Ó BROIN, Leon. Revolutionary Underground. The Story of the Irish Republican Brotherhood 1858-1924.

Dublin: Gill, 1976. Large post octavo. pp. [viii], 245. Brown papered boards, title in silver on spine. Ex lib with neat stamps. A very good copy in pictorial dust jacket. Scarce.
This is the full history of the IRB tracing the fortunes of the organisation which had a two-fold objective: to act as a clandestine gingering element in all Irish nationalist circles, and to preside over the establishment by force of an independent Irish Republic. With special emphasis on the period 1916-22, chiefly through the efforts of its greatest leader - Michael Collins.