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MacCall, Seamus.
Irish Mitchel: A Biography.
Publisher: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, London;
Date of Publication: 1938
Stock Code: 15052
First edition, large octavo, pp., 391. Publisher’s forest green cloth with sliver titles to spine, top edge black, in a blue, orange and white dust-jacket. Light toning to the dust-jacket, light scattered foxing to the text block edges and end-papers, offsetting to the rear-free end-paper. Additional copy of the frontispiece image of Mitchel leaf loosely inserted. With an ownership inscription of one ‘Piaras O’Freaghaile’, dated 1940, to front free endpaper. A full and definitive biography of the Irish Nationalist John Mitchel (1815-75). Mitchel lived through war, famine and and plague, before being transported to Van Diemens Land, a British penal colony now known as Tasmania. He eventually escaped to the USA, where he continued his protest of the English invasion and occupation of Ireland. £35.00