Author: Duffin, Ruth & Duffin, Celia
Title: The Secret Hill - Poems
Description: Maunsel & Company, Dublin, 1914, 2nd edition. Illustrated boards, G. [viii]+47pp, spine defective with approx one third missing, paper a little yellowed to the edges, a fair copy of an uncommon item. Booksellers ticket of Jasper Golder Reading on the pastedown. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ A short collection of poems by sisters Ruth & Celia Duffin. Ruth Duffin [ 1878 - 1968 ] was the first warden of Riddel Hall in Belfast, which was built by the Riddel sisters as a Hall of Residence for female students at Queen's University. One of Celia's poems is a 2 verse ode to Captain Scott.

Keywords: poetry, poems, irish poetry