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April 2016
AUCTION
Tuesday 19th April 2016 at 3pm
THE HISTORY SALE
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1 THE TIMES- HISTORY AND ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE
WAR, VOL. 8 AUG 1 1916,
titled “The Irish Rebellion of April, 1916(1)” with cover image “In the Streets of
Dublin- A machine-gun section in action”, single issue.
€ 80 - 120
2 LE PETIT JOURNAL
Three illustrated issues comprising: 2 September 1922 with cover image depict-
ing Michael Collins being shot; 3 July 1921 with cover image depicting Sinn Fein-
ers on the coast; and 19 September 1920 with cover image depicting Terence
MacSwiney on his death bed. (3)
€ 200 - 300
3 THE DAILY GRAPHIC, 1916
Covering periods “Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul”, in two volumes, with headlines
such as “Battles in Dublin City- Rebel Leaders Captured and Shot” from Mon-
day May 1st, 1916, and
interesting illustrated resource. (2)
€ 300 - 500
4 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL, 1916,
two bound runs of this newspaper, April 1916 to July 1916 and November 1916 to January
1917, together with another bound run from 1921 (3)
€ 250 - 350

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6 SIR EDWARD CARSON [1854-1935]
An autograph signed letter to a Mr. or Mrs. Byrne, on hotel newspaper (Berlin, Unter den
Linden), dated 1913, responding to a letter of sympathy on the loss of ‘a partner who for
nearly 34 years gave me absolute love and devotion’. Carson, the Ulster leader, was of
course Dublin born.
With a letter on House of Commons notepaper from Charles Stewart Parnell, in a secretarial
hand, with his autograph signature, parted at folds (in six portions), concerning an offer of
service; and an ALS from a Lord Mayor of Dublin, indistinctly signed, dated 5 June 1879,on
Mansion House notepaper, pierced.
And a collection of various newspapers, some circa 1916.
As a collection, w.a.f.
€ 100 - 250
7 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE
Thursday May 4th 1916, two pages including
front page with “LEADERS IN IRISH REVOLT
SHOT” headline and another page with con-
tent on the Rising, w.a.f.
€ 50 - 80
5 1916 & 1922 NEWSPAPERS
A good collection including: Irish Times, Weekly Irish Times, Daily Mirror, Dublin Evening
Mail, from 1916.
With others from 1922 covering the War of Independence and Michael Collins’s death.
As a collection, over 10 issues, w.a.f.
€ 100 - 200

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8 PUNCH MAGAZINE, 1916
Covering Jan-June, single volume in crimson cloth
boards, containing cartoons depicting ‘St. Patrick’, also
Carson and Redmond with Erin in the middle.
€ 100 - 150
9 “SINN FEIN REBELLION HANDBOOK,”
Easter 1916. Compiled by the ‘Weekly Irish Times’ SECOND EDN., with later binding. A
complete and connected narrative of the Rising, with detailed accounts of the Fighting
at all points in Dublin, and in the Country. The most authorative contemporary refer-
ence work on the 1916 Rising.
Sold as seen, w.a.f.
€ 150 - 250
10 SINN FEIN REBELLION PUBLICATIONS: A GROUP OF
THREE BOOKLETS EACH DEPICTING EVENTS, GROUP
LEADERS, AND THE DESTRUCTION OF THE VARIOUS
LAND MARKS IN DUBLIN,
including
(a) ‘’The Rebellion in Dublin, April, 1916,’’ (Eason & Son Ltd.); ‘’Dublin and the Sinn
Fein Rising’’ (Wilson Hartnell & Co. Dublin); and ‘’The Sinn Fein Revolt Illustrated,’’
(Hely’s Limited), all oblong, 8vo, illus. & adverts, ptd. wrappers. Good. (3)
€ 150 - 250

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11 1916: COLLECTION OF PICTORIAL REVIEWS AND
RECORDS OF THE SINN FEIN REVOLT,
some contemporary, and some issued for the 50th
Anniversary, & 2 items on O’Donovan Rossa. as a lot, w.a.f. (9).
€ 200 - 300
12 JAMES STEPHENS, FENIAN - WANTED
Proclamation: Stephens (James) Fenian. The Police Gazette, or Hue-and-Cry, Dublin, Tuesday Decem-
ber 6, 1866. With the Governor-General’s Proclamation offering a reward of One Thousand Pounds for
the arrest of James Stephens, following his escape from Richmond Prison in Dublin; also gives lists of
deserters, etc. Lg. folio 4pp., approx. 42cms x 26cms (16 1/2” x 10 1/4”), now loosely framed.
*Probably the most celebrated issue of this entire publication.
Stephens’ escape from custody rocked the administration to its foundations. In spite of the enormous
reward, he was not recaptured and made his escape to Paris & America. Stephens was the founder of
the Irish Republican Brotherhood, better known as the Fenian Movement. (1)
€ 600 - 1,000

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13 A COLLECTION OF TITANIC MEMORABILIA
including:
“Plus Pres de toi mon dieu!”, a French souvenir booklet
containing the sheet music for the hymn that was sung during the sinking on the Titanic in memorial of those who died 15 April 1912;
a scarce first edition of “The Deathless Story of the Titanic: Complete Narrative with Many Illustrations”, issued by Lloyd’s Weekly News, 9 x 12.5, 40 pages.
Consists of detailed information and numerous images and “The Daily Graphic” Saturday, April 20, 1912, “TITANIC~IN~MEMORIAM~NUMBER”
detailing the disaster with maps, images of the various ships, an extensive written account, a listing of some of Titanic’s notable passengers, a large image
of the ship, the ocean grave of the Titanic, illustrations of icebergs, details of Memorial services, and more. 42.5 x 31cm (3)
€ 200 - 300
14 WW1 POSTER, ‘REMEMBER THE LUSITANIA’
Printed in two halves with bold red and black lettering, 203 x 152cm overall,
Published by the Parlimentary Recruiting Committee, London, Poster No.90,
Printed by David Allen & Sons, Middlesex
€ 150 - 250

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15 A GOOD COLLECTION OF 23 “IRISH REBELLION
1916” PORTRAIT POSTCARDS,
portraying the leaders and including rarer cards such as Captain F. Fahy, Dr.
Richard F Hayes, Mrs. Joseph Plunkett, John F. McEntee, Finian Lynch, etc.
together with miscellaneous coins, a 1909 Sligo Feis Ceoil medal and two
stamps
€ 300 - 500
16 1916 RISING, A COLLECTION OF PICTURE POSTCARDS
including scenes of fighting, destruction, portraits of leaders, many scarce; mostly
contemporaneous - mainly published within days of the Rising ending - a couple later
(46 in all).
€ 200 - 300

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17 POSTCARDS
A collection of monochrome postcards, mostly depicting Dublin in ruins after the Rising; one of de Valera; another of a
Redmond addressing the crowd at a Home Rule
Demonstration, 1912; etc. (12)
€ 100 - 200
18 POSTCARD ALBUM
A collection of Sinn Fein Rebellion postcards contained in an album, most de-
picting Dublin in ruins after the Rising, approx. 29 in all. As a collection, w.a.f.
€ 250 - 350

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19 FIRST WORLD WAR.
Two very unusual pictorial postcards titled in French and in Irish (only), ‘Front de la Marne:
Pendant un bombardement /. Bombárduigheacht (Marne); and ‘Pres de Verdun: Poste
d’Observation blindé / Posta faire, plátaighthe (Marne)’. Titles on address side in Irish
only, including the words ‘Deanta sa bhFrainc’ [Made in France]. There is no indication
of publisher. Presumably they must have been intended for use by Irish soldiers with the
British forces in France. The cards are unused and clean. (2)
€ 100 - 150
20 “IRISH REBELLION” POSTCARDS
A collection of 8 monochrome portrait postcards of Rebellion leaders, including
Edward Daly, Michael O’Hanrahan, Joseph Plunkett, Sean MacDiarmada, Thomas
MacDonagh, Eamon Ceannt, J.J. Heuston and another titled “Sinn Fein Rebel Lead-
ers Under Arrest”, (8)
€ 120 - 180

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21 THE MEN OF ‘98,
“Who Fears to Speak of ‘98”, Death of Father Michael Murphy at Arklow, 9th June,
1798. A colour poster depicting a harp and flags above seven portrait vignettes
of the following: Father Michael Murphy; Lord E. Fitzgerald; A. Hamilton Rowan;
Thomas A. Emmet; William Orr; Michael Dwyer; Wolfe Tone. Printed by James Walker
& Co., Dublin
€ 250 - 350
22 STOP PRESS. POBLACHT NA HEIREANN WAR NEWS
A collection of early issues including nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (all large folio, Thursday June
29 - Monday July 3) and nos. 9, 10, 13, from small folio issue. A little marginal fraying,
but generally very good copies of these rare and fragile items, which recount the
events of the Four Courts siege day-by-day from anti-Treaty perspective.
€ 300 - 500

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23 SEAN T. O’KELLY, A FRAMED PRESENTATION COLLAGE
O’Ceallaigh (President Sean T.) A framed collage, centred by a page from the Paris edition of The Chicago Tribune, Nov. 1918, with heading ‘An Appeal to All Lov-
ers of Freedom and Justice, By the Government of the Irish Republic, and with an original postcard, inscribed and signed by P.H. Pearse to John J. O’Kelly (‘Sceilg’),
postally used; a block of 4 original Sinn Fein postage stamps, 1908; an original Souvenir of the Memorial Mass in Paris 1919 for 68 Heroes who died for Ireland in
1916; & 3 photocopies of letters from P.H. Pearse, Michael Collins & The O’Rahilly to Sean T. O’Kelly, all inset around the sides, the entire framed, approx. 70cms x
85cms. As a collection, w.a.f.
In 1918, E. de Valera, President & Michael Collins, Minister for Finance, were fund raising for the new Dail Eireann by selling Irish Republic Bonds at home and
abroad. Sean T. O’Kelly & George Gavan Duffy were the Irish Representatives at this time in Paris.
€ 500 - 800

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24 ITS A LONG LONG WAY TO TIPPERARY
British Army Recruiting Song
Judge (Jack) & Williams (H.) Authors & Composers, The
Immortal, Its a Long Long Way to Tipperary, The Marching Anthem of the Battlefields of Europe, sung by The Soldiers of
the King. Folio. L. n.d. (c. 1914), 8pp., orig. pict. wrappers with photo of King. Scarce.
€ 200 - 300

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26 DANIEL O’CONNELL AND RICHARD MORE O’FERRALL
An important correspondence including five original autograph signed letters from
O’Connell to O’Ferrall, 1839-41, all with good signatures, contemporary copies of
two from O’Ferrall to O’Connell, several other related letters, and some recent
scholarly commentary, as follows:
1. DANIEL O’CONNELL.
Autograph signed letter to ‘O’Farrell’ [Richard More O’Ferrall], 1 pp, with cognate
blank, from 16 Pall Mall, dated 7th May 1839, marked ‘Confidential’. ‘I am so
unhappy about the ministry - for the sake of wretched Ireland - that I can
not resist asking you your personal and of course your candid opinion as to the
Course they will take ... I do not know when I felt so uneasy and unhappy.’
Autograph signed letter to [Richard] More O’Ferrall, 8 pp (two folded sheets), from
Derrynane Abbey, dated 29 November 1839. ‘I have a crow to pluck with you
- and a monstrous large one - It is this - In the House of Commons one night
about a fortnight before I left London, you were complaining of the apathy of the
people of Ireland respecting the registry [i.e. registration to vote] - I told you that I
had a plan to rouse them for registry but that it would require £2000 - of which
I would undertake for the forthcoming of one thousand - you instantly said you
would promise the second thousand ..’ O’Connell explains in detail that he has
placed more than £1000 at the disposal of the Loyal Registry Association, most
of which has been spent, but suggests that O’Ferrall has not yet delivered on his
undertaking. ‘I therefore ask where is your share of the money. The machinery
in Dublin is excellent, not one shilling is mis-spent, but we want your share of the
funds’, etc.
A short ALS to More O’Farrell, 1 pp, cognate address page with seal, from 16 Pall
Mall, 4th June 1841, introducing a Counsellor Welch of the County of Kilkenny.
‘He will speak to you about Carlow Town - you may place complete confidence in
him as a gentleman of the highest honour and integrity’.
4. [DANIEL O’CONNELL].
A short autograph note, 1 pp, with cognate blank, to O’Connell, dated 5 June
41, signed initials (possibly GM), concerning ‘a note which Pigot sent me. I have
nothing to do with such matters, which should be arranged by the candidates. Mr
Trench has no authority from any one here to act in any matter nor in any place.’
5. [R. MORE O’FERRALL].
‘Copy of letter to O’Connell’, 11 June 41, 2 pp, presumably in O’Ferrall’s hand. ‘I
have stated my opinion more than once as to Mayo, it is entirely out of my influ-
ence and I had refused Lord Oranmore to meddle in it’, etc.
ALS to O’Ferrall, 12 June 1841, from Merrion Square, 3 pp. ‘All looking well and in good spirits.
I am told I shall certainly carry Carlow. Remember Laird is to give £200 to the indemnity fund.
Remember also I must get a knighthood for Browne, he commands about 30 good votes in
the county Dublin where they are wanted’, etc., with further financial and other details.
ALS to O’Ferrall, 15th June 41, from Merrion Square, 4 pp, enclosing various letters. ‘With
respect to Carlow could there be a letter written to the Bishop Dr. Healy to say that there
would not be any resentment entertained against those who at this election were repealers
- a [note?] of this kind would be valuable. It should not appear to have any connection with
me’, etc, also mentioning other constituencies. ‘As for Youghall, why ask a requisition - it
seems dragging the constituency at the chariot wheel of authority - Indeed indeed it is not
good taste. Especially as the politics and that species of religious feeling called in Ireland
Biblicism on the part of young Curry lessen the influence of the Duke and create disgust when
attachment might easily be produced ..’
Copy of letter to O’Connell,17 June 41, 3 pp. ‘You will receive a letter by this post on the subject
of Youghal and Carlow which will remove the impression you are asking for the requisition,
[it] was well meant but it should have gone thro another channel than Curry. It was a Dublin
blunder. The same person .. will write to the Bishop. You need not fear heavy resentment for
those who exert themselves unless great imprudence or violence, which you would disapprove
as anyone, rendered a condemnation absolutely necessary ..’
Copy letter, unsigned, to P.J. Fitzpatrick, 29 Oct 1842, 2 pp, enclosing a £10 subscription to the
O’Connell compensation fund, in spite of a recent difference of opinion, etc.
10. P.V. FITZPATRICK.
ALS to R. More O’Ferrall, Dublin, October 29 1842, 1 pp with cognate blank, acknowledging his
subscription (see previous item).
11. A SMALL COLLECTION OF RECENT NOTES AND LETTERS,
1970s, from (Prof.) Maurice O’Connell to Edward More O’Ferrall, with a letter from Dr Patrick
Wallace of the National Museum describing the letters in question as important, a copy of a
TLS from Dónal Ó Luanaigh of the National Library of Ireland, and other related letters and
transcripts.
AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION,
generally in excellent condition, casting considerable light on O’Connell’s political and financial
manoeuverings. After his triumph with Catholic Emancipation (1829), O’Connell spent the rest
of his career seeking to make progress towards Repeal of the Union on a peaceful basis. He
died in 1847 without achieving that aim. Richard More O’Ferrall was a Liberal MP for Kildare
and Longford, and a friend and collaborator of O’Connell. He was a Lord of the Treasury 1835-
39, Secretary to the Admiralty 1839-41, and ended his career as Governor of Malta. Original
letters of significance from O’Connell are now rare in private hands.
€ 4,000 - 6,000

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27 MORE O’FERRALL FAMILY IN IRELAND.
An autograph letter or memorandum, setting our details of the origin and history of the More
O’Ferrall family in Ireland, 2 pp folio, with sample seal attached, in an 18th-century hand,
inscribed ‘given to the Revd Mr. Segrave by a Gentleman in Cheshire, January 1862’. Carefully
repaired at folds where parting.
With an ALS, 10 pp, 26 Feb. 1869, to Rt. Hon. Rd. More O’Ferrall from John P. Prendergast (the
historian); also a letter in Latin with later translation, appealing for help, 1837; and a document
reproducing symbols on the back of the ‘historic Cross of Ireland’, postmark for 1874, with some
related documents and transcriptions.
€ 400 - 600

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28 ‘OUR GREAT NAVAL VICTORY’
Lord Pembroke. An ALS to an unnamed correspondent (probably one of the More O’Ferrall
family), from Whitehall, June 13th [17]94, mentioning various matters before coming to
‘our great naval victory, the compleatest perhaps ever known. Lord Howe with 25 ships of
the line has compleatly beat, & crippled the French fleet of 26 ships of the line, the French
having also an advantage in weight of metal &c. Ten Dismasted - Six, taken in action -
Two sunk ..’
Lord Howe’s engagement with the French fleet on the ‘Glorious First of June’ is now regarded
as inconclusive. Howe employed unusual tactics, ordering the fleet to turn and each ship
to attack its French opponent directly. Both fleets suffered heavy damage, but the French
were able to bring their grain convoy to harbour.
€ 300 - 500

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29 NATION BUILDERS: COLLINS AND GRIFFITH
A fine pair of coloured photographic portraits (possibly hand-tinted in detail), showing Collins alert in his military uniform, Griffith impassive in a brown tweed suit,
images 11 x 7 ins [28 x 18 cms], each signed and inscribed in pencil on mounts by the photographers, C. & L. Walsh of Dublin, dated 1922, in original oak frames.
It is likely that this striking pair of portraits was published as a memorial to the two men, who died in 1922 within ten days of each other. The two had done much
of the heavy lifting to make Ireland’s declared independence a reality, Griffith as writer and statesman, Collins as organiser and soldier. Griffith died suddenly on 12
August 1922, of a cerebral haemorrhage following years of overwork, aggravated by the distress of the civil war. Collins attended his funeral; barely a week later, he
also was dead, shot in a pointless skirmish in his home county of Cork.
The Collins portrait is known also from a monochrome version; we have not seen the Griffith portrait in monochrome. The pair are extremely rare.
€ 1,000 - 1,500

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30 ARTHUR GRIFFITH & MICHAEL COLLINS
Memorial cards, 1922 (August 12th and 22nd), sold as a pair, both of
similar design with thick black borders and oval portrait vignettes, both
9 x 6.5cm
(2)
€ 500 - 700
31 FRANK LEAH (1886 - 1972)
Michael Collins in the Jermyn Court Hotel, London
together with
The late President Griffith sketched in Govt. Buildings a month before he
died
Pencil, 41 x 30cm, a pair
Signed and inscribed
Frank Leah was a cartoonist and caricaturist, the art editor for five Dublin
journals including the Weekly Freeman, he contributed to the Dublin
Evening Telegraph and was an illustrator for Irish Limelight. His portraits of
Irish theatrical personalities were collected by Joseph Holloway and later
donated to the National Library of Ireland.
€ 800 - 1,200

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32 1916 PASSES
A collection of three passes issued to William Brady, May 1916, two for
travel between Kingstown and Blackrock or Dublin, both with stamp of
North Midland Division HQ and stamped signature of Major Rhodes; and
a handwritten note from the same officer to O.C. Westminster Dragoons,
Newbridge, asking him to interview Brady with reference to a pair of field
glasses. (4)
€ 120 - 180
33 A MID 19TH CENTURY PERMIT TO PASS THROUGH THE GROUNDSOF
THE ROYAL HOSPITAL KILMAINHAM.
Printed red text on buff card, with manuscript additions, permitting “The Bearer to pass through the Western
Avenue of the Royal Hospital” by “car or otherwise”, dated 1st December 1871, numbered 365, with red wax
Adjutant General’s seal and signed by Colonel J.M. Primrose as D.A.G. (Deputy Adjutant General), folded and
scuffed from continued usage.
Robert Tydd, of Floraville, Inchicore, Dublin, assistant paymaster of the Great Southern and Western Railway,
was the son of Mr. Benjamin B. Tydd, paymaster and superintendent of the same railway. This pass was issued
during the troubled period following the abortive Fenian rising of 1867, undoubtedly with the intention of
providing Robert Tydd, whose job involved the supervision of large sums of money, with a safe corridor to
pass through in a “car” (horse and carriage) from the railway yards at Kingsbridge (now Heuston) station to his
home in Inchicore (later, in 1882, the newly appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland, Lord Frederick Cavendish,
and his Under-Secretary, Thomas Burke, were murdered by members of the Irish National Invincibles whilst
driving in a carriage through the Phoenix Park, just across the Liffey from the Royal Hospital). Robert Tydd’s
father, Benjamin Bradshaw Tydd, born 1815, a native of Ballymackey, Co. Tipperary, had initially seen service
for 7 years as a policeman in the Irish Constabulary, before transferring to the Dublin Metropolitan Police
shortly after that force was established in 1836. Appointed Constable with the D.M.P. on 19th May 1838, he
was dismissed from the force 5 days later. Lot accompanied by full biographical and service details of Colonel
(later General) James Maurice Primrose, C.S.I., who had a distinguished military career, being first commis-
sioned 2nd Lieutenant 1837 and seeing active service in the 3rd Kaffir War 1851-53, the Indian Mutiny, 1857-8,
2nd Afghan War, 1879-80.
€ 80 - 120

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34 PASSES GRANTING PERMISSION
FROM OFFICER COMMANDING
TROOPS,
North Wall, Dublin, to J. D. Kelly to leave and re-enter
Dublin Port in 1916. (3)
€ 400 - 600
37 THE SINN FEIN REBELLION HANDBOOK,
1917 issue, signed by Arthur Griffith
Together with a small collection of books and pamphlets including; Lady
Gregory’s Cuchulain of Muirthemne, reprint (1934), and a few other items.
€ 100 - 200

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38 PROCLAMATION OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC: THE VERY RARE HANDBILL ISSUE, EASTER 1916
A letterpress printed copy of the 1916 Proclamation, on newsprint paper, handbill size, 21.8 x 14 cms, identical to a copy sold in these rooms in
April 2011 (lot 506). This copy purchased in these rooms, Lot 733, May 2015 for €7,500. A few small marginal tears, but a very good clean copy.
With a typed sheet (recent) stating this version of the Proclamation was printed during Easter Week, probably on Wednesday April 26 1916, by
Joe Stanley and his staff at O’Keeffe’s printing-house, 3 Halston St., within the area controlled by the Volunteers.
Only three other copies of this handbill are recorded: one in the British National Archives at Kew among the papers of William Wylie, prose-
cuting barrister at the 1916 courts-martial, another at the National Library of Ireland among the Joseph Holloway papers, marked by Holloway
‘1916’, and the Adams 2011 copy (with a Connolly family provenance).
In view of its typography, its scarcity and the provenance of the other known copies, it is very likely that this handbill was printed by Joseph
Stanley during Easter Week, on the same presses as the Second and Third Easter Week bulletins (see O’Reilly’s biography of Stanley). It is thus
the second issue of the Proclamation.
€ 5,000 - 8,000

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PROPERTY OF THE 9th
VISCOUNT GORT
In August 1798 French General Joseph Humbert led an invasion of Ireland where he joined forces with Irish reb-
els in an attempt to overthrow the British. With an army of about 3,000 strong, the French and United Irishmen
defeated the British at Castlebar, but as they advanced towards Sligo, on 5th September 1798, their front line was
turned by Colonel Charles Vereker and three hundred of the Limerick City Militia. Vereker, by a fool-hardy advance
to Collooney and various rouses had tricked Humbert into thinking that he was the vanguard of a superior force.
Although Colonel Vereker was criticized by some for the way in which he conducted the battle, in particular the
loss of his artillery and for his decision to evacuate the militia to Ballyshannon soon after the battle and in doing
so leaving Sligo defenceless, this did not detract from the high esteem in which Limerick and other parts of the
Country held Colonel Vereker and the Limerick Militia. The Battle at Collooney was seen as a great victory over
the French. Given the reputation of the French Arms and the widespread panic their success in Mayo had caused,
Colonel Vereker’s stand at Collooney extinguished the serious threat felt by the British in Ireland. Vereker and the
Militia were therefore welcomed back to Limerick with great pride and hailed as heroes.
The Freeman’s Journal of 24 August 1799 reported: “The Corporation and Citizens of Limerick have subscribed for
very elegant Gold and Silver medals to be presented to the City of Limerick Militia for their bravery and valorous
conduct at Collooney in resisting the French army under General Humbert, who some time ago invaded this king-
dom…” Each medal is inscribed “To the Heroes of Colooney 5th Sepr 1798”. The only known examples of these
medals are silver, one of which was sold in these rooms 17/04/2007.
Vereker afterwards inherited the title as 2nd Viscount Gort by special remainder on the death of his maternal uncle
John Prendergast Smyth. He opposed the Union stating “I have defended my country with my blood, and there
is nothing in the gift of the Crown that would tempt me to betray her by my vote.” The family built Lough Cutra
Castle to the designs of John Nash. In the 20th Century they produced the warrior Viscount, a V.C. who salvaged
the British Expeditionary Force by redirecting to Dunkirk – not the easiest part of which was dealing with Churchill
who after the extraordinary extraction of an entire army, claimed the credit. The V.C.’s son is remembered more
for his generous and scholarly restoration and furnishing of Bunratty Castle.

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39 COLLOONEY PRESENTATION CUP
A GEORGE III IRISH SILVER AND SILVER-GILT TWO-HANDLED PRESEN-
TATION CUP AND COVER TO ‘THE HEROES OF COLLOONEY’ - COLONEL
CHARLES VEREKER AND THE LIMERICK CITY MILITIA BY THE LIMERICK
CORPORATION AS AN EXPRESSION OF GRATITUDE FOR THEIR BRAVERY
AT THE BATTLE OF COLLOONEY,
Dublin 1802, makers mark of James Scott,
The urn shaped body with gilded interior and domed lid surmounted with
classical urn finial, applied with reeded parcel gilt handles, the body engraved
with inscription to either side, between a band of bright-cut engraved
fruiting vines and a row of acanthus leaves, the first inscription
surmounted with a gilt Limerick Militia Crest a
nd ribbon inscribed with the battle date ‘5TH SEP. 1798’,
the other surmounted by a gilt Coat of Arms of the
City of Limerick, the inscription reads:
‘The Grateful Corporation and Citizens of
LIMERICK
To the Heroes of Colooney
Let the Proud Citys Voice in Exultation
Tell the Earth and Heavens
THESE ARE HER SONS’
and further inscribed:
Dear to the Muses
Shall their deeds inspire
Whatever Offerings, Genius, Science, Art
Can dedicate to Virtue
TO TRANSMIT
On the Enlivened Canvass, Marble, Brass
In Wisdoms Volume, in the Poets Song,
In every Tongue, thro Every Age and Clime
Their Glorious Memory
and
IMMORTAL WORTH
(The cup c.69.5ozs). 46cm high
Together with an associated silver plated and gilt stand,
by Elkington & Co. (72cm high with stand) applied with
the crest of the City of Limerick. The inscription on the
cup corresponds to the inscription on each of the
medals presented to the members of the Militia.
This cup and stand came into the possession of the
Viscount Gort, probably on the disbandment of the
Limerick Militia.
€20,000 – 25,000

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40 A RARE GEORGE III IRISH VOLUNTEERS PRESENTATION SABRE TO COLONEL CHARLES VEREKER, THE
“HERO OF COLLOONEY
awarded by the Grateful Citizens and Corporation of Limerick for his defeat of French Troops under the command of General Humbert at the Battle of Colloo-
ney 5th September 1798.
The 1803 Patton Sabre by Rundell, Bridge & Rundell with a Solingen blade by J.J. Runkel, blue and gilt with military trophies, the silver gilt stirrup hilt in the
form of an entwined snake with a lion mask pommel, the grip moulded in low relief depicting the labours of Hercules within leaf garlands, the metal scabbard
etched and decorated with applied military trophies, one with the engraved arms of the City of Limerick and the reverse inscribed ‘The Grateful Corporation and
Citizens of Limerick to the Hero of Collooney’.
The hallmarks London 1803, makers mark of Richard Teed (1757-1816) who was active in London from 1784 until his death in 1816 and is known as a sword
maker, jeweller and supplier. He was a prolific maker and he is most famous for his production of the Lloyds Patriotic Fund swords, a commission he won short-
ly after the Fund’s inauguration in 1804.
€ 30,000 - 40,000

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41 A 1798 BRASS BELT PLATE FOR THE GLENAULEY INFANTRY,
of rectangular form with curved shoulders, embossed to the centre with a castle flying the Union Jack over the inscription
“CROPPIES LIE DOWN”, a pair of fixing studs to reverse, rare,
8 x 6.25cm
€ 700 - 1,000

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42 TWO 22CT GOLD MEDALLIONS,
1916-1966, made by O’Connor Jewellers, Dublin 1966, Jubilee Mark, front inscibed “Aiseiri na Casca” above the flaming GPO
with facsimilies of seven signatories on reverse, including numbered Certificate of Guarantee from O’Connor & Sons Ltd. and
in original cases. 2 troy ounces each
€ 5000 - 7000

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43 A SILVER PATRICK PEARSE COMMEMORATIVE
DISH,
Dublin 1979, makers mark of George & Desmond Bellew, of lobed circular
form, with inscription to the raised central reserve “the fools, the fool,
the fools, they have left us, our Fenian dead”, “Padraic Mac Piaras 1879 -
1979”, with signed Certificate of Authenticity from George Bellew & Sons
Ltd (c.16.5ozs). 25cm diameter
€ 150 - 250
44 THREE SILVER MEDALLIONS,
1916-1966,
made by O’Connor Jewellers, Dublin, 1966, Jubilee Mark, front inscribed “Aiseiri na Casca” above the
flaming GPO with the dates 1916-1966, fascimilie of seven signatories on reverse. 3.8cm diameter
€ 600 - 800

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46 IRISH INDEPENDENT EASTER COLLECTION
1916-1991 - UNIQUE GOLD MEDALLIONS.
A set of seven commemorative gold medallions produced by the Irish
Independent for the 75th Anniversary of the Easter Rising. Each nine
carat gold, hallmarked and bearing the head and dates of one of the
signatories of the 1916 Proclamation on the front and all with the G.P.O
and dates 1916-1991 on reverse, diam. 1.5 ins. In fine condition and in
the original box.
The Irish Independent produced a limited number of 500 silver sets and
then held a silent auction for a unique set made from gold. This is that
unique set.
€ 8,000 - 10,000
47 TWO GOLD 1916 50TH JUBILEE CELEBRATION MEDALLIONS
by Worboys of Dublin, designed by Paul Vincze (1907-1994), bearing profile head of Padraig H. Pearse (1879-
1916), with a quotation from the 1916 Proclamation on reverse, numbered and in original fitted leather
presentation case. One 2 inch diameter, 22ct gold, 4 gram medallion, No. 125 of 750 - One 1.5 inch diameter,
22ct gold, 2 gram medallion, No. 125 of 1,500.
*Born in Hungary, Paul Vincze was one of the most original, influential and artisitic sculptor-medallists of the
20th Century, winning commissions to design commemmorative medallions and coinage for use the World
over. Among his many notable subjects were Presidents Truman and Kennedy, Pope Paul Vl and Sir Winston
Churchill.
€ 3,000 - 4,000

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48 A VICTORIAN GOLD HALF-SOVEREIGN,
dated 1894, now fitted to a 9ct gold brooch, c. 6.2 grams in total, together with
a silver World War I service medal 1914-1918, and a Victorian siver crown dated
1890 (3)
€ 200 - 300
49 KING JOHN, WATERFORD, HALFPENNY, CIRCA
1200AD
Facing diademed head, weak legends and struck off centre. Reverse
with cross within circle, in early 20th century Spink & Sons envelope.
Together with a later half coin, 14th century. w.a.f
(2)
Provenance: Collection of M.W. O’Reilly
€ 100 - 200

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50 EAMON DE VALERA: PRESIDENT OF IRELAND 1959-1973
A commemorative 18ct medallion, Dublin 1973, 35.5g, with portrait bust in gold low
relief encircled by ‘Eamon de Valera Uachtarán na hEireann 1959-1973’, the reverse
crested and struck with commemorative torc hallmarks, contained within fitted case
€ 700 - 1,000
51 AN IRISH SILVER GILT AND CONNEMARA MARBLE
GROUP,
Dublin 1966, sword of light mark, formed as a Celtic sword balanced on the
green stone plinth applied with a rectangular panel to one side, engraved with
simulated signatures of the Irish delegation, the opposing side applied with
engraved 1916-1966, with portrait medallion depicting de Valera, on outset fossil
marble base. 20cm wide
€ 400 - 600

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53 1916 RISING FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY MEDALS,
1966
Paul Vincze (1907-1994)
22 carat gold medals, set of 2, 4oz and 2oz
Issued in a limited edition of 1,000 pairs by Worboys, Dublin.
In original box of issue.
€ 4,000 - 6,000
52 A CASED PAIR OF ENGRAVED SILVER PORTRAIT
PANELS,
Dublin 1973, commemorative torc mark depicting
i) Charles Stewart Parnell and engraved with quote ‘No man has a right to fix
the boundary to the march of a nation’ and titled verso
ii)Eamon de Valera, engraved with title verso
Each panel 15.2 x 10cm, c.8ozs
€ 150 - 250

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55 A SILVER 1916-1966 COMMEMORATIVE
MEDALLION,
depicting the GPO on front with the signatures of the
seven signatories on reverse, in original box
€ 50 - 100
54 A PADRAIC MAC PIARAIS COMMEMORATIVE
SILVER MEDAL,
Dublin 1979, makers mark of Jewellery & Metal Manufacturing Co. Ltd, the
obverse with a relief portrait of Pearse, the reverse with a quotation ‘I have
turned my face to this road before me, to the deed that I see and the death
I shall die’, on silver chain.
€ 70 - 100

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56 SINN FEIN PROPAGANDA LABELS
SINN FEIN PROPAGANDA LABELS
A rare collection of ‘’Celtic Cross’’ Sinn Fein Propaganda Labels, c. 1916. Two printed sheets, one full sheet of 72
stamps (8 columns x 9 rows), with blank edging, the other 48 stamps (8 columns by 6 rows). Rare in full sheets and
block of this size. Each label depicts a Celtic Cross with ringed centre, inscribed ‘’Eire’’ & ‘’Sinn Fein’’ & decorated
with shamrocks. These labels were first printed in 1908 with the intention of attaching them to all Sinn Fein Cor-
respondence on the opposite side to the British postage stamp, as a visible sign of Irish Nationalism and to raise
funds for the Sinn Fein cause.
Provenance: Collection of Lt. Col. J.C.W. Madden, who commanded a battalion of the Irish Fusiliers in Dublin
during 1916.
€ 2,000 - 3,000

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57 POSTAL HISTORY
An album containing a good collection of British postage stamps, mostly in blocks, including British Empire Exhibition
1924, Silver Jubilee 1935, Postal Union Congress 1929, etc.
Provenance: Collection of Lt. Col. J.C.W. Madden, who commanded a battalion of the Irish Fusiliers in Dublin during 1916.
€ 400 - 600

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58 POSTAL HISTORY
A fine collection of the postage stamps of the Irish Free State, 1922-1935, mostly in mint uncirculated condition, including what may be the best extant
collection of the various overprinted issues, low and high values, many in blocks and strips, some in large sheets, many with marginal identifiers,
carefully mounted and identified and sparingly hinged. Also includes the standard issue, 1929 Catholic Emancipation issue, 1930 Shannon Scheme,
1931 RDS, 1932 Eucharistic Congress, 1933-4 Holy Year, etc., many in large blocks or sheets.
A collector’s collection. Inspection is particularly recommended.
Provenance: Collection of Lt. Col. J.C.W. Madden, who commanded a battalion of the
Irish Fusiliers in Dublin during 1916.
€ 3,500 - 5,000

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59 SINN FEIN STAMPS
Three blocks of Sinn Fein stamps, unused, the first block 5 x 7 containing 35 stamps, the second 4 x 8 containing 32, the third 5 x 8 lacking one
corner stamp, containing 39 stamps, with some marginal blanks, altogether 106 stamps, generally in clean condition.
€ 400 - 600

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59A SINN FEIN PROPAGANDA LABELS
A rare full sheet of “Celtic Cross” Sinn Fein Propaganda Labels, c. 1916. A printed sheet of 72 stamps (8 columns x 9 rows),
with blank edging (one gap), and with m/ss annotation in pencil in top rt. hd. corner, ‘Seized 6/16,’ glued back.
Rare, particularly in blocks. Each label depicts a Celtic Cross with ringed centre, inscribed ‘Eire’ & ‘Sinn Fein’ & decorated
with shamrocks. These labels were first printed in 1908 with the intention of attaching the to all Sinn Fein Correspondence
on the opposite side to the British postage stamp, as a visible sign of Irish Nationalism, & to raise funds for the Sinn Fein
cause.
€ 600 - 1,000

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60 FIRST DAY COVERS AND THE DUBLIN
BRIGADE REVIEW
A miscellaneous collection inlcuding a disbound Dublin Brigade Re-
view, 1916-1966, Jubillee stamp collection, memorial cards, etc.
€ 100 - 250

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61 COMMEMORATIVE POSTAGE STAMPS
An album containing a very good collection of commemorative stamps of Irish historical personalities and events, many first-day covers, in-
cluding Countess Markievicz, James Connolly, Griffith, Pearse, Tone, Casement, Kevin Barry, Kickham, the Fenians, First Dail, The Patriot Dead
(first day cover bearing Michael Collins portrait), etc., also a sheet of four original Sinn Fein stamps and various other items. As a coll., w.a.f.
Interesting lot. (1)
€ 150 - 250

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62 ILLUSTATED PUBLICATIONS, 1916 (3)
including: Dublin and the Sinn Fein Rising. Portraits, Documents, Pictures issued by Wilson Hartnell, oblong; The Record of
the Irish Rebellion of 1916 published by Irish Life; ‘’The Sinn Fein Revolt Illustrated,’’ published by Hely’s Limited, oblong;
together with a miscellaneous collection including: A cheque issued by the Belfast Banking Company Limited, from 1916; a
Souvenir Programme of the Theatre Royal, 23rd Sept 1935; the Illustrated London News Royal Wedding Double Number,
June 9th, 1906, Vol 128, No. 3503; and a collection of monocrome photographs and prints
€ 300 - 500

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63A ‘’THE REBELLION IN DUBLIN”
A Photo souvenir booklet of the 1916 Rising: Dark brown oblong booklet with string binding (as is-
sued), featuring an image of the Custom House on the cover. Published by Eason & Son, 1916. There
were a number of different versions of this booklet - this is probably the earliest version, containing
an introductory page on ‘’The Six Days’ Rebellion’’ along with 12 views of the post-Rising destruction
and portraits of some of the leaders. Illustrated wrappers, frayed at edges.
€ 100 - 150
63 IRISH LIFE, MAY 1916
two issues, Vol. XVI Nos. 3 and 4 dated 12th
and 19th May 1916, containing “Scenes and
Incidents of the Rising,” photographs and
accounts. (2)
€ 100 - 200

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64 TOM CLARKE: THE FIRST PHOTOGRAPH
An original photograph showing Sgt. James Clarke and his wife Mary with their two elder children, Tom (born 1858) and Maria (born 1859), in an African setting,
with an African tribesman to left. Tom is presumably the child in his mother’s arms, while Maria holds her father’s hand. Both children are wearing female
dress, as was customary at the time.
James Clarke was born in Co. Leitrim in 1830, and enlisted in the British Army, in the Royal Artillery, in the famine year of 1847. After some years garrison duty,
including Clonmel, where he met his wife, he was posted to the Crimea where he fought at the battles of Alma and Inkerman and the siege of Sebastopol.
According to Le Roux, he married in 1857, and was stationed in the Isle of Wight when his first son Tom was born. A year later Clarke was drafted to South
Africa, where he served at the Cape and other garrisons until 1865, returning thereafter with his family to Europe.
The photograph, 3 ½ ins x 4 ½ ins, is worn and creased, and lacks a triangular portion at top left (no loss of figures). It is nevertheless a rare and interesting
item, the first photograph of the child who was later to be the prime mover in the preparations for the Easter Rising and first signatory of the 1916 Proclama-
tion.
Sold w.a.f.
Provenance: Daly family of Limerick.
€ 400 - 600

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65 FUNERAL OF O’DONOVAN ROSSA [1915]
A graveside pass, 3 ½ x 4 ½ ins, with stamp of memorial committee and signature of Sean Mac
Gadhra [Sean McGarry] for the Wolfe Tone Memorial Committee.
Diarmaid O’Donovan Rossa, a lifelong Fenian from Co. Cork, lived mostly in the United States after
his release from a British prison. When Tom Clarke heard of his death in 1915, he immediately ca-
bled John Devoy to have the body returned to Ireland for burial, and sent Sean McGarry as his envoy
to accompany the coffin on its transatlantic journey. No effort was spared to make the funeral a
massive show of strength by the Irish Volunteers, culminating in Pearse’s historic address
Provenance: Daly family of Limerick. Reproduced in Kathleen Daly Clarke’s Revolutionary Woman, 1991,
p. 102.
€ 200 - 300
66 DALY FAMILY OF LIMERICK
A small collection including
- A mounted photograph, 4 x 6 ins, probably circa 1900, showing fifteen members
of the Daly family, men and women (one boy), dressed in style, the ladies in
fancy hats, seated and standing on a sidewalk. The elderly gentleman in middle
of centre row is probably John Daly, the former Fenian prisoner, friend of Tom
Clarke, who founded the family bakery business and was three times Mayor of
Limerick. A person behind him appears to be wearing a Mayoral chain. Some
damage, small portion missing at top, would benefit by restoration, but a historic
photograph.
- An original photograph, approx 3 x 5 ins, showing a group of mainly women
outside Sarsfield St. Barracks in Limerick, 1922, during the Civil War, inscribed rear
by Agnes Ní Dhálaigh.
- Óglaigh na hÉireann [i.e. Free State Army]. Field General Headquarters, Limer-
ick, 15.7.1922. Permit for Miss Daly to leave Barracks, signed Coffey, Adjutant.
- Memorial card to John Edward Daly, Commandant, Irish Republican Army,
Thomas J. Clarke, Fenian, and John Daly, Fenian, died May and June 1916.
- and a few other items.
€ 200 - 300

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67 TOM CLARKE & JOHN REDMOND
A calligraphed Resolution inscribed on a cardboard panel, 20 ins x 15 ins, passed at ‘a vast meeting of Irishmen .. 21st October 1898, to
welcome home the recently released political prisoners Messrs Thomas J. Clarke (Henry H. Wilson), John H. O’Connor (Henry Dalton) and
Edward O’Brien Kennedy (Timothy Featherston)’, organised by the Amnesty Association, the resolution proposed by John E. Redmond Esq.
M.P., referring to their ‘long and cruel captivity’, and carried ‘with intense enthusiasm’. [The ‘noms-de-guerre’ - Henry Wilson etc. - were
those given by the prisoners on their arrest].
Illuminated in watercolour by Miss Fitzpatrick, 192 Clonliffe Rd., Dublin.
A historic document, linking the Irish Party leader John Redmond and the Fenian Tom Clarke. Clarke had just reached Dublin on his release
after serving 15 years on a charge of involvement in a dynamiting campaign in Britain. Redmond visited him in Portland Prison during the
later years of his sentence, and spoke of ‘his brave spirit’.
Foxed and soiled, marginal tears including a closed tear upper left which impinges on the corner of the painted surface, minor abrasion
lower centre.
Fragile, please do not remove from plastic sleeve.
€ 200 - 300

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68 TOIRDHEALBHACH MAC SUIBHNE [TERENCE MACSWINEY].
The Ethics of Revolt. A discussion from a Catholic point of view as to when it becomes lawful to rise in revolt against the Civil Power. Reprinted
from Irish Freedom. March 1918, wrappers, soiled, 24 pp, final leaf soiled and torn (no loss). Inscribed by MacSwiney on title page, ‘le meas agus
cairdeas’ [with respect and friendship] .
Scarce. Two years later MacSwiney died after a 74 day hunger strike in prison; his enormous funeral was one of the turning points of the Anglo
Irish War.
With
Brian O’Higgins. The Soldier’s Story of Easter Week. 1925, wrappers. Inscribed by author ‘le cion caraid, 11.3.’25’ [with affectionate friendship].
Wolfe Tone memorial badge laid in.
[2]
€ 200 - 300

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69 Ó CEALLAIGH, SEÁN T., PRESIDENT OF IRELAND.
A very good set of seven Christmas cards, 1946-52, each with portrait and biographical details of one of the seven signatories of the 1916
Proclamation, five of the seven with manuscript signed greetings from Ó Ceallaigh and his wife Phyllis on rear page. Three Candles printed,
each card tied with blue and gold ribbon, the crest on front page hand coloured, an attractive set.
Sean T. Ó Ceallaigh, second President of Ireland, was a 1916 veteran who served in the GPO, and knew all the seven signatories personally.
€ 500 - 700

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69A IRISH WAR NEWS. THE IRISH REPUBLIC. VOL. 1 NO. 1 DUBLIN,
TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1916.
One penny. Small quarto, 4 pp (single folded sheet), a superb copy of this scarce item, printed early on
Easter Tuesday at a press within the ‘liberated’ area of central Dublin around the GPO. With the ‘Stop
Press’ column on rear page, giving information (partly inaccurate) about the Rising and its progress. A
scarce item, not as rare as it once appeared to be; but copies in fine condition, as this, are very scarce
indeed.
€ 600 - 800

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70 TOM AND KATHLEEN CLARKE,
their original marriage certificate, 16 July 1901, signed by Thomas
Gregg, Rector, St. Augustine’s (Catholic) Church, New York City,
with John McBride as witness. A little worn.
€ 2,000 - 3,000

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71 MICHAEL COLLINS APPEALS TO IRISH AMERICANS
Collins (Michael) A very good Als on Rialtas Sealadach na h’Eireann (Provisional Government) notepaper, dated 9 February 1922, to the Editor of
the Boston Globe Newspaper, a Mr. Merrill, mentioning Collins’ relatives in Boston, and the liberality of friends of Ireland in Boston in supporting
the Irish struggle for Independence with money. ‘Now that Freedom is on the eve of attainment I ask through the ‘Boston Globe’ on behalf of the
Provisional Government, that they be equally liberal with their sympathy and patience, thus assisting us in restoring to the people of Ireland con-
trol of their own destinies. We have the responsibility. We must also have the power. Ireland is facing very grave problems. it will need the strength
and courage of the whole nation, and the help of all our race to carry us safely through.’ With his signature in Irish squeezed in at the bottom of
the page. Mounted, a little browned from display, but in good condition, a fine and measured appeal to Irish Americans. Probably intended for
publication. As a m/ss., w.a.f.
Extremely important manuscript letter.
€ 12,000 - 15,000

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72 P.H. PEARSE
An important collection of five autograph signed letters to his legal advisers, Gerrard & Co. of Westmoreland St., Dublin, 1911-1912, on headed St. Enda’s paper, mostly
concerning financial and/or legal matters arising from his plans for St. Enda’s, some illustrating Pearse’s chronic shortage of money, as follows:
1. ALS on Sgoil Eanna paper, 24 Feb. 1911, objecting to a clause in a contract. ‘I am surely entitled to the lands and to all profits and emoluments accruing from them as
from August 1st. I accept the other figures and calculate that the amount due is therefore £92.4.1. P.S. - Please make out at once agreement for letting large lawn @ £57
from Mar. 1st to Feb. 1st, to Fallon, Rathfarnham, no responsibility for fencing etc. to be on me.’ With a good signature.
2. ALS on Sgoil Éanna paper, 28th June 1911, enclosing Mr. MacManus’ letter. ‘I think you may go ahead on the strength of this, especially as I told Mr. MacManus some
time ago that we were making an assignment to Mr. Dolan for the benefit of the two of them (Dolan and MacManus)’. This is probably the writer Seamus MacManus, one of
the backers for St. Enda’s. With a good signature.
3. A remarkable ALS dated 19th Oct. 1911, on Sgoil Eanna paper (large sheet). ‘I enclose cheque £52.10.0 and bill signed at bottom. It is better that I should meet neither
Vanston nor Farmer, as it would be difficult for me to restrain my inclination to assault them. I was very nearly assaulting Mr Vanston in a tramcar the other evening, but
was restrained by respect for his years and feebleness. So I gravely acknowledged his salute instead.’ With a bold signature, underscored.
4. ALS on Sgoil Éanna paper, 21st Feb. 1912. ‘Mr. Vanston has written me that unless I let him have cheque for £50 today he will at once issue writ for amt. of promissory
note, costs, and interest. I cannot, unfortunately, let him have it today .. Could you ring up Vanston and Farmer and do your best to get them to agree to either of my pro-
posals - (1) to renew the bill for a month, or (2) to wait until I can let them have the £50, which should not be very long.’ With a copy appended of Pearse’s letter to Vanston,
explaining that money from his pupils is slow coming in, one man’s little daughter ‘is this week undergoing an operation in which her life trembles in the balance, & in the
circumstances I do not care to write him’, etc.
5. ALS on Sgoil Eanna paper, 1st Sept. 1912, 2 pp, saying he now has £225.10s. in cash and promises, and listing ‘all those who served writs during last twelve months’,
including Farmer Bros. (Vanston, Solr.) and seven others, with reference numbers added in another hand. The amounts of the writs are not given here. ‘If all goes well
tomorrow, it is essential that all creditors should have communication Tuesday morning, explaining the situation.’ With a good signature, underscored.
These letters appear to be unpublished, and some of the detailed information is new, particularly the list of writs outstanding (item 5). The threat of personal violence in
item 3 is striking, coming from the usually urbane and unflappable Pearse. He never had the capital needed to establish St. Enda’s securely, and this letter vividly indicates
his frustration. Messrs. Farmers were the builders making alterations at The Hermitage for St. Enda’s; Vanston was their solicitor. The correspondence is generally in very
good clean condition.
€ 4,000 - 6,000

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73 P.H. PEARSE
Two signed and inscribed postcards from the St. Enda’s pictorial series, addressed to Gerrard & Co. of Westmoreland St., Dublin, as letters above,
stamped and bearing postal marks.
1. St.Enda’s postcard, Oct. 10 ’12, apparently concerning disposal of Cullenswood House [after his acquisition of the Hermitage property], signed
initials.
2. St. Enda’s postcard, Oct. 26 ’12, making an appointment, good signature.
€ 1,000 - 2,000

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JOSEPH MARY PLUNKETT:
An important collection of early family letters
Of all the strange assortment of separatists and socialists, poets and dreamers that came together to sign the 1916 Proclamation, the strangest was Joseph Mary Plunkett. Born to a promi-
nent and prosperous Catholic family, his father was a Papal Count and an expert in the fine arts. Educated privately and at Stonyhurst College in England, Plunkett suffered from pulmonary
tuberculosis (then almost untreatable) from an early age. After graduating from UCD he was advised to seek a drier climate, and spent some time in Algeria.
Plunkett was a promising poet and a close friend of Thomas MacDonagh, with whom he co-edited The Irish Review. He joined the IRB and the Irish Volunteers, and became director of
military operations, though he had no significant military experience. He drew up the military strategy for the Rising, based on occupying and holding strategic buildings.
As the Rising approached his illness worsened, and in early 1916 he underwent surgery on glands in his throat. He left a convalescent home to take his place in the GPO, where his aide-de-
camp was Michael Collins. Afterwards he was tried by court-martial and sentenced to death. He married his friend Grace Gifford in a cell in Kilmainham Jail, on the eve of his execution on 4
May 1916. He was not yet 30 when he died, though he could scarcely have lived much longer in any case.
These early family letters and notes date from a period of his life (1908-1912) for which there is little first-hand evidence. They are written without reserve, to his ‘dearest Mums’, to whom
he was evidently very close. They very well illustrate his attractive character, his fluency and wit, his adventurous spirit and a complete absence of self-pity. To the best of our knowledge
they are unpublished, though other material from the period is quoted in Geraldine Plunkett Dillon’s memoir All In The Blood.
74 JOSEPH MARY PLUNKETT [1887-1916]
An autograph signed note dated 23 May [19]08, on paper of Stonyhurst College, 1 pp, signed ‘Joseph’, addressed to ‘Dearest Mums’.
‘I got your post card. Hope you’ve had a good time & are not tired. I am quite well & so is G. I wrote to White. Have to catch the post now.’ With a P.T.O. in bold letters at foot of page, but
there is nothing overleaf. Perhaps there was a second page, not now present.
€ 400 - 600

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75 ‘LES BOTTINES DE RAMESES II’ ?
JOSEPH MARY PLUNKETT [1887-1916]
An autograph postcard addressed to [his mother] Countess Plunkett in Dublin, dated 8th July 1909, entirely in French. ‘Est-ce que mon
habit est arrivé? Ou sont les bottines de Rameses II?’, etc. Postmarked Dugort (in Mayo), and with a most attractive watercolour draw-
ing on reverse of card, showing a sunset behind a mountain, presumably above Dugort, signed J.M.P. ’09.
€ 500 - 600

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An autograph signed postcard dated 12th August 1910, from Falcarragh, Co. Donegal, addressed to Countess Plunkett in Dublin, signed ‘Love, Iósep’.
‘I climbed Mt. Errigal on Sun. 2197 ft. & very steep. Went to Tory [Island] again on Tues. and back same day. Walked 10 miles, drove 7, sailed 18, and danced at a ceilidh all same day!’
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A very good collection of four autograph letters (three signed) to ‘My dear Mums’ [Countess Plunkett], November-December 1911, from Algiers, as follows:
1. ALS, 1 pp, 11.11.’11. ‘This is going to be a very short letter as I want to catch the post .. There is nothing particular doing .. Perhaps I ought to remind you that next Friday week 24th inst. my lia-
bilities will exceed my assets by £3 if nothing unforeseen occurs. I am writing a little but so far there is nothing marketable. Could you send me ‘Ceol Sidhe’ which costs 6d. .. and George Moore’s
new book ‘Ave’ which costs 5/- .. it is all about the literary people - Yeats etc...’ Signed ‘Love, Joe’.
2. ALS, 3 pp, 9th Dec. 1911, from 2 Galerie Duchassaing, Place du Gouvernement, with date also in Arabic. ‘Thanks very much for the money - two £5 notes and a half. The first came just in time to
pay the hotel bill when we moved and I will pay my lodging since out of the second. Moya [his sister] and I get our board for a month for 4 frcs per day “vin compris” .. and as we are well fed for
that it is very reasonable .. It costs less altogether for the two of us than I was paying for myself at the Hotel Régence. On the 26th we will have to pay our month’s bill at the Club (where we feed)
so could you send some more cash .. Before that I must give fcs. 50 to M. Stackler (from Alsace) who is teaching me Arabic. He is a decent man and has taken me all through the Arab quarter,
and has brought the three of us to see a native family that he knows, where they showed us everything and gave us real coffee (!) in which the lady of the house joined us .. I had a long letter
from Tomás [MacDonagh] thanking me for my book and telling me about his approaching marriage .. What are you going to give Tomás for a wedding present? Only for his encouragement and
criticism my book wouldn’t be what it is - if indeed it would have been written at all.
Of course I am keeping on writing but have written no journalese so far [except an article about Shaw] .. I am learning all I can about this place from the inside and will be able to make much
better user of the knowledge than to write scrappy superficial “touristic” articles .. This is my name in Arabic ..’
3. Christmas Eve 1911 [and later], date also in Arabic, 2 pp, from 2 Galerie Duchassaing, unsigned (final page perhaps missing) but in his hand throughout. ‘For some reason I am finding it ex-
tremely difficult to write letters - perhaps it is laziness - perhaps sausages.
Glad you liked “The silly hot hands of Sahara” - it is highly gaseous but not explosive .. We went to midnight Mass in the Cathedral for Christmas morning. It was crowded .. The Cathedral was
built by Nap. III and cost him a million and a half pounds sterling. A soft job for the African officials - I could build three or four like it for the same money. Talking of money -- just at present I
have £5 with which to pay £10 for a Patron and £5 for lodging - so I am keeping it until I get some more ..
Thanks for Eleanor Cox’s poems. I hope the Irish Review won’t review it - because it is rotten - only one who had the misfortune to live out of her country could have written it. It’s full of plagia-
risms and shows a most complete ignorance of the art of writing ..’
4. Last day of 1911, from 2 Galerie Duchassaing, Alger, 2 pp, signed ‘ Joe’.
‘Thank you. Also for the Irish Monthly. The review was lovely. I’m delighted that Fr. Russell said that the poems couldn’t be written in prose. What lyrics could? Anything that could be written in
prose should be. Verse is for higher things. Especially, my verse. “He that is sweet in words shall attain to greater things”. Prov. XVI. 21.
I’m trying my hand at translating French verse, I did eleven verses of a thing of Victor Hugo, which is scarcely fit for publication - “La Legende de la Nonne”, and (of course) the translation is
better than the original .. Is anyone watching the literary papers for me? Pappy could see most of them at the R.D.S, and Tomás (if he is at home) or Gerry might find out whether “Sinn Fein” has
reviewed me yet ..
There is no news here. Things are a bit dull and the winter (which sometimes lasts a month) has begun ..
P.S. Wed Jan. 3rd 1912. No money yet. Joe.’
A splendid collection, full of life and energy in spite of his ill-health.
(4)
€ 3,000 - 5,000

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77A JOSEPH MARY PLUNKETT [1887-1916]
A fine autograph signed letter from Falcarra, Contae Dun na nGall, 4 Ocht-Mhí [probably October] 1910, addressed to ‘A Mháthair Dhil’, signed ‘Joseph’.
‘Thanks for letter, cheque and cigarettes .. You may remember I asked for MacDonagh’s address. Rathfarnham is not sufficient. You may also remember
I expressed a desire to return homeward. However as you seem bent on my banishment I may tell you that I’d prefer Tory to here .. There’s one thing,
though, it has been blowing great guns and a reasonable passage won’t be possible for at least a week owing to the Atlantic swell ..’ [If he goes to Tory] ‘I
would certainly get any amount of Irish besides stories, songs, and the best step dancing in the North .. On the other hand I want to get back to Dublin ..
but still if I could learn to speak Irish in Oct. and Nov. it would be a tremendous advantage ..’
A splendid letter.
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78 P.H. PEARSE AS MANAGER & HEADMASTER
Pearse (P.H.) A good autograph signed letter, in English on St.
Enda’s headed notepaper, 2pp. (single folded sheet), dated 19th
Sept 1912, to ‘ My dear Mr. Reddin, ‘ thanking him for a donation
towards the St. Enda’s fund ‘ Please accept my most grateful
thanks. We have pulled through all right, and though. I realise
that there is still an uphill fight before us I am fairly confident as
to the future.’
He also mentions ‘ the boys’ and says he is answering some
queries of Kenneth’s (separately). ‘ It is not easy to give general
directions as to Irish composition in the way he asks. The Irish
paper (in the Metric examination) is, however, fairly sure to be
easy. The two boys ought to pass, but one can never tell.’ with a
good signature (‘P.H. Pearse’).
One of the two boys mentioned, Kenneth Reddin, became a Dis-
trict Court Justice and a playwright. A poem of his was published
in the St. Enda’s school magazine, ‘ An Macaomh’ in May 1913. His
memories of Pearse appear in ‘Studies,’ in 1945.
* Good letters from Pearse are increasingly scarce. The financial
crisis of 1912 was of course only one in a long series, and St.
Enda’s was never able to clear its debts. (1)
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80 P.H. PEARSE
Manuscript text of a recruiting handbill headed ‘THE IRISH VOLUNTEERS’, on reverse of a sheet of A-4 Volunteers headed paper, in Pearse’s
unmistakeable hand, with a signed manuscript covering note [to M.W. O’Reilly] on the same headed paper, dated 7th Feb. 1915. ‘The Irish Vol-
unteers exist to win and guard the liberties of Ireland, and of all Ireland. They aim at placing a rifle in the hands of every Irishman, at teaching
him to use it, and at training him in marching, scouting, signalling, etc., with the object of making him an efficient soldier of Ireland ... Why not
join?’, with local details for Fairview, ending ‘God Save Ireland’. Closed tear at one corner, no loss. With the associated Connradh na Gaedhilge
envelope addressed in Pearse’s hand to Wm. O’Reilly at a Fairview address, also inscribed ‘Prudential Assurance Co., 11 College Green’.
M.W. O’Reilly was at this time a young insurance executive with Prudential. He joined the Irish Volunteers and served in the GPO in 1916,
and was detained afterwards in Frongoch, where he got to know Michael Collins, and discussed with him and others the formation of an
Irish-based insurance company to win Irish business from British firms. After his release he became general secretary of the New Ireland
Assurance Co., which he built up over the years to be the leading Irish company in the field.
Pearse joined the Volunteers on their formation, and became Director of Organisation.
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81 NA FIANNA EIREANN & COUNTESS MARKIEWICZ
A printed rule-sheet for Na Fianna Eireann, Irish National Boy Scouts, President: Countess de Markiewicz, 4 pp, circa 1911, signed in manuscript by C. de Markiewicz with
her address at Surrey House, Leinster Rd.
With two TLS to Mr. [Michael] O’Reilly from Pádraic Ó Riain, on Na Fianna headed paper, January 1912, the second saying ‘The Council is sorry to learn of the great
difficulties you have to contend with in keeping the Sluagh of the Fianna going in Dalkey’, especially over rent payment for premises. ‘We understand that Baden-Powell
intends during the present year re-organising his movement in this country .. You understand therefore the absolute necessity for the Fianna to double its membership
by starting new Sluaghte throughout the country. An Ard Coiste have started a guarantee fund for this purpose and will allow to the Sluaghte 50% of what they collect
towards this fund’. One of the letters parting at folds, no loss.
Also an ALS to O’Reilly from Lewis Lonergan, Commanding, undated, regretting that the Committee could not give more assistance in holding the premises in Convent
Road, but the funds of the Committee are practically exhausted; also Whelan & Sons, Irish-Ireland Supply Stores, invoice to Mr. O’Reilly, Nov. 1911, for scout shirt etc.,
and estimates for repairing windows etc. at Scouts room at Convent Road.
A good collection of documents, emphasising the ever-present financial problems. Fianna Eireann was founded in Belfast by Bulmer Hobson, and re-founded in Dublin
by Hobson and Markiewicz in 1909, as an Irish alternative to the British-based Boy Scouts movement. It became in time the junior section of the Volunteers.
Provenance: Collection of M.W. O’Reilly, see his biography above.
€ 600 - 800

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82 THOMAS MACDONAGH [SIGNATORY OF 1916 PROCLAMATION]
A cyclostyled typescript Mobilisation Order for Irish Volunteers, Dublin Brigade, 2 pp folio, dated 2 April 1915, signed at head in MacDonagh’s hand with his initials,
numbered 2, and endorsed by him with time of issue at foot of second page.
The Order outlines in 21 paragraphs MacDonagh’s detailed plans for a training attack on the enemy ‘reported at Finglas village, strength, one Battalion (The Finglas
Battalion, I.V.)’, including assembly, march, attack and fall-back plans for the four battalions of the Brigade, the fourth battalion including a strong Cyclist Corps.
Thomas MacDonagh, a poet and teacher from Cloughjordan, was for several years Pearse’s assistant at St. Enda’s. He joined the Irish Volunteers on their forma-
tion, and became Director of Training in 1914. He found he had a talent for soldiering, shown in these very clear and systematic orders, and he was Parade Marshal
for the O’Donovan Rossa funeral in 1915. In the 1916 Rising he signed the Proclamation and commanded the force at Jacob’s Factory in Bishop Street. He was
executed on 3 May. A British officer is reported as saying later, ‘They all died well, but MacDonagh died like a prince’. He left a wife and two small children.
Documents linking MacDonagh with the Volunteers are very scarce.
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83 IRISH VOLUNTEERS
A good collection of circulars and documents, 1914-15, mostly cyclostyled, including
- P. O Fathaigh. Dublin City and County Board. Orders for City Companies dated 1 January 1914, endorsed in manuscript.
- Thomas Slater, Hon. Sec. pro tem. Dublin City & County Board. Pencilled note to Capt. O’Reilly, 5.1.14. ‘Kindly arrange to have your Company at Kimmage on Saturday night next for
musketry.’
- P.H. Pearse, Director of Organisation. General Orders. Special Sections. Cyclostyled circular dated 9 December 1914.
- P.H. Pearse, Director of Organisation. Cyclostyled circular enclosing a Scheme of Military Organisation, 30 Dec. 1914 (the Scheme not present)
- Bulmer Hobson, Hon. Secretary. Cyclostyled circular dated 31.12.14, calling attention to the need for support for the Irish Volunteer paper.
- P.H. Pearse, Commandant. Director of Organisation. Easter Arrangements, 24 March 1915, cyclostyled typescript circular, 2 pp., including orders for ‘despatch of a flying column to a
point South of Dublin’.
- T. Slater, Hon. Sec., Dublin city & County Board, 3 April 1915. Orders. ‘Men of Dublin regiment will hold themselves in readiness for possible mobilisation at Easter’.
- Printed document, undated, 1 pp, Conditions for the Supply of Rifles to Irish Volunteer Corps, with Hints on Rifle Cleaning.
- John Lawler & Sons, 2 Fownes’s Street Upper, Dublin. Printed Catalogue of rifles, revolvers, ammunition etc., 20 pp, SCARCE; with an invoice to M.W. O’Reilly for .303 ammunition, 27 Nov.
1914, marked ‘Paid’.
The British authorities were of course aware of this fusillade of military-sounding Orders through 1914 and 1915. Its sheer profusion may have contributed to their relaxing their watch as
the time approached for the real thing in 1916.
€ 200 - 300

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84 MICHAEL W. O’REILLY
His certificate as a 1916-21 combatant, signed by Oscar Mac Tréinfhir [Traynor] and others, framed.
€ 80 - 120

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85 PATRICK PEARSE’S WALKING STICK
A plain varnished cane walking stick with curved head, approx. 33
ins tall, with a carbon copy of a typed letter from M.W. O’Reilly to a
Miss Heffernan of Leicester Avenue, Rathgar, 9 September 1969,
acknowledging receipt of ‘the Walking Stick of Padraig Pearse’s
which you were kind enough to present me with’.
We cannot say how Miss Heffernan came by the stick, but its
authenticity was evidently accepted by O’Reilly (a 1916 veteran and
head of the New Ireland Assurance Co.).
€ 400 - 600

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86 G.P.O. CRUCIFIX
A metal crucifix, circa 5 ins tall, boxed, with a letter to M.W. O’Reilly dated 14 August 1968 stat-
ing that Miss Madeleine Heffernan, a sister of the late Myles Heffernan, has offered to present
the crucifix, ‘found in the ruins of the G.P.O. after the 1916 Rising’.
Sold without any guarantee as to origin.
€ 200 - 300

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87 LAURENCE GINNELL.
A good framed ALS to ‘My dear Alice’, from Mountjoy Prison, 11th June 1919, 2 pp, mainly concerning domestic arrangements, clothes,
books he wants etc. ‘Mr. O’C wants permission from the ladies to publish another edition of Brehon Laws .. all I ask is to be allowed to
correct the proofs’, signed ‘Labhras’.
Laurence Ginnell [1854-1923] was an Irish Party MP (ironically known as ‘The Member for Ireland’) who joined Sinn Fein after the Rising,
and became its Treasurer. An opponent of the Treaty, he entered the Dail in 1922 at De Valera’s request to hold a watching brief, but was
ejected after challenging its credentials. He published several books including a history of the Brehon Laws.
€ 100 - 150
88 GENERAL MULCAHY A good framed photograph of Mulcahy in uniform,
half length, circa 6 x 4 ins, puzzlingly inscribed ‘Yours V. Sincerely / Eddie’.
€ 50 - 100

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89 THEATRE ROYAL, DUBLIN.
Programme printed in dark blue ink on silk for a performance of the American musical play The Belle of New
York, August 25 1898, by Command of His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, K.C., and Countess Cado-
gan. Circa 13 ins x 10 ins, printer Irish Wheelman Co., Dublin.
€ 100 - 200
90 FITZPATRICK’S HOTEL, 38 WESTLAND ROW, DUBLIN.
VISITORS’ BOOK,
1928 to circa 1943, hundreds of signatures and home addresses. Quarto cloth, leather
backed, spine partly perished but holding. A lucky dip.
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91 JOHN DEVOY FUNERAL COMMITTEE,
May-June 1929.
Minutes of Committee, circa 50 pp manuscript in an exercise book, with original funeral badge for American Irish Committee, featuring miniature American and Irish flags
and a portrait of Devoy.
John Devoy, described as ‘the greatest of the Fenians’, was born in Co. Kildare but lived for most of his life in the United States, where he ran Clan-na-Gael (the American
branch of the IRB) and organised tirelessly for an Irish Republic. He had expressed a wish to be buried in Glasnevin, and when he died in 1929, another veteran Fenian, Dr.
Mark Ryan, summoned a Committee to make arrangements for his funeral, of which these are the Minutes.
It was intended that the funeral should be a national occasion, non-partisan and inclusive, but predictably, given the times, there were differences about how this should be
implemented, and eventually there was a split, with Mrs. Kathleen Clarke (widow of Tom, and a member of Fianna Fail) and others withdrawing from the Committee. For
those who may be interested, the details are in this notebook.
The original members of the Committee included Dr. Mark Ryan, Senator Mrs. Clarke, Senator T. Farren, Alderman William O’Brien, Dr. Patrick MacCartan, Senator Sean
Milroy, D[iarmaid] O’Hegarty, Seamus Murphy [possibly the sculptor], Sean Collins, Peadar Devoy, Sean MacGarry, Liam Tobin, Michael Staines, Colonel Joseph O’Reilly, with
Piaras Beaslai as Secretary. The minutes are generally signed by S. Ó Murchadha.
(2)
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92 CUMANN NA NGAEDHEAL
A black morocco bound notebook containing Minutes of the Seamus O Duibhir Cumann of Cumann na nGaedhe-
al, 1923-24, President, M.W. O’Reilly, circa 100 pages manuscript in various hands, the minutes variously counter-
signed, much interesting material during troubled times including resolutions, nominations for Dáil etc. Upper
hinge broken internally, first page loose, otherwise in good condition.
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93 SEAN T. Ó CEALLAIGH, PRESIDENT OF IRELAND.
Souvenir Booklet published by the O’Donovan Rossa Memorial Committee on the
occasion of the unveiling of a Memorial by the President in St. Stephens Green, Dublin
1954, Three Candles printing; with ALS and TLS to M.W. O’Reilly from the President on
his official paper, each 1 pp, the first dated 17.11.54 thanking O’Reilly for finding a post
for young Devitt. ‘I would not have troubled you only that I know the family to have had
such a good record nationally’. The second letter, dated 17 December 1956, conveys
Christmas and New Year greetings.
Sean T. and O’Reilly both fought in the GPO in 1916. It is interesting that the ‘old pals act’
still applied almost 40 years later.
€ 200 - 300

94 M.W. O’REILLY
A small collection of ephemera including a receipt on Cumann na nGaedheal headed
paper dated Sept. 17th 1923, signed by Seamus O’Dolan, for sum of £63-6-0 on
behalf of the Presidential Reception Committee; printed Oireachtas Companion
booklet 1923; an invitation to the Wolfe Tone Commemoration Parade at Boden-
stown, 1929, reserved enclosure, and other invitations; programme for a 1916/21
memorial dinner, 1946, with list of participants; a commercial card with reproduction
of the 1916 Proclamation, 1949; a copy of a 1922 reprint of Pearse’s Three Lectures
on Gaelic Topics with a related letter; and some other items.
€ 50 - 100

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95 ANOTHER HERO OF EASTER WEEK REYNOLDS (GEORGE) DEFENDER OF MOUNT STREET BRIDGE.
An Autograph Letter signed to his brother James (in New York), 4pp. (single folded sheet), dated 15 Aug. 1914, with note of authentication by James. Old cellotape repairs
at folds, else good. A most interesting letter, with news of the European war. ‘’They are drafting nearly all the troops from Ireland. The Nationalists here have taken a leaf
out of Carson’s book and are forming an army of Volunteers, but unfortunately like all Irish projects there are signs of disagreement, one section want to put the Volun-
teers under Government control and another want to be independent’’, also mentioning some business matters. As a m/ss., w.a.f. Rare.
George Reynolds was head of the Volunteer section in Clanwilliam House overlooking Mount Street Bridge where British reinforcements seeking to enter the city centre
were held up for several days by accurate rifle fire, taking heavy casualties. He died at his post on Wednesday, as the British finally broke through. (See Max Caulfield,
‘’The Easter Rebellion). A poignant memento of one of the less-known heroes of Easter Week.
€ 1,200 - 1,800

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96 1916 CLANWILLIAM HOUSE GARRISON
A unique handwritten statement of service by an Irish Volunteer William Ronan
This fascinating but bold record of service describes his part in one of the most fierce fire fights of the Rising as “Easter Sunday 23rd
April to 26th Clanwilliam House, Ref. Simon Donnelly, 16 Arnott Street. S.C.R.” Volunteer Ronan was a member of “C” Company, 3rd
Battalion Dublin Brigade and was one of seven men who held Clanwilliam House against an 800 strong contingent of Sherwood
Foresters for over 9 hours. Only three of the seven , including William Ronan, survived. The rest of Ronan’s record includes his arrest
on 26 April and internment in Wakefield and Frongoch, his release in August; his active service re-commenced on 1 April 1917 and he
notes various actions he was involved in including ambushes and burnings 1919-21 and his service with Anti-Treaty forces in 1922-23
including his involvement in the Hamman Hotel battle and his imprisonment in Mountjoy February 1923 to September 1923.
€ 4,000 - 5,000

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97 PÁDRAIC MAC PIARAIS [P.H. PEARSE]
A paid cheque made out to himself for £5, dated 31 Oct. 1908, drawn on the school
A/C at the Hibernian Bank, signed front and countersigned rear.
€ 1,500 - 2,000

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98 [1916]. POBLACHT NA HEIREANN THE
PROCLAMATION OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC
Printed in Limerick, rare copy printed by City Printing, Limerick. Undated.
Green and violet with an image of the signatories. Printed circa 1917.
Extremely rare. Only a few recorded.
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98A PÁDRAIC MAC PIARAIS & TOMÁS MAC DONNCHADHA
A paid cheque made out to Tomás Mac Donnchadha [Thomas MacDonagh] for £6-2-6d., dated 26 [April 1909],
drawn on the school A/C at Hibernian Bank, signed at front, countersigned at rear by MacDonagh, a fine bold signa-
ture in Irish. Part torn away at right losing revenue stamp, most of issue date and part of Pearse’s signature.
* Pearse and MacDonagh were colleagues at St. Enda’s, and joint signatories of the 1916 Proclamation. Pearse was
in the GPO during the Rising, as President of the Irish Republic; MacDonagh was in command at Jacob’s Factory.
They were court-martialled and shot on 3 May. Presumably this cheque relates to MacDonagh’s school salary.
€ 1,000 - 1,500

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98B BALLYKINLAR CAMP DOCUMENTS (CO. DOWN) AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF
ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS,
concerning the operation of the British Army’s Ballykinlar Internment Camp in Co. Down, circa 1921, 21 folders containing well over 100
items, many in poor condition, but of considerable interest. The papers include typescript documents on officer’s pay, routine orders
on various subjects, transfer orders, fatigue records, sanitary orders, officer’s equitation certificates, etc., etc., many signed by camp
officers, mostly typescript but some in cyclostyled manuscript. A very interesting and unusual lot. As m/ss, w.a.f. * Ballykinlar Camp was
one of the principal detention centres for Republican prisoners during the War of Independence, 1919 - 1921. Provenance: Collection
of the late John Cooney of Suir House, Clonmel, an Irish Volunteer and later a Major in the Free State Army. (1)
€ 1,000 - 1,500

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99 1916 PROCLAMATION:
THE VERY RARE 1917 ISSUE. POBLACHT NA H EIREANN. The Provisional Government of the IRISH REPUBLIC to the People of Ireland ..
A printed copy of the 1916 Proclamation, similar in most respects to the original issue, but with some points of difference, notably
a. Eamonn Ceannt’s Christian name is mis-spelled EANONN;
b. The inverted ‘e’ in original is here corrected [last paragraph, first line, ‘under the protection’];
c. The capital ‘E’ in ‘THE’, line 5, is a genuine ‘E’, whereas in the original it is an ‘F’ with a tail added;
d. Length of printed line (i.e. length of forme) is 17 ½ ins (l8 ¼ ins in original).
e. Other typographical peculiaries have been reproduced as in original.
These features are all consistent with the description of the 1917 issue in Bouch’s paper [1936, p. 51]. They are not consistent with any other known issue.
The size of the paper is approx. 29 ½ x 20 ins, which again is consistent with Bouch if the sheet has been slightly trimmed. It is poor quality poster-paper, lighter than the
paper of the original, and very fragile.
Bouch explains that this issue was commissioned by a group of women attached to the Irish Citizen Army, who wished to mark the first anniversary of the Rising. As much
as possible of the original type-stock was assembled, and the document was printed on Good Friday and Saturday by Mr. Walker (senior) and his son Mr. Frank Walker,
employees of Joseph Stanley’s Gaelic Press. Bouch says 1,000 copies were printed, and many were pasted up around Dublin in the principal streets. They were of course
quickly removed by the police.
It is a very rare document, inherently even more fragile than the original. In 1936 Bouch was able to examine eight copies of the original, but he found only one copy of
the 1917 issue. There is a copy in the Clarke archive in Mayo, said to be the one seen by Bouch. We are not aware of any other copy extant; there is none in the National
Museum. No copy has appeared at auction in recent years.
Bizarrely, the present copy is endorsed in ink at foot by M.J. Molloy and Christopher Brady, compositor and printer of the original document, under the statement ‘To the
best of my knowledge / this is an original copy’. Molloy and Brady did not print the 1917 document, so they must be certifying it here as a 1916 original. If so, they are
clearly mistaken.
Condition: light fold marks, a little dusty in places, generally very good considering its age and the paper quality.
Provenance: Patrick J O’Leary born 1898 at No. 2 Morgan Place later subsumed into the Four Courts. Joined 1st Battalion Irish Volunteers in Jan. 1916. After the Rising, he was brought
to Ship St. Barracks thence to Richmond Barracks and deported to Stafford Jail on 8th May. Sent to Frongoch internment camp and released in November 1916. On return he assisted
Countess Markievicz in distributing aid to the poor of Dublin. Family information is that he was given the copy by the Countess herself and it hung along with his medals in the hallway
in 33 East Essex St. until the house was sold in the 80’s.
€ 30,000 - 50,000

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100 JARLATH DALY (IRISH B. 1956)
The Seven Signatories: Joseph Mary Plunkett, Éamonn Ceannt, James
Connolly, Patrick Pearse, Seán Mac Diarmada, Thomas J. Clarke and
Thomas MacDonagh, all full length in animated poses, on square
plinth bases.
Bronze, tallest 54cms high
Signed and dated 2016, Artist’s Proof
€ 15,000 - 20,000

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101 JARLATH DALY (B.1956)
The 1916 Proclamation
Bronze, 45 x 70cms
Signed and numbered 3/9
€ 3,000 - 5,000

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103 AN IRISH FREE STATE ARMY OFFICERS SWORD,
the fine Celtic design blade engraved with Oglaigh na hEireann on both sides and with brass basket hilt inset
with F.F. emblem, with original leather scabbard, rare in this good condition. Irish Officers had to pay for
their own swords, and were obliged to hand them back on retiring.
€ 1,000 - 1,500
104 WORN AT QUEEN VICTORIA’S FUNERAL, ROYAL IRISH
CONSTABULARY.
A R.I.C. Dress Sword and Scabbard, by Sexton of Dawson St., Dublin, the engraved 32 1/2’’ blade with a
steel basket hilt inset with engraved crowned harp.
Provenance: This sword was worn at the funeral of Queen Victoria, and then passed down by family descent
until it was offered for sale in these rooms, Independence auction, 17th April 2007, lot 542, where it was
purchased by the current vendor.
€ 1,000 - 1,500

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106 A BRITISH VICTORIAN 1845 PATTERN
OFFICERS SWORD,
with scabbard with single edged, single fuller blade 31 in (79cm)
and gilt brass hilt with folding latch and royal cypher, with wire
bound fish skin grip.
€ 200 - 400
107 A LATE VICTORIAN ROYAL NAVAL
OFFICERS SWORD,
with single edged fullered blade, 31” (78cm), by Edward Thurkle
London, the gilt brass hilt with crown and anchor motif and fold-
ing latch lion head pommel, in brass mounted leather scabbard.
€ 300 - 500

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108 A CUT STEEL ENGLISH COURT SWORD,
31” (79cm) triangular spear point blade, facet cut steel hilt and
grip, kidney shaped guard and iron pommel.
€ 250 - 350
109 A CUT STEEL ENGLISH COURT SWORD,
the triangular steel spear point blade 32” (81cm), facet cut
steel hilt grip and guard with urn pommel.
€ 250 - 350

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110 A GERMAN CAVALRY OFFICERS LION HEAD SWORD,
with single edged curved blade, 32” (81cm) etched with scrolling foliage and trophies and signed
Eisenhauer, the brass hilt with a lion head pommel and wire bound fish skin grip.
€ 200 - 400

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111 A WWII ISSUE THOMPSON M1A1 SUBMACHINE GUN,
decommissioned, with fixed rear sight, horizontal forearm, fixed butt stock and side mounted cocking handle, marked ‘THOMPSON SUBMACHINE
GUN/CALIBER .45 M1A1/NO.746166’ to the left of the receiver, ‘AUTO ORDNANCE CORPORATION/BRIDGEPORT CONNECTICUT USA’ to the right, and
‘US PROPERTY’ stamped on top rear behind the sight.
€ 1,000 - 1,500

100
112 A 1796 PATTERN BRITISH INFANTRY
OFFICERS SWORD,
with single edge fuller blade, 31” (78cm), the gilt metal hilt with
later cord bound grip and crown pommel.
€ 200 - 400
113 A SCOTTISH BASKET HILTED SWORD,
with double edge double filler blade, 34” (86cm) and steel
pierced basket with sloped panels and globular pommel.
€ 800 - 1,200

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114 A BRITISH INFANTRY OFFICERS
SWORDS
19TH CENTURY with 31” (79cm) single edge blade with
pierced steel hilt with royal
cypher and a wire bound fish skin grip.
€ 150 - 250
115 1821/1822 PATTERN LIGHT CAVALRY TROOPERS
SWORD,
with 34” (87cm) single edge, single fuller blade and steel hilt with wire
bound fish skin grip by Trayler and Co, Portsmouth.
€ 150 - 250

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116 A BRITISH PATTERN 1907 WILKINSON
BAYONET,
for a Lee Enfield Rifle, the single fuller; single edge blade 17” (43cm)
with two part wooden grip; together with a German WWII bayonet
and scabbard, No. 6121A and one other bayonet and scabbard.
€ 100 - 150

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117 A VERY FINE LATE 18TH CENTURY
BLUNDERBUSS,
by Holmen of Liverpool, the 33cms (14 1/2”) shaped steel barrel with
spring bayonet, attached, on a figured walnut stock with engraved brass
fittings and small gold shield shaped inset name tag. Good. (1)
€ 1,000 - 1,500

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118 A LATE 19TH CENTURY MOROCCAN NIMCHA
SWORD,
with carved single edged blade, 33” (84cm) inscribed and dated 1838 with
brass hilt and wooden grip.
€ 150 - 250
119 A GOOD MALAYAN KRIS,
19th century, with 14.5” (37cm) wavy blade and the wooden hilt profusely
carved with scrolling foliage and horse head, in a brass bound wooden
scabbard, 20” (51cm) overall.
€ 200 - 400

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120 A LATE 19TH CENTURY MALAYAN KRIS,
with straight double edged blade, 13” (33cm) wooden hilt
(as is) carved with horse head amongst foliage in brass and
wooden scabbard, 19.5” (50cm).
€ 200 - 400

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122 A PERSIAN OR INDIAN DAGGER WITH
WALRUS IVORY HANDLE,
with double edged curved blade, 13.5” (34cm) and white marbled
grip (walrus ivory?), in white metal scabbard with traces of gilt, 20”
(51cm)overall.
€ 200 - 300
121 A BURMESE DHA FIGHTING SWORD
WITH HEAVY CURVED SINGLE EDGED
BLADE,
23 3/4” (60cm) with brass and copper mounted wooden grip
and European scabbard.
€ 150 - 250

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124 IRISH VOLUNTEER’S .303 LEE ENFIELD RIFLE AND SWORD BAYONET
A 1916 Lee Enfield SMLE No.1 Mk.III. This rifle was reputedly captured by Martin Doyle in a raid on the Royal Irish Con-
stabulary Barracks, Abbey Square, Enniscorthy and replaced his French 1874 Gras 11mm rifle which he had carried in
the Rising in 1916. With 1916 date mark and maker’s mark of the Birmingham Small Arms Company.
€ 2,000 - 3,000

108
125 A 19TH CENTURY FRENCH CHASPOT
BAYONET,
FL 4226 Yataghan-Style Manufactured St Etienne France, dated 1874
on
the rib, the curved blade 22.5” (57cm) with ribbed brass grip; togeth-
er with two others very similar.
€ 100 - 150

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127 A JAPANESE WWII NAVY OFFICERS
DIRK,
with single edge, single fuller blade, 8” (20cm) on a wire
bound fish skin grip, in brass mounted lacquered scab-
bard, 16.25” (41cm)overall.
€ 100 - 150
126 AN OLD CUTLASS SWORD
with a steel hilt and chequered metal grip. (as is) 37.5”. (95cm) overall
length.
€ 60 - 100

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128 A KINDIAL DAGGER,
with double fuller double edged spear point blade 6” (15cm), on an
ivory inlaid horn hierwith brass medallions, 10” (25cm) overall in
linen bound wooden scabbard.
€ 200 - 400
129 RONDEL DAGGER
Cruciform shape with triangular blade (21.5cm) with 15 lines
scribed (possibly for measuring) and turned hardwood handle.
34cm overall length. Handle chipped.
€ 150 - 200

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130 A C96 MAUSER HANDGUN
or “Peter the Painter”, complete with wooden stock or holding case and
leather holster, decommissioned, a rare example in fine condition, similar
to type used by the IRA during the War of Independence.
€ 1,500 - 2,500

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131 THE REMANENTS OF AN ITALIAN VERETTI-RIFLE,
circa 1914, possibly used by Volunteers and later hidden, hence the condi-
tion. Together with a bayonette found at the same location. As a collection,
w.a.f. (2)
€ 400 - 600
132 TWO WW1 BAYONETS,
one French and one German saw back, with metal scabbards, similar examples
were taken from the Rebels after the Rising (see included images of captured rebel
accoutrements)
€ 150 - 250

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133 A LATE 19TH CENTURY SAMURAI SWORD
with shagreen grip, 70cm length blade together with a 20th Century
samurai sword, 66cm length blade. (2)
€ 400 - 600
135 A GEORGIAN CAVALRY OFFICER’S SWORD,
1798 pattern, the curved blade double-edged towards the tip, etched with
the crowned Royal cypher, Royal arms and name “J.J. Runkel Solinger” to
top edge, the gilt metal stirrup hilt incorporating backstrap and pommel
formed as a maned lionhead, with a chequered ivory grip, in its original
leather scabbard
€ 300 - 500

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136 A GERMAN BAYERN M-1886 OFFICER’S PATTERN BAVARIAN REGIMENT PICKELHAUBE,
a fine example of this 1896-1914 pattern, the black leather skull surmounted by a gilt metal fluted spike on cruciform base with officer’s stars,
the front with gilt metal M1914 helmet plate, the side with officer pattern cockades supporting graduated leather backed chin scales, the rear
peak with strengthening bar and red underside, the front peak with gilt metal edging and green underside, the interior with leather sweatband
bearing ‘Depaheg Patent’ insignia. Housed in associated black leather helmet case with internal padded linen lining.
€ 600 - 800

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