CUSACK, M.F. History of the City and County of Cork. Illustrated. With folding genealogical table, coloured folding geological map of the county, engravings, and list of subscribers.

Dublin: McGlashan and Gill. Cork: Francis Guy, 1875. pp. xxiv, 586, [14] (publisher’s list and adverts). Recent maroon buckram with original front cover paiste on front board. Occasional light spotting. Ex lib with neat small circular stamps. A very good copy. Very scarce.
Margaret Anne Cusack (1832-1899) was born into an aristocratic background in Dublin. She became an Anglican nun in London, later (1858) converting to Catholicism. She joined the Poor Clares, taking the name Mary Francis, in Newry and afterwards spent some time working in the famine-stricken region of Kenmare, County Kerry where the fund she founded for the destitute peasantry raised £20,000. A woman before her time she was misunderstood and reviled and became embroiled in quarrels with the hierarchy in various parts of Ireland.

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