Daniel O’Connell and the Story of Catholic Emancipation. Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1929. Pp xxvii, 386. Maroon cloth boards, in publisher’s tan dust jacket lettered in black. A nice bright copy.

Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of O’Connell & several plates in the text.

Michael MacDonagh (1912-1968), poet and barrister; co-editor with Lennox Robinson of “The Oxford Book of Irish Verse.” His father Thomas MacDonagh, was executed by the British for his part in the Easter Uprising of 1916.