A Popular History Of Ireland: From The Earliest Period To The Emancipation Of Catholics In Two Volumes

New York: D. & J. Sadlier & Co.. Very Good+. 1876. 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This is a two volume set. The books are in Very Good+ condition and are lacking dust jackets. The book covers have several small edge tears, bumping, rubbing and wear to the spine ends, corners and edges. The text pages are clean and bright. There are award labels to the front pastedowns of both books -- The books were an award for good grades from St. Ignatius College S. J. , San Francisco for the year 1878. There are also ink stamp name and address stamps from J. B. O'Connor & Co. Bookstore, San Francisco on the front endpapers. "McGee emigrated to Montreal in 1857, believing Canada was far more hospitable to the Catholic Irish than was the United States. He downplayed the importance of the Orange Order in Canada. He remained a persistent critic of American institutions, and of the American way of life. He accused the Americans of hostile and expansionist motives toward Canada and of desiring to spread its republican ideas over all of North America. McGee worked energetically for continued Canadian devotion to the British Empire seeing in imperialism the protection Canada needed from all American ills. " (from Wikipedia) .