A Glossary With Some Pieces Of Verse Of The Old Dialect Of The English Colony In The Forth And Bargy County Of Wexford Ireland Formerly Collected By Jacob Poole Poole, Jacob & Barnes, William Irish Non Fiction

First UK Edition, First Print. Pp. 139.1. Original publisher's green blind stamped covers, gilt lettering & gilt borders to spine. Original brown end pages, small tape mark to front end page, owner stamp to half title page. A clean tightly bound copy. Exceptionally rare book collected by Wexford native Jacob Poole around 1823. At the time it probably didn't raise much of a ripple in the publishing world but in the intervening years it has been used as a reference book by many researchers into the nearly lost history of a small area of Wexford that was settled by a group of Norman/English, Flemish and possibly other groups back in the 12th century. Due to geography and perhaps an insular attitude they didn't mix much with the local Irish or other later 'settlers' and so retained their own old language and customs up until relatively recent times, although it seems the language is now practically dead, just surviving in a few borrowed words. The language was called Yola after the name for 'old' in that tongue.