Hi Beachcomber -

The Irish interlibrary loan site http://www.borrowbooks.ie/# indicates that there is one copy in Cork County libraries and one copy in Waterford County libraries (those are the catalogues I searched - there are others in libraries further away from you). If you use the "advanced search" tab (I put in the title as the keyword) and specify which catalogues you want to look through, it will give you a page of results. (Sorry for not providing any blue clickies but the Cat is SOOOO SLOOO-OOOO-OOOWWW today that my browser lost the will to live even before I did.)

For some reason, Cork City Library is "temporarily" not on this system (ironic, considering where E Temple Thurston was born) but I will be going there in the next few weeks to renew my card. I can make enquiries and then email you, if you get no joy otherwise. Let me know. Or else you can ring/email them: 021-492-4900 libraries@corkcity.ie

It's also worth asking Gregory Carr in Dublin http://www.readireland.ie/ and Kenny's in Galway http://www.bookshop.kennys.ie/ who have (or at least had, last time I needed something) a very good search-for-O/P-titles service. Also Liam Ruiseal in Cork http://www.lrbooks.net - sales@lrbooks.net - 021-427-0981

There's also the Boole Library at UCC, from whom you can't borrow, but they might be able to point you in the right direction, or at least ask someone from the university's excellent Irish-interest/history staff.

Surely SOMEbody in all this should be able to help you! Keep me posted via email how you get on.

Hope all is well - Bonnie