The Last Conquest of Ireland (Perhaps)

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Limited edition

Author s edition. Glasgow : Cameron Ferguson, circa 1900. Octavo, half calf over green cloth (rubbed and scuffed), spine with gilt bands, gilt-lettered red morocco title label, marbled endpapers with bookseller s ticket of A. H. Spencer, Melbourne, pp. vi; 220, internally clean. A later printing of Mitchel s 1861 treatise criticising British policy during the Great Famine of 1845 52. Mitchell argued that while the potato blight was a natural event, the resulting famine was a deliberate political strategy by the British government to decimate the Irish peasantry through the export of agricultural produce while the local population was starving.

• Printing: later
• Binding: Hardcover

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