I have written before about my illustrious if very worthy Great Great Grandfather, John Francis Maguire.
He was an MP, a Lord Mayor of Cork, a prolific writer about things Catholic (for which he was made a Papal Knight by the Pope).
He wrote long and fairly unreadible tomes about Fr Matthew-The Apostle of Temperance, and a history of the Irish in America (which is on line, should you be tempted to try to read it) but I discovered that part of his oevure was a most surprising book of fairy tales, called Young Prince Marigold and other fairy stories
Thinking that this would be at least more readible than the others I put in a request to several second hand booksellers to see if I could get a copy.
No luck.
Unlike his more worthy efforts this seems to have disappeared without a trace.

Just last week in The New Yorker I read an article about Google and their marathon effort to get every published word on line.
This has become accessible as
books@google.com
It was there, for the first time, I came a lot a lot closer to this book.

1. Young Prince Marigold : and other fairy stories
by John Francis Maguire MP;
Illustrated by S E Waller
Publisher: London : MacMillan and Co., 1873.

I am fairly sure by the cut of the man that these tales will be highly uplifting and intended as moral tracts but they also, hopefully, will show a slightly more frivolous side to the ancestor.
Presumably this evidence indicates that there is at least one copy extant so I may yet get the chance to find out more.