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First published 1929 , this is a 4th printing, from 1952.
Brian O'Higgins was a hugely infulental figure in Irish Nationalism, connected to many of the orgainsations and individuals of Revolutionary era Ireland .
These are a collection of poems and ballads, mostly in the traditional sense, songs of place and natin, many of faith ( or with a faith element) some written while in prison, some written up to 30 years before publication.
Edgewear and soiling/ dustmarking to the covers.
O'Higgins was a founding member of the Irish volunteers in 1913, which organised to work for Irish independence. On Easter Monday of 1916 he was in a group of Volunteers who were held at 41 Parnell Square as reserves, on account of their age, health or physical condition. This group was called to the GPO at six o'clock that evening. He was put on guard duty at the main entrance to the GPO and he later served under Quartermaster Michael Staines. He assisted in the evacuation of the wounded from the GPO on Friday evening and spent the night in a shed off Moore Street. He was deported and interned in Frongoch until February 1917.
In May 1918 he was arrested and deported to Birmingham Jail, and was elected Sinn Féin candidate for West Clare during the 1918 General Election.
In January 1919, he was involved in the establishment of the Republican Courts in Clare, and he was re-elected as a Sinn Féin TD at the 1921 and 1923 elections. He opposed the Treaty, & during the Civil War he was imprisoned in Oriel House, Mountjoy Jail and went on hunger strike for twenty five days.
He resigned from Sinn Féin in 1934 along with Mary McSwiney in protest against the election of MIchael O'Flanagan as President citing that O'Flanagan had a state job and was "on the pay-roll of a usurping government"
He ran a busy publishing house and bookshop on Dublin's O'Connell Street also.
