71. De Blaghd, Earnán.

Slán le hUltaibh – Imleabhar II de chuimhní cinn.

Baile átha Cliath (Dublin), Sairséal & Dill, 1970. 22cm. 200 pages. With some portraits. Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

72. De Breffny, Brian / ffolliott, Rosemary.

The Houses of Ireland: Domestic Architecture from the Medieval Castle to the Edwardian Villa. Photographs by George Mott.

First Paperback Edition. London, Thames and Hudson, 1984. Quarto (19 cm wide x 25.5 cm high). 240 pages, with 278 plates, 22 in colour, and 4 maps. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

73. [de Valera, Éamon]

Collection of eleven (11) important publication on Éamon de Valera, including some interesting newspaper-clippings. The collection of books include: 1. Diarmaid Ferriter – Judging Dev – A Reassessment of the Life and Legacy of Eamon de Valera / 2. Tim Pat Coogan – De Valera – Long Fellow, Long Shadow (Paperback Edition)/ 3. Ronan Fanning – Éamon de Valera – A Will to Power / 4. J.P.O’Connell and John A. Murphy – De Valera and his Times / 5. Owen Dudley Edwards – Éamon de Valera / 6. John Bowman – De Valera and the Ulster Question 1917-1973 / 7. Joseph Lee and Gearoid O Tuathaigh – The Age of de Valera / 8. Kevin J. Browne – Éamon de Valera & The Banner Country. With a Foreword by Thomas P.O’Neill / 9. Kevin Boland – Up Dev ! / 10. T.Ryle Dwyer – De Valera’s Finest Hour (1932-1959) / 11. Proinsias Mac Aonghusa – Quotations from Éamon de Valera – With a Preface by Charles J. Haughey, TD / Two very interesting newspaper-clippings and a xeroxed pamphlet: “The Anglo-Irish Treaty and Mr.de Valera’s Alternative.

Dublin / Cork / Oxford, Mercier / Glendale / Oxford University Press / and others, c. 1982 – 2007. Octavo. More than 1500 pages. Four Volumes in original Hardcover with dustjacket and several Volumes in orginal softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

74. Dennehy, The Late Venerable Arch Deacon [Henry Edward].

History of the Great Island, Ancient Cove and Modern Queenstown [Cobh]. Being the Substance of a Lecture by The Late Venerable Arch Deacon Dennehy.

Revised, annotated and supplemented by James Coleman. (Published for subscribers only). Cork, Guy & Co. Ltd., 1923. 12.5 x 18.5 cm. IX, 110 pages. With illustrations throughout. Original, illustrated Hardcover. Very good and firm condition with some minor signs of external wear. Interior in good condition. Only few signs of foxing. An extremely rare publication with the original subribers list bound in.

75. Devoy, John.

Recollections of an Irish Rebel – The Fenian Movement – Its Origin and Progress. Methods of Work in Ireland and in the British Army. Why it failed to achieve its main object but exercised great influence on Ireland’s Future. Personalities of the Organization. The Clan-Na-Gael and the Rising of Easter Week, 1916. A Personal Narrative by John Devoy.

New York, Young/Estate of John Devoy, 1929. Large-Octavo. III, 491 pages with the portrait of John Devoy as frontispice (with original tissue-guard present). Original Hardcover with the extremely rare, original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. With a Bookplate to the endpaper, identifying this copy as a Presentation-copy from the “Friends of Irish Freedom – New York”, presented to the Library of the Sisters of Mercy Schools in Macroom (County Cork).

76. Documents of irish History [ Poblacht na hEireann ] – Clarke, Thomas J.

This is one of the rare 1940 original Lithographic Reproduction Posters of the 1916 Declaration-Poster of the Provisional Government: Poblacht na hEireann – The Provisional Government of the Irish Republic to the People of Ireland. Signed on behalf of the Provisional Government: Thomas James Clarke, Sean Mac Diarmada, P.H.Pearse, James Connolly, Thomas MacDonagh, Eamonn Ceannt, Joseph Plunkett.

Colour Lithograph with celtic ornamented border and portraits of the signees. Cork, Paramount, [c.1940]. 39.5 cm wide x 53.5 cm high. olding creases, small tear, colours bright and strong. One of the few remaining reproductions made by Paramount in 1940. The artwork of the reproduction is magnificent. Highly collectable and a very beautiful reminder of how meaningful this document was for those who signed it, reflected in the beauty of the original design of this Poster.

77. Doherty, Gabriel / Keogh, Dermot.

1916 – The Long Revolution. Edited by Gabriel Doherty and Dermot Keogh. [Conference “The Long Revolution : the 1916 Rising in Context” (2006 : University College Cork)].

Douglas Village, Cork, Mercier Press, 2007. 22 cm. 469 pages with numerous illustrations. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

78. Drennan, John.

Standing by the Republic. 50 Dail debates that shaped the Republic.

Dublin, Gill & Macmillan, 2012. 24 cm. VIII, 292 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

79. Driscoll, Charles B.

Kansas Irish.

London and Glasgow, Art and Educational Publishers Ltd, 1946. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. 320 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original cream cloth] with lettering on spine and front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean. Signed name of preowner on front endpaper.

80. [Duffy, Charles Gavan / Davis, Thomas] / Grattan Flood, W.H.

The Spirit of the Nation or, Ballads and Songs by The Writers of “The Nation” with Original and Ancient Music, arranged for the Voice and Pianoforte.

New Edition, with preface and Introduction by W.H.Grattan Flood. Dublin, James Duffy and Co., 1911. Quarto. XXII, 368 pages – including the often missing Corrigenda Leaf (Errata). Original, illustrated Hardcover. Beautifully illustrated clothbinding that has been recently professionally restored. All edges gilt. New endpapers. Besides a 6 cm smudged repair to the front board in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. A very rare and sought after publication.