COLLINS, Michael. The Path to Freedom (Rare first edition in dust-jacket)

Portrait frontispiece. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1922. First edition. Crown octavo. pp. 153. Grey cloth. Portrait of Collins and title in black on upper cover. Previous owner’s signature. Dust jacket dull with professional repair to tear. Publisher’s presentation copy, stamped thus. A very good copy.
These articles and speeches in The Path to Freedom, first published in 1922, are written in a forceful and very personal style in which he evaluates our heritage, puts forward his arguments in favour of the Treaty, and shows the possibilities for an Ireland of the future. “Our strength”, he writes, “will depend upon our economic freedom and upon moral and intellectual force. In these we can be a shining light to the world.”

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