The Irish Chieftains; or, a Struggle For The Crown. With Numerous Notes and a Copious Appendix. Dublin: McGlashan and Gill, 1872. First Edition. Pp, xiii, 728. Green cloth boards, richly decorated in gilt with shamrock borders & harp in oval floral surround. Light shelf-wear to covers, repair to inner hinge of upper cover. Contents in very good condition.

Charles French Blake-Forster (1851–1874) was born at Forster Street House, Galway City. He had a deep and abiding interest in the history of the county. He contributed a number of articles on this subject to the Galway Vindicator and Galway Express between 1869 and 1871. 

This his only full-length published work is an account of the Williamite War in Ireland from the perspective of Galwegians, many of them historical, including some of his ancestors.