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Hardcover, undated but probable post WW1 era , issued as part of the Gresham / Phoenix Irish Library series. illustrations by Noel L Nisbet.
The Irish Library was a series of uniformly sized reprints , often with new illustrations or collating content together, and published from the 1910's - 1930's , later merging with the Talbot Press list .
These are almost all translations from the Irish, many collected by Hyde himself verbally in the west of Ireland, and some from manuscript sources.
There is moderate age spotting to the cloth covers, but binding is tight.
Douglas Ross Hyde ( Dubhghlas de hÍde (1860 - 1949), also known by the penname An Craoibhín Aoibhinn (lit. "the pleasant little branch"), was an Irish academic, linguist, scholar of the Irish language, politician and diplomat who served as the first President of Ireland from June 1938 to June 1945. He was a leading figure in the Gaelic revival, and the first President of the Gaelic League, one of the most influential cultural organisations in Ireland at the time. He was also a noted academic, and a collector of folklore, songs, Irish myth and legends.
