COMYN, David. Irish Illustrations to Shakespeare being Notes on his References to Ireland. Reprinted from the “Weekly Freeman.”

Dublin: The Freeman’s Journal, 1894. Foolscap quarto. pp. iv, 32 (double column). Quarter library buckram, lettered in gilt. Ex lib with neat small circular stamps. A very good copy. Extremely rare.
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David Comyn, Gaelic scholar, born in Clare in 1853, was the first editor of the Gaelic Journal, founded in 1882. His principal contributions to the language movement consisted of publications such as Irish illustrations to Shakespeare (1894), the unpublished poems of Peadar Ó Doirnín in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge (1895-6), and the first volume (1902) of his translation of Foras Feasa ar Éirinn by Geoffrey Keating for the Irish Texts Society.

[Cat 157]