The Story of a Success. Being a Record of St. Enda’s College September 1908 to Easter 1916. Dublin: Maunsel, 1917. First Edition. Green cloth, title blind embossed to upper cover, covers faded and lightly worn along spine, contents with scattered spotting.

With frontispiece photograph of Padraic Pearse and  illustrations in the text.

Desmond Ryan became a close friend of Pearse and many historians call him Pearse’s first biographer. He also published ‘The Man Called Pearse’ (1919) and translated ‘The Life of Patrick H. Pearse’ Adapted from the French of Louis N. Le Roux (1932).