RYAN, Rev. John. Ed. by. Féil-Sgríbhinn Eóin Mhic Néill. Essays and Studies Presented to Professor Eoin MacNeill. On the occasion of his seventieth birthday, May 15th 1938. With illustrations, genealogical tables and large folding map. Preface by Dr. Douglas Hyde.

Dublin: The Four Courts Press, 1995. Second edition. pp. [iv], xv, 594. 34 (plates and figures). Green papered boards, title and Celtic decoration in gilt on upper cover and spine. Previous owner‟s signature on front endpaper. A fine copy.

With a feast of articles by leading scholars of their day on Celtic Languages, Archaeology, Prehistory, Early and Medieval Irish History, and Folklore: Note on Cormac‟s Glossary; Glendalough; Magna Carta Hiberniae; Remains of Ancient Irish Monastic Libraries; The Hagiography of Leinster; Roadways in Ancient Ireland; Uí Bruicc; Feudal Charters of the De Burgo Lordship of Connaught; The Remains of Ancient Irish Monastic Libraries; Ríg na nDéssi; Meath in the „Book of Rights‟, Uí Bruicc, Kings of the Deise, etc. The contributors included: Osborn Bergin, R.I. Best, D.A. Binchy, Myles Dillon, Robin Flower, Lambert McKenna, Tadhg Ó Donnchadha (Torna), Rudolf Thurneysen, R.A.S. Macalister, Joseph Raftery, Edmund Curtis, Dudley Edwards, Aubrey Gwynn, Colm Ó Lochlainn, De Búrca Rare Books 107 Seamus Pender, Seamus Delargy, Sean Ó Suilleabháin; C.W. Von Sydow, etc. A major work in which the Colum Cille type was displayed most effectively, including the use of italics and small caps and everything it had to offer, with Baoithín on the titlepage. It was the largest and one of the most important works produced by the Three Candles at the time, and many proclaim this publication as its most important achievement in print. It contains at least seven languages, is well illustrated with half-tone and line material. It includes a fold out map of the Roadways in Ancient Ireland to illustrate O Lochlainn‟s own contribution of that title. It has two titlepages (in Irish and English), and two frontispieces (portrait of Eoin MacNeill and University College Dublin).

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