History of the variety which you will find in these pregnant pages is not manufactured on the battlefronts of a war-torn world, nor on the playing fields of an arbitratily chosen college. It is gouged out with sweat and blood and blots and even tears, in the heat of many a hard-fought examination, where every word which the sorely-pressed candidate can consript from the elusive past is pressed into service in the desperate struggle for the vital percentage, which will qualify him for his Intermediate of Leaving Certificate and for nothing else besides.
History is sometimes referredto with disrespect by perople who ought to know better. "History is bunk," said Henry Ford, who could scarcely have seen this little book of ours. "If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove," said Samuel Johnson, "history could not be written," with which we too are in almost unanimous agreement.
"History never embraces more than a small part of reality," said Rochefoucauld, which leaves us still qualifying, with strokes to spare. ""How oft we sigh," said Tom Moore, "to think when histories charm that histories lie." We, too, in this charming history of ours, cannot guarantee ourselves above an occasional involuntary little lie or two, in the public interest; but we are fortified in this departure by the declaration of William Makeshift Thackeray, that "great lies are as great as great truths, and prevail constantly, and day after day".

Delaney, Edward J.; Feehan, John M., 1916-1991

E. J.; Feehan DeLaney; Jerome Sullivan

Cork (4 Bridge St., Cork): Mercier Press

(New) ed., Cork (4 Bridge St., Cork), Ireland, 1976

United Kingdom and Ireland, Ireland

A Mercier paperback, Cork, 1972

PS, 1967

Obscured text on back cover due to sticker attached.
Some text skewed in physical copy due to tight binding.

This ed. originally published, 1964. - Previous ed., published in 2 vols. 1951.

125p. : 19cm
This ed. originally published: 1964. - Previous ed.: published in 2 vols. 1951

2023-06-28