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IRELAND - IRISH LANGUAGE MOLLOY (FRANCIS) FROINSIAS Ó MAOLMUAIDH  Latino-Hibernica, nunc compendiata, FIRST EDITION, Rome, Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide, 1677 image 1
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IRELAND - IRISH LANGUAGE MOLLOY (FRANCIS) FROINSIAS Ó MAOLMUAIDH  Latino-Hibernica, nunc compendiata, FIRST EDITION, Rome, Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide, 1677 image 3
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IRELAND - IRISH LANGUAGE
MOLLOY (FRANCIS) [FROINSIAS Ó MAOLMUAIDH] Latino-Hibernica, nunc compendiata, FIRST EDITION, Rome, 1677

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IRELAND - IRISH LANGUAGE

MOLLOY (FRANCIS) [FROINSIAS Ó MAOLMUAIDH] Latino-Hibernica, nunc compendiata, FIRST EDITION, text in Latin with some Irish, half-title, woodcut device on verso of title, lacks most of one leaf (pp.267-8), light spotting, contemporary vellum, worn with some loss to spine [Wing O291B], 8vo, Rome, Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide, 1677

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FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST PRINTED GRAMMAR OF THE IRISH LANGUAGE, written by the Franciscan Francis Molloy (c.1606-1677), with chapters devoted to the letters of the alphabet, etymology, contractions, cryptic writings, prosody and versification, and at the end a poem by the author, in Irish, on the decline in use of the Irish language and the prospects for its revival.

Provenance: William ?Hogan, 21 October 1828, ownership inscription on half-title.

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