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Dublin and Cork: Mercier Press, 1974. Near Fine condition. Bright, clean, tight, square, unmarked copy. Flat spine. No remainder mark. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. From the rear cover: "This is a portrait of the city and the people who have lived in it: a pageant that includes Dame Alice Kyteler and her coven of witches and warlocks; John Howard, the prison reformer; Bishop Pococke, the eighteenth century scholar and traveler who planted the cedars of Lebanon in the County Meath; Richard Power, who created an amateur theatre in Kilkenny so famous that Grattan and Maria Edgeworth attended it; Thomas Moore whose LAST ROSE OF SUMMER grew in Jenkinstown, near Kilkenny; Smith O'Brien, the Fenian idealist who did not realize that men cannot fight on empty bellies; Dr. Abraham Colles, the pioneer surgeon... the colourful General Prout who arranged to have the capture of Kilkenny Castle during the Civil war re-enacted in front of the…
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- Title Story of Kilkenny
- Author Jackson, Robert Wyse
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition (P
- Publisher Mercier P, Dublin and Cork
- Date 1974
- ISBN 9780853423911
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The Story of Kilkenny
by Jackson, Robert Wyse
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