Hardcover. 8vo. Original cloth stained . Irish Literature. Donn Byrne at Coolmain Castle Donn Byrne was born Brian Oswald Patrick Donn-Byrne on 20 November 1889. His South Armagh parents were on a business trip to the United States when Donn Byrne was born in New York. The family returned to Ireland soon after the birth. Byrne says of his family: "We were about the only one of the four big Irish families of the gap in the North to still keep our mouths, if not our heads, above water." At fourteen, he met Bulmer Hobson, founder of Irish volunteer movement. Hobson took him to an early meeting of the volunteers (1906), when he was accompanied by Robert Lynd of the London Daily News. Lynd wrote of that meeting, mentioning the singing of a little fair haired boy (Donn-Byrne). Through Hobson, he acquired a taste for Irish history and nationalism that the culture was deeply immersed in at the time. He entered local Irish festivals (Feiseanna) using the name Brian O'Beirne, and he frequently won. He was equally fluent in Irish and English, growing up in an area were Gaelic was still spoken. In 1907 he went to the University of Dublin to study Romance languages. While at the school he published in The National Student, the student magazine. At this time he also met Dorothea (Dolly) Cadogan. After graduation he moved to Paris and Leipzig to continue his studies at the Sorbonne and Leipzig University, with the hope of joining the British Foreign Office as a diplomat. He turned down his PhD. when he learned that he would have to wear evening clothes to his early morning examinations, which no true Irish gentleman would ever do.

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Publisher: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & CO., LTD
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Publication date: 1923
Edition: Another edition.
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Songs of Youth

Patrick O'Connor

Hardcover. 71pp. Second edition. Fore and bottom edges uncut. Foxing

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Edition: Second Edition
Publisher: The Society of St. Columban
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 1928
SKU: KHS1003769

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A PURSE OF COPPERS

Sean O'Faolain

Hardcover. 286 pp. first edition. some foxing. previous owner signature on ffep

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Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 1937
Edition: 1st edition
SKU: KNW0000190

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Over The Reefs

Robert Gibbings

hardcover. First edition with engravings by the author. Very good copy in dustwrapper

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Publisher: J.M. Dent & Co
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 1948
SKU: KTK0094037

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The Deserted Village: A Poem

Oliver Goldsmith

Hardback. 23pp. Seventh Edition. Disbound. Slightly dust solied with damp stain throughout close to spine. Title pages and last page loose. Half-title page has price tag of 2s. With illustration - The sad historian of the pensive plain - engraved and painted by IsaacTaylor on title page. Keywords: Poetry - Early published material

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Format: Hardback
Publisher: Printed for W. Griffin,
Publication date: 1772
Edition: The seventh edition
SKU: KHS0071143

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Nightwalker

Thomas Kinsella

Hardcover. 18pp. One of an edition of 1000. The New Dolmen Chapbooks Series 2. Original printers' wrappers, price clipped

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Publisher: Dolmen Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 1967
SKU: KHS1003955

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A Drop in the Ocean

Tom E. Cronin

Paperback. 149pp

Publisher: Moyhill Publishing
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2009
Condition: New
SKU: 9781905597246
ISBN: 9781905597246

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€ 4.99

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A Close Sky Over Killaspuglonane

Knute Skinner

Paperback. 32pp. Poetry Ireland Editions Series. Review copy

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Publisher: The Dolmen Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 1968
SKU: KHS1003931
ISBN: 9780851051246

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New Ireland

Dionne Desmond

hardcover. Rebound in modren cloth. New ffep. With frontispeice.

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Publisher: Angle Guardian Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 1912
SKU: KST0024647

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Men Withering

Francis McManus

Paperback. Seventh Impression. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear

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Publisher: Mercier Press
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Publication date: 1988
SKU: KAK0008040

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The Great Grand-Mother

George A Birmingham

Hardcover. 8vo. Original cloth stained. Irish Literature. George A. Birmingham is the pseudonym of James Owen Hannay. He was born on July 16, 1865, in Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland. Today the house where he was born is a part of the administration building of the Queen’s University of Belfast. It is located on University Road across from the university. On the wall of the house there is a memorial plate which says, “James O. Hannay, George A. Birmingham, Novelist, 1865-1950, Born in this House, July 16”. Behind the tree on the left is the house where Birmingham was born. (Belfast)A memorial plate dedicated to Birmingham (Belfast) At the time when Birmingham was born, the whole island of Ireland was under British rule and there had been a long-lasting conflict between those who claimed that Ireland should stay in Britain and those who insisted Ireland should be free from Britain. Most of the pro-British were immigrants from Britain and their descendants. They were mainly Protestants and called Unionists. On the other hand, most of the pro-Irish had their origins in Ireland. They were mainly Catholics and called Nationalists. Birmingham’s parents were of British origin. His paternal grandfather had immigrated from Scotland to Northern Ireland and married a local woman whose parents also had come from Scotland. They settled themselves in the suburbs of Bushmills, which is famous for whiskey. Birmingham’s father, Robert Hannay (1835-1894), was born there. Later he moved to live in Belfast and gave services as a Church of Ireland clergyman in St. Anne’s Church, today’s St. Anne’s Cathedral, which is located near the city center.

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Publisher: Methuen
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 1924
SKU: KEX0279141

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Links with the Absent: Chapters on Correspondence

Thurles A Member Of The Ursuline Community

Hardcover. 120pp. Decorated boards, title on front cover. Spine sunned, bumped. Clear text, foxing. Previous owner's signature on back of title page. Keywords: Religion - Irish - Correspondence

Condition: Used, Good
Publisher: R Washbourne
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 1882
SKU: KHS1004624