File 19 - The Irish Book Lover

15 items; printed

A file of fifteen editions of ‘The Irish Book Lover’ periodical running from 1913 to 1939. Prominent contributors include David J. O’Donoghue, Francis Joseph Bigger, Ernest Reginald McClintock Dix, Rev. Stephen Brown, Patricia Lynch, Seamus Ó Casaide, and Colm Ó Lochlainn, who took over publication, and later editorship, at his Three Candles Press in Dublin in about 1930.

‘The Irish Book Lover’ was a quarterly review of Irish literature and bibliography which first appeared in 1909. In total, a run of 227 issues were published under the editorships of John Smyth Crone (1909-25), Séamus Ó Casaide (1928-1930), and Colm Ó Lochlainn (1930-57). For more information on the periodical see http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/journals/i/Ir_BLover/jrn.htm

For an index of content published in ‘The Irish Book Lover’: http://www.ricorso.net/rx/library/journals/publishr/IBLover/index.htm

The December 1915 edition of ‘The Irish Book Lover’ has been fully digitized and is available to view at https://archive.org/details/irishbookloverce7191oloc