Padruig Mac Giolla Patrick Vincent Fitzpatrick (1 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good +. first edition. 12mo, 3/4 leather over marbled board. 138 pages. Corners quite worn. Former owner bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author. " A clever poet and humorist of [Daniel] O'Connell's time, and author of much fugitive verse. Mr. W. J. Fitzpatrick possesses his papers, and refers to him many times in his 'Correspondence of O'Connell', where letters of P. V. F. are given. He assisted O'Connell very greatly and was rewarded by the Liberator's obtaining for him from Lord John Russell the post of Register of Deeds, Dublin." --The Poets of Ireland, A Biographical Dictionary, by David O'Donoghue. 041407A.…