The Great Earl of Kildare. Gerald Fitzgerald (1456-1513). With a foreword by E. Curtis. Dublin: Phoenix publ., [1933]. Pp xxiv, 305. Quarter Rexene leather boards. A fine bright copy.

The author’s one contribution to written Irish history (he died at the age of 28), is an expansion on his award winning essay, worked on over several years and here presented as an intensive study of a remarkable figure in Irish history.