FROUDE (J.A.).

The Two Chiefs of Dunboy or an Irish Romance of the Last Century.

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1889 First edition. Original dark blue cloth, bevelled edges. 8vo.pp. [4], 456. Brown "Ireland in Fiction" 621. A novel set in the period 1750-98 in which the celebrated historian puts forward his thesis that "if England had from the first striven to replace the hopeless Celt by Anglo-Saxon and Protestant Colonists she would have avoided her subsequent troubles in Ireland." Bookplate of Sir Arthur Sherlock Gooch. 16 pp. advertisements dated January 1889. A very good copy.

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