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Notes
See the writer's "Deception in Dublin: Problems in Seventeenth-Century Irish Printing," Studies in Bibliography, VI (1954), 232-237.
It should be remembered that the Irish song "Come Back to Erin" was originally addressed to Queen Victoria. And in August, 1955, it was the teetotal Archbishop of Dublin who settled a crippling barmen's strike there after all other means of mediation had failed.
But let us not be sentimental about the banishment to Connacht of Irishmen displaced by Cromwell. Those concerned were largely Norman-Irish land-owners or Irish earlier amenable to England, not the "mere Irish" who remained and worked the land the ownership of which alone changed hands.
Brian FitzGerald, The Anglo-Irish [1952], p. 186. The writer's indebtedness to this exceedingly readable book for historical background is very great.
Neither is recorded by Donald G. Wing in his Short-title Catalogue of the 1641-1700 period. See however the Catalogue of the Bradshaw Collection of Irish Books in the University Library, Cambridge (1916), nos. 58-59; E. R. McC. Dix's Dublin-Printed Books (1898-1912), pp. 115 and 127; and the writer's Bibliographica Hibernica (Charlottesville, 1955), nos. I 309A and I 316A.
In this context, since Wing does not mention the work, one might call attention to a related item, auxiliary to the two Acts, A Compleat Index to the Act of Settlement: and to the Explanatory Act, printed at Dublin in 1666, by John Crook, for sale by Samuel Dancer. See Dix, as cited, p. 132; the Bradshaw Catalogue, no. 77; and the writer's Bibliographhica Hibernica, C5641A.
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