NEWRIENSIS. Historical Sketch of Newry. By “Newriensis.” Newry: “The Reporter” Machine Works, 68 Hill Street, 1876.

First edition. Foolscap octavo. pp. [iv], 257, [1], xii (Index). Modern blue buckram, titled in silver. Ex lib with neat stamps. A fine copy. Extremely rare.
COPAC locates the QUB copy only. WorldCat 3. The QUB Catalogue gives John F. Small as the author.
John Francis Small (1853-1923) was an Irish nationalist politician of the Irish Parliamentary Party. He sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom as a Member of Parliament (MP) for County Wexford from 1883 to 1885, and for South Down from 1885 to 1886. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1875 and later became coroner for South Armagh, and a Poor Law Guardian. He died, in 1923, at his home in Hill Street, Newry.

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