Oiléan an Uathbháis - [Island of Terror]. Proinnsias Ó Brógáin do chuir i nGaedhilg.

Published by Oifig Díolta Foillseacháin Rialtais, Baile Átha Cliath, 1937

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First gaelic edition. Octavo. 259 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Dustjacket design by M.A.Keane. The Volume itself in excellent condition. The dustjacket with some minor fraying but in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very Rare ! Herman Cyril McNeile, MC (28 September 1888 14 August 1937), commonly known as Cyril McNeile and publishing under the name H. C. McNeile or the pseudonym Sapper, was a British soldier and author. Drawing on his experiences in the trenches during the First World War, he started writing short stories and getting them published in the Daily Mail. As serving officers in the British Army were not permitted to publish under their own names, he was given the pen name "Sapper" by Lord Northcliffe, the owner of the Daily Mail; the nickname was based on that of his corps, the Royal Engineers. After the war McNeile left the army and continued writing, although he changed from war stories to thrillers. In 1920 he published Bulldog Drummond, whose eponymous hero became his best-known creation. The character was based on McNeile himself, on his friend Gerard Fairlie and on English gentlemen generally. McNeile wrote ten Bulldog Drummond novels, as well as three plays and a screenplay. McNeile interspersed his Drummond work with other novels and story collections that included two characters who appeared as protagonists in their own works, Jim Maitland and Ronald Standish. He was one of the most successful British popular authors of the inter-war period before his death in 1937 from throat cancer, which has been attributed to damage sustained from a gas attack in the war. McNeile's stories are either directly about the war, or contain people whose lives have been shaped by it. His thrillers are a continuation of his war stories, with upper class Englishmen defending England from foreigners plotting against it. Although he was seen at the time as "simply an upstanding Tory who spoke for many of his countrymen", after the Second World War his work was criticised as having fascist overtones, while also displaying the xenophobia and anti-semitism apparent in some other writers of the period. (Wikipedia) Sprache: Gaeilge.

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Title
Oiléan an Uathbháis - [Island of Terror]. Proinnsias Ó Brógáin do chuir i nGaedhilg.
Author
Sapper / Cyril McNeile / [i.e. H.C. McNeile]
Publisher
Oifig Díolta Foillseacháin Rialtais, Baile Átha Cliath
Publication year
1937
Condition
Wie neu
Dust jacket
Dust Jacket Included
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition
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Inanna Rare Books Ltd.

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