HEALY, T.M. [Timothy Michael]

Why Ireland Is Not Free. A Study of Twenty Years in Politics

Dublin: Printed at the "Nation" Office, 1898. First Edition. Octavo (21cm x 17cm). Printed paper wrappers; 187pp; text printed in two columns. Externally worn, with lower wrapper lacking, front wrapper partially detached, conspicuously chipped and toned at edges. Text complete and clean. Private library stamp (in Gaelic) to title page, "Leabharlann Ard-eaglaise Concaise" (LIbrary / Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception). A textually complete, Good only copy.

Political memoir by the Irish nationalist politician Tim Healy (1855-1931), in which he strongly articulates his ongoing disagreements with John Dillon's Irish National Federation, from whose Executive Committee Healy had been expelled in 1895. The work provides an excellent first-hand view of the often fractious nature of the Nationalist movement in the years before the Easter Rising and the ascension of Sinn Féin. Surprisingly uncommon, with OCLC noting just eleven copies worldwide, of which only four in North America.

Price: $300.00

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