CEACTA BEAGA GAEDILGE I [- III] IRISH READING LESSONS ... WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY JACK B. YEATS by Yeats, Jack Butler [illus], and Norma Borthwick - 1906

Red calf spine with black title plate, raised gilt binding and title. Red marbled boards.

Tan leather binding with black title plate, gilt banding and title on the spine.
A good read. Strictures on the ecclesiastical and literary history of Ireland: from the most ancient times . Also, an historical sketch of the constitution and to the year 1783. Thomas Campbell (1733–1795) was an Irish Protestant clergyman, best known as a travel writer and for his accounts of the circle of Samuel Johnson. Campbell was born at Glack in County Tyrone on 4 May 1733. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin (B.A. 1756, M.A. 1761), and took orders in 1761. He was curate of Clogher until 1772, when he was collated to the prebend of Tyholland, and in 1773 he was made chancellor of St Macartan's Cathedral, Clogher. He was a preacher. He died on 20 June 1795 in London. In 1777 he published (anonymously in London) A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland in a series of letters to John Watkinson, M.D. (a second edition was published in Dublin in 1778). It is supposed to record the tour of an Englishman in… Read More