Camps on the Hearthstone. Dublin: Fallon, [1956]. First Edition. Pp, 244. Black cloth boards, in pictorial dust jacket. Jacket worn & frayed along edges with some loss, off-setting to endpaper, contents pages in good condition.

Presentation copy, Inscribed by the Patrick Hogan on the front free endpaper.

A fictionalised account of the author’s time in the IRA during the years up to the 1916 Rising.

Patrick Hogan became the first Labour TD elected in Clare, subsequently becoming a senator and eventually the longest serving Ceann Comhairle. He most famously presiding over American President John F Kennedy’s address to the Oireachtas in June 1963.