THE ANNALS OF IRELAND, TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL IRISH OF THE FOUR MASTERS, WITH ANNOTATIONS BY PHILIP MACDERMOTT, ESQ. AND THE TRANSLATOR
Author: Connellan, Owen
Title: THE ANNALS OF IRELAND, TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL IRISH OF THE FOUR MASTERS, WITH ANNOTATIONS BY PHILIP MACDERMOTT, ESQ. AND THE TRANSLATOR
Publication: Dublin, Ireland: Bryan Geraghty, 1846
Edition: First Edition
Description: Hardcover. Quarto, 10.8 in. x 8.8 in., pp. [14], 734. Illustrated with additional colored title page and linen-backed fold-out map (26 in. x 20 in.) of Ancient Ireland. Handsome modern three-quarter dark green calf ruled in gilt over lighter green cloth. Gilt title and five-raised bands to spine. GIlt top-edge. Top corners nudged. A few spots to fore-edge. Marbled endpapers. Unmarked interior. Map in VG+ condition. Very Good.
The final two leaves of this editoin have been reversed. The index pages run "730, 731, 732, [1], 736, 733, 734, with the map bound-in between pages 736 and 733.
Owen Connellan (1797-1871), Gaelic scholar, royal historiographer, and scribe, was born in Tireragh, Co. Sligo, son of a farmer...In the early 1830s he was appointed Irish historiographer to the king by William IV, while he had earlier translated George IV's Letter to the Irish people into Irish. In 1849 he was appointed professor of Celtic languages and literature at the newly founded QCC. (from Dictionary of Irish Biography).
Seller ID: 87165
Subject: Irish & Ireland: History
