The Life of Saint Malachy. Being a Part of “An Historical Account of the Diocese of Down and Connor, Ancient and Modern” Belfast: Irish News, 1899. Pp96. Green cloth boards, title lettered in gilt to upper cover. A very good copy.

An additional volume to O’Laverty’s five volume history of ‘Diocese of Down and Connor’ which were published between 1887-1895.

Saint Malachy, born 1094, Armagh, County Armagh, was the celebrated archbishop and papal legate who is considered to be the dominant figure of church reform in 12th-century Ireland.