BRICRIU'S FEAST | A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS | WITH AN EPILOGUE, with typewritten letter to the author's daughter Ita O'Duffy.

52 pages, 8vo. In original blue printed wraps, which are folded around endpapers, the rear of which bears publisher's advertisements. In poor condition: paper browning and spotting with age, binding loose and wraps frayed and worn, especially at spine. The front wrap has a long closed tear at head, and the indentation of a paper-clip, which attaches the typewritten letter (1 page, 8vo, discoloured and worn at extremities), headed 'Room 102, | Surrey Street. | 7.4.52', from 'Christine' to 'Ita'. She apologises for keeping the book so long, asks how things are going at Aldenham, and gives a useful summing up of her response to the work, 'To be quite honest, when I first glanced at it I thought, "Oh! it's one of these high-faluting Irish blathers all about doughty heroes and peerless women", but when I really got down to reading it I discovered what an entertaining skit it was on just those topics'. In his monograph (Eimar O'Duffy, 1972) Robert Hogan dates this work to 1919 (page 82).