The Story of a Success. Being a Record of St. Enda’s College, September 1908 to Easter 1916. Edited by Desmond Ryan. Dublin: Maunsel, 1920. Third Edition. Pp, xii,127. Quarter linen paper boards, title lettered in white. A nice bright copy.

With frontispiece photograph of Padraic Pearse and other illustrations throughout.

Desmond Ryan became a close friend of Pearse and many authors 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).