Significant and Interesting Irish books

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  1. O'Connel, Daniel. A Memoir on Ireland Native and saxon. Vol.I. Dublin: James Duffy, 1844. Second edition (stated). Published in its first edition in 1843 on O'Connell's release from Richmond Prison, where he had served three months of a one-year sentence for conspiracy related to rallies organized to gain repeal of the Act of Union and Ireland's emancipation from England. O'Connell, dubbed Ireland's Liberator, was first jailed in 1824 for delivering his "Address to the People of Ireland" on the same issues. This volume contains as an appendix the pamphlet, The Irish in the English Army and Navy, and The Irish Arms Bill, in Five Letters by John Cornelius O'Callaghan (Dublin: James McCormick, 1843). VG. $250

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