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Synopsis

Now first collected. with notes and historical illustrations. (duffy's library of ireland).

Item Description

Small 8vo. 5.75 x 4 inches. xxx + 232 pp. Bound in original green cloth, gilt with blind stamped borders enclosing publisher's series stamp on both boards. A little wear to extremities, slight browning of flyleaves, foxing of preliminaries, and a few small nicks on page edges; otherwise a very good copy with some pages uncut. A collection of Irish nationalist verse which contains sections on national and historical songs and ballads, including 'A Nation Once Again,' and miscellaneous songs and ballads. The introduction is signed, 'T. W.,' i.e. Thomas Wallis (-1865) and the appendix includes historical notes. Thomas Davis (1814-45) was an Irish Protestant writer, who edited the paper of the Young Ireland movement. He was an an early advocate of cultural nationalism based on use of the Gaelic language and awareness of the special qualities of the Irish landscape. First published 1846 by James Duffy (1809-71), author and major publisher of Irish nationalist books, Irish fiction and journals and of Catholic literature.