O’DWYER, Sir Michael. The History of the O’Dwyers. (Signed first edition from the author)

Originally published as The O’Dwyers of Kilnamanagh. The History of an Irish Sept. Preface and biographical profile by Tom O’Dwyer. With illustrations and maps. London: Murray, 1933. First edition. Octavo. pp. vii, 360. Green cloth, titled in gilt. Signed presentation copy from the author. A very good copy, inscribed from the author. Scarce.
Here is described the economic history of a typical Irish sept or clan settled in the heart of Tipperary from the seventh to the seventeenth century. This book throws new light on the Civil War in Munster, the Treaty of Cahir in 1652 with Colonel Sankey (representing Cromwell), by which Colonel Edmund O’Dwyer transferred his brigade to the Spanish service; the O’Dwyers in the Irish Brigades of France and Spain; the translation of the remnants of the sept beyond the Shannon; the distribution of Kilnamanagh under the Cromwellian and Restoration settlements, and the Land War of two centuries, ending in the recent recovery by some of the sept of a portion of their lost possessions.

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