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A group of Maureen O'Hara books on Irish music
29 November 2016, 12:00 EST
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A group of Maureen O'Hara books on Irish music
Comprising 26 books, mostly cloth covers lacking dust jackets, circa 1840-1969, many with ownership signatures, some annotated; also 16 booklets of songs, mostly in the Irish Fireside Songs series. O'Hara's copy of Irish Country Songs by Herbert Hughes has lyrics from the Gaelic song "Siuil a Ruin" to front cover in pencil and other lyrics to endpapers in pencil; Lovely is the Lee by Robert Gibbings signed several times with note under one signature, "1986 / and many years before,"; 1 booklet note in pen regarding a Rossini aria folded in. Maureen O'Hara seldom sang onscreen, but singing became central to her television career from the 1950s to the 1970s. O'Hara often performed the songs of her native Ireland, including recording the 1961 album Maureen O'Hara Sings Her Favorite Irish Songs. These books are mainly of Irish songs, some in Gaelic, along with other musical genres including an annotated copy of The Trapp Family Book of Christmas Songs which O'Hara also signed.


















