Original green cloth with blind stamped shamrock to the front board, and gilt titles and shamrock decorations. Original dust wrapper (now protected) with an illustration of an Irish map to the front cover, and a list of other novels to the rear panel. First issue. “Taking the town of Druninara as a setting, he presents with the accuracy of an eye witness vivid and poignant scenes of that futile rising that nevertheless was the beginning of the end of British ascendancy in Ireland.” (Publisher’s blurb). The Reverend Joseph Cannon Guinan was a parish priest in Ardagh, County Longford. 19 cm x 13 cm.