O’MEAGHER, Joseph Casimir. Some Historical Notices of the O’Meaghers of Ikerrin. With a folding map, six plates (two coloured), genealogical chart and other illustrations throughout.

New York: The Author, 1890. Small folio. First extended edition. pp. 216. Five colour plates, 16 full page illustrations, 17 illustrations in the text, folding map. Three quarter green morocco on pebbled cloth boards, titled in gilt on gilt decorated spine. Slight rubbing to spine-ends. Pinned to one page is a Spokane Inland Register for June 1959 newspaper clipping on Gov. Thomas F. Meagher. A very good tight copy. Top edge gilt. Rare.

No copy of the printed version located on Jisc.

The O’Meaghers of Ikerrin were of the same stock as the O’Carrolls of Ely. Their territory was near Roscrea, at the foot of the Devil’s Bit Mountain and, unlike other Gaelic septs, they were not ousted by the Norman invaders but remained in possession of their ancient patrimony side by side with the Butlers of Ormond. One of the adventurous and ill-starred Rapparees of the seventeenth century was Capt. John Meagher, who was captured and hanged in 1690. Thomas Francis Meagher, better known as ‘Meagher of the Sword’, was one of their most illustrious sons. A prominent Young Irelander, he was leader of the Irish Brigade in the Union Army in the American Civil War. The greatly expanded 1890 New York edition with 216 pages of text compared to the 47 page 1887 London edition.

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