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FITZSIMON ( Henry ), SJ : - Hogan (Edmund ), SJ, ed. Words of Comfort to Persecuted Catholics. Writ

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FITZSIMON ( Henry ), SJ : - Hogan (Edmund ), SJ, ed.  Words of Comfort to Persecuted Catholics. Writ

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 19 @ 18:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
FITZSIMON ( Henry ), SJ : - Hogan (Edmund ), SJ, ed. Words of Comfort to Persecuted Catholics. Written in exile, anno 1607. Letters from a cell in Dublin Castle, and Diary of the Bohemian War of 1620. Illustrated from contemporary documents, corres-pondence of Irish jesuits, and government officials. With a sketch of his life. Dublin : M. H. Gill & Son, 1881FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, pages xvi, 284, 8vo, original cloth, with printed paper label : faint old label mark at foot of spine, otherwise a nice copy.Fitzsimon (1566-1643), Dublin-born, zealous protestant, converted by Thomas Darbyshire, later held the philosophy chair at Douay, carried on a mission in Dublin, for which he was arrested (1599), imprisoned for five years in Dublin Castle, disputing while in prison with Ussher and others, later in Spain, Flanders and Rome, and as an army chaplain in Bohemia in 1620, writing a history of the campaign, returned to Ireland in 1630 and was involved in the 1641 rebellion.ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1) MORLEY ( Henry ), ed. Ireland under Elizabeth and James the First. Described by Edmund Spenser, by Sir John Davies, Attorney-General for Ireland under James the First and by Fynes Moryson, Secretary to the Lord Mountjoy, Lord Deputy George Routledge and Sons … , The Carisbrooke Library, volume ten, 1890. FIRST EDITION, pages 445 and advert leaf, 8vo, original cloth, gilt : very good to nice. (2) BOYLE ( John ), fifth earl of Cork and Orrery : - BOYLE ( Emily C ) , Countess of Cork & Orrery, ed. The Orrery Papers. Edited by the Countess of Cork and Orrery. Duckworth and Company, 1903. With 22 plates, pp xix, 321:(8), 331, 2 vols, 8vo, original cloth, gilt,top edges gilt:very good Orrery (1707–62). “His correspondence with … (Pope and Swift) suggests deep friendship and an undying mutual respect ; he was instrumental in the publication of their letters and other works … his creative innovation in utilizing the epistolary method in biography, and his judicious consultation of reliable, first-hand sources, which compensated for his limited acquaintance with Swift … arguably his greatest literary contribution is as a letter-writer. A two-volume selection from letters … edited by Emily Boyle, countess of Cork and Orrery, (The Orrery Papers) … , poignantly unveils a complicated, hypersensitive individual ; an affectionate, attentive father and passionate, devoted husband ; and a conscientious landlord of Irish estates whose pungent commentaries about the backward, unsophisticated country around him are both hilarious and informative … (his) letters display a man striving for literary recognition, not solely because of his family's historical legacy ; his unpleasant youthful memories ; and the fact that his leisure and innate abilities lent facility to such endeavours. He encouraged other authors, including Fenton, Thomas Southerne, Elizabeth Rowe, Mary Barber, Samuel Bowden, Lewis Theobald, and Charlotte Lennox.” – ODNB.(3)IRELAND; HISTORY; RELIGION; DEVOTIONAL BOOKS; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;