Sligo and The Enniskilleners. From 1688-1691. Dublin: Hodges & Figgis, 1880. First Edition. Pp ix, 188. Ex library copy, with ink stamps & with occasional label residue to endpapers.  Rebound in green cloth boards, title in gilt to spine. A very good copy.

Illustrated with a frontispiece folded map of Sligo town in 1689.

Wood-Martin’s first book is an account of the various skirmishes that took place during the Williamite war in the north-west of Ireland.

Sligo was a strategic location during the Williamite War (1689-1691), a conflict between the Catholic supporters of King James II and the Protestant supporters of William of Orange.