IRISH RIVERS. Edited by Eamon de Buitlear. With contributions by Professor James Dooge, Roger Goodwillie, Dr Hester Heuff, Dr Ken Whelan.

1985 1st edition. 8vo (174 x 245mm). Pp129. Colour photographs. Maroon boards, spine titled in gilt.

"Eamon de Buitlear is Ireland's leading wildlife film-maker. The house he grew up in is situated on the Dargle river in County Wicklow and it is here at five years of age he caught his first fish. In his introduction to Irish Rivers he recalls his childhood memories living by the river. It is the fear of further destruction to the largely unspoiled rivers of Ireland that prompted Eamon to write with his colleagues this celebration of Irish rivers. Here Professor James Dooge, Dr Roger Goodwillie, Dr Hester Heuff and Dr Ken Whelan combine with Eamon to give an exciting, very readable and easygoing account of some of the amazing life in Irish rivers".