JOYCE, P.W. The Wonders of Ireland and other Papers on Irish Subjects.

With portrait frontispiece of the author. London: Longmans, 1911. First edition. Foolscap octavo. pp. [vi], 242, 4 (publisher’s list). Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. Scarce.

The contents include: The Voices from the Forest of Fochluth; The Island of Loch Cé or Inishnameo; Saint Coleman’s Ducks; A Ship and Crew in the Air; An Island split in Three by a Storm; Loch Leane turned into Blood; The Virtues of Lough Neagh; The Man-Wolves of Ossory; The Swan-Woman; The Lonely Crane of Inishkea; An Island that Preserved Human Bodies; Three Marvellous Wells; The Prophetic Well of Raphoe; The Buried Joint of Clonmacnoise; The Lia Fail or Coronation Stone of Tara; Spenser’s Irish Rivers; The Destruction of Tiernmas and his People; Our Three Patron Saints; Cathal O’Conor the Red Hand, King of Connaught; Sir John de Courcy; Saint Donatus, Bishop of Fiesole, Garret Mac Eniry, etc