A Miscellany of Irish Proverbs. Collected and Edited by Thomas F. O’Rahilly. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1922. First Edition. Pp, 174.Small 8vo. Blue cloth boards lettered in gilt, in publisher’s plain dust jacket lettered in black. A fine bright copy.

A collection of 418 Irish proverbs with their Gaelic & English translation followed by a brief analysis. Includes a Bibliography & index.

Thomas F. O’Rahilly is regarded as the foremost scholar of Modern Irish. Having held a temporary post in Irish at UCD he took up a permanent position as a clerk in the Four Courts in 1906. As director of the School of Celtic Studies from 1941 he oversaw a project to investigate the spoken dialects of Irish.