Michael O Cleirigh. Chief of the Four Masters and His Associates. Dublin: Talbot, 1936. First Edition. Pp, 220. Black cloth boards, title in gilt to spine, in publisher’s dust jacket. A nice bright copy.

Illustrated with a frontispiece and two plates in the text.

Mícheál Ó Cléirigh (c. 1590 c. 1643), sometimes known as Michael O’Clery, was an Irish chronicler, scribe and antiquary and chief author of the Annals of the Four Masters, assisted by Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh, Fearfeasa Ó Maol Chonaire, and Peregrinus Ó Duibhgeannain.