MacLYSAGHT, Edward. Irish Families. Their Names, Arms and Origins. Illustrated by Myra Maguire with 234 coloured coats of arms and large folding clan map. 

RARE SIGNED COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION

Dublin: Hodges Figgis, 1957.Quarto. First edition. pp. 366. Blue cloth, title and armorial device in gilton upper and spine. Signed by Edward MacLysaght on title page. Heraldic card laid on front endpaper. A fine copy of the rare first edition in a rare fine dust jacket.                                                                                                 This famous book by Edward MacLysaght, the former Chief Herald of Ireland is the most authoritative work on Irish family history which took the author more than twelve years to complete. He deals with 300 Irish families and the Arms of 243septs (or clans) with their artistic armorial bearings. It is further complemented with a large coloured clan location map.EdgeworthLysaght, later Edward Anthony Edgeworth Lysaght, and from 1920 EdwardMacLysaght in Irish: Éamonn Mac Giolla Iasachta (1887-1986) was the foremost genealogist of twentieth-century Ireland. His numerous books on Irish surnames built upon the work of Rev. Patrick Woulfe’s Sloinnte Gaedheal is Gall - Irish Names and Surnames. Dr.MacLysaght said of this work: “there exists a book which deserves high praise;the Rev. Patrick Woulfe’s ‘Sloinnte Gaedheal is Gall’. I take this early opportunity of acknowledging my indebtedness to Father Woulfe’s work”.

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