Poems of James Clarence Mangan (Many Hitherto Uncollected). Edited with Preface and Notes by D.J. O’Donoghue. Introduction by John Mitchell. Centenary Edition. Dublin: O’Donoghue, 1903. Pp xlvii, 332. Green cloth ruled and lettered in black. Neat ownership to front endpaper, overall a nice bright copy.

Frontispiece plate featuring a sketch of Mangan by Charles Mills.

This centenary edition contains 70 poems collected here for the first time.

James Clarence Mangan was born in Dublin just before Robert Emmet’s failed rebellion in 1803, and died in destitution in 1849, as the Great Famine drew to a close. Accounts of Mangan’s impoverishment, his reclusive behaviour, his addiction to alcohol, combined with the darkness of late poems like ‘The Nameless One,’ have encouraged readers to see Mangan as the epitome of pathos, and a mirror of the degraded colonial condition of nineteenth-century Ireland itself