Expugnatio Hibernica. The Conquest of Ireland. Dublin: R.I.A., 1978. Pp lxxvii, 393.Red cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket. A nice bright copy.

Illustrated with a frontispiece plate of a manuscript page from the ‘ Expugnatio Hibernica’ and a folded genealogical table of ‘The Children of Nesta.’

An account of the coming of the Normans to Ireland by Giraldus Cambrensis (c.1146-1223). Edited with translation & historical notes by A.B. Scott & F.X. Martin.