An Claisceadal: Amhráin Gaedhilge le Nótai an Cheoil. Baile Atha Cliath : Faoi Comhartha na dtri gCoinneal (Three Candles), 1930-1940. 36 loose sheets of printed music & text with 3 leaves of manuscript at rear. Spiral bound in plain card boards.  All issues in very good condition.

A collection of over 70 Gaelic songs collected from various sources by publisher, Colm O’Lochlainn.

Colm O’Lochlainn was a renowned printer, typographer & founder of the Three Candle Press.  He authored two books on Irish ballads, namely ‘Irish Street Ballads’ published in 1939 and ‘More Irish Street Ballads’ in 1965.

He was also an assistant in the Faculty of Modern Irish at University College Dublin from 1933 to 1943, where he later became a professor of Irish Language and Literature.