The Children of Lir.  The Second of the "Three Sorrows, or Pities, of Story-Telling".  Dublin: Talbot Press, 1940. First Edition. Pp, 44. Publisher's grey French wrappers, lettered in black. Light wear to lower wrapper, otherwise a fine copy. Housed in original envelope as issued by the publishers.

Second title in this series, the others being: Déirdre (1939) & The Children of Tuireann (1941).

Douglas Hyde,  also known by his pen name  'An Craoibhín Aoibhinn,' was a scholar of the Irish language who served as the first President of Ireland from 1938 to 1945.