countess of Antrim A Memory by her granddaughter M.R. 1949. Published for the author, no publishng details 1949. 22 x 14 cm. 35 pp. 4 illustrations, softcovers, former owner's name on the title page, in very good condition, Scarce, Copac has no listings. The author may have been her granddaughter, Lady Rennell of Rodd? £25.0018067. MacAmhlaigh, Donall: An Irish Navvy The Diary of an Exile. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1971. Translated, by Valentin Iremonger, from the Irish "Dialann Deorai". ix + 182 pp. 21.5 x 14 cm. Pictorial semi-matt card covers. Minor wear, otherwise in fair condition. £10.008878. Macaulay, Ambrose: William Crolly Archbishop of Armagh 1835-49. Dublin: Four Courts Press 1994. xii+481 pp. illustrated, map, very good in good dustwrapper though a little lightly creased at top of spine. As Archbishop of Armagh, 1835-1849, Crolly played a major role in Irish ecclesiastical and political life, paricularly over the system of national education, the Charitable Bequests Act and the Colleges (Ireland) Bill. £20.0017977. Macauley, Thurston: Donn Byrne Bard of Armagh London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1929. xi + 179 pp. 19 x 12.5 cm. Blind-stamped black boards. No dw. Portrait frontispiece, and 15 illustrations. Bibliography. Ffep neatly removed. Tiny additions to the bibliography, in pencil. £12.0015318. MacCarthy, R. B.: John Henry Bernard 1860-1927. A Study of a Leader of the Southern Unionists. Dublin: Linden Publishing 2008. 23.5 by 15.5 cms 80 pp. softcovers, in very good condition. £8.0012550. MacManus, M. J: Eamon de Valera A Biography. Dublin and Cork: The Talbot Press first edition 1944. 359 pp. frontispiece portrait, hardback, in good condition. The ffep is signed S.G.D. dated 3/5/1944. There is a pencil inscription , From the library of Gavan Duffy. George Gavan Duffy, Seorsa Ghabhain U'Dhubhthaigh, 1882-1951 was an Irish Barrister and Politician. He defended several of the leaders of the 1916 Rising, and of course most famously, and unsuccessfully, Sir Roger Casement. De Valera appointed him as a representitive in the negotiations of the Anglo Irish Treaty of 1921. His reservations about it led to his being the last man to sign it. He was a friend of Erskine Chiilders. In 1946 he was appointed President of the High Court. We have no further information on the provenance of this book. A nice association copy. £110.0016784. Macrory, Sir Patrick: Days That Are Gone. Limavady: North-West Books, 1983. First edition. 167pp. 21 x 15 cm. A realistic recollection of growing up in Ascendancy Ireland. 13 illustrations. Pictorial semi-matt thick card covers. No dw. The boards are shelf-worn. This was the first book published by North-West Books. £14.5010826. Mahoney, Thomas H. D: Edmund Burke and Ireland. Harvard University Press 1960. 412 pp. illustrated, hardback, in good condition. An important biography. £25.0019439. Marjoribanks, Edward, and Ian Colvin.: The Life of Lord Carson. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1932, 1934, and 1936. viii + 455pp, 446pp, and 463pp. 22 x 14 cm. The frontispieces are A Spy Cartoon, A Portrait, and A Bust. Gold-blocked black boards. No dws. The boards are showing wear, especially Volume 1. Volume 1 has the signature "John Miskimmin" neatly written on the ffep, and several newspaper cuttings inserted, including The Times obituary. £45.0019609. Marshall, W.F.: Planted By A River. Belfast: William Mullan & Son. 1st ed. 1948. 19 x 13 cm. 250 pp. gilt blocked green boards, no dustwrapper, in very good fresh condition. A popular Tyrone writer. £25.0020609. McCoy, Jack: Ulster's Joan of Arc An examination of the Betsy Gray Story. Ballynahinch: S.E.L.B. Library and information Service 1984. 21.5 x 15 cm. 63 pp illustrated, card covers, in very good condition. £18.0020844. McCrea, Charles Tempest: Tempest of Dungalgan Portrait of a Perfectionist. Dundalk: Dundalgan Press (W. Tempest ) Ltd 1988 21.5 x 15 cm. 126 pp 61 illustrations, paper covers, in very good condition, scarce. £50.0013257. McCullough, Elizabeth: Late Developer A Greenhorn in Ghana 1960-65. Darlington: Serendipity, 2006. xvii+194+15 pp. Illustrated in colour. The letters of the wife of a UN WHO worker back to family in County Londonderry, Norhern Ireland, and memoirs of life in Ghana. Near mint condition. £10.007762. McDyer, Father James: Fr. McDyer of Glencolumbkille An Autobiography. Dingle: Brandon Books reprinted 1997. 118 pp. illustrated, paperback, in very good condition, almost as new. A highly readable biography of a socialist, a radical and a priest, whose work in Donegal is a testament of a life well lived, and an important part of our social history. £16.506884. McGowan & Ingram Ltd: Kith & Kin - American Visit 1910 - In Warm Recollection of Our Meeting. Belfast: McGowan & Ingram Ltd.,1910. 26pp. 30 x 24 cm. This publication comprises 24 pages of biography, following the publishers details on a tissue page, and Locke's poem "At Last". The biographies are Daniel O'Connell, Thomas Moore, Countess of Blessington, Henry Grattan, Charles Lever, Francis Sylvester Mahony (Father Prout), Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Lady Morgan, Sir Richard Steele, Reverend Theobald Mathew, Thomas Osborne Davies, and the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava KP, each biography being an illustration on one page followed by a page of text. The poem and the biographies are printed in black on a smooth creamy-yellow paper, the illustrations and texts contained in a bright red boarder. The pages are stapled into a mottled green card cover, and this is punched and attached to the printed olive green outer card cover by a silk cord. The inner block is in very good condition, apart from rusted staples. The outer card cover is showing some wear at the corners. £95.0017087. McNeill, Mary: Little Tom Drennan Portrait of a Georgian Childhood. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1962. xiii+128 pp. 21 x 14 cm. The six plates include Cabin Hill, c1803. Index. Concordance with The Drennan Leters. Original gold-blocked quarter parchment, and marbled boards. No dustwrapper. A fairly scarce Dolmen Press title. Tom Drennan was born in Dublin but raised largely at Cabin Hill, Belfast. These memoirs are from the rich archive of The Drennan Letters, 1773-1813. A valuable study of childhood, and fascinating social history. £30.0014793. Meath, Mary Jane Brabazon (Maitland) Countess of: The Diaries of Mary Countess of Meath, edited by her husband. London: Hutchinson & Co, c1919. 286 pp. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Twenty-eight illustrations. Gold-blocked brown boards, no dustwrapper. This was the first edition of this work, taking it up to 1899. A later edition saw it extended in two volumes up to 1918. Political life in London and Ireland, service in the Diplomatic Corps. The couple became significant philanthropists, and their Irish home, Kilruddery, survives, and is open to the public. The boards show some wear, spine relaid, and there is a professional repair to the once frayed spine extremities and the bottom corners. Previous owner's signature on ffep. Scarce. £75.0014800. Meath, Reginald Brabazon 12th Earl of (editor): Memories of the Twentieth Century. London: John Murray, 1924. x+310 pp. 23 x 14 cm. Frontispiece photograph. Hardback, no dustwrapper. Political life in the Empire, London and Ireland, service in the Diplomatic Corps. Meath and his wife became significant philanthropists. Their home in Ireland survives and "Killruddery" is open to the public. The boards show a little wear, o/w good copy of a scarce title. £55.0016582. Meehan, Rev. C. P.: The Fate and Fortunes of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, and Rory O'Donel, Earl of Tyrconnel; Their Flight from Ireland, and Death in Exile. Dublin: James Duffy and Sons, 1886. Third edition, enlarged, with notes, etc. xx+450+(3) pp. 22 x 14 cm. Frontispiece portrait of Thomas O'Hagan, Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Gold-blocked, textured, and elaborately-lined dark-green boards. A portrait of Hugh O'Neill is pasted to the rear of the dedication page, and there is a lengthy ink inscription to the rear of the title page, otherwise in good condition. Copac lists only 9 copies, with no copy in the BL. £95.005035. Moles: Lord Carson of Duncairn An Appreciation from the Loyalists of Ulster. Belfast: Carson Presentation Committee, 1925. 118 pp. 21.5 x 14 cm. Illustrated. Foreword by James Craig. A scarce item, a tribute to Carson. £25.0016578. Montgomery, H. R.: Thomas Moore, His Life, Writings and Contemporaries. London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1860. xi+208 pp. 19.5 x 13 cm. Originally three lectures at a Literary Institution, and inscribed to the London Irish Rifle Volunteers. (Henry Liddell Mongomery, 1818-1904). Gold-blocked elaborately-blind-stamped boards. A little wear but otherwise good. Copac only lists four copies of this title in UK libraries. This is the first state of the first edition. £75.0011016. Moore, Thomas: The Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald Glasgow: R.&T. Washbourne n.d. c.1900. Cameron & Ferguson edition. ii+283 pp. softcover, in very good condition. This title was first published in 1831. This particular edition appears not to be in the NLI. £32.0014559. Mulqueen, John and Wren, Jimmy: De Valera An Illustrated Life. Dublin: Tomar Publishing Ltd, 1989. v + 61pp. 29.5 x 21 cm. Copiously illustrated with drawings. Pictorial glazed card covers. The covers show slight shelf wear. £13.5020850. Muus, Flemming B. and Varinka Wichfield Muus: Monica Wichfield A very gallant woman. London Arco Publishers Limited 1955. Translated from the Danish by Anthony Hinton. 22 x 14.5 cm. 158 pp. gold blocked red boards with a rather worn dustwrapper. Monica was born into the Dunleath family of Co. Down and the Massey-Beresfords of Belturbet, Co. Cavan. In 1915 she married a young Danish Diplomat. She became actively involved in the Danish Resistance in WW2, Her death sentence by a Nazi court was commuted to life imprisonment, but she died in a Prison Camp as the war ended. The book is in fair condition. She is remembered more in Denmark rather than Ireland. £15.005963. Newcomer, James: Maria Edgeworth. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press 1973 94 pp. paper covers, very good. A volume in the Irish writers series, monographs designed to treat individually more than 50 Irish authors. Famous for Castle Rackrent, but she produced a huge literary output. £10.0020819. O'Connor, Garrett: Hugh Percy Lane. Dublin: Published for the author, no publishng details. 21 x 15 cm. 12 pp. 3 illustrations, softcovers, in very good condition, Scarce, Copac has no listings.Sir Hugh Lane ( An Ridire Aodh O'Laidhin) 9 Nov. 1875 - 7 May 1915. £10.0011884. O'Connor, Garry: Sean O'Casey A Life. London: Hodder & Stoughton 1988. 448 pp. illustrated, hardback, very good in a very good dustwrapper. A good modern biography. £10.0012602. O'Connor, Ulick: Oliver St John Gogarty A Poet and His Times. London: Jonathan Cape second impression 1964. 316 pp. 22 x 15.5 cm. Frontispiece portrait, hardback, in a fairly worn dustwrapper. The standard biography. £12.0014993. O'Faolain, Sean, editor: The Autobiography of Theobald Wolfe Tone. London: Thomas Nelson, 1937. First edition thus. xxxi+307 pp. 19.5 x 13 cm. Faded green-blocked green boards, in a very worn dustwrapper. Some foreedge spotting, fair only. £20.0020845. O'Hara, Aidan: I'll live till I die The Story of Delia Murphy. Manorhamilton: Drumlin Publications 1997. 21 x 14.5 cm. 208 pp.includes a Discography, softcovers in very good condition. An extraordinary female performer in the Irish Folk Revival, along with a dangerous life in wartime Rome working for the "Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican". Mons. Hugh O'Flaherty and hisamazing escape network, evading the Nazis. A scarce book about a singer now sadly neglected. £35.0017507. Office of Public Works: Iveagh Pictures Edward Cecil Guinness 1st Earl of Iveagh. Dublin: Office of Public Works, 2009. Published on the occasion of the 2009 exhibition at Farmleigh. 96 pp. 27 x 23 cm. 77 illustrations, in colour. Bibliography. List of exhibited works. Pictorial semi-matt card covers. In very good condition. £15.0011552. Ormsby, Frank: Northern Windows An Anthology of Ulster Autobiography. Belfast: The Blackstaff Press 1987. ix+265 pp. hardback, in a v.g. dustwrapper. An anthology of autobiographical prose from C.S. Lewis, Patrick Kavanagh, Florence Mary McDowell, Michael Longely, Forrest Reid, Louis MacNeice, and Bernadette Devlin, among others. £7.0012389. Potter, Ella and Matheson, Winifred: Elsie Sandes and Theodora Schofield Twenty-One Years of Unrecorded Service for the British Army 1913-1934. London & Edinburgh: Marshall, Morgan & Scott n.d. 1935. 160 pp. 18.5 x 12.5 cm. Illustrated. Introduction by The Duke of Connaught. Pictorial front cover and worn spine. Sandes was an Irishwoman who founded the Sandes homes for soldiers. Chapters include The Curragh, Ballykinlar, Magilligan, India. £15.0019090. Quinn, James: Soul on Fire The Life of Thomas Russell. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2002. xiv + 36 pp. 24.5 x 16 cm. United Irishman, close friend of Wolfe Tone, journalist, librarian, hanged in Downpatrick in 1803. 24 illustrations. Silver blocked blue boards, in a very good dustwrapper. Author inscribed on the ffep, otherwise in very good condition. £23.0014687. Reid, Hugh: From Apprentice to Chairman. Belfast: Hugh Reid, 1993. 53pp. 20 x 21 cm. An autobiography from the Belfast motor trade, with good material about the NI TT Races. Pictorial glazed card covers. In good condition. £20.0019287. Rudnitzky, Honor: The Careys. Belfast: Blackstaff Press,1978. 70 pp. 21 x 15 cm. 10 illustrations. Pictorial semi matt card covers. In very good condition. A charming book. J.W. Carey was a leading water colourist and commercial illustrator in Belfast. £10.0020729. Scaife, W. Garrett: The Hon. Sir Charles Algernon Parson (1854-1931) Scientific Engineer. Dublin: 2002. National Committee for the History and Philosophy of Science Annual Lecture.Tues. 10th December 2002, Royal Irish Academy. 21 x 14.5 31 pp. illustrated, card covers, in very good condition. £10.0010273. Scoular, Clive: James Chichester-Clark Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. Killyleagh: Published by Clive Scoular 2000. iii+175 pp. foreword by Paul Bew, illustrated, paperback, autographed by the author on the title page. In very good condition, almost as new. Chichester Clark was 5th Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, from May 1969 to March 1971. This is the only biography and is a useful source for the period of the Troubles as well as its insights into the Unionist Establlishment. £16.5013317. Scoular, Clive: John M. Andrews Norther Ireland's Wartime Prime Minister. Killyleagh: Clive Scoular, 2004 vi + 172 pp. 21 x 15 cm. Illustrated. Pictorial glazed covers, with short biographies of three distinguished brothers: Thomas, Titanic's designer; James, Lord Chief Justice; and William, cricketer extraordinary. Andrew's two-and-a-half-year premiership has hitherto been largely ignored by historians. In very good condition, almost as new, autographed by the author on the title page. £15.0018046. Scoular, Clive: Maeve de Markievicz Daughter of Constance. Killyleagh: Clive Scoular, 2009. Reprint. 99 pp. 21 x 15 cm. 20 illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pictorial semi-matt card covers. Signed by the author on the title page. In very good condition. £12.0013940. Scoular, Clive: Six Famous Sons of Killyleagh. Killyleagh: Clive Scoular, 2006. vii + 215 pp. 21 x 13.5 cm. Illustrated in b&w. The famous sons are Sir Hans Sloane, Sir Henry Blackwood, Dr Henry Cooke, Dr Edward Hincks, and the footballers Terry Cochrane and David Healy. Killyleagh is a small County Down town, about twenty miles from Belfast. Author-inscribed half-title. £10.0013933. Simms, John Young: Farewell to the Hammer A Shankill Boyhood. Belfast: The White Row Press, 1992. 144 pp. 20.5 x 15 cm. Autobiography, set in a small working-class area of Belfast, in the early 1900s. Text illustrated with sketches by William Clarke. Front cover illustration from a work by William Conor. Pictorial glazed card covers. Previous owner's name neatly written at top of half-title, o/w in very good condition. £15.0016571. Stairs, Susan: Drawing From Memory The Life of Irish Artist Gladys Maccabe. Dublin: Shorthall-Stairs Publications, 2004. 196 pp. 25 x 17.5 cm. Lovely biography of this much-loved Ulster artist. Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. Gold-blocked black boards, in very good condition, in a very good pictorial dustwrapper. £25.008345. Strain, R. W. M.: Hither and Thither Gleanings from my Anecdotage. R.W.M. Strain, 1991. 24 by 16.5 cms. 31 pp. green card covers, in very good condition. Biographical anecdotes from a great Belfast born Doctor, early days, University training, the Rotunda Hospital Dublin, R.A.M.C. Queens University , much good humour. £12.0014923. Stuart, Francis: Black List Section H. London: King Penguin 1982. 351 pp. softcovers, in very good condition. Stuart was married to Maud Gonne's daughter and was an IRA gunrunner and Irish Civil War prisoner. In 1940 he moved to Germany where he broadcast propaganda for the Fascists £15.008461. Stuart, Madeleine: Manna in the Morning A Memoir 1940-1958 Dublin: Raven Arts Press 1984. 115 pp. illustrated, paperback, edited and introduced by Dermot Bolger. She was the wife of Francis Stuart Irish novelist who spent the war years in Germany and broadscast from there to Ireland. Good apart from some minor foreedge staining. £7.0016126. The Ulster Society of Magicians: The Ulster Society of Magicians Dance Organising Committee 15 February 1943. Belfast: The Ulster Society of Magicians, 1943. A one page flyer, 25.5 x 20.5 cm,. with a photograph of seven members in evening attire: Bob Taylor, Jack Hove, Jim McCall, Jim Garvey, Terence Gardiner, Dave Southard, and John Rollins. The dance was in the Manhattan Club, Belfast, 15th Feb. 1943. In very good condition. £10.0020327. Tongue, Alan: A Picture of Percy French An illustrated life of the Irish Songwriter, Entertainer, Poet and Painter. Greystone Books reprinted 1991. 33.5 x 245 cm.vii+99 pp. extensively illustrated, gold blocked green boards, in very good condition, in a very good dustwrapper. A lovely, heart warming tribute to one of Ireland's greatest cultural treasures. £25.0020078. Turner, Brian S. editor: A Man Stepped out for Death. Thomas Russell and County Down. Newtownards: Colourpoint 2003. 95 pp. illustrated, softcovers. There is a small crease to the bottom corner of the front cover, otherwise in very good condition. Russell was executed and buried at Downpatrick for his part in the doomed Robert Emmet rebellion of 1803. He was a seminal figure in the development of the United Irishmen movement. £10.0010790. W & G Baird Ltd: The Late Sir Robert Baird Messages of Sympathy Belfast: W & G Baird Ltd, 1934. "The following pages comprise a list of those who sent letters and telegrams of sympathy on the occasion of the death of Sir Robert Baird 8th Oct. 1934." 60 pp. hardback, some edgerubbing and a little wear otherwise good. £35.0013920. W. & G. Baird Ltd: In Memoriam Sir Robert Baird. Belfast: Privately printed 1934. "Within this brochure for circulation amongst his more intimate friends are preserved selections from the many choice tributes inspired by the late Sir Robert Baird Managing Director of the Belfast Telegraph." 22 by 17 cms. 75 pp. two mounted portraits, a.e.g. black covers and gilt lettering, a little rubbing and slight fading to boards otherwise very good. Baird owned the family paper and was much involved in political and social life as well as a leading Irish Freemason. £40.0015390. Walker, Brian M.: Sentry Hill An Ulster Farm and Family. Belfast: Friar's Bush Press, 1991. Reprint, with corrections and additional photographs. xiv +182 pp. 24 x 18 cm. A portrait of two centuries of life on an Ulster farm. Profusely illustrated. Gold-blocked dark-green boards, in very good condition. In a vg dw. Number 52 of a limited edition of 100 copies, signed by author. £20.0020613. White, Newport J. D.: Four Good Men: Luke Challoner, Jeremy Taylor, Narcissus Marsh, Elias Bouhereau. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co., 1927. 18 x 12.5 cm. 97 pp. card covers, there is a small light stain on the front cover otherwise in good condition. Challoner wasa Fellow of Trinity College Dublin 1592, Taylor was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dublin 1669-67, Marsh was Provost of TCD 1678-83 and Bouhereau was the first Public Librarian in Ireland 1701-1719. The author delivered the first three of these sketches as Memorial Discourses at TCD as an Academic paper. £45.0011750. Whiteside, Lesley: George Otto Sims A Biography. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1990. 210 pp. illustrated, hardback, in a v.g. dustwrapper. Owner's name on ffep otherwise in very good condition. One of the outstanding Irish churchmen of the 20th century. £15.0012418. Wills, James: Lives of Illustrious and Distinguished Irishmen from earliest times to the present period arranged in chronological order, and embodying a History of Ireland in the Lives of Irishmen. Dublin: Macgregor, Poulson, and Company 1839-1847. 12 volumes complete, as issued, in two parts to a vol.. 496+454+472+472+476+478 pp. embellished by a series of highly finished portraits, selected from the most authentic sources, and engraved by eminent artists, all engraved plates present, hardback, in a sea-green cloth with blind stamped decoration to the front board and a decorative spine title gilt with a border of shamrocks and harp. Bearing the name and stamp of J. H. Purdon on ffep of most vols. These are all very tight bright copies, there is minor spotting to some of the engraved plates or tissue guards, and there is some minor difference to the tone of the cloth from being issued over the course of eight years. A handsome set. Individual copies turn up and we have two odds for sale but we rarely see a set as issued. £650.0012451. Wills, James: Lives of Illustrious and Distinguished Irishmen from the Earliest times to the Present Period Dublin: Macgregor, Poulson, and Company, 1842. A single volume from this set. Vol IV, Part II. Pp. 241-472. 22.5 x 14 cm. Engraved plates of Sheridan and Sloan. Some wear but generally good. This volume includes Swift. £20.007943. Wills, James and Wills, Freeman.: The Irish Nation: Its History & its Biography. Edinburgh, London, and Dublin, A. Fullarton & Co., 1871, 1873, 1875. Four volumes bound as three. Vol. I, v+684+328pp. Vol II, v. +pp.339-730+498. Vol III, pp. 499-730+viii+709. With 31 plates of which 5 are genealogical plates of the Fitzgeralds, Butlers, O'Neills and Fitzmaurices, the remainder being portraits. (All present.) Half leather, cloth covered beveled boards, all edges marbled (faded), banded spine in six compartments, original labels, some foxing to endpapers and prelims, a little light staining to first few pages vol III. Some professional restoration to spines. They are overall in very good condition, tight copies. Whilst there is historical narrative the cooks are biography focused, political, ecclesiastical, literary etc. £165.0020619. Wilson, T. G.: A Hitherto Undescribed Death-Mask of Dean Swift. Dublin: Reprinted from The Journal of Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Vol. LXXXI Part II 1951. 24.5 x 15.5 cm. pp.107-114 10 illustrations, blue paper covers. The front cover has an inscription from the author and is showing a little wear, otherwise in good condition. A little macabre perhaps, but an unusual item. £10.0011411. Wtright, David G: Yeats Myth of Self a Study of the Autobiographical Prose. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan 1987. 127 pp. hardback, in dustwrapper, in very good condition. A study of the poet as autobiographer. A valuable study. £7.00 |
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