The Land War in Ireland. Being a Personal Narrative of Events. In Continuation of “A Secret History of English Occupation of Egypt.” With a portrait of the Author in Prison Dress. London: Swift, 1913. Second Edition. Pp ix, 510. Publisher’s quarter cloth, paper boards. title label to spine. A nice bright copy.

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840-1922), a poet, diplomat, and horse breeder, was strongly opposed to British imperialism and sympathetic to Irish Home Rule. In 1888 a violent incident led to his imprisonment in Kilmainham Gaol.

Blunt paid seven visits to Ireland between March 1886 and June 1888 in order to support the agrarian agitation that became known as the Plan of Campaign.  He looked upon Ireland as a case of English oppression similar to that he had perceived in India and Egypt.