ITEM # 4130 The cover of this catalog is lovely, a painting of J.B.S. McIlwaine by Walter Osborne. The paintings are all Irish art (76) and comprise a loan exhibition at the Columbus, Ohio Museum of Fine Arts; Toledo, Ohio Museum of Arts; and St. Louis, Missouri Art Museum. There is much illustratyion with clear black and hite photogrphs thoughout. The essays that accompany the picutures, descriptions and artists' biographies are these: The Spirit of Irish Art; Georgia Architecture; A Century of Domestic Silver 1711-1813; A Century asnd a Half of Irish Painting and Art and the Renaissance. T... View More...
Nice, clean , tightly bound music book with light general wear -- nothing really problematical. There are words and music to 25 Irish songs, some popular, others less so. A sampling includes I'll Take You home Again Kathleen, Come Back to Erin, The Rose of Tralee, The Harp that Once Thro' Tara's Halls, Cockles and Mussels, The Last Rose of Summer, Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms, The Minstrel Boy, The Galway Poper, The Kerry Dance, and the Wearing of the Green. Book measures 9"x12" View More...
ITEM # 1052 Eighteenth Century Life was printed tri-annually in 1998, but each issue has its own title. This one is devoted to Ireland and is made up of a compendium of articles by various authors. The chapters are entitled thus: The Dublin Stage in the 1770's and Early 1780's; William Sampson, United Irish Satirist and Songwriter; Poetry in Irish Popular Insurgency and the 1798 Rebellion; Continued Presbyterian Resistance in the Aftermath of the Rebellion of 1798; Anti-Catholicism, Conservatism and Conspiracy; Maria Edgeworth and the En-Gendering of Revolution, Rebellion and Union; Engende... View More...
Beautiful, bright St. Patrick's Day card sent to Medina, Ohio to Bertha Randall from neighboring Seville, Ohio with no meassage. The verse on the front of the card reads, "God bless the harp and the shamrock, girls, and the flag of emerald green, And all her sons where er they be, Not forgetting the sweet colleen." Card is embossed and is marked on back St. Patrick Series No. 4. View More...
I haven't see one of these since I was a kid. My Irish grandparents used to buy them, but it was a very mysterious thing. Not only did the ticket itself look scary to me, but the whole thing was shrouded in mystery. Now I know why -- they were illegal in the U.S.!The Irish Sweepstake was not like today's lottery where numbers are drawn. Each ticket was assigned to a racehorse, so it was really a form of gambling. By the 60s the U.S. lightened up on it, but sales were already declining by then -- helped along by a report via Fortune magazine that the original motive to support Irish hospitals h... View More...
Very nice clean issue of a journal devoted entirely to the author of Ulysses. No spine crease and no names or writing. A scholarly journal which includes the following features: a photographic essay on the Fifth International James Joyce Symposium; A Further Note on Joyce and Stephens; Presences and Vision in Exiles, A Portrait of the Artist, and Ulysses; A Ulysses Calendar; Joyce and Stephen Phillips' Ulysses; The Unobtrusive Rhetoric of Ulyses; Bloom's Bookmarks; Joyce portraits (visual); and an index of recurrent elements. View More...
Very nice-looking and very informative brochure which folds out to be enormous 21"x36" with a color map on one side and information and small photographs on the other. The photos front and back show two different Liverpool hotels. Advertising at face indicated that the railway was "the best way between Liverpool and London", but was also good for the midlands, Scotland, Wales and to and from Ireland. Also noted is the fact that it was the route of the LMS special trains between Liverpool and London "in connection" with Atlantic steamers. Brochure is clean and attractive with just a few small ... View More...
Crossed pipes and a pretty bucolic scene of the Emerald Isle strikes just the right note for a St. Patrick's Day greeting. The gilt letters at the bottom front read "St.Patrick's Day Souvenir." The card has been postally used and was sent from Bellevue, Ohio from what looks like George Webster to Miss Bertha Randall of Medina, Ohio. The message reads, "Friend Bertha, Did you arrive home all ok? I am home visiting for a few days. Write. Your friend, George Webster" View More...
Excellent condition for a card that is postally used. This one shows a pretty scene of a thatched cottage by the sea, the whole surrounded by gilt shamrocks. The gilt printing at the bottom reads St. Patrick's Day Souvenir. It was sent to Miss Bertha Randall of Medina Ohio with the message "Wadsworth, Ohio. Dear friend, How are you? I hant very well. I am goin' over to Clime's Grandma's this afternoon. I wish I was coming up there. Give my love to your mama. Good by from E.J.N." View More...
I am very fond of this magazine, of which I have maybe five issues . I got them all at the same time and never saw another since! The yellow cover is very clean, as are the pages and page edges with no names or writing. There's a color plate at frontis and maps within the text. Lengthy articles include "Irish Soldiers and Plotters in Williamite England" (16 pages); and "Major General Oliver Harty in Brittany 1799-1800" (29 pages). If you would like to know about the other issues send an email, or phone, and I'll give you the details.[MIX MAGS #1] View More...
Two pretty Irish colleens grace this green and silver card with its inset of an Irish ruin. The card has three sentiments like the three leaves of the shamrock -- True Irish Hearts, Eric Go Bragh (Ireland forever), and The Shamrock Forever. The card is embossed and the silver section is textural. Beautifully kept! The penciled mesasage at the back is hard to read, but the recipient was Bertha Randall of 229 W. Friendship Street, Medina, Ohio. View More...
A COLLECTION OF 30 OF IRELAND BEST LOVED POEMS RECORDED BY IRELAND'S MOST MOVING, RESONANT VOICES READINGS BY MAEVE BINCHY , BONO , PIERCE BROSNAN COLIN FARRELL AND MORE C.D. PRESENT ,NEVER OPENED BOOK & D.J. FINE CONDITION View More...
This is one of those booklets in hard cover -- only 48 pages, but all tricked out with paper over boards and a glassine jacket. The publisher referred to it as a miniature book, but it is not. The only miniature thing about it is the number of pages. The book itself measures 5"x8". It's very clean and nice and even the glassine jacket is in nice condition -- these usually bite the dust.The Roadale Press worked in both England and Pennsylvania, but this book came from England replete with British price on wrapper. Cather made the trip with ahis friend Henry Tyler, two Irish lads bent on adventu... View More...
Crisp, clean, untoned paper and no names or writing make this magazine a stand-out. I have MANY issues of this, so if you're looking for a specific one please use the contact button and send me an email. The magazine measures 7"x 9-3/4" and has 84 pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings. Principle topics covered in this issue are: "Are These the Walls of Camelot?"; Excavations at Knowth, Count Meath, Ireland, 1968; Radiocarbon Dates and the Scottish Iron Age; The Origins of Agriculture, A Reconsideration; South Cadbury Excavations, 1968; and Verulamium 1966-68. View More...
Fun cover just in time for Mardi Gras! The magazine shows darkening around the edges -- dust stain I think, as I had no luck removing it. There's also a small piece of tape to back cover, the handiwork of a previous owner. The spine had a tear to the bottom, but I stopped it with archival tape which does not brown and is very subtle. The magazine offers fiction from three big names: Edna Ferber (Our Very Best People); Adela Rogers St.Johns (Kitty Shinn's Husband); and W. Somerset Maugham (The Luncheon." Other topics include bull fights in Mexico; an article about alcoholism, Drink: A Very Hum... View More...
This booklet is crisp and clean enough to be called new. VERY nice. It does not contain the musical score -- it's the words set to the music which were based on the author's novel "The Invasion", and before that on the legend of the romance between an Objibway chief's daughter and an Irish trader, set against the backdrop of the Great Lakes area. A special page pasted in at front shows that the operetta/oratorio was performed in 1987 by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony. Booklet measures 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" and has 62 pages. The composer is Bain Murray. View More...
Very pretty little book, but not a fluffy one. This is serious Gaelic poetry in English on topics of religion, Irish culture, the importance of place, the matter of experience, and love. Among the many poets are these well-known ones: Thomas Moore, Jonathan Swift, W.B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, and Thomas Kinsella. But there are also women poets with beautiful Irish names. The book measures a small 4-1/2" x 6-1/4" with 240 pristine pages. The dustjacket will arrive a brand new mylar cover. A lovely gift that has no names or writing and no price-clip. View More...
I am very fond of this magazine, of which I have maybe five issues. I got them all at the same time and never saw another since! The peache color cover is very clean, as are the pages and page edges with no names or writing. There's a color plate at frontis and additional black and white photographs within the text, all printed on quality coated paper. The articles include the followibng: The Irish Soldier: A Propaganda Paper; Description of a Rebel for 1798; Guns in Medieval and Tudor Ireland; Major General Sir Charles James Napier; Alexander O'Reilly, an Irish Soldier in the Service of Spain... View More...
This is a charming little booklet filled with stories of the legends of Killarney published by the author and printed by the The Kerryman Limited of Tralee, Republic of Ireland. It measures 4-1/2"x7" and the cover art was rendered by Fergus O'Ryan. The booklet was likely made for the tourist trade as many of the ads are for hotels, bars, and various travel aids. The stories include, but aren't limited to: the origin of the Killarney Lakes, the legend of Muckross Abbey, O'Donaghue and the Devil; Fionn MacCumhal and the Welsh Giant, Tom Coghlan and the Leprechaun, The Maid of Ross, and The Sage ... View More...
Though it's a bit worn, this booklet remains with no names or writing, no spine defects, and no creased pages which are clean. The booklet measues "6"x 9" and has 63 pages, including several lists of people, including presidents, a list of members including addresses and another with deceased members. Th early part of the booklet offers anecdotes and laughs as well as serious conversation. Very good item for finding ancestors. View More...
