To-day in Ireland.

FINE COPY IN THE ORIGINAL BOARDS - TALES OF AGRARIAN UNREST IN 1820s RURAL IRELAND
first edition 3 vols. 12mo. [4], 291, [1 (blank)]; [4], 319, [1 (blank)]; [4], 305, [1 (printer's slug)], [6 (advts.)]pp. complete with half-titles and terminal advertisements, original drab boards, printed paper labels on spines, no front free endpaper in vol.1, closed marginal tear (no loss) in I1 of vol.2, some cracking of joints of vol.2 and its spine very slightly chipped, else a fine fresh copy. Exceptional in this condition.

LOEBER Irish Fiction, 125 BROWN Ireland in Fiction, 444
Four stories, primarily concerned with the agrarian unrest in rural Ireland, written from a viewpoint sympathetic to the catholic peasantry. Set variously near Athlone, in Connemara, and in Co. Louth. One story, a satirical account of evangelical Protestant political and social attitudes, was apparently modelled on and directed against Sir Harcourt Lees, a prominent contemporary leader of rabidly anti-Romanist opinion.Crowe (1798-1868), novelist, journalist and historian, was reared by two aunts in Dublin after the early death of his apparently 'Irish parents'. He was educated in Ireland and married a woman from Co. Wicklow in Dublin in 1823, so he had a first-hand knowledge of Irish social conditions in the 1820s. Although he lived in Ireland intermittently he lived for much of his life in France and in London working as a journalist.