The west Cork specialist in rare and antiquarian books and prints Schull Books of Ballydehob has published a catalogue with a large section devoted to Ireland and the Great War. The catalogue will interest specialist collectors and comes in response to increasing interest in Ireland’s involvement in the conflict.
The business, which places particular emphasis on military history, is run by Barbara and Jack O’Connell, and books can be ordered from their website (schullbooks.net).
The catalogue includes scarce or out-of-print books, including A Galloper at Ypres, and some subsequent adventures (published in London in 1920) by Patrick Butler, the son of Sir William and Lady Butler, of Bansha, Co Tipperary, who served with the First Battalion in the Royal Irish Regiment and was wounded at Ypres. It costs €115.
A colour print of the famous lost painting by Fortunino Matania, The Last General Absolution of the Munsters at Rue du Bois, is just €20.
A set of the rare, eight-volume, 3,200-page Ireland's Memorial Records 1914 - 1918 (Dublin, 1923), is €6,500. It was privately printed for the Committee of the Irish National War Memorial in an edition of 100 sets, two of which are in the National Library of Ireland.
