(Irish Verse - Cork.) The Shannon Ballads

Cork: Published for the author at the Eagle works, 1896. Book. 12mo, removed, preserving the orig. stiff paper illustrated wrappers. Pp. 56 + ad leaf. "Second edition." A rare collection of local-themed light verse on fishing and cycling, character sketches, music hall tributes, and a Kipling parody. The cover illustration shows a jester reading the book in front of Cork's Church of St. Anne and the ads are for local businesses. This is the only edition recorded on OCLC, in a single copy at the National Library of Ireland. Not in NSTC..