The Irish Priests in the Penal Times (1660-1760). From the State Papers in H.M. Record Offices, Dublin and London, The Bodleian Library, and the British Museum. Waterford: Harvey, 1914. First Edition. Pp vii, 490. Quarter leather , clot boards. title in gilt to spine. Spine heavily scuffed with a little loss to head, patterned endpapers, contents in very good condition.

A work later to prove invaluable due to the loss of original records in the Public Record Office fire (1922), Burke describes the operation of the penal laws in every county in Ireland, by means of commentaries on transcripts from sources in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, the British Museum. & Public Records Office, Dublin.