Woodham-Smith, Cecil.

The Great Hunger: 1845-1849.

New York, Old Town Books, 1962. 15cm x 22cm. XII, 510 pages with many illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Minor, very small tear to rear dustjacket flap. Otherwise in very good, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare. Out of print.

Wright, Thomas / Warren, H.

The History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period of the Irish Annals to the Present Time. Illustrated with 43 [fortythree] Beautiful Steel Engravings from Original Drawings, executed expressly for this Work by H. Warren.

First Edition. 3 Volumes [complete set]. London / New York, The London Printing and Publishing Company, no year [c.1850]. Quarto (20.5 cm x 28 cm). Pagination: Volume I: Frontispiece and engraved titlepage, XIV, 728 pages / Volume II: Portrait-Fronticpiece of James Butler (Second Duke of Ormond), IV, [2], 663 pages / Volume III: Portrait-Frontispiece of a young Queen Victoria plus engraved titlepage showing the visit of George IV to Ireland in 1821, [4], 592 pages. Original Hardcover / Contemporary half-leather with gilt lttering and ornament to spine. Volume I professionally rebacked and all three Volumes now firm and strong. Very good condition of this important mid-19th-century-publication, documenting the very essence of intertwining politics and History of Ireland and Victorian Britain. The work is difficult top find in excellent condition. Interior excellent besides a few very minor dogears to some pages. From the library of B.Burrowes, Belfast, with the armorial bookplate / Exlibris including the Motto: “Audaces Fortuna Juvat”.

Yeats, Michael B.

Cast a Cold Eye: Memories of a poet’s son and politician.

Dublin, Blackwater Press, 1998. 15.5 cm x 23 cm. 170 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. Includes an interesting newspaper-clipping on Michael B. Yeats.

Young, Eamonn.

Rebels at the Double – Cork’s Historic Football and Hurling Triumphs of 1990 [signed by the author Eamonn Young, Cork Hurler Tomas Mulcahy and another unidentified Hurler or footballer of the famous 1990 Teams].

Edinburgh, Mainstream Publishing, 1990. Octavo. 216 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Youngs, Susan (Editor).

‘The Work of Angels’ – Masterpieces of Celtic Metalwork, 6th-9th Centuries AD. With contributions by Paul T. Craddock, Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, Raghnall Ó Floinn, Michael Ryan and Leslie Webster.

London, British Museum Publications Ltd., 1990. 22 cm x 27.5 cm. 223 pages. 185 black and white and 56 colour illustrations. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.