Search Results: Irish in Europe from Focloir

Gaelic067 The Commentary on the Psalms. With glosses in Old Irish preserved in the Ambrosian Library (MS C 301 inf). Collotype facsimile, with introduction by R.I. Best. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1936, 59p, plus collotype reproductions. Measures approximately 21"x17", weighs almost 10 pounds. A beautifully printed book, letterpress on hand-made paper. This edition of the Milan glosses has to be one of the most impressive books printed in Ireland in the twentieth century. Fine condition.
$750.00

Gaelic472 De Prosodia Hibernica: [Authore reverendo patre fratre Francisco ó Molloy ... [Romae: MDCLXXVII]/ On Irish Prosody: [Written by the Rev. Father Francis ó Molloy ... at Rome, A.D. 1677] And now translated by Tomás ó Flannghaile. Dublin: M. H. Gill & Son, 1908. vii. 114 p. Ex-library copy with usual stamps and wear. Spine repaired. Acceptable condition, not better. $27.50
Last twelve chapters of the author's Grammatica latino-hibernica./ Latin and English on opposite pages./ Irish poems, some with Latin versions, mostly by the author (p. 108-114)

Gaelic 418 O Maolchonaire, Flaithri, 1560?-1629. Desiderius, otherwise called Sgathan an Chrabhaidh. Edited by Thomas F. O'Rahilly. Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1955, li, 363p, glossary. Scholarly apparatus is in English, text in Irish. O Maolchonaire, latinized his name as Florentius Conrius, was a founder of the Irish College at Louvain $45.00

Gaelic 178 (Mac Aingil, Aodh). Kearns, Patrick. Down's Angelic Genius. (Aodh Mac Aingil). (NP): Eigse Oirialla, (1990's?), 56 pages, paperback, useful English introduction to his life. $15.00

Ireland 974jr2 Genet-Rouffiac, Nathalie & David Murphy, editors. Franco-Irish military connections, 1590-1945. Nathalie Genet-Rouffiac & David Murphy, editors. Dublin: Four Courts, 2009, 304 pages, bib, index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Laid in is an info sheet for book reviewers. $50.00 Box 33
Contents: Irish soldiers and regiments in the French service before 1690 / Éamon Ó Ciosáin; The Wild Geese in France: a French perspective / Nathalie Genet-Rouffiac; Guests of France: a description of the Invalides with an account of the Irish in that institution / Eoghan ÓhAnnracháin; Irlandois de nation: Irish soldiers in Angers as an illustration of Franco-Irish relationships in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries/ Pierre-Louis Coudray; The life of Thomas Lally
/ Lavinia Greacen; The Jacobites in the American War of Independence / Patrick Clarke de Dromantin; Semper et Ubique Fidelis / Georges Martinez;
Total war? Revolutionary France and United Irish strategy in the 1790s / Hugh Gough; Un… Read More

Irish American dtafs (Philadelphia) Daly, Thomas Augustine, 1871-1948. The Friendly Sons of St. Patrick. Philadelphia: F. McManus, 1920, 108 pages, [31] leaves of plates: ill., ports., facsims. Little rubbing to head and heel of spine, very good else. Uncommon in original hardcover. $25.00 Box 26.

Ireland 15i69h Irish Conference of Historians (9th: 1969: Dublin). Historical studies, VIII. Papers read before the [9th] Irish Conference of Historians, Dublin, 27-30 May 1969. Edited by T. Desmond Williams.Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1971, viii, 206 pages. Very good to fine copy in good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some shelf wear but complete. On the back endpapers someone has written the names of 16 well-known Irish scholars and on the other (the lining paper) titles of 6 Irish journals $15.00 Box 226
Pages 203 to 206 have a very useful guide to previous articles published in this series: List of Articles in Historical Studies, Volume I to VIII, inclusive. The articles are further grouped under four subject headings.

Ireland ocjib O'Callaghan, John Cornelius, 1805-1883. History of the Irish brigades in the service of France. With an introduction by Patrick J. Hally. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1969, viii, xiii, 649p, index, maps (1 fold.), ports. Facsimile reproduction, with a new introduction, of the edition published in Glasgow by Cameron and Ferguson in 1870. Name on front free endpaper, paper edges slightly darkened, clean and tight with no marks, very good in dust jacket. The dust jacket has a tear in it with some paper missing from the bottom of the spine. The dust jacket is in turn protected by a plastic dust jacket. $42.50 Box A115

Ireland kdie Keogh, Dermot.
Ireland and Europe, 1919-1948. Dublin/Totowa, N.J.: Gill and Macmillan/Barnes and Noble, 1988, 256p, notes, bib, index. Paper has toned somewhat, it appears that this seems to be the case with the publisher's run. Bought these volumes from the publisher new. Else fine in dust jacket. $10.50 Box 737

Ireland 108iaf MacDonagh, Michael, 1862-1946. Irish at the front. With an introduction by John Redmond, M.P. London/New York [etc.]: Hodder and Stoughton, 1916, xiii p., 1 leaf, 158p, plus 2 pages of publisher's ads. Book is in original green cloth, green covers. Good, clean, tight, copy. "This narrative of the more signal feats of the Irish regiments in France, Flanders, and at the Dardanelles is based on letters of regimental officers and men, interviews with wounded soldiers ... and, also, in several cases, on the records compiled at the depôts."--Pref. note. $10.50 Box A 108

Ireland 108mdm MacDonagh, Michael, 1862-1946. Irish at the front. With an introduction by John Redmond, M.P. London/New York [etc.]: Hodder and Stoughton, 1916, xiii p., 1 leaf, 158p, plus 2 pages of publisher's ads. Book is in original green cloth, string of shamrocks, covers faded and spine darkened. The cover is slightly bowed and there is a stain on the back cover. The top paper edge is dusty. Page 69 has a small stain in the margin, not affecting text. The page block has toned over the years but it still supple, with no marks. Bookplate of previous owner (Robert L, Norton) on front lining paper. All in all, a good, solid copy. "This narrative of the more signal feats of the Irish regiments in France, Flanders, and at the Dardanelles is based on letters of regimental officers and men, interviews with wounded soldiers ... and, also, in several cases, on the records compiled at the depôts."--Pref. note. $9.50 Box A 108

Ireland 99i8s The Irish in Britain, 1815-1939. Edited by Roger Swift and Sheridan Gilley. Savage, MD: Barnes & Noble, 1989, 240p, bib, index, illus. Fine in dust jacket. $35.00 Box 407

Ireland ifc The Irish-French Connection, 1578-1978. Edited by Liam Swords. Paris: Irish College, 1978, 177p, paperbound. Fine copy.
$17.50 Box 385

Ireland hpjj (Joyce, James). Hartshorn, Peter. James Joyce and Trieste. Foreword by Zack Bowen. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997, xvi, 181p, notes, bib, index. Fine copy.
$25.00 Box 4118

Ireland 203 Murphy, John A.
Justin MacCarthy, Lord Mountcashel: commander of the First Irish Brigade in France. [Cork, Ireland]: Cork University Press, 1959, 62p, notes, bib, paperback. Good, clean, tight copy, no marks. $20.

France dhbo de Hertz, Patrick La Belle O'Morphi. A brief biography With illustrations by François Boucher [including portraits]. [London]: Golden Cockerel Press, 1947, 36p. One of 650 copies (of a total edition of 750 copies) printed on mould-made paper, this copy number 339. Collotype reproductions of paintings by Francois Bouchier. Original pink & pale blue cloths, backstrip gilt lettered, top edge gilt, gilt blocked cockerel press-device on front cover. offsetting to endpapers, otherwise good to very good. Note: "A biography of the Irish imp who fascinated Louis XV, and was model to the painter, Boucher": Cockalorum, being a Bibliography of The Golden Cockerel Press, June 1943-December 1948, Number 173. $17.50 Box A 114

Ireland 110cdl Clarke, Desmond. Louison: the life and loves of Marie Louise O'Morphi. Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1979, vii, 120p, bib, illus, ports. Very good, clean, tight copy, no marks, Lacks dust jacket. $10.00 Box A 110

Ireland 109ocm O'Conor, Matthew. Military history of the Irish nation, comprising a memoir of the Irish brigade in the service of France; with an appendix of official papers relative to the Brigade, from the archives at Paris. By the late Matthew O'Conor. Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1845, x, 421 pages, index. Ex-library copy with usual library markings and stamps rebound in green library buckram, very solid, gilt lettering on spine, page block is very good, clean and tight. $50.00 Box A 109

Ireland 8305 Lynch, John, 1599-1673?. Pii Antistitis Icon or the Life of Francis Kirwan, Bishop of Killala. Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1951. Collotype facsimile of the 1669 edition published with bib. at Saint-Malo. In Latin.
[pseud. "Gratianus Lucius, Hibernus"] b. Galway, son of Alexander Lynch, a classics teacher in Galway, reputedly the master of a school of 1,200 students which was closed by Archbishop Ussher in 1615; educated by Jesuits in France; secular priest, ordained 1622, returned to Ireland and taught classics in Galway; appt. archdeacon of Tuam; said Mass publicly from 1642; opposed the papal nuncio and O'Neill, and condemned the Confederacy; fled to France when Galway fell, 1652; corresponded with Roderic O'Flaherty (of Ogygia) on ancient Irish chronology and adhered predominantly to his chronology in Cambrensis Eversus, except where Ware has an authority of higher note arranged by Charles O'Conor (according to Fr. Kelly); issued his Cambrensis Eversus (St. Malo 1662),… Read More

Irish in America 106ccp (The Plains Indians and other tribes/Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25-26, 1876/Keogh, Myles, 1840-1876). Coulombe, Charles A., 1960- The Pope's legion: the multinational fighting force that defended the Vatican. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, 260p, bib, index, [8] p. of plates: illus. Very good in dust jacket. $14.50 Box A 106
Good background information on Keogh and other volunteers for Pope Pius IX in his struggle against the Savoys. Coulombe posits, along with others, that Keogh's body was not mutilated because "many of Sitting Bull's men were Catholic". Further research is necessary to validate the claim. (See also: Lucio Martino: Gli irlandesi contro i Savoia: il battaglione di San Patrizio nelle Marche e Umbria durante il Risorgimento: i reduci nelle guerre del Far West. The Irish against the Savoys).