Earth-Bound. Nine Stories of Ireland. Inscribed by the Author (1924)

Author: Dorothy Macardle

Book ID: 69117

Price: 395.00

Earth-Bound. Nine Stories of Ireland. Mass: The Harrigan Press, 1924 (with the Irish publisher The Emton Press label affixed to lower title page). First Edition. Pp, 108. Quarter cloth paper boards, title to front cover and spine. Light browning to boards & endpapers, contents bright and clean. A very good copy.

Presentation Copy, Inscribed by Macardle on front free endpaper.

Written by Irish writer, novelist, playwright, and historian while in Kilmainham & Mountjoy jails, where she was imprisoned by the fledgling Free State government in 1922 during the Civil War.

Some of the stories appeared in ‘The Dublin Magazine,’ ‘Eire’ and ‘The Irish World.’ They incorporate themes found in Irish legends and myths, including premonitions, ghosts and clairvoyance.

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