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AT THE SIGN OF THE THREE CANDLES

A collection of 15 items from Colm O’Lochlainn’s Three Candles press spanning fifty years, 1917-1968, some very scarce, including

-- John Mitchel. An Ulsterman for Ireland, being Letters to the Protestant Farmers, Labourers and Artisans of the North of Ireland. Foreword by Eoin MacNeill.

Candle Press, 158 Rathgar Road, 1917, wrs. Probably Colm’s first publication in book form.

-- An Chaise Gharbh. Dánta le Peadar Ó h-Annracháin. Wrappers, stapled, 1918. Preface dated from Birmingham jail, 3.7.1918. Also with a printed message

from the author written in Arbour Hill prison before he was deported to England, Whit Monday 1918. He dropped an envelope containing the letter and poems in

the street as he was taken away, and a passer by brought them safely to their destination.

-- Dánta Dé, idir Sean agus Nuadh. Una ní Ógáin do bhailigh. Comhcheol le Riobard ó Duibhir. Sm qto cloth, 1928. Colm Ó Lochlainn do chló .. do Mhuinntir

C.S. Ó Fallamhain Teo.

-- ‘Máire’. Caisleán Óir. 1934, 3rd ed., stiff wrs.

-- W.R. Fearon. Parnell of Avondale. 1937, black cloth, first. Inscribed presentation copy from the author. With the long preface (omitted in a later edition).

-- Tobar Fíorghlan Gaedhilge 1450-1853. Colm Ó Lochlainn do thiomsuigh .. 1939. Wrs. [Extracts from the best examples of Gaelic prose].

-- Séamus Ó hAodha. Caoineadh na Mná agus Duanta Eile. 1939, wrs.

-- ‘Máire’. Thiar i dTír Chonaill. 1940, first. Stiff wrs. One of very few books printed entirely in Colm Ó Lochlainn’s ‘Colmcille’ Gaelic type.

-- De hÍde, Dubhglas [Douglas Hyde]. Dánta Éagsamhla agus Béarla curtha ortha [Miscellaneous Poems translated into English]. Printed for the President of

Ireland by Colm Ó Lochlainn .. 1943. Wrs, some foxing.

-- H. Crookshank. The True Story of the Giant’s Causeway. No date [1946], wrs, photos, folding map at rear.

-- Deoch-Sláinte nan Gillean. Óráin á Barraidh [songs in Scots Gaelic, some with music]. Colm Ó Lochlainn a dheasachaidh. 1948, wrs.

-- Tomás Bairéad. Ór na hAitinne [short stories]. Wrs, 1949.

-- Rev. John J. Doyle C.SS.R. Meditations for Missionaries, from the French of Rev. A.M. Meley. Nihil Obstat, etc., 1952, pocket sized, black cloth.

-- ‘We Welcome You!’ [Davy Byrnes]. 36 pp, many ills., incl. Davy Byrne from a mural by Cecil Salkeld. No author credited, perhaps Ulick O’Connor (see next).

Rare.

-- Ulick O’Connor. The Story of a Famous Tavern. The Bailey, Dublin. Designed and Illustrated by Asgeir Scott. Dublin n.d. [1968].

As a collection, mostly in very good condition (small box).

€200 - €300

Lot 808