
From the Freeman’s Journal, 19 February 1921:
TREASURE HUNTERS HAUNTS
Reminiscences of Dublin’s Old Book Stores
(By M. M. O’H.)
“The old bookshops of Dublin! What a vista of pleasant thoughts they create. What delightful experiences of eager prowlings round their shelves, of unexpected ‘finds,’ of surprising bargains, of staunch friends acquired at trifling cost, of jostlings with ardent book-hunters – poets and prosewriters, judges, doctors, artists, musicians, a formidable