Life
1863-1928 [Francis Elrington Ball]; b. Portmarnock, Co. Dublin, son of
Lord Chancellor of Ireland; unsuccessful Unionist candidate for S. Dublin,
1890; turned to writing; A History of the County of Dublin, 4 vols.
(1902-1920); The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift DD (1910-14),
being the first annotated edn; The Judges of Ireland 1221-1921
(1926), recording many matters destroyed in the Civil War; Swift’s
Verse: An Essay (1929); considered the greatest contemporary authority
on Swift and awarded DDLit., TCD. DNB DIB
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Works
The Parish of Taney (1895); ed., The Correspondence of Jonathan
Swift, 6 vols. (London 1910-14) [with a Life]; A History of the
County Dublin: The People, Parishes, and Antiquities from the Earliest
Times to the Close of the Eighteenth Century, 5 vols. (Dublin: Alex
Thom 1902-20) [Pt. 3, 1905; Pt. 5: ‘Howth and its Owners’, 1917], and
Do. [facs. rep.] (Dublin: Gill 1979); The Vicinity of the International
Exhibition, Dublin: an Historical Sketch of the Pembroke Township
(Dublin: Alex Thom 1907), 50pp.; The Judges of Ireland 1221-1921,
2 vols. (London: John Murray 1926), [1], xxii, 365, (2), iv, 408pp. [frontis.
to each], and Do. [2 vol, boxed] (Dublin: Four Courts [1994]);
‘Some Notes on the Households of the Dukes of Ormond’ (Proc. RIA 1928).
Swift’s Verse; an Essay (1929).
Note variant citation of title as The Judges in [sic] Ireland 1221-1921, 2 vols. (London: John Murray 1926).
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- Irish Book Lover, Vols.1, 3, 4, 6.
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Notes
Belfast Public Library holds copies of A History of the County
of Dublin, 4 vols. (1902); Howth and its Owners (1917); Judges of Ireland
1221-1921, 2 vols (1926); The Parish of Taney (1895).
Univ. of Ulster (Morris Collection) holds copies of A History of the County of Dublin, the People, Parishes, And Antiquities From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Eighteenth Century, Pt. 3 (1905); Howth and its Owners, Being the Fifth Part of a History of Dublin and an Extra Vol. of the Royal Soc. of Antiquaries of Ireland (1917).
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)