I noticed while I was reading it that there were occasional purple, circular labels stamped into it. They seemed to be claiming that the book was the property of some institution or other, but it wasn't in English and was therefore incomprehensible to me. The text read LEABHARIANNA CATHRACH ATHNA CLIATH, so my guess was that it was some form of Gaelic.
I was looking through to find an example that was clear enough to scan, when I found this on the page inside the front cover:
OK, so it's formerly the property of Dublin Public Libraries. It was taken out over 30 times, the last one being "23 Nov 00"; clearly, the readers of Dublin Public Libraries are very interested in furthering their education. I don't know what language the
I don't know how this copy wound up on eBay, but that's not the point. The address of the Central Library is Henry Street, which translates as Sráid Annraoi.
So, the Irish lnguage version of Henry is Annraoi.
Henry is the name of my grandson. Anne was the name of my mother. Roy was the name of my brother.
That's ... spooky.