The Singing-Men at Cashel. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1936. First Edition. Publisher’s green cloth boards, lettered in black. Faded along spine, light shelf-wear to covers, partial remains of publisher’s pictorial dust jacket, designed by Harry Kernoff, present; contents pages in nice bright condition.

Inscribed and dated in the year of publication by the Author on front free endpaper. 

The novel is set in tenth century Ireland and tells the story of Gormlai, a scholar and poet of some renown. The novel recounts her three marriages, each one different in their own way. It was an extended treatment of the conflict between rigid Catholicism and individual freedom.

Austin Clarke’s second novel, it was banned by the Censorship of Publications Board (Ireland) on publication.