Trasna na Boinne [In Irish Language]

Earnan de Blaghd [Ernest Blythe (1889-1975)]

Verlag: Sairseal agus Dill, Dublin, Ireland, 1957

Beschreibung

The first part of Ernest Blythe (1889-1975) autobiography in Irish (Gaelic) first edition, first printing hardcover. Issued without dust jacket. Pictorial boards are foxed around the edges, shelf wear to spine ends and corners bumped. Internally this book is clean bright and tight. No pen marks or inscriptions. Not ex-lib. Contains several photos and pictorial endpapers. Please examine all seller photos. Earnán de Blaghd; born Magheragall, Lisburn, Co. Antrim, son of Protestant farmer; joined Gaelic League, taught by Sinéad Flanagan [who taught and married Eamon de Valera]; recruited to Irish Volunteers by Sean O?Casey; IRB organiser; junior reporter on North Down Herald, Bangor, then Newtownards; worked as farm labourer in Kerry Gaeltacht, 1913, spending two years there learning Irish; clerk in the Department of Agriculture in Dublin; Irish Volunteers organiser, 1914; in prison during 1916 Rising; participated in hunger-strikes; elected to Sinn Féin executive, 25 Oct. 1917; elected TD for North Monaghan, 1918; appointed Minister of Trade and Commerce, 1918-21; unsympathetic to John Chartres in his conflicts with Charles Bewley, the Irish representative in Berlin; appointed Minister of Finance, 1921-23; appointed Minister of Post & Telegraphs, 1922-32; elected Vice-Pres. of Executive Council of Free State, July 1927-Mar 1932; reduced old age pension from 10 to 9 shillings and subsequently defeated gen. election 1933; senator till 1936, and retired; encouraged Mac Liammoir-Edwards. granted £1,000 to Abbey making it the first state-subsidised theatre in the world; Abbey Mg-Dir., 1941-67. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 001132

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Trasna na Boinne [In Irish Language]

Verlag: Sairseal agus Dill, Dublin, Ireland

Erscheinungsdatum: 1957

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

Auflage: 1st Edition