The Poets and Poetry of Munster. A Selection of Irish Songs by the Poets of the Eighteenth Century, with Poetical Translations by James Clarence Mangan. Illustrated by the Original Music and Biographical sketches of the Authors. Irish text Revised by W.M. Hennessy. Dublin: Duffy, [1925]. Fifth Edition. Pp lx, 355; all edges gilt. Blue buckram upper cover & spine decorated in gilt, patterned endpapers. A fine bright copy.

The volume includes most songs with their original musical airs (unaccompanied melodies) and biographical sketches of the authors .

Prefatory material adds substantial literary-historical value, comprising a fragment of Mangan’s unfinished autobiography and a memoir of his life by Rev. C.P. Meehan, supplemented by a new introduction from John P. Dalton.