Inscription on recto of frontispiece (in Irish - punctum expanded to h) reads "Nioclás O Dómhnaill ó na charaid An Craoibhín. Oct. 1916."An Craoibhín, short for An Craoibhín Aoibhinn, "The beautiful little branch", was Douglas Hyde's pen name.
Here we see O'Donnell translating a poem into English in the marginalia on the opposite page. The close engagement with the language and culture is especially important here. It appears he has pasted in the English translation opposite page 97 of the…