The Native Speaker Examined Home. Two Stalking Fallacies Anatomized. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers, 1909. First Edition.  Pp, 193. Green cloth boards, lettered in gilt. A fine bright copy.

“The purpose of this volume is a cry for the admission of common into the treatment of the Irish Language. It is a humble contribution towards the saving of the language from its great natural enemy, the native speaker.”

A critical work on the Irish language revival movement, written by the Rev. John Miles O’Reilly. It can be seen as a contribution to the broader contemporary debate about the nature and feasibility of reviving Irish, offering a scholarly critique of certain arguments or approaches then prevalent