The Letters of P.H. Pearse. With a foreword by F.S.L. Lyons. London: Colin Smythe, 1980. Pp xxiv, 504. Frontispiece silhouette portrait of Pearse & illustrated endpapers. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket.

These letters are “extremely down-to-earth and as such are bound to change the popular view of Pearse.”

Also contains in separate appendices short biographies of the more important of Pearse’s correspondents and the original version of the letters in Irish which are presented in translation in the body of the text.