Deel 1 - Rare Irish literary treasures found in Australia

1 p.; clipping

A clipping of an article titled ‘Rare Irish literary treasures found in Australia’ taken from ‘The Advocate’ (5 April 1951). Reference is made in the article to the discovery of a copy of Brian Merriman’s ‘The Midnight Court’ (1780). ‘The Advocate’ was published by the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne.

For more information on Brian Merriman’s ‘The Midnight Court’ see Professor Richard Sharpe’s blog for the National Library of Ireland at https://www.nli.ie/news-stories/stories/first-printing-merrimans-cuirt-mheadhan-oidhche which refers to a copy of this text with a ‘recent ownership label of Fr. Senan Moynihan, Saint Anne’s Hospital, Mount Lawley, Western Australia’.