Irishmen All

For the past several years, the Archives & Rare Books Library has carefully built its holdings of Irish literature, particularly during the intense decades of the Gaelic Revival, approximately from 1880 to the end of the Irish Civil War in 1923.  In a burst of creativity in art, literature, sport, language, music, and historiography, pride in their heritage spurred the Irish to revive their traditional culture. George A. Birmingham was the pen name of James Owen Hannay (1865 - 1950), an Irish novelist and clergyman. Beautifully rebound in red morocco with marbled endpapers, this book tells of various occupations in Ireland, from the publican and the farmer to the parish priest andsquireen. The volume is notable for its twelve illustrations by the eminent Irish artist, Jack B. Yeats, brother of poet and Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats.