Traits and stories of the Irish peasantry
By: with etchings by W.H. Brooke, esq. In two volumes ...
Contributors: Brooke, William Henry, 1772-1860; Jack Harris Samuels Library
Publisher: William Curry, Jun. and Co.
Published: 1830
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Subjects: Peasants; Fiction
Notes: Pagination: v.1: xii, 275, [1] p.; v.2: [2], 304 p.

First edition of the first series. A second series of stories was first published by W.F. Wakeman, Dublin, 1833, under the same title. The two series were first published together London, Baldwin & Cradock (Dublin, Wakeman) 1836--Cf. Sadleir.

Bequest of Mollie Harris Samuels
Table of contents: title: vol. I. Preface. Ned M'Keown. The three tasks, or, The little house under the hill. Shane Fadh's wedding. Larry M'Farland's wake. The battle of the factions; title: vol. II. The funeral, and party fight. The hedge school, and the abduction of Mat Kavanagh. The station