Irish Churches and Monastic Buildings. Three Volumes. (1) The First Phase and the Romanesque. (2) Gothic Architecture to AD 1400. (3) Medieval Gothic the Last Phase. Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, 1955 (first) , 1966 (second impression) , 1971 (second impression). A fine bright set in very good pictorial dust jackets.

Leask’s scholarly work on Irish ecclesiastical architecture of the middle ages, published over a ten year period.

The three volume work encompasses a period of almost a thousand years in three main phases: The Norman invasion, the later 14th centaury and the new styles of the Renaissance and Elizabethan conquests.