[Printed] Prospectus

Prospectus, 4pp., 4to, English and Irish texts, bifolium, minor foxing, good condition.The Officers, Vice-Presidents, Executive Council and Consultative Committee are listed. They announce and justify the undertaking of a new dictionary of Modern Irish, saying that the plates of the first such dictionary were destroyed in the Dublin fires during the troubles of Easter, and that new discoveries needed to be incorporated. Father Dinneen, responsible for the first Dictionary, has made his services available for the revised version.