MADDEN, Richard R. The United Irishmen. Their Lives and Times.

With several additional memoirs, & authentic documents, heretofore unpublished; the whole matter newly arranged and revised. With a memoir of William James MacNevin at end of volume three. Edited by James J. O'Neill. With numerous illustrations. In three volumes. Dublin: Martin Lester, n.d. [c.1922]. pp. (1) 240, (2) [i], 247, (3) [i], 192, 62. Modern blue buckram, titled in gilt, publisher's device on upper covers. Usual toning. A fine set.

Across multiple volumes, Richard R. Madden, the Dublin-born physician, traveller and historian assembles biographies of leaders and rank-and-file alike—Wolfe Tone, Emmet, McCracken, Dwyer and many others—drawing on letters, state papers, private testimony and his own interviews with survivors and families. Madden writes with sympathy for the movement and indignation at repression, yet his citations and documentary transcriptions make the work indispensable. It remains a cornerstone for scholars and collectors of Irish history, preserving voices otherwise lost and mapping networks that sustained republican project.

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