IRISH WOLFHOUND SOCIETY OF IRELAND

 

Is maith an scéalaí an aimsir.
Time is a good messenger.

 

Irish Wolfhound History

 - Facsimile Pages from Historic Dog Books

 

 

Cigarette card issued in the UK by Ardath Tobacco Co. Ltd. in 1938. The front of the card shows a lovely etching of the Irish Wolfhound while the back of the card has details of this breed.

 

 

Robert Leighton - Dogs and All About Them (1910)

A. Croxton Smith - Everyman's Book of the Dog (1910)

W. D. Drury - British Dogs (1903)

Rawdon B. Lee - Modern Dogs (1893)

Dunbar Plunket Barton -Shakespeare's Irish Wolfhound (1919)

Hugh Dalziel - British Dogs. Their Varieties, Histories, Characteristics.

Thompson's Natural History of Ireland

Henry Downing Richardson - Dogs:  Their History and Varieties

Valentine Ball -The Export of Irish Wolfhounds to The East in the 17th Century