The Irish Act of Union- How It Was Carried. Including the Letter from Sir William Harcourt on the History of the Period. Published by The Daily Chronicle, & Home Rule Council, 1912. Pp 70. Publisher’s green wrappers lettered in black. A very good copy.

John Gordon Swift MacNeill (1849-1926) was an Irish Protestant Nationalist politician and MP in the House of Commons. He was a Professor of Constitutional Law in the National University of Ireland from 1909.