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A CURRENCY COMMISSION IRELAND ‘LADY
LAVERY’ FIVE POUND NOTE,
dated 04-05-1942, bearing printed signatures of Brennan
and McElligot, 9 x 16.5cm
€100 - 200
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O’DONOVAN, JOHN. ANNALS OF THE
KINGDOM OF IRELAND BY THE FOUR
MASTERS.
Hodges, Smith & Co., Dublin, 1856, the sought after sec-
ond revised edition, rebound by Antiquarian Bookcrafts,
Dublin, 6 volumes and an index. The work was compiled
between 1632 and 1636 by a small team of historians
headed by Br. Michael O’ Clery, a Franciscan lay brother
and written in the Franciscan monastry of Donegal. He
was assisted by his cousin Cucogry or Peregrine O’Clery,
Fergus O’Mulconry from County Roscommon and Per-
egrine O’Duigenan of Castlefore County Leitrim. Michael’s
brother Conor and Maurice O’Mulconry also assisted in
the compilation of the Annals. It remained, for the most
part, unpublished and un-translated until John O’Donovan
prepared his edition between 1847 and 1856. The crowning
achievement of John O’Donovan’s edition is the copi-
ous historical, topographical and genealogical material
in the footnotes which have been universally acclaimed
by scholars. Douglas Hyde wrote that the O’Donovan
edition represented: ‘the greatest work that any modern
Irish scholar ever accomplished.’ O’Donovan assumes the
practice of recording public events in the form of annals
began with the coming of Christianity. The Annals are a
precis of six earlier works, mostly written in north Ireland
and of ancient roots.
€700 - 1000
560
HINTS AND HITS: TWO RARE IRISH
NATIONALIST CARTOONS,
1840s, No. 7, “A Standing Army- Stranded at Clontarf” and
No. 11 “National Education” from a series of 12 published
by James McCarmick of Christchurch Place, Dublin, drawn
by Wm. Tell, handcoloured, unframed, each 14.5 x 18.5cm
(2)
€100 - 200
561
REPORTS FROM THE COMMISSIONERS
appointed by his majesty to execute the measures
recommended in an address of the House of Commons
respecting the Public Records of Ireland: with Supple-
ments and Appendixes, 1810-1815. London, 1815. Folio,
recent quarter linen and plain grey boards with gilt title on
spine. Containing the commissioners’ first five reports and
general index.
€200 - 400
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