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AUCTIONTuesday 19th April 2016 at 3pm

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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 JOURNALThree 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, 1916Covering 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 TRIBUNEThursday 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 NEWSPAPERSA 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, 1916Covering 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 - WANTEDProclamation: 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 POSTCARDSA 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 ALBUMA 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” POSTCARDSA 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 NEWSA 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 COLLAGEO’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 TIPPERARYBritish 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’FERRALLAn 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.’

2. DANIEL O’CONNELL. 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.

3. DANIEL O’CONNELL. 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.

6. DANIEL O’CONNELL. 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.

7. DANIEL O’CONNELL. 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 ..’

8. [R. MORE O’FERRALL]. 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 ..’

9. [R. MORE O’FERRALL]. 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 COLLINSMemorial 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 1916A 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 and 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 ofLIMERICKTo the Heroes of ColooneyLet the Proud Citys Voice in ExultationTell the Earth and HeavensTHESE ARE HER SONS’

and further inscribed:

Dear to the MusesShall their deeds inspireWhatever Offerings, Genius, Science, ArtCan dedicate to VirtueTO TRANSMITOn the Enlivened Canvass, Marble, BrassIn Wisdoms Volume, in the Poets Song,In every Tongue, thro Every Age and ClimeTheir Glorious MemoryandIMMORTAL WORTH

(The cup c.69.5ozs). 46cm highTogether 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 COLLOONEYawarded 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 1200ADFacing 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 1959-1973A 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 HISTORYAn 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 HISTORYA 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 STAMPSThree 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 LABELSA 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 REVIEWA 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 STAMPSAn 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 1916two 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 PHOTOGRAPHAn 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 LIMERICKA 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.



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67 TOM CLARKE & JOHN REDMONDA 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]


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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.

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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 AMERICANSCollins (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.

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72 P.H. PEARSEAn 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. PEARSETwo 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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76 JOSEPH MARY PLUNKETT [1887-1916]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!’

€ 400 - 600



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77 JOSEPH MARY PLUNKETT [1887-1916]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.

€600 - 800


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78 P.H. PEARSE AS MANAGER & HEADMASTERPearse (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)

€ 1,500 - 2,500



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80 P.H. PEARSEManuscript 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.

€ 2,000 - 3,000


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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.


€ 1,000 - 1,500



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83 IRISH VOLUNTEERSA 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’REILLYHis 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 STICKA 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. CRUCIFIXA 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.


€ 50 - 100





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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)


€ 400 - 600


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92 CUMANN NA NGAEDHEALA 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’REILLYA 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.

€ 300 - 500




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98A PÁDRAIC MAC PIARAIS & TOMÁS MAC DONNCHADHAA 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



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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



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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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137 A VOLUNTEER TRAINING RIFLE, circa 1914, of the type used by the Irish Volunteers until they

were able to replace them with real weapons. Rare with such

attention to detail, a fine well-crafted example with added

weights to give a realistic, balance and feel and similar in size

and design to Howth Mauser, 126cm long.

€ 400 - 600

138 BLUNDERBUSS PISTOL, possibly Mediterranean in origin with decorated barrel with flared muzzle

and (possibly) silver inlaid highly carved and decorated stock and butt

stock. Repairs carried out to the stock incorporating a brass ring tie.

Well used and a most interesting piece.

€ 400 - 600




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139 1803 ROBERT EMMETT’S DEATH MASK, recently cast in bronze, from the original death-mask taken shortly after his

execution by James Petrie in Kilmainham Jail.

€ 400 - 600

140 TWO 19TH CENTURY LONG BOWS, with coloured strapping. 216cm tall

€ 80 - 120



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141 AN IRISH EARLY 20TH CENTURY ARMY TUNIC,in green cloth applied with a string of gilt metal button embelished with the

National harp, applied with associated 1916 Rising , with further shoulder

badges:

A WORLD WAR II RAAF BATTLE DRESS TUNIC, dated 1943, in blue cloth ,

together with associated cream fabric jodhpurs (2)

€150 - 250

140A THE ANDREW JACKSON COMMEMORATION FLINTLOCK PISTOL,45cal with 8.75” (22cm), octagonal brown barrel, 14.5” (37cm) overall, 14K gold

edition no.34 of 100 3/4 aged tiger-striped American Maple Stock, ram-rod tip

and ferrules in gold nose cap, in original velvet lined wooden and parcel gilt case,

unlined wooden and parcel gilt case, , authorised by the U.S Historical Society

€ 300 - 500





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142 A 19TH CENTURY REPLICA OF THE ROSETTA STONE,presented on a rectangular steel slab, with loose brass plaque inscribed:

‘ROSETTA STONE

FOUND IN EGYPT AT ROSETTA (RASHID) IN 1799 BY FRENCH ENGINEER NAMED BOUSSARD THE WRITINGS, IN TRIPLE HIEROGLYPHIC, DEMOTIC AND GREEK

SING THE PRAISES OF THE BOY KING PTOLEMY V (CIRCA 196BC) AND PROVIDED A KEY TO ARCHAEOLOGIST FOR DECIPHERING THE HIEROGLYPHICS ON ALL

MONUMENTS OF ANCIENT EGYPT.’

75 x 95cm

Provenance: Purchased by the current owner from Queen’s University, Belfast, where it was used as a teaching aid.

As outlined in the inscribed plaque The Rosetta Stone (c.196 BC) was discovered in 1799 by a group of Napoleon’s soldiers who were digging the foundations

of an extention to a fort near the town of el-Rashid (Rosetta). After the defeat of Napoleon, the stone along with other antiquities discovered by the French

became the property of the British. The Rosetta Stone has been exhibited in the British Museum since 1802.

At the end of the fourth century AD, hieroglyphs went out of use, and so the knowledge of how to read and write them was lost.

The importance of the discovery of the Rosetta Stone is tremendous as it was the key to unlocking the mystery of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. In the early

years of the nineteenth century, some 1400 years later, scholars were able to use the Greek inscription on this stone as the key to decipher these hieroglyphs

€ 800 - 1200


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144 AN 18TH CENTURY IRISH PENAL CROSS CARVED IN YEWOOD AND DATED 1731,

decorated with a figure of Christ in high relief and surrounded by scat-

tered icons including a rooster leaping from a cooking pot, a ladder

and assorted tools, headed by a suspension loop (24.5cm high)

€ 1,500 - 2,000




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145 A COLLECTION OF 20TH CENTURY IRISH MILITARY BADGES including a 1939 1st Pattern Officers Óglaig Na h-Eireann cap badge; a 1960 Óglaig Na h-Eireann

“Stay-Brite” cap badg;, a WWII Irish defence badge; a “Stay-Brite” Irish infantry badge, with another

Irish infantry badge; an Army Supply and Transport service collar badge; a 1942-1958 Infantry shield;

a brass Calvary Corps badge; two bronze Officer bars and a bronze diamond with interlace design;

a Defense Force Emercency ribbon bar; together with three brass Irish Volunteer buttons, a pocket

compass and a J. Hudson & Co. ‘Metropolitan’ police whistle (17)

€ 200 - 400


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146 AN IRISH WHITE METAL BROOCH IN THE CELTIC-REVIVAL STYLE, the annular brooch decorated with Celtic band decoration, knots entwined with serpent heads and bosses,

with further geometric motifs, stamped “EGAN”, “SILVER”, “CORK”. 9.5cm wide

After the revival of the Cork silver industry at the beginning of the 20th century, the firm of William Egan &

Sons produced accomplished items of hand-wrought silver initially in the Celtic revival style. A silver example

of similar design to this lot included for sale can be found in John R. Bowen and Conor O’Brien’s “Cork Silver

and Gold, Four Centuries of Craftsmanship”. (R. Bowen and O’Brien. 2005, page 15, fig.10)

€ 200 - 400



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147 A SOLID TYPE CUMAN NA MBAN BADGE, formed as a rifle under lettering ‘C na mb’ and stamped with makers mark of Dundalgan Press,

Dundalk. 5.1cm long

€ 200 - 300


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148 A PAIR OF SILVER AND GREENSTONE COMMEMORATIVE LAPEL BADGES, Birmingham 1916, each formed as 1798 type pikes, and applied with a shamrock to the

shaft, lacking back pins, 9cm long, together with a silvered metal harp (3)

€ 100 - 200




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149 ‘THE MAN WHO WAS SINN FEIN’ O’Caoimh (Padraig or Paudie) 1881-1973. A superb and important display of his 1916 and War of Independence Medals, attractively mounted and framed with his Irish Vol-

unteer uniform buttons and cap badge, and his 1916 Survivor’s Armband (worn at commemorative parade 1935), and with a good original photograph. The Collection here

offered include:

a. His 1916 bronze Medal with ribbon and pin;

b. His War of Independence bronze Medal (1917-1921), with scarce ‘Comrac’ bar;

c. His 1916-1966 silver gilt Survivors Medal, bar and ribbon;

d. His 1921-1971 bronze Jubilee Medal with clasp and ribbon. With three Volunteer buttons, his Volunteer Cap Badge, and his rare 1916 - 1935 Survivors Armband (worn by

1916 veterans only, before the issue of the medals).

Paudie O’Keeffe was a close friend and associate of Arthur Griffith from the early days of Sinn Fein, and also a very good friend of his fellow Corkman Michael Collins. Born in

Co. Cork, he worked as a post office sorter and joined the I.R.B. there. About 1901 he was transferred to the G.P.O. in Dublin, & in 1908 he became joint-honorary Treasurer

of Sinn Fein. He married Cait de Paor, one of the Wyse Power family in 1910, her brother John Wyse Power was a founder member of the G.A.A. Paudie was also in the

Banba Rifle Club (1912-13), whose members practised shooting in the Greenmount Oil Works in Harold’s Cross (owned by the Le Brocquy family); others members included

Cathal Brugha, Sean Mac Diarmada, and Eamonn Ceant; Brugha was the best shot according to Paudie. In 1914 Paudie had a major part in the Kilcoole arms landings for

the Volunteers. In April 1916 he was closely involved with Griffith and Eoin Mac Neill in the exchanges over plans for Easter Sunday. At one stage Mac Neill sent him to ask

at the Sunday Independent office what was the latest time a notice (of cancellation) could be accepted. Nevertheless when the Rising went ahead on Easter Monday, Paudie

showed up with his rifle, leaving his wife and three children, and served in one of the O’Connell Street garrisons, opposite the G.P.O. holding out until the building collapsed

around him. He was imprisoned after the Rising, and on his release was appointed full-time General Secretary of Sinn Fein. He played a major part in building up the party

organisation; it has been said that ‘Paudie O’Keefe was Sinn Fein.’ British Army raids on his office made no difference, because Paudie kept every detail in his head. He had

a notable turn of phrase; around this time a visiting British journalist (Sir Arthur Gibbs), asked him what was the meaning of these strange words ‘Sinn Fein’; the answer he

gave was ‘Vengeance, bejasus, vengeance.’ Paudie was elected a member of the First Dail and was imprisoned again for a seditious speech; he supported the Treaty, and

after Independence was appointed deputy governor of Mountjoy Jail. It is said that he found the job distasteful, and in the 1920’s he moved to the Seanad as assistant Clerk.

Many years later as one of the four surviving members of the First Dail, he was asked for his memories of the Civil War. ‘Ah,’ he said ‘when they shot Liam Mellows that broke

my heart,’ (cf. Seamus O’Neill, ‘The Man who was Sinn Fein,’ Irish Press 27.9.1973).

A superb collection, attractively mounted and preserved, commemorating one of the central and best-loved figures of the Independent Movement, before and after 1916. (1)

€ 8,000 - 12,000


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150 JOSEPH HUTCHINSON’S MEDALSF Coy 2nd Battalion Dublin Brigade IRA, his 1919-21 War of Independence

medal, with comhrac bar and his Emergency Services medal, mounted

and framed with boxes.

€ 600 - 800

151 A 1916 EASTER RISING MEDAL, with green and gold ribbon and clasp bar, in original box; together with a

War of Independence medal with comhrac bar. (2)

€ 1,600 - 2,200



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152 1916 RISING SERVICE MEDAL, with additional flash on stick pin. Recipient unknown. A rare and much sought

after medal.

€ 1,200 - 1,500



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153 SEAN DOMICAN, CAPT. 4TH BATTALION, ‘C’ COMPANY IRAHis 1916 Rising medal, with ribbon and clasp bar; his War of Independence medal, with ribbon, clasp bar and

comhrac bar; and his Emergency Service (26ú Cathlán) medal, with ribbon, clasp and service bar. Also his pair of

binoculars in leather case

Together with supporting documentation and items including pension certificates, photos, newspapers, badges,

buttons, membership books, etc. As a collection

€ 2,000 - 3,000


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153A CO CARLOW - RARE PAIR OF IRISH SERVICE MEDALS Two War of Independence Service Medals, 1919 - 1921, and two Jubilee Medals 1921

- 1971, issued to a Co. Carlow husband & wife. In original green boxes, one with presen-

tation slip.

A rare group.

(4)

€ 1,500 - 2,000


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153B EAMON S. DUGGAN (ÉAMON Ó DÚGÁIN, 1874 - 1936) Irish lawyer, nationalist and politician, member of Sinn Féin and Cumann na nGaedheal a collection comprising:

- His 1916 medal, engraved with his name and numbered ‘84’ verso, with ribbon and clasp bar, in original box with complimentary slip.

- His 1916 Ribbon with original letter from the Department of Defence, Jan’ 1942, boxed.

- His War of Independence medal, engraved with his name and numbered ‘514’ verso, with ribbon, clasp and comhrac bar, in original

box with complimentary slip.

- A linen Irish tricolour flag.

As a supporter of Sinn Féin, Duggan fought in the Easter Rising in 1916. He was subject to court-martial following the Rising and sentenced

to three years penal servitude before his release in 1917 under general amnesty. He also served as Irish Republican Army Director of Intel-

ligence. Duggan was elected to the First Dáil Éireann for South Meath in 1918 and was he was appointed chief liaison officer for Ireland. In

October 1921, Duggan was appointed as one of the five envoys to negotiate a treaty with the British Government. He signed the Anglo-Irish

Treaty at 22 Hans Place, London. In the post-Treaty provisional government, he was appointed Minister for Home Affairs and later became

parliamentary secretary to the Minister for Defence and to the Executive Council.

€ 3,000 - 5,000


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154 KATHLEEN CLARKE

Her 1916 bronze medal, on a bronze clasp (without pin) and green and gold ribbon, without the original box.

Kathleen Daly Clarke [1879-1972] was a niece of the Limerick Fenian John Daly, who shared many hard years of

imprisonment in Britain with Tom Clarke. Daly was the first of the two to be released; he returned to Limerick where

he opened a bakery and was elected Lord Mayor. When Tom Clarke was released in September 1898, he took up a

long-standing invitation to visit his old comrade in Limerick, and there he struck up a close friendship with Kathleen,

then a young girl of some 20 years. They went to the United States, where they married in 1901. In 1907 they re-

turned to Dublin, where Clarke opened a tobacconist’s and newsagent’s shop, which functioned as unofficial HQ for

the younger members of the I.R.B., and a centre for planning for the Rising as 1916 approached.

The day after the Rising ended, Kathleen founded what became the Irish Volunteers Dependants and National Aid

Association, and resisted attempts to make her amalgamate with a Redmondite group. She collected and admin-

istered large sums of money distributed on a basis of need, to all those families who had lost their breadwinners

in the Rising.

It was a most effective and influential organisation, and became more so when she chose as her assistant in August

1916 a young man just out of internment, named Michael Collins. It was the perfect position for Collins, giving him

direct access to what remained of the I.R.B., and facilitating his reorganisation of the Volunteers.

An important memento of possibly the most significant female participant in the events of 1916 and later.

€ 15,000 - 20,000


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155 A 1919-21 WAR OF INDEPENDENCE MEDAL, with Comrac Bar, black and tan ribbon and clasp bar

€ 300 - 500

156 AN 1939-46 EMERGENCY SERVICE MEDAL for the 26th Battalion, with clasp bar and red and white ribbon with one bar.

This battalion consisted almost entirely of ex-IRA members and was part of the

second line Volunteer Force.

€ 80 - 120



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157 A 1919-21 WAR OF INDEPENDENCE MEDAL, with Comrac Bar, black and tan ribbon and clasp bar in orginal box.

€ 400 - 600

158 A 1921 WAR OF INDEPENDENCE MEDAL, with comhrac bar, black and tan ribbon and clasp bar;

together with the 1971 50th anniversary War of Independence medal with

green, orange and black ribbon and clasp bar. (2)

€ 500 - 800




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159 ALL IRELAND GAA FOOTBALL MEDAL - LOUTH 1910A 19ct gold medal of traditional Celtic cross design, inscribed ‘1910 - Won by Louth’,

surmounted by suspension loop and ring, with hallmarks for Dublin gold, partially struck

maker’s mark.

1910 was the year of the Kerry Footballer Strike. A dispute between the Kerry team and

the Great Southern Railway Company resulted in the refusal of the Kerry team to travel

for the match and thus Louth were awarded a walk-over.

€ 2,000 - 3,000

160 ALL IRELAND GAA FOOTBALL MEDAL - KERRY 1937 (VS. CAVAN)A rare 9ct gold medal of traditional Celtic cross design, the front engraved ‘Eire’ and

centred with an overlaid harp, the reverse inscribed and struck with hallmarks and

maker’s mark J.M., surmounted with gold suspension ring

€ 600 - 800



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160A A DAY TO REMEMBER CUMANN NA GCLEAS LUITH NGAEDHEALACH [GAELIC ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION].

Great Challenge Match (Football) . Tipperary v. Dublin at Croke Park on Sunday November 21 1920 [‘Bloody Sunday’]. Original admission ticket, printed pink card, 3 ins.

x 4 1/2 ins., worn, a scarce item. * A memento of a crucial day in the independence struggle. Early on the morning of November 20, men from Michael Collins’ ‘squad’

raided the Dublin residences of officers whom Collins had identified as British intelligence agents, and shot 14 men dead, one of them in error, wounding four others.

Later that day members of the ‘Black-and-Tans’ entered Croke Park during the ‘great challenge match’ then being played, and opened fire with machine-guns and rifles,

killing twelve spectators and one of the players, and wounding many others. On the same day two Republican prisoners, Peadar Clancy and Dick McKee, were shot dead

at Dublin Castle with Conor Clune

‘while trying to escape’. While the body-count on each side may have been about the same, Collins’ coup decapitated the British intelligence effort in Dublin, while the

Croke Park

shootings led to massive international publicity unfavourable to Britain.

€ 3,000 - 5,000





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161 GAA MEMORIABILIAA collection including a GAA Poster reading: ‘Cumann Lutcleas

Gael, Leinster Championship Hurling at Bellefield, Enniscorthy

on Sunday Next, June 14th,’ Wicklow vs. Kildare and Dublin vs

Wexford; The Leathers Echo Wicklow GAA 1884-1984 by Jim

Brophy, signed by the Wicklow GAA team; together with a GAA

1884-1984 medal

€ 150 - 200

162 A WAR OF INDEPENDENCE MEDAL, with black and tan ribbon and clasp bar, together with an Emergency Ser-

vices medal, with ribbon, clasp bar and two service bars; and a crowned

harp badge. As a collection. (3)

€ 250 - 350



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163 HARALD SEGERSON MAHONY (1867 - 1905)The Last Irishman to win Wimbledon

His Silver Queen’s Club Medals, 1900 & 1904

The 1900 medal with obverse inscribed “Queen’s Club 1887” the reverse inscribed “Tennis, Spring Handicap 1st Prize, , H.S. Mahony, 1901”,

3.7cm diameter.

The 1904 medal with obverse inscribed “Queen’s Club 1887” the reverse inscribed “Tennis Handicap won by H.S. Mahony, 1904”, 3.7cm

diameter

Mahony was a very well known and popular player at Queens, quoted as being “an adept volleyer, which no doubt helped him on the fast

courts and contributed to his success” and “he was the life and soul of many a game and many a frolic. How often we heard him give his

views on the game in his own delightful way, in all parts of the Club” (McKelvie, R., The Queen’s Club, (1886-1986), an article by E.B. Noel,

Tennis at the Queen’s Club, first published in ‘The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News’, 16/11/1918, London: Stanley Paul & Co., 1986,

p.27 & 36).

Provenance: Awarded to Harald Segerson Mahony and thence by family descent.

€ 400 - 800



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164 TERENCE MACSWINEYA rare Spanish language medal from 1920 commemorating Terence MacSwiney

Obverse: EL RUIDO DE ROTAS CADENAS. LA DEMOCRACIA SANCIONA LA REPÚBLICA EN IRLANDA. Depicting a seated figure, sword drawn,

a “mermaid” harp, looking towards a sun rising over the sea. Reverse: NO SERÁN LOS QUE MÁS PUEDAN HACER SUFRIR SINO LOS QUE

PUEDAN SUFRIR MAS LOS VICTORIOSOS MCSWINEY ALCALDE DE CORK.

Translates as: “O listen to the noise of the broken chains. Democracy sanctions the Republic of Ireland” R: “Not the ones who make people

suffer but the ones who suffer will be the victorious. MacSwiney Mayor of Cork.”

€ 300 - 500


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165 1919 (21 MARCH) TERENCE MACSWINEY SIGNA-TURE ON A CHEQUE, Cheque drawn on Munster & Leinster Bank, written in Irish to T.A. Callanan

and signed on reverse “Thos. Callanan”, 9 x 15cms.

€ 250 - 350

166 TERENCE MACSWINEY [1879-1920]A paid cheque signed in Irish, Toirdhealhach Mac Suibhne, for ‘púnt amháin’ (one pound), payable

to Sisters of Charity - St. Vincents Convent, 25.5.1920, drawn on Banc na Mumhan & Laighean

Tta (Munster & Leinster Bank), stamped ‘PAID’, countersigned rear by recipient. Drawn during

MacSwiney’s term as Lord Mayor of Cork, about three months before his imprisonment for pos-

sessing a British code cipher, and almost exactly five months before his death on the 74th day of

his hunger strike. His enormous funeral in Cork is regarded as a turning point in public support for

the independence movement and the Irish Volunteers.

€ 200 - 250





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167 1866 (MARCH 17) IRISH REPUBLIC FIVE DOLLARS BOND ISSUED BY THE FENIANS IN AMERICA. Redeemable Six Months after the acknowledgment of the Independence of the Irish

Nation”, with vignettes of ‘Erin’ and US soldier and Wolfe Tone, printed by Continental Bank

Note Company, New York.”

€ 500 - 700



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167A A $10 REPUBLICAN BOND CERTIFICATE ISSUED JANUARY 21ST 1920 BY DE VALERA,President of the Elected Government of the Republic of Ireland, to

Lucille Gallagher, No. 149790 (manuscript No. A76452), with De

Valera’s engraved signature in Irish, engraved green Celtic designed border, approx. 6’’ x 9’’, very good

condition

€ 200 - 400




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168 PÁDRAIC MAC PIARAIS [P.H. PEARSE]A paid cheque made out to himself for £5, dated 19 Dec. [1908], drawn on the

school A/C at the Hibernian Bank, signed front and countersigned rear, part

torn away at right losing revenue stamp and year of issue.

€ 800 - 1,200


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168A PÁDRAIC MAC PIARAIS [P.H. PEARSE]A paid cheque made out to Mrs. Pearse [his mother] for £10, endorsement to bearer

initialled by Pearse, dated 28 May 1909, drawn on the school A/C at Hibernian Bank,

signed front, countersigned by Margaret Pearse at rear. Minor tear, no loss.

€ 1,000 - 1,500

169 PÁDRAIC MAC PIARAIS [P.H. PEARSE]A paid cheque made out to himself for £6-10d, dated 30th Nov. 1913, The Royal Bank of Ireland,

signed, framed with an oval photographic monochrome portrait print.

€ 1,100 - 1,600




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170 RARE CLONMELL [CLONMEL] BANK NOTECirca 1790, for six shillings, unissued, signed “Chal. Riall” and engraved “For William Riall, Charles Riall and Arthur Riall”, bearing date “17__ “ so earlier than the 1802 date given in Paper Money of Ireland by Bob Blake and Jonathan Callaway.

€ 250 - 350

171 BANK OF LIMERICK - BANKNOTE

(DATED 20/2/1817)For one pound and ten shillings, for George Maun-sell, John Kennedy, Robert Hedges MaunsellSigned John KennedySerial number : 159

€ 100 - 150




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173 CALLAN BANK - CO KILKENNY (DATED 1806)

For One Shilling and One Penny - for the account of Michael HearnUnissued facsimile

Hearn was the founder of the Callan Bank which lasted between 1801-1807.

€ 50 - 100

174 BANK POST BILL GALWAY (DATED

1812)For John Joyce and Francis Blake £3-8-3, signed by JoyceSerial number: 2874

€ 150 - 200




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175 WATERFORD BANK (DATED 1818)

For one pound, two shillings and nine pence , payable to William Newport,Samuel New-port and John NewportSigned by Samuel NewportSerial number : 8389

€ 150 - 200

176 BANK POST BILL CARLOW - (DATED 1811)for £3-8-3 , signed by Henry MacartneyThree Guineas - with witness signatures, signed versoSerial number: 6957

€ 200 - 250



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177 PADRAIC MAC PIARAIS [1879-1916]A paid cheque drawn on the Royal Bank of Ireland, Teren-

ure, 25th Oct. 1913, for two pounds, payable to M. Meers

& Co., completed entirely in Pearse’s hand, with a good

signature in Irish, countersigned rear by recipient, pierced

for cancellation.

€ 1,000 - 1,500

178 PADRAIC MAC PIARAIS [1879-1916] A paid cheque drawn on the Royal Bank of Ireland, Terenure, 26th June

1914, for one pound, payable to J. O’Neill, completed entirely in Pearse’s

hand, with a good signature in Irish, countersigned rear by recipient, John

O’Neill, pierced for cancellation.

€ 1,000 - 1,500




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179 DUBLIN BANKNOTE (DATED 1803)One Pound, for William Williams and Michael Finn,SignedSerial number: 7368

€ 100 - 150

180 CORK BANK (DATED 1825)Twenty five shillings (British Sterling), for Charles Hen-ry Leslie and John LeslieSigned by Charles Leslie

€ 150 - 200



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179 DUBLIN BANKNOTE (DATED 1803)One Pound, for William Williams and Michael Finn,SignedSerial number: 7368

€ 100 - 150

181 BANK OF LIMERICK (UNISSUED)One Guinea & Half , for George Maunsell, John Kennedy and Rob-ert Hedges Maunsell

€ 100 - 150

182 GIBBONS & WILLIAMS DUBLIN BANKNOTE (DATED SEPTEMBER 1833)One Pound and Ten Shillings, Signed by WilliamsSerial number: 831

€ 100 - 150





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183 BANK POST BILL (DATED 1819)Dublin, 12 Upper Ormond QuayThree Pounds, for the Hon. Charles FFrench, Henry Taffe, Mich. Morris, Wm Keary ,Thomas FFrench and Martin FFrenchMultiple signaturesSerial number:8694

€ 100 - 150

184 DUBLIN BANKNOTE (DATED 1813)One Pound Two Shillings and Nine Pence, for the Hon. Charles FFrench, Henry Taffe, Mich. Morris, Wm Keary, Thomas FFrench and Martin FFrenchSigned and signed versoSerial number : 7140

€ 100 - 150



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185 C.BERESFORD & CO. - (DATED 19/1/1807)‘Promise to pay Michael Biggin One Hundred Pounds’Signed by Edward Lawless, Blind stamped Duty paid One Shilling VI PenceSerial number: 10484

€ 80 - 120

186 BANK OF LIMERICK (DATED OCT 1812)One Pound Five Shillings, for George Maunsell, John Kenne-dy, Robert Hedges MaunsellSigned by Robt. MaunsellSerial number: 777

€ 100 - 150




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187 MESSRS J. B. BALL & CO., DUBLIN (DATED 6/3/1855)Thirteen Pounds, six Shillings and Six pence, for William Waldron,Stamped PAID and red crossedSigned and accompanied by three other related items(4)

€ 80 - 120

188 DAVID LATOUCHE ESQ. & SONS DUBLIN (DATED OCTOBER 1781)Two Hundred and Six Pounds, Fourteen Shillings and Sixpence, for Mr William NorrisDuke of Leinster

€ 100 - 120




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189 BANK OF ENGLAND BANKNOTE (DATED TO 1951)Five Pounds Signed by chief cashier P.S. BealeWatermarked and manuscript signature versoSerial number: 20508

€ 100 - 150

190 BANK OF IRELAND (DUBLIN 3/2/1795)One Hundred Pounds, for Thos WHaley and James BoughtonManuscript banknote over stamped in red ink, on laid paper

€ 200 - 220




158

191 PROVINCIAL BANK OF IRELAND (DATED JAN 1ST 1915)One Pound for the bearer

Blue ink print with manuscript signature

of John Kidd

Serial number: Q97985

€ 140 - 160

192 NATIONAL LAND BANK LIMITED CHEQUEBOOK (WATERFORD 1921)A fold-over chequebook contained within a gilt stamped

leather binding, logo in English and Gaeilge

Four stubs and remaining blank cheques

Serial B17901 - B17925

€ 230 - 250





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193 MESSRS J. B. BALL & COMPANY (DATED 21ST SEPT 1832)One Pound and Three Shillings and four pence, for

the account of the Dublin, Slane, and Drogheda

Turnpike Trustees

Multiple manuscript signatures, stamped PAID

Signed verso by Robert McAuley

€ 80 - 100

194 MESSRS J. B. BALL & COMPANY (DUBLIN 1832)Thirty Pounds, for the account of the Dublin,

Slane, and Drogheda Turnpike Trustees

Multiple board member signatures, and cross-

signed in red by J.B.Ball

Stamped PAID

€ 80 - 100






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195 BALL AND CO., DUBLIN (DATED TO 1832)A manuscript banknote for twenty two

Pounds, three shillings and eight pence

Signed by Patrick Mooney, blind stamped

Serial number: A5001 in red ink

€ 80 - 120

196 A FULL SET OF EURO SPECIMEN BANKNOTES, (7 DENOMINATIONS)Consisting of a €5, €10, €20, €50, €100, €200 and €500

examples

each resembling the original in size and colour,

over-printed with ‘SPECIMEN’ in red.

Specimens were produced in advance of the introduc-

tion of the Euro to assist financial bodies in the recogni-

tion of the new denominations.

€ 100 - 150





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197 DEATH OF PARNELLA copy of United Ireland for Saturday Oct. 17 1891, with elaborate account of the funeral of Charles Stewart Parnell, mourning resolutions etc. Emotional editorial headed ‘NO! We

cannot join hands over his grave with the people who killed him ..’

Newspaper folio, 8 pp, all columns within mourning bars including advertisements. United Ireland was founded by Parnell himself in 1881. It was the official organ of the Land League

and of the Irish Party.

Frayed at inner edge with minor loss. Very scarce.

With

“DUBLIN TRIALS PRACTICALLY FINISHED”

A copy of the Dublin Evening Herald for Thursday May 11 1916, listing ‘Today’s Death Sentences’ including Thomas Ashe and Edmund de Valera (both commuted to life imprisonment),

also ‘The Cry of “HALT!” No More Executions, says the Prime Minister’. The back page has photos of Countess Markiewicz, ‘leaving after court martial’, and Major MacBride, ‘being

marched away after death sentence’. The last of the Dublin leaders executed was the wounded James Connolly on 9 May. The paper also records the execution of Thomas Kent in

Cork, also on 9 May.

Newspaper folio, 4pp, fragile but a good clean copy. Very scarce.

(2)

€ 100 - 200

198 PARNELL (CHARLES STEWART) AUTOGRAPH SIGNED NOTE TO DR. (GEORGE) SIGERSON, dated Aug. 20, 1883, 1pp. with cognate blank (folded sheet), on House of Commons mourning

paper, returning an enclosure “which I have read this evening with much interest.”

* Parnell was at the height of his popularity around this time, having founded the National

League in 1882. He made his celebrated speech about The March of a Nation,” two years later.

With a minor tear (not affecting text), but with a very clear signature. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1)

€ 300 - 500

199 [CHARLES STEWART PARNELL]A ‘Lady’s Ticket’ to the Parnell National Banquet 1883 [a fund raising

event], colour printed, clean; with a memorial card ‘In Loving Memory

/ Charles S. Parnell M.P.’, 1891, black borders, fold mark.

‘The paths of glory ..’

(2)

€ 80 - 120






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200 DANIEL O’CONNELL, ‘THE IRISH TUTOR’ An engraving signed HB [John Doyle], circa 28 cms x 36 ½ cms, framed,

showing O’Connell as a schoolmaster addressing a class of boys (the British

cabinet): ‘Indeed you are mighty good Boys, if you go on this way we shall have

no further occasion for Madam Birch’, with papers on his desk headed ‘Irish

Tithe Bill’ etc., a birch inscribed ‘Repeal’ concealed behind him.

Published by T. McLean, Haymarket, 29 April 1836, with his stamp.

€ 200 - 400

201 DANIEL O’CONNELL (1775-1847) Autograph envelope signed and addressed in his hand, dated

1835 with postal mark. Signed to the lower left corner with red

wax seal. The split envelope mounted on card, 13.5 x 14cm

€ 300 - 500



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202 DAVITT, MICHAELAn ALS to Joseph Collinson (Of the Humanitar-

ian League) about the abolition of the “British

Institution” of the treadmill in prisons, 2pp, 7 x

4½ inches, on House of Commons blindstamped

headed paper.

€ 120 - 180

203 O’BRIEN, WILLIAMAn ALS to R. D. Williams, thanking his friends in the Carnacon Liberal

Association for their message and resolution, which O’Brien will treasure

“as one of many proofs of the sterling sympathy which our welsh kindred

have so uniformly extended to the Irish people in their present period of

suffering” 1 pages, 7½ x 5 inches, on House of Commons blindstamped

headed paper.

€ 120 - 180

204 O’CONNELL (DANIEL) ‘THE LIBERATOR’ An original manuscript letter mostly in a secretarial hand, 3pp. (single folded

sheet, the signature and final lines in O’Connell’s own hand, dated 1st Sept.

1845, addressed to John A. O’Neill Esq. of William Park. Apparently an attempt

to make up a quarrel, O’Connell expresses his ‘affectionate gratitude’ to O’Neill

and says, ‘If there be one single word in any letter of mine that could have left a

painful sentiment in your mind, I beg to retract it and earnestly to intreat your

forgiveness.’

As a m/ss, w.a.f.

O’Connell died 15 May, 1847, aged 71.

€ 300 - 500





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205 SIR CHARLES GAVAN DUFFY (1816-1903)His New Gate Prison cell lock cover plate.

The rectangular metal plate painted on both sides with white numerals ‘22’, 12.8 x 10.1 cm.

Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, Irish nationalist, politician, journalist and 8th Premier of Victoria. He was arrested in 1846 following an attempt at insurrection in Tipperary and was imprisoned in

Richmond Prison on a charge of sedition based on his involvement with ‘Young Ireland’ and articles that had appeared in The Nation, which he edited and co-founded with Thomas Davis

and John Blake Dillon. Duffy was first imprisoned in New Gate, which served as a holding facility for prisoners, prior to his conviction and removal to Richmond prison. He was later released

in April 1849. In 1856, disheartened by the political atmosphere in Ireland, he emigrated with his family to Australia and later became the 8th Premier of Victoria in 1871.

This unique item bears a typed clipping attached to the rear of the number plate, though not entirely readable, it recounts the return of Sir Charles Gavan Duffy to New Gate prison prior to

its demolition in 1893 wherein he visited his old cell and asked the new owner of the property for the lock so that he might return to Australia with it.

The transcription of this text is as follows:

Mr. T Byrne… sends us the…

“After the purchase of Newgate Jail… by my father, the late Mr. ____ Byrne b____ 38 and 39 J_____ street. In the course of his taking down the old building, the late Sir Charles Gavan Duffy

called into the jail and asked to be shown the cell he was confined in. On his reaching it, he entered it and requested that the door be closed for a few minutes. On coming out he expressed

a wish to possess the lock of his cell door, ___ anxious to take it with him to Australia; ___ I need not say how __ my father (also a 48 man)was to hand it to him.

Provenance: Sir Charles Gavan Duffy and thence by family descent

€ 1,000 - 2,000


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206 CHARLES STUART PARNELL An ALS to Thomas William Johnson on the subject of compulsory vaccination, on

House of Commons blind stamped headed paper, London, August 17th 1877

€ 1,000 - 1,500


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207 1893 HOME RULE BILL - PETITION BY MEMBERS OF THE DUBLIN STOCK EXCHANGE AGAINST IT.Letterpress, 41 by 25cm., 16 by 10in, John Sweetman MP (1844-1936), President Sinn Féin 1908.

63 of the 66 members are listed as opposing Home Rule, including Bloxham, Bewley, Goodbody,

Dudgeon, and Pim. Accompanied by an original Government of Ireland Bill. Scarce.

€ 300 - 500

207A A LARGE MONOCHROME PHOTOGRAPHdepicting what seems to be the Royal Artillery Regiment of the British army

pulling 60 pdr artillery pieces, c.1918/1919 in the curragh, by H.W. Har-

rington of Dublin. 37 x 98cm, framed

€ 200 - 400



http://adams.ie/68616/1893-HOME-RULE-BILL-PETITION-BY-MEMBERS-OF-THE-DUBLIN-STOCK-EXCHANGE-AGAINST-IT-Letterpress-41-by-25cm-16-by-10in-John-Sweetman-MP-1844-1936-President-Sinn-Fein-1908-63-of-the-66-members-are-lis?high_estimate=50000&ipp=48&keyword=&low_estimate=40&view=lot_detail

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208 A BRONZE DEATH MASK OF THE IRISH NATIONALIST AND REPUBLICAN ROBERT EMMETT (1778-1803)recently cast in bronze, c. 20cm long, from the original death-mask taken shortly after his execution by James Petrie in Kilmainham Jail.

€ 400 - 600

209 A RARE VICTORIAN FAMINE ENGRAVED GLASS TUMBLER, comemorating the loss of the emigrant ship The Govenor Fenner,

in 1845 in the Irish Sea. The body engraved with the scene when

the barque Govenor Fenner collided with the steamer ‘The

Nottingham’, and engraved with initials and dated 1845, carrying

107 mostly Irish emigrants and 17 crew, 122 were drowned. The

Govenor Fenner was owned and built in New York and was New

York bound at the time of the accident, 11cm tall

€ 100 - 200





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210 START OF THE IRISH NAVAL SERVICEA very rare mounted photograph, circa 3 ins x 8 ins, showing about sixty uniformed members

of the Maritime Inscription, a volunteer naval reserve force formed at the start of World War

II, when there were fears that Ireland’s external trade might be cut off by hostilities. This was

the start of the Irish naval service. The person identified in the photo with a pencilled arrow is

Herman (Hymie) Kernoff, brother of the artist Harry Kernoff. Bob Geldof’s father also joined

the maritime reserve, and may be in this photo. With a postcard photo of Hymie Kernoff with

his companion Winifred Gorry, inscribed ‘To Babs / with love / from / K’. Also with a cyclostyled

song-sheet from a Maritime Inscription dinner at the Dolphin Hotel, November 1940. [Winifred

Gorry and Hymie Kernoff were a couple, but did not marry, perhaps because Gorry was a

Catholic, whereas Kernoff was Jewish. She was a fashion buyer at Arnotts.]

Provenance: Winifred Gorry, friend of Hymie Kernoff.

€ 100 - 150

211 QUEEN VICTORIA’S VISIT, 1900 A PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM

A collection of twelve monochrome photographs depicting Dublin (mostly) at the time of Queen Victoria’s visit, each

photograph approx. 7 x 9.5cm, with handwritten description on the mount. Including “H.M. Yacht Victoria & Albert in

Kingstown Harbour”; “In Nassau St. - Where we viewed the city”; “Leeson Street Bridge”; etc. Contained in an album with

green cloth boards.

€ 400 - 600





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212 ULSTER’S OFFICE, DUBLIN CASTLE (SIR ARTHUR VICARS). The Scale of Precedence in Ireland. By Authority. 1897, first, 16mo red pigskin, 43 pp, a.e.g., very good copy.

Essential guide for the Victorian gentleman or lady of noble birth, listing the scales of precedence for men and ladies, and the relative precedence of

peers and baronets. Neatly designed to fit in a pocket or handbag.

Very rare; COPAC finds only one copy, in Exeter. With

TIM HEALY MP

A polling slip for the North Louth constituency in the UK election of 1892, issued by Tim Healy’s opponent Philip Callan, a barrister, the slip showing

how to cast a vote for Callan. Printed by W. Tempest, Dundalk, with endorsement indicating that the print order was 2,000 copies, dated 8th July ’92.

Nevertheless, Healy won the seat, which he held until 1910.

Tim Healy [1855-1931], born in Cork, was an MP for the Irish Party until the Parnell split, when he led the opposition to Parnell. One of the leading

barristers of his time, he represented Republicans on occasion. In 1922 the British Government chose him (with Irish agreement) to be the first

Governor-General of the Irish Free State, a position which he held until 1928.

(2)

€ 100 - 200


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213 O’SULLIVAN, T.D., M.P. Prison Poems; or, Lays of Tullamore. Dublin, Nation Office, 1888.

Timothy Daniel Sullivan [1827-1914], born in Bantry, was MP for Westmeath and later for Dublin. His best-known songs include ‘God Save

Ireland’, in memory of the ‘Manchester Martyrs’, and ‘Ireland Boys, Hurrah’. He was a member of the Irish Party and a supporter of the Land

League. In 1888 he served two months in Tullamore Jail for publishing reports of banned Land League meetings.

With

[CANNON, Rev. Francis]. An Apostrophe to the Spiritual Sons and Daughters of St. Patrick, at Home in Hibernia, and Scattered over this

World of Ours. By An Americo-Hibernian Priest. Green buckram with blind stamped design, title in gilt. Duffy, Dublin n.d. (c. 1878). Inscribed

to V. Rev. R. White O.P. by the Author.

Fr. Cannon was born in Killybegs and spent much of his life in America where he became a Franciscan, but returned home late in life. Scarce.

(2)

€ 100 - 150



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214 IRISH COAST PILOT. Eighth Edition. 1930.

Published by order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. HMSO 1930.

Roy. 8vo green buckram, pp. 494, profusely illustrated with charts and plans.

Laid in at front is the Supplement No. 8 - 1939, corrected to 24th May 1939 -- i.e. the last issue

before World War II of this valuable guide for mariners.

A very good copy, rare in this condition.

€ 80 - 120


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217 KEARNEY (PEADAR), THE SOLDIER’S SONG FIRST EDITION WITH MUSIC

Four printed pages, in two parts, 31 x 24cm approx.. Written in 1909-1910 by Peadar

Kearney, music by Paddy Heaney and arrangement by Cathal MacDubhgall. Later to

become “Amhrán na bhFiann” when it was translated to the Irish by Liam Ó Rinn in 1923.

Becoming the official Irish national anthem in 1926 following some debate about various

alternatives. Peader Kearney was a founder member of the Irish Volunteers and The

Soldier’s Song was sung in the GPO during the Rising and was popular among the Volun-

teers. As a result, later that same year (in December) it was published by Whelan and Son,

Dublin, 6. Seamus Whelan was a sympathiser. The printer was Patrick Mahon of Yarnhall

Street, who had also supplied some type for the printing of the 1916 Proclamation. The

cover design, with rifle butt signed in a stylised C.macD., is by Cathal Mac Dúbhghaill. The

first edition to include the music is rare and being sold not only on the 100th anniversary

of the Rising, but also the anniversary of the document itself.

Peadar Kearney joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood in the early 1903, and became a

member of its Supreme Council. He served in the Jacob’s Factory garrison under Thomas

MacDonagh during the rising. He evaded capture but was arrested during the War of

Independence and interned at Ballykinler Camp in County Down in 1920-21. In the Dáil

debate preceding the original acquisition of copyright by the State in 1934, there was

discussion of the song’s merits and flaws. Frank MacDermot said, “Leaving out sentiment,

I must confess, from both a literary and a musical point of view, I would regard the

“Soldier’s Song” as, shall we say, a jaunty little piece of vulgarity, and I think we could have

done a lot better.”]Thomas F. O’Higgins responded, “National Anthems come about, not

because of the suitability of the particular words or notes, but because they are adopted

generally by the nation. That is exactly how the “Soldiers’ Song” became a National An-

them in this country. It happened to be the Anthem on the lips of the people when they

came into their own and when the outsiders evacuated the country and left the insiders

here to make the best or the worst of the country. It was adopted by the people here

before ever it was adopted by the Executive Council”

€ 1,500 - 2,000




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218 1916 IRISH WAR NEWS, VOL. 1 NO. 1, Dublin, April 25

Includes “STOP PRESS! THE IRISH REPUBLIC” announcing on the back page the Rising. 4

pages letterpress. The historic paper published during the Rising - the only other printed

document issued by the Rising leaders other than the Proclamation. Rare, 25 x 19cm

€ 300 - 500

219 1916 SINN FÉIN REBELLION HANDBOOK, published by the Weekly Irish Times, 1917 issue, inscribed “Sgt W. Butler, 2nd Royal Irish Fusilers, Portobello

Barracks” in poor condition, together with a miscellaneous collection of publications including: Draft Consti-

tution of the Irish Free State, To be submitted to the Provisional Parliament, published by Eason & Son, 1922;

Saorstat Eireann. Number 1 of 1922. An Act to enact a Constitution for the Irish Free State .. and for implement-

ing the Treaty between Great Britain and Ireland signed at London on the 6th day of December 1921. Folio,

scarce; and Constitution of the Free State of Ireland(English Translation); etc. (8)

€ 300 - 500



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220 DERRICK FAMILY STATEMENTS 1916.Handwritten report by Lieut. G. Waterhouse of Dublin Univ. OTC of evidence given by Joseph Derrick, 22

Eustace St., aged 27, labourer, who was arrested on 28.4.1916; James Derrick (apparently his father); and Mrs.

Mary Derrick (mother of Joseph and Patrick), with a signed statement by Waterhouse and another officer, say-

ing they are convinced the family are perfectly innocent and should be sent home. The statements indicate

that the other brother, Patrick Derrick (not interviewed) was a member of the Irish Volunteers, but Joseph was

a member of National Volunteers and did not approve of his brother’s activities.

Interesting collection.

€ 100 - 200

221 ROGER CASEMENT LITHOGRAPHIC PRINT from the original drawn from life

in 1916 by Prof. L. Fanto, Art Director, State Theatre,

Saxony, 37 x 28cm No. 216 from an edition of 350,

Three Candles printing, unframed.

€ 100 - 200




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222 IRISH PRESS NEWSPAPER, Vol. 1 no. 1, Saturday Sept. 5 1931. A clean copy of the first issue, with 2 page TLS from the

news editor Robert Egan inviting the unnamed recipient to act as correspondent at the

usual rates, giving some interesting guidelines. ‘The essential thing is that THE IRISH PRESS

should not miss any story and should have it promptly .. Copy must be absolutely accurate

.. correspondents must make sure of their facts and must be able to stand over every line

they write.’

€200-400

222A THE OATH. Interesting poster issued by Sinn Fein circa 1930, contrasting the Oath required of newly elected Dail

deputies with that taken eleven years previously [by members of the First Dail, 1919], and commenting,

‘God rest the dead who neither broke their lawful oath to the Republic of Ireland nor took an unlawful one

to Ireland’s only enemy!’ Dublin printed, Ardiff, circa 30 ins x 20 ins. Evidently aimed at members of Fianna

Fail, who took the Oath as an ‘empty formula’ and entered the Dail in 1927. Scarce.

€300-400



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222B LE PETIT JOURNAL Illustr, 3rd September 1922. Front cover colour illustration depicting

the death of Michael Collins, headed "Les Convulsions Sanglantes de

l’Irlande". Interesting example of foreign interest in Collins.

€100-200

222C A COLLECTION OF THIRTY-SIX COMMEMORATIVE 10 SHILLING SILVER COINS, 1966, for the fiftieth anniversary of the Rising, Padraig Pearse depicted to the front, the reverse with a depiction of Cuchu-

lainn, after Oliver Sheppard, each weighing c.18g with 83.5% silver content

€400-600





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223 JOSEPH BRENNAN’S COPY THOM’S OFFICIAL DIRECTORY of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the year 1917. Dublin, Alex Thom 1917. Very thick tall 8vo, pp. 2272, 60 (adverts). Cover a little marked

but an excellent copy. Stamped on title page, ‘Supplied for the Crown Service’; inscribed inside front cover, ‘Private Sec. to U. Sec, 13.3.17’. The list on p. 750

identifies the Under-Secretary for Ireland as Sir William P. Byrne and his Private Secretary as J[oseph] Brennan B.A.

Joseph Brennan [1887-1963] was a career public servant and one of the ablest men of his generation. Born in Bandon, Co. Cork, he obtained a double first class

degree at Cambridge University, and entered the Civil Service in 1911, transferring a year later to the Chief Secretary’s Office in Dublin Castle, in the financial

section. In 1920 he worked on financial aspects of the Government of Ireland Act. During the Truce he got to know his fellow Corkman Michael Collins, and he

became adviser on financial matters to the Treaty negotiators. In 1922 Collins asked him to set up the financial system of the new Irish Free State. In 1923 he

became Secretary of the Dept. of Finance, in 1927 Chairman of the Currency Commission, and in 1942 first Governor of the Central Bank. In the early years of

the Free State he was more influential than many Ministers.

A fascinating association copy.

€ 200 - 250


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224 EARLY FIRST HAND ACCOUNT OF THE RISINGMcKenzie, F.A., The Irish Rebellion: What Happened - And Why, London, 1916, published within

within months of the rebellion’s end. McKenzie wrote in the preface: “This little book describes

what I saw and learned in Dublin during the Easter rising of 1916. [The capital R wasn’t added

until later] “Two representatives of the Canadian Press were chosen to visit Ireland while the

fighting was on. I had the good fortune to be one of them.”

McKenzie was a seasoned war correspondent, who, because he was neither British nor Irish,

wrote from a different angle - his years of experience gave him a journalist’s eye for the detail of

not just the rebellion, but its causes and background as well.

€ 200 - 300

225 RICHMOND BARRACKS, 1916A monochrome photographic print, 10 x 6cm, depicting three

prisoners and soldiers in Richmond Barracks, 1916, one prisoner

believed to be John MacBride (1868 - 5 May 1916), probably taken

with a Box Brownie.

Following the rebels’ surrender, over 3,000 suspected rebels

including 77 women were taken and held at Richmond Barracks

before being sent to prison camps in England and Wales. The

leaders and more prominent persons were identified and their

courts-martial took place in Richmond Barracks before they were

sent to Kilmainham Gaol for execution. John MacBride was execut-

ed on the 5th May 1916.

€ 200 - 300




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227 2/6TH BATTALION THE SHERWOOD FORESTERS1914-1918 - Its Part in the Defeat of the Irish Rebellion 1916

by GJ Edmunds in 1960, and privately published.

Rare content, with accounts of the ‘Sinn Fein’ Easter Rising not available anywhere else. Tells of the urgent assembly of the Sherwood Foresters on the night of 24 April 1916, with men on leave

being brought in from homes and even cinemas for rapid entrainment to Liverpool docks.

Edmunds was very well placed to write this history of the 2/6, as he was serving with the Battalion during the Easter Rising himself, with the rank of Captain, Officer Commanding A company, 2/6

Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters. Captain Edmunds served with the Regiment throughout the rebellion - he describes seeing plenty of action, and was responsible for taking papers off The

O’Rahilly’s body off Moore Street. He also writes a description of Elizabeth O’Farrell, who carried the flag of truce at the end of the Rising.

For example, Edmunds writes of Dublin Castle: “... up in the Keep a strong body of troops was keeping sustained fire on the Four Courts and snipers on the roof tops. One good shot was

credited with having accounted for 72 snipers but was himself killed on the last day. All the time the ping of bullets on the walls of the Castle continued. The enemy was certainly not short of

ammunition.”

And elsewhere: “As we emerged from the Castle and crossed Grattan Bridge the bullets whizzed round, a heavy fire coming from the Four Courts.

Bullets struck the parapet and the tram lines and ricocheted, throwing sparks in all directions. But the troops were very cool and unafraid.”

When A Company was ordered to clear Denmark Street, Edmunds writes:

“Carefully searching all the houses as we pushed on, we found a rabbit warren of alleys on the east side. The women were incoherent with fear and what with hysterical women, screeching

children and the unpleasant task of searching the filthiest houses one had ever seen, the task was anything but pleasant.”

Aodogán O’Rahilly, in his biography of his father, “Winding the Clock”, wrote: “The British officer in charge of the barricade was a Captain G.J. Edmunds” who said that he had “sent a sergeant to

search O’Rahilly’s body” and “we found some interesting papers on him”. Among the papers was a farewell note to his wife, which included the line “I got more than one bullet I think.”

Of Nurse Elizabeth O’Farrell, Edmunds writes: “a little fair-haired Irish nurse came in to the Colonel’s headquarters, with a flag of truce (with a large red cross on it), and asked for terms for the

Sinn Feiners. She was most pleasant to talk to ... but told us little ... .”

€ 200 - 300


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228 THE MAN SENT TO PUT DOWN THE REBELLIONA clipping with General John Grenfell Maxwell’s rare signature mounted with sepia portrait print, 35.5 x

28cm in all. Most remembered for the execution of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising, earning him the

nickname “Bloody Maxwell”.

General Maxwell had a long military career, serving in Egypt and South Africa (in the Boer War). He served

at army headquarters at the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin from 1902 to 1904. He became General Of-

ficer Commanding British Troops in Egypt in 1908 and was then deployed on the Western Front in the First

World War until he returned to his role as General Officer Commanding British Troops in Egypt in late 1914.

€ 200 - 300

229 BIRRELL & WIMBORNEBirrell (Augustine), More Obiter Dicta, London, 1924, signed and inscribed by the author,

tan cloth boards.

Together with:

Ivor Churchill Guest, Lord Wimborne’s signature, on card, 9 x 11cm

(2)

Augustine Birrell was Chief Secretary for Ireland at the time of the Rising. He was criticised

for his inability to predict or prevent the rebellion, and resigned office shortly after.

Known at the time as an author and essayist, this collection of his work is dedicated and

signed by him, dated 1925. Although he gained some pity for having to resign, one com-

mentator said:

“I cannot for the life of me see what claims Birrell has to sympathy. The dead and wounded

and the very stones of Dublin cry out against him.”

Lord Wimborne was one of the last Lords Lieutenant of Ireland, serving in that position at

the time of the Easter Rising. When the German arms ship Aud was scuttled and Sir Roger

Casement had been arrested, Wimborne urged the Under-Secretary for Ireland, Matthew

Nathan, to order the arrest of a large number of rebel leaders. Nathan was unwilling to do

so without the authorisation of the Chief Secretary, Augustine Birrell, who was in London.

Birrell’s absence at that time was one of the factors that ensured his resignation after the

Rising. Wimborne’s position survived the fallout from the rebellion.

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230 SPINDLER BOOK AND SIGNED PORTRAIT CARDDas Geheimnisvolle Schiff. Die Fahrt Der “Libau” Zur Irischen Revolution, Berlin, 1921 (“The

Mysterious ship. The journey of the ‘Libau’ to the Irish Revolution”).

By Captain Karl Spindler.

Together with a signed monochrome portrait postcard, possibly a publisher’s handout.

Spindler commanded the Aud (formerly the Libau) on its ill-fated attempt to land arms on the

west coast of Ireland.

(2)

€ 100 - 200

231 “COLM O’CONAIRE” [PADRAIC MAC PIARAIS] POLL AN PIOBAIRE. Dublin, 1906, 12mo, 39pp, in original yellow printed maps. A few notes in pencil, Scarce.

The National Library of Ireland holds reprints of 1933 and 1977 but does not appear to have a copy of

this, the first edition. COPAC has one copy of a 1909 edition and one copy of the 1977 edition (both in

Trinity College Dublin). Originally published in “An Claidheamn Soluis” 11-25 March 1905.

€ 200 - 300




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232 VOLUNTEER LEADERS.A good collection of Keogh Bros. mounted photographs of 1916 Rising leaders, Tom Clarke, Pearse,

Thomas MacDonagh, Con Colbert, Eamonn Ceannt, Sean Mac Diarmada, The O’Rahilly (photo of a

sketch) (7), all except Pearse and O’Rahilly still in their original glassine wrappers; with two portrait

postcards showing Cathal Brugha and Roger Casement, and a third of Eoin MacNeill.

As a collection.

(10)

€ 200 - 400


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234 [P.H. PEARSE, SIGNATORY OF THE 1916 PROCLAMATION]A manuscript ‘Copy of P.H. Pearse statement written in Kilmainham Prison 2nd May 1916’, in an unidentified hand, apparently that of a British soldier or official at Kilmainham. 2 pp (single

foolscap sheet written both sides), on official paper with embossed crest.

Pearse’s statement is a summary of his reply to his Court Martial at Richmond Barracks, when asked by the Presiding Officer if he had anything to say in his defence. It outlines his reasons

for surrender, to prevent further slaughter of the civilian population of Dublin and to save the lives of his followers. ‘I fully understand now, as then, that my own life is forfeit to British law,

and I will die very cheerfully if I can think that the British Government .. will accept my single life in forfeiture and .. give a general amnesty to the brave men and boys who have fought at my

bidding.’

‘When I was a child of ten’, he continues, ‘I went down on my bare knees by my bedside one night and promised God that I should devote my life to an effort to free my country. I have kept

that promise.’

He repudiates the prosecutor’s claim that he sought to aid England’s enemy. ‘Germany is no more to me than England is .. I assume that I am speaking to Englishmen, who value their own

freedom and who profess to be fighting for the freedom of Belgium and Serbia. Believe that we too love freedom .. If you strike us down now we shall rise again and renew the fight. You

cannot conquer Ireland. You cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom then our children will win it by a better deed.’

There are other copies of this statement, including one in the Pearse Museum, and there appears to be no doubt of its authenticity.

€ 2,000 - 3,000



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235 ARTHUR GRIFFITH 1918A good signature in Irish and English, Art Ó Gríobhtha / Arthur Griffith, dated April 22nd 1918, on

‘Nationality’ headed paper, written for a Miss Sugden, with the comment ‘Beauty and my handwrit-

ing are far apart’. Dated about three weeks before Griffith was detained and imprisoned under the

‘German Plot’ arrests.

€ 120 - 180

236 EAMON DE VALÉRA IN LIMERICKA good ALS on paper of Hanratty’s Hotel, Limerick, dated June 30 1927, to ‘A chara’, referring to the suc-

cess of last night’s meeting, ‘a wonderful demonstration of the fact that in their hearts the people are as

devoted as ever to the cause of Independence’, expressing appreciation for the presence of the St. Mary’s

Band, which was ‘largely responsible for the success of the demonstration’, and thanking those involved

with ‘my appreciation and heartfelt thanks’.

Worn, with fold marks and a few short tears, but still a good letter with a fluent signature. Evidently the

meeting was to do with the launch of Fianna Fail.

€ 200 - 400



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237 EAMON DE VALERAA colour reproduction portrait, 15 x 11.5cm, mounted on card, the mount signed by de

Valera, framed

€ 100 - 200

238 EAMON DE VALERA. A good framed photograph with autograph signature dated Iul 14 1921, a little faded, by

Poole of Waterford, circa 5 ½ x 4 ins, with a small collection including a leaflet advertising

a bazaar in aid of Irish Republican Prisoners Dependants Fund, circa 1918; a De Valera

pinned lapel badge, 1930s; and a copy of Taoiseach’s Broadcast to the Nation, May 1945.

€ 150 - 250




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239 ROGER CASEMENT [1894-1916]Two interesting ALS to ‘Dear Madam’ (a Mrs. Letts), dated 1 July and 2 July 1913, each 4 pp (single folded sheet), written from a Buckingham address, the two

letters covering essentially the same ground. Presumably he had some reason for thinking the first letter had gone astray.

Anita Letts was a member of Cumann na mBan and the United Irishwomen, and apparently wrote to Casement about his plans for a fund to assist schoolchildren

in impoverished West of Ireland schools. Apparently she also had similar plans, including appointment of a midwife. The first letter says, ‘It is indeed cheering

news to learn that the ‘United Irishwomen’ are also taking a hand to help the schools. I do not think there is fear of our overlapping. Some friends of mine will

be all going to Carraroe, Garumna, Lettermullen &c. on 29th July & will visit all the schools too - & take the first steps towards carrying out my intentions towards

Carraroe School.’ He mentions that Dr. Douglas Hyde is one of these friends, and suggests that Mrs. Letts should write to him. ‘I am glad your midwife will be an

Irish speaker’, he continues. ‘Far more regard should be paid to the Irish language.’ With a good signature.

The second letter, evidently written in haste, mentions a fund sponsored by the ‘Independent’, and suggests that the Society might thus secure a portion of this

fund.

Casement did in fact set up a fund to provide hot dinners for schoolchildren at Carraroe, something which is still remembered there today, in spite of the later

controversy surrounding his name. Casement went to Germany to seek to recruit Irish prisoners of war to fight against England, and returned to Ireland on the

eve of the Rising in a German submarine. He was arrested, tried for high treason in London and hanged, after extracts from his supposed diaries were circulated

to blacken his name. (2)

€ 1,500 - 2,000


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240 THOMAS ASHE & HIS DENTAL BILLAn ALS by R.A. Marriott, Governor of Lewes Prison to Thomas Ashe, dated 22nd June 1917 and demanding payment of seven shillings and six

pence for Ashe’s dental treatment at Lewes, 23 x 20cms

€ 700 - 1,000


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241 ITALIAN INVOLVEMENT IN WORLD WAR 2Breen (Dan) A.L.S., 2pp. on Dail Eireann notepaper, 11.9.43, to his friend and Republican Colleague Jim Babington, discussing the

progress of the World War after Italy’s attempt to change sides. ‘The Popes and Italians have failed in their treachery Rommel will

beat Hell out of the damn lot. The leakage is now stopped and I hope no stone will be left stand there. I know you will not like me

to be anti-Pope but I want to be quite candid, no orange men can be more bitter against him... . If anything happens to me, you

will know why. The gov. is very weak...’ w.a.f.

A typically forthright effort.

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242 DAN BREEN [1894-1969] Interesting ALS, 6 pp, on Dail Eireann notepaper, dated 27.12.48, to Dr. Matt Russell, recalling events after he was wounded

‘at the fight at Knocklong’ some 30 years previously, ‘when Treacy & myself attempted the rescue of Sean Hogan from the

train’, naming the doctor (Hennessy) who saved his life, and recalling his treatment in some detail.

* The Knocklong rescue was successful, but afterward Breen and Sean Treacy were surrounded by British troops in a house

in Drumcondra and Breen was seriously wounded while escaping. He later became a Fianna Fail TD.

€ 1,200 - 1,800


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243 EAMON DE VALERA AND 1916 A collection comprising: The Irish Republic by Dorothy MacArdle, signed by Dev; a portrait photograph by

T. Balance; a Gill Sans commemorative 1916 Proclamation signed by Dev; a portrait postcard; Celebration

dinner menu 1916-1921 with signatures of John Brennan, Séamus de Burca, Piaras Béaslaí, etc.; two Keogh

Bros. portrait postcards (one Liam Mellows); three books, The Glorious Seven, The Sea and the Easter

Rising and Cuimhneachán 1916; and 1966 newscuttings.

(11)

€100 - 200

244 DERMOT O’DWYER, 5TH BATTALION DUBLIN BRIGADE,Killed in action during War of Independence, 18th March 1921. A collection com-

prising: two ALS, one to his mother, dated Wednesday 24th, “I suppose you heard

about Croke Park. It was terrible... I was glad to escape with my life” and the other

to his father, both distressed and torn; a framed War of Independence certificate;

a small locket with portrait photograph and locket of hair; Poems by Joseph Mark

Plunkett (family copy); together with copies of photographs and Military Archives

documents for further biographical detail.

€ 100 - 200



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245 PATRICK PEARSECollection of booklets including An Macaomh, Poems, The Spiritual Nation, The

Murder Machine, The Separist Idea etc.

A scarce assembly of original editions by the main architect of the Easter Rising. (8)

€ 150 - 250

246 ROBERT CHILDERS BARTON (1881-75)An ALS “to my dear Hamilton” from Gendalough House, concerning an appointment

of a judge. “There are not many who jeopardised their future by giving judgement

on a National issue adverse to the Cosgrave party’s standpoint at a time when the

dice appeared to be loaded in Cosgrave’s favour”.”

Barton was an officer in The Royal Dublin Fusiliers and was stationed in Dublin

during the 1916 Easter Rising. He resigned in protest at the heavy-handed govern-

ment suppression of the revolt and joined the republican movement. At the 1918

general election he was elected as Sinn Féin member for West Wicklow. He was

appointed Minister for Agriculture in Dáil Éireann, later of Economic Affairs. He

travelled to London for the Treaty negotiations and reluctantly signed the Treaty on

6 December 1921, defending it as” the lesser of two outrages forced upon me and

between which I had to choose” but later rejected it.

€ 200 - 220




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247 MICHAEL COLLINS (1890-1922) & KATHLEEN CLARKE (1878-1972)A monocrome photograph, 14.5 X 10cm, in a folding mount, by Keogh of Dublin, depicting Collins seated

in Volunteer uniform circa 1918, the carefully posed studio photograph with an inscription at rear signed

by Kathleen Clarke saying it was presented to her by Collins.

Collins’ appointment by Mrs. Clarke as Secretary of the Volunteers Dependants Fund was his first post of

real responsibility in the independence movement.

€ 3,000 - 5,000


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248 AFTER LEO WHELAN (1892-1956) MICHAEL COLLINS, A colour portrait print published by Walton’s of Dublin in 1972 to commemorate the 50th anniver-

sary of Collins’ death at Beal na Blath, the edition is said to have been about 500 copies. 60x43cm

€ 150 - 250

249 COLLINS (MICHAEL) A rare original Memorial Card, of Gen. Michael Collins, killed August

1922 at Beal na mBlath, Co. Cork, with original photograph mounted

on card, text entirely in Irish. V. good. Rare with original mounted

photograph.

€ 500 - 800



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250 MICHAEL COLLINSAn original monochrome studio photograph of Michael Collins in uniform by Keogh

Bros Ltd. of Dublin, signed by Collins in Irish, 14 x 10 cm

€ 1,200 - 1,500

251 PIARAS BEASLAI‘Michael Collins, Soldier and Statesman’, published by Talbot Press, 1937, signed by

author ‘Piaras Beaslai 20 December 1937’

€ 200 - 300

251A PIARAS BEASLAI Aftermath of Easter Week, sm. 12mo D. Sept. 1917. FIRST & ONLY EDN. 28pp. hf. title

with remains of a library stamp, orig. ptd. wrappers, an exceptionally fine copy, thus

rare.

€ 200 - 300





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252 MAJORIE FITZGIBBON, HRHA (B. 1930)Michael Collins,

Bronze, 18 x 16.5 x 21cm, on marble stand, 12.5 x 14 x 14cm ,

Signed with initials MF

Unique, privately commissioned by the vendor

Marjorie Fitzgibbon has been commissioned for several significant public and private sculptures of important Irish figures including; a

bronze bust of James Joyce located in St. Stephen’s Green, a bronze statue of James Joyce at North Earl Street, Dublin and twelve bronze

heads of the of living Irish artists housed at the Royal Dublin Society.

€ 4,000 - 6,000


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253 MICHAEL COLLINS AND EAMON DE VALERATwo cast metal relief portraits of Michael Collins and Eamon

de Valera, in profile, mounted on square marble bases, 9 x 9 x

2.5cm and 10 x 8.5 x 2cm respectively. (2)

€ 200 - 300

254 MICHAEL COLLINS FUNERAL PROCESSIONA monochrome photograph, Dublin, 1922, c. 15.5 x 20.5cm.

Held on 28 August 1922, the Irish Independent reported the

event as the ‘Greatest pageant of sorrow ever seen in Dublin:

a cortège three miles long.’ An estimated 300,000 people lined

the streets of the capital as the funeral procession wound its

way to Glasnevin Cemetery.

€ 80 - 120



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255 MICHAEL COLLINS, MASS CARD A memorial card, 3.5x2.5 ins, his monochrome photograph within

thick black border, ‘In undying memory of General Michael Collins,

(Commander-in-Cheif of Irish National Army), killed in action at Beal-

nablath, near Bandon, Co. Cork, on 22nd August 1922, aged 30 years’

€ 300 - 500

256 MICHAEL COLLINS, MASS CARD A memorial card, 3.5x2.5 ins, his monochrome photograph within thick

black border, ‘In undying memory of General Michael Collins, (Com-

mander-in-Cheif of Irish National Army), killed in action at Bealnablath,

near Bandon, Co. Cork, on 22nd August 1922, aged 30 years’

€ 300 - 500




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257 ARTHUR GRIFFITH AND MICHAEL COLLINSA memorial brochure, Martin Lester, 1922, First Edition with illustrations throughout,

original wrappers with design by Harry Clarke on front cover.

Provenance: Purchased at HOK & Christie’s Lissadell House Sale, Co. Sligo, November

2003

€ 100 - 150


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258 SIR JOHN LAVERY RA RHA RSA (1856 -1941)Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith

Signed lithographic prints, 33 x 43.5cm,

SIgned by both artist and sitters, with Artist’s Proof blind stamp

€ 4,000 - 5,000



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259 LISSADELL HOUSE COPIES OF THE SINN FÉIN REBELLION HANDBOOK, compiled by the Weekly Irish Times, Dublin, first and second editions. (2)

Provenance: Purchased at HOK and Christie’s Lissadell House Sale, Co. Sligo, November 2003.

€ 300 - 400

260 O DONNOVAN ROSSA DIARMUIDO’Donnabhain Rosa 1831 - 1915, Souvenir of Public Funeral to Glasnevin

Cemetery, Aug. 1st, 1915, 4to, D. 1915. Second Edition, fully illusustrat-

ed in original but worn wrappers. Together with a collection of other

booklets and pamphlets including: Erins Hope by James Connolly; Austin

Stack 1880-1929; etc.

€ 200 - 300



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261 ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE REBELLION IN IRELAND Report of Commission, London, 1916, price 2d, 14pp

Together with: Report of the minister for Lands on Forestry, 1938. As a

collection, w.a.f. (2)

Provenance: Purchased at HOK and Christie’s Lissadell House Sale, Co.

Sligo, November 2003.

€ 300 - 400

262 ILLUSTRATED RISING PUBLICATIONScomprising The Record of the Irish Rebellion; Dublin and the Sinn

Féin Rising; and The Sinn Féin Revolt, as a collection (3)

Provenance: Purchased at HOK & Christie’s Lisadell House Sale, Co.

Sligo, November 2003

€ 300 - 500

263 CONSTANCE MARKIEVICZ, a circular monochrome portrait print, 19cm diameter, together with

a framed monochrome clipping of Padraig and William Pearse. (2)

€ 80 - 120





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264 LISSADELL HOUSE HANDCUFFS

A pair of steel handcuffs from Lissadell House, stated by Gore-Booth family tradition to have been used on Countess Markievicz. Found

with a collection of her correspondence (not included).

Constance Gore-Booth was transported to Kilmainham Gaol after the Rising where she was only one of seventy women prisoners put

into solitary confinement. She was sentenced to death at her court martial on 4 May 1916, but General Maxwell commuted this to life

in prison on “account of the prisoner’s sex”.

Markievicz was transferred to Mountjoy Prison and then to Aylesbury Prison in England in July 1916. She was released from prison in

1917, along with others involved in the Rising, as the government in London granted a general amnesty for those who had participated

in it.

Provenance: Purchased at HOK & Christie’s Lissadell House Sale, Co. Sligo, November 2003, lot 557 for hammer price of €4,000.

€ 5,000 - 8,000


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265 1922. CIVIL WAR ANTI-TREATY HANDBILLSLetterpress, 23 by 15cm., 9 by 6in.

Queen Elizabeth’s Alternative - Michael Collins Supplies It:: “I would much rather

hear Mr. Michael Collins called a traitor by Mr. De Valera than hear myself called

a traitor by anyone else.” Lord Birkenhead. Scarce pair.

€ 300 - 500

266 1922. CIVIL WAR POSTER BILL: “WHEN RORY O’CONNOR WAS SHOT - A STARTLING DOCUMENT”

Very rare Anti-Treaty bill. “Mulcahy was a party to his “crime”. Quotes letter

from O’Connor in Mountjoy Jail, 31 August 1922”; “We were never requested

to evacuate the Four Courts...We subsequently got 25 minutes to do so”.

€ 400 - 600



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267 AFTER B. SZANKOWSKY (1873-1953)Constance Countess Markievicz

Colour reproduction print, 24.5 x 34.5cms,

Printed signature and inscription “Paris 1901”,

Framed by the Dawson Gallery

€ 150 - 250

268 [CONSTANCE MARKIEVICZ]Bertrand Russell. Roads to Freedom. London 1918, first edition, signed on front paste-

down by Constance de Markievicz, a fluent signature dated March 1919.

Countess Markievicz was Minister for Labour in the First Dail 1919-21, though she spent

much of this period in prison. She was the first woman elected to the Westminster

Parliament, though she did not take her seat;

together with P.H. Pearse. The Mother and other Tales. Dundalk, Dundalgan Press,

trans. Rev. T.A. Fitzgerald, first translated edition. (2)

€ 100 - 200




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269 EAMON DE VALERAHalf length studio photograph signed by Eamon de Valera, 12.5 x 8.5cm

€ 200 - 300

270 GARY TRIMBLE ARHA (1928-1979)Eamon de Valera

Bronze, 27cm high, on rectangular marble base, 15cm high

Signed

€ 2,000 - 4,000



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271 [EAMON DE VALERA]Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz, London 1934, with preface by and original signature of

Eamon de Valera, green cloth boards and wrappers.

Together with Peace and War, Speeches by Mr. De Valera on International Affairs, Dublin, 1944;

Easter Week by Brian O’Neill, New York, 1939; and Roger Casement by Brian Inglis, London 1973.

As a collection. (4)

€ 300 - 400



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272 KATHLEEN NAPOLI MCKENNA

Kathleen McKenna was a member of an old Nationalist family, from Oldcastle, Co. Meath. She was an expert typist, and an intelligent girl with a telling turn

of phrase. Her father William McKenna was an old friend of Arthur Griffith, and through this connection she was employed as confidential typist for the

Irish Bulletin, the daily summary of information edited for the First Dail by Frank Gallagher for distribution to journalists in Dublin and abroad, 1919-21. The

foreign press soon found they could rely on the Bulletin’s accuracy, and it became an important publicity weapon for the First Dail and its cabinet - so much

so that the British thought it worth their while first to counterfeit it, and then to imitate it, with little success on either count.

In the autumn of 1921, McKenna was one of the ‘Dail girls’ who went to London for the Treaty negotiations, where she was Arthur Griffith’s personal secre-

tary. In early 1922 she was sent to Paris for the Irish Race Congress. As the Free State was established, she was a typist and confidential secretary for senior

ministers including Michael Collins, Desmond FitzGerald, Kevin O’Higgins and W.T. Cosgrave. She was a private secretary at the Boundary Commission in

1924, and accompanied the Irish delegation at the Imperial Conference in 1926. Many of the significant documents of the Irish history of this period passed

through her hands and her typewriter.

She left the Civil Service in 1931, married an Italian military man, General Napoli, and went to live with him in Rome and elsewhere. She remained in touch

with her family in Ireland, but never returned to live here permanently. She left a memoir of her days which has not yet been published. She is not to be

found in the principal works of reference, though she was perhaps as significant a person as some of those included.

The following items were from her personal collection, inherited by direct descent and then purchased in these rooms 2011 as part of our Independence

auction.

IRISH TREATY DELEGATION 1921

A handwritten menu for a meal in London attended by many of the Irish delegates and advisors to the Treaty talks, 10 November 1921, signed at rear by

Micheál Ó Coileáin [Collins], Art Ó Gríofa [Griffith) and E.S. Ó Dúgáin [Duggan] (delegates), Lionel Smith-Gordon, J.L. Fawsitt and Eamonn Broy (advisors),

Collins’ ‘minders’ Liam Tobin, Joe Dolan and Joe Guilfoyle; Fionán Ó Loingsigh [Lynch], assistant secretary; Alice Lyons (typist); Caoimhghin O hUiginn [Kevin

O’Higgins], Sean Milroy, and several others whose function is not clear.

The menu included a choice of soups: Peace (thick) or Publicity (clear); the fish course was ‘Hans Plaice’ or ‘Caddugan Steaks’ [the Irish delegates were staying

at Hans Place and Cadogan Gardens]; entrees included ‘Economic Cutlets (Reparation Gravy)’ and ‘Minced Ulster (North East Sauce)’; the Joint was Roast Beef

of Old England, with Aide Memoire of Potatoes; and so on.

The talks in London opened on 11 October; presumably the dinner marked the end of the first month. It seems the delegates had not yet realised that

‘minced Ulster’ was off the menu.

Kathleen McKenna’s copy [personal secretary to Arthur Griffith], with her initials to front.

A rare and delightful item.

Provenance: Collection of Kathleen Napoli McKenna, by descent, then purchased in these rooms, 19th April 2011, Independence auction, Lot 591.

€ 2,500 - 3,500


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273 IRISH TREATY DELEGATION 1921A menu for a lunch at an Oxford Street restaurant in London, 19 November 1921, with signatures to rear including Treaty delegates

Art O Griofa [Griffith] and Eadhmonn O Dugain [Duggan], T.A. Smiddy (economic advisor), Kathleen McKenna and others, tearing

at fold; a dinner menu, 6 November, with a few signatures to rear; a Souvenir Programme for a Reception to the Irish Republican

Delegation by the Irish-Ireland Societies in London, 26 October 1921, signed at rear by some of the female secretaries to the

delegation including Lilí ní Bhraonáin [Lily Brennan] and the two Lyons sisters; and a railway menu signed by four of the female

secretaries.[4]

Provenance: Collection of Kathleen Napoli McKenna, by descent, then purchased in these rooms, 19th April 2011, Independence auction,

Lot 592.

€ 300 - 500


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274 TREATY DELEGATION AND ASSISTANTS 1921A collection of original photographs, London 1921, various sizes, one showing Arthur Griffith with Kathleen McKenna (on right)

and the Lyons sisters on board ship; another (damaged) showing members of the Irish Treaty delegation and assistants in an el-

egant interior, Kathleen McKenna seated in front row on right wearing a white shirt; and a selection of others showing Kathleen

and the Lyons sisters in London, McKenna wearing a pleated dress with embroidered device and a coat with fur cuffs; and a few

press cuttings reproducing some of the photographs with names.

As a collection.

Provenance: Collection of Kathleen Napoli McKenna, by descent, then purchased in these rooms, 19th April 2011, Independence auction,

Lot 599.

€ 300 - 500

275 THE KATHLEEN NAPOLI MCKENNA NEWSREEL OF THE TREATY DELEGATION 1921An original 35mm newsreel film compiled by Pathé Gazette, duration circa one minute. titled ‘Irish Peace Congress/Sinn Féin & Govern-

ment delegates meet and everyone hopes for a happy settlement’

The film opens with a prolonged shot of the Irish delegates coming from the boat train. Kathleen McKenna (Griffith’s confidential secre-

tary) is in the centre beside Griffith, others in the shot include Duggan, Barton, Gavan Duffy and Griffith (identified as Foreign Minister)

followed by “the elusive Mr Collins”, a short but very rare clip of Collins speaking with force and emphasis from a platform.

Provenance: by descent.

€ 100 - 200




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276 [JAMES CONNOLLY][JAMES CONNOLLY]

A Lafayette black and white half length portrait photograph of James Connolly, 14.5 x 10cm,

printed on card, with printed inscription “Yours, fighting and hoping, James Connolly” and

original inscription verso “Taken from Liberty Hall on 1 May 1916 after the Rebellion in Dublin

by J. C. W. Madden”

Provenance: Collection of Lt. Col. J.C.W. Madden, who commanded a battalion of the Irish

Fusiliers in Dublin during 1916.

€ 150 - 250


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277 RODDY CONNOLLY’S FAKE PASSPORTA British passport issued purportedly to Mr. Robert James Hawthorne, actually Roddy Connolly, son of James Connolly, and used by him to visit the

Soviet Union and other countries in 1921-2. With Connolly’s genuine photograph, stamped by the (British) Foreign Office and identifying him as

Hawthorne. Much worn and used, pages loose, with various interesting stamps and visas.

As a young man of 15, Connolly served in the GPO under his father’s command, and was afterwards interned for a short time. He went to Moscow

to discuss the affiliation of the Socialist Party of Ireland to the Comintern, and met senior people there including Lenin. The fake passport was

reputedly obtained through British Communist Party contacts in London. To the untutored eye it is indistinguishable from the real thing, and may be

a genuine passport with false details inserted.

Roderic Connolly later joined the Irish Labour Party, was elected TD for Louth 1943-45, and eventually became Chairman of the Labour Party.

A unique and most interesting document.

€ 1,000 - 2,000



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278 ARMY OF THE IRISH REPUBLICJAMES CONNOLLY: HIS LAST DESPATCH FROM THE G.P.O., 1916

A cyclostyled document, printed in purple ink, 1 pp foolscap (verso blank), headed ‘Army of the Irish Republic / Headquarters (Dublin Command) / 28th April 1916’,

addressed ‘To Soldiers’, over signature ‘James Connolly / Commandant General / Dublin Division’.

‘This is the fifth day of the establishment of the Irish Republic and the flag of our country still floats from the most important buildings in Dublin, and is gallantly

protected by the Officers and Irish Soldiers in arms throughout the country .. The manhood of Ireland, inspired by our splendid action, are gathering to offer up their

lives if necessary in the same holy cause. We are here hemmed in because the enemy feels that in this building is to be found the heart and inspiration of our great

movement.

‘Let me remind you of what you have done. For the first time in 700 years the flag of a free Ireland floats triumphantly in Dublin city. The British Army .. are afraid to

advance to the attack or storm any positions held by our forces. Our Commandants around us are holding their own, etc. [mentioning Comdts. Daly, MacDonagh,

Mallin, De Valera and Kent] .. In Galway Captain Mellows .. is in the field with his men. Wexford and Wicklow are strong and Cork and Kerry are equally acquitting

themselves creditably ..

‘As you know, I was wounded twice yesterday and am unable to move about, but have got my bed moved into the firing line and with the assistance of your Officers will

be just as useful to you as ever.

‘Courage boys, we are winning and in the hour of our victory let us not forget the splendid women who have everywhere stood by us and cheered us on. Never had

man or woman a grander cause, never was a cause more grandly served.’

Connolly was wounded by a sniper’s dum-dum bullet on the Thursday of Easter Week, while accompanying a sortie towards the Independent Newspapers building. He

was able to drag himself back to the GPO, where his leg was operated on by a British forces doctor who was a prisoner of the Volunteers. The following day, Friday, he

sent for his secretary Winifred Carney and dictated the present despatch, aimed at rallying the spirit of his men, now threatened on all sides. Many of the operational

details are incorrect, but they may be taken as a guide to the information and rumours circulating in the GPO as the siege reached its height.

Later that evening the GPO was evacuated, and Connolly was carried into Moore Street, with Winifred Carney still by his side, where he signed the surrender document

and surrendered with the rest on Saturday. He was tried by court martial, and was shot by firing squad on 9 May while strapped to a chair.

This appears to be an original copy of a very rare document, Connolly’s last public statement as Commandant of the Dublin forces. A few marks, but generally in good

condition.

Provenance: From the collection of Capt. Arthur Delaney of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, who served in France and was in Dublin in the summer of 1916.

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278A CAPTAIN ARTHUR DELANEY, 10TH BATTALION OF THE ROYAL DUBLIN FUSILIERSAn archive pertaining to Arthur Delaney, Captain in the 10th battalion of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers including: a collection of seven field books detailing the in-

volvement and movements of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers during the First World War containing such information as daily schedules, stock lists, notice of wounded

and casualties, names and numbers of all men in the 10th battalion, lists of provisions, movements of the Enemy, lists of ammunition stores, correspondence

between commanding officers, syllabu.s of training lectures on gun safety, French formations, fuse safety, notes about German bombings, passwords and code-

names used during military manueouvers, including ‘Guinness’, lists of regulations, “Trench Details” and trench conduct, German field postcards, Employment

records and military information for Arthur Delaney, Royal Dublin Fusiliers Special Reserve, Royal Dublin Fusiliers Handbooks, etc;

together with personal documents including correspondence to Arthur Delaney from friends and loved ones, Nell as well as some personal friends, a Secret

Defense Service document regarding ‘Hamel Sector’ pertaining to the frontline and trench defenses; and The Irish Times Special Extra, April 25, 1916 with special

reference to the Rebellion in Dublin

€ 500 - 1,000


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278B GALOOT: THE JOURNAL OF THE 5TH BATTALION OF THE ROYAL DUBLIN FUSILIERSNo 1 (Sep 1915), No 2 (Oct 1916), No 3 (Nov 1916), Nov 4 (Dec-Jan 1915-1916), No 5 (Feb 1916) and No 6

(April-May 1916)

The first line of No 6 reads “Owing to the Sinn Fein Rebellion, it has been found necessary to cancel the

publication of our March issue

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279 THE MÁIRE GILL COLLECTION A significant archive of letters and documents from the collection of Máire (Molly) Gill, a life-long employee of the Cuala Press who was an active Republican, a member of

Sinn Fein and Cumann na mBan, detained in Kilmainham during the Civil War, for many years President of the Camogie Association. The principal contents include1.

A file containing seven autograph signed letters from female prisoners on [Kilmainham] Internment Camp notepaper, circa 1923, two from Maire’s friend A. ní Riain (no. 43) and five from ‘your loving

Friend May’ [Mrs Mary O’Carroll], cell 12 or 97; also an ALS on plain paper to Miss Butler from James Courtney, also detained in Kilmainham, with a second letter to Miss Gill dated 31.10.21, two letters

from Courtney’s wife Mary, one appealing urgently for financial help, and a few related documents including accounts of a ‘Prisoners Dependants Ceilidhe (Louth County), signed by A. Ní Riain 27.11.21.

The Kilmainham letters were of course subject to censorship, and there is little political content apart from some veiled comments; they are mostly about mutual friends, some released, others still

‘inside’, their health, parcels, letters, hopes of early release, longing to be in the fresh air again, ‘we will have a good time some day when I get out’, etc.

2.

A file including a good studio photograph of Eamon de Valera circa 1918, 8 ½ ins x 6 ½ ins; a document titled ‘Articles of Agreement for a Treaty between Great Britain and Ireland’, cyclostyled

typescript, 3 pp foolscap, apparently an early copy of De Valera’s ‘Document No. 2’, which he proposed as an alternative to the Treaty; a printed document titled ‘Mountjoy Atrocity’, unsigned, accusing

named Free State officers of attacking unarmed prisoners, scarce; a cyclostyled document headed ‘Belfast & British Trade Boycotts’, dated 25 January 1922, stating that the Dail Cabinet, having

considered the report of the meeting of Mr. Michael Collins with Sir James Craig in London , hereby direct that the Belfast Boycott be discontinued; and a one-page printed programme for a theatrical

performance by The Irish National Volunteers, Dundrum, October 2 [1914], with full lists of cast and performers, and similar programmes for October 3 and for October 4, with some variation among

the performers. No printer is named, but from their general appearance and provenance these could very well be Cuala Press printings.

3.

A file of letters and documents relating to Cumann na mBan and Sinn Fein including a cyclostyled copy of the constitution of Cumann na mBan (worn with some loss), a few pamphlets and about 25

autograph and typescript signed letters and notes, mostly relating to meetings and other arrangements, including one from F[iona] ní Phluingcéad (sister of Joseph Mary Plunkett) relating to materials

needed for field dressings, dated Dec. 1921.

4.

A file of about 20 letters and documents relating to camogie and the Camogie Association, of which Maire Gill was President for many years, including a circular about the Association’s withdrawal (for

political reasons) from the Tailteann Games 1924, a few letters about the propriety or otherwise of camogie pitches being used for lawn tennis, various notes about arrangements, typescript report of

an interview with Maire Gill about Irish Women in Sport, a copy of the camogie rule-book circa 1940, etc.

5.

A folder containing four large-format issues of Stop Press dealing with the Four Courts siege and withdrawal, dated Wednesday June 28 [1922], the first issue, Communique from the Four Court), Thurs-

day 29th, Saturday morning July 1 (no. 5) and Sunday July 2 (no. 6, the last of the large-format issues), much worn and frayed, with some loss, with a few cuttings about Countess Markiewicz and two

other Republican periodicals.

6.

A small folder containing mainly personal letters and documents, including a manuscript playscript (probably incomplete), letters, a prize certificate from a horticultural show 1920, a few tracings, etc.

Máire (Molly) Gill joined the Cuala Press as a young girl about 1908, and remained with Cuala throughout her working life. Cuala employed only women, and Molly and Esther (‘Essie’) Ryan became its

pressmen, setting type and operating the Albion hand-press on which the books and prints were made. As a young woman Molly was an active member of Inghinidhe na hÉireann, of Cumann na

mBan, and of Sinn Fein. She opposed the Treaty, and in 1923, during the Civil War, she was detained for a time in Kilmainham. Camogie apart, Molly was never a leader in the Republican movement,

but her collection gives a valuable illustration of the busy lives of those who were active supporters and foot-soldiers in the movement.


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280 CUALA PRESS.A collection including about ten hand-coloured greeting

cards, mainly early issues, with a few duplicates, an envelope

(contents not present) addressed to Miss Elizabeth C. Yeats at

Cuala, stamped ‘CENSORED BY I.R.A.’, and a few other items.

Provenance: Collection of Molly Gill.

€ 100 - 200

281 ST. DOMINIC’S PRESS, Ditchling, Sussex

A small collection of four printed ‘Rhyme-Sheets’, circa 8 ins x 5

ins, letterpress printed on laid paper, each with a wood-engraving,

numbered 6, 9, 13 and 14. The engravings not signed, but at least

two are almost certainly by the distinguished English engraver Eric

Gill. Rare items.

Provenance: Collection of Molly Gill

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282 CLARKE, KATHLEEN, LORD MAYOR OF DUBLIN. An attractive New Year remembrance card from the Mansion House, 4 pp (single folded sheet), on heavy paper, specially produced by the Cluna

Studio, marking the 25th anniversary of the 1916 Rising. The cover with a hand coloured drawing of the General Post Office, Dublin, under a

scroll with the date 1916, a Four Provinces shield and a Phoenix flame, inscribed inside with ‘Greetings from [manuscript signature] Caitlín Bean

Uí Chléirigh, Lord Mayor’.

Kathleen Clarke, a niece of the Limerick Fenian John Daly, was the widow of Tom Clarke, first signatory of the 1916 Proclamation. She had

wished to join her husband in the GPO, but was asked to remain at home and prepare to assist the survivors after the Rising. She did so very

successfully by establishing the Irish National Aid & Volunteer Dependants Fund, where she gave Michael Collins his first position of responsibility

as Secretary.

She opposed the Treaty, and in 1926 joined the new Fianna Fail party and became an executive member. In 1939 she was the first woman to be

elected Lord Mayor of Dublin. It is said she declined a request from Eamon de Valera that she should stand aside in favour of Margaret Pearse,

reputedly saying to him ‘Tom Clarke’s widow stands aside for nobody!’ She left Fianna Fail in 1944 after criticising the treatment of Republican

hunger strikers.

A rare and attractive item, in very good condition.

€ 200 - 250

283 EAMONN CEANNT AND SIR CHARLES CAMERON A menu card for the Ninth Annual Dinner of the D.M.O.A. (Dublin Municipal Officers Association), 4 pp (single folded sheet), at the

Dolphin Hotel, December 22nd 1910, in honour of (Sir) Charles A. Cameron, Chief Medical Analyst for Dublin, the embossed card

bearing a portrait of Cameron over his manuscript signature, details of the menu inside, list of toasts to rear, where Mr. Eamonn

Ceannt is listed to propose the toast of ‘The D.M.O.A.’.

This is the IRB leader, athlete, musician and signatory of the 1916 Proclamation, executed on 8 May 1916 for his part in the Rising.

Born in Glenamaddy in Co. Galway, where his father was an R.I.C. officer, he worked as a clerk in Dublin Corporation, and became

Chairman of the D.M.O.A. The menu card has a notable national orientation, the toasts including ‘Ireland a Nation’ and ending with

the Manchester Martyrs slogan ‘A Dhia Saor Eire’.

Sir Charles Cameron [1830-1921], a chemist by training, was for many years Dublin’s Chief Medical Analyst. He promoted many

reforms in sanitation, slum clearance and public health. Among many other achievements, he discovered the deposit of kaolin clay

which led to the founding of the Beleek pottery. In 1916, aged 85, he inspected the internment camp at Frongoch in Wales at the re-

quest of the British Home Secretary. His report is thought to have led to the release of the prisoners. He had a European reputation,

and was well regarded by all parties.

A very rare survival, linking two remarkable men, a little dusty but generally in good condition.

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285 50 COPIES ONLY PUBLISHED - ST. ENDA’S COLLEGE. AN SCOLÁIRE, 1913. Desmond Ryan’s set.

An extensive run (probably complete) of this very rare cyclostyled school magazine prepared and published by the pupils of Pearse’s school St. Enda’s, 1913, Vol. 1 number 1-2-3-4, 6-7-8-9 (16.4.13 -

7.6.13), lacking only No. 5 from the first 9 numbers (probably all published). Small quarto, cyclostyled, generally 8 pp or 12 pp (folded sheets), the Roneo plates written in manuscript in several hands, with

some cartoon drawings. With a copy of ‘Le Petit Patriote’, Vol. 1 No. 1, St. Enda’s, 10 May 1913, ‘For the Students of Prep. & Junior Grades Only’, 4 pp (same format, single folded sheet). Judging by the

publication date, this is probably the missing No. 5 of An Scoláire, since it falls between no. 4 (4.5.13) and 6 (17.5.13).

In the last number of Pearse’s printed magazine ‘An Macaomh’ [Vol. II no. 2, May 1913], he states that ‘There exists at St. Enda’s a trilingual newspaper called “An Sgoláire” [sic], of which fifty copies are

printed on a Roneo reduplicator every week and sold at a penny a copy. It is owned and edited by the boys themselves, and owes its existence to a movement which originated among them. The politics

of the paper centres largely round the question as to whether cricket should be played as a summer game by Irish boys. School work and play are chronicled from week to week, and school personalities

discussed and criticised in prose, verse and cartoon. Most of the contributions are in the nature of jeux d’esprit; some are manfully propagandist. A few seem to me touched with that literary grace which

is as recognisable and as indefineable as a personal grace ..’

The first number states that ‘An Scoláire, the students’ paper, is today presented to the Endaian Republic. Its aim & policy are embodied in its name. To make you true scholars, earnest and lively, self

restrained and self reliant, to make you live and laugh, to love each other and dear old Ireland, such is its purpose. God grant it success, may it prove a blessing to all. Read it; write for it; criticise it, make

it both your own in character [and] in outlook. Make the spirit of School Eanna pervade it. Let the glory of Ireland inspire it. In a word: May it be the herald of a glorious day: the day when Ireland will be

“A Nation once again”.’

It is not formally a Pearse item, since the content was clearly determined entirely by the students themselves. Nevertheless, the freshness and variety of the material testifies eloquently to the quality of the

school which Pearse and his fellow-masters had established, and the extent to which its pupils felt themselves jointly responsible for their own education and formation. It is difficult to imagine the students

of any other Irish secondary school, in 1913, producing a magazine of such quality.

Desmond Ryan, who owned this set, was later Pearse’s secretary and fought in the GPO. He edited Pearse’s writings on St. Enda’s, ‘The Story of a Success’, and wrote historical works including biographies

of Pearse and Connolly.

An important item, and a great rarity, generally in very good condition considering its nature. The National Library of Ireland has a run of Nos. 1-9, otherwise only odd copies are found. St. Enda’s itself

apparently does not have a full set.

In a custom made folding box.

Provenance: Family of Muriel Gahan, a gift from a relative of Desmond Ryan, who was a student at St. Enda’s.

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286 PEARSE, P.H. (EDITOR). AN MACAOMH. VOL. II. NO. 2 [MAY 1913].The final number of Pearse’s periodical published at St. Enda’s, actually no. 4 [the numbering is confusing, running

Vol. I no. 1, Vol. I no. 2, Vol. II no. 3, Vol. II no. 2]. Sm qto, orig. grey wrs, 50 pp. Includes poems by Padraic Colum and

Thomas MacDonagh, as well as much Pearse and St. Enda’s material. A good clean copy, scarce.

(with)

Sgoil Éanna. Feile Éanna 1909. [Programme for] ‘An Naomh ar Iarraidh’, by An Craoibhín Aoibhinn [Douglas Hyde]

and ‘The Coming of Fionn’ by ‘Stainisléis Ó Grádaigh’ [Standish O’Grady], performed by pupils at St. Enda’s. Draw-

ing by P. Ó Tuathaigh [Patrick Tuohy], also a pupil at St. Enda’s. Introduction by Pearse,poem by Thomas MacDonagh.

12 pp quarto, cover printed in red and black. Stapled, soiled and worn but complete.(2)

€ 100 - 200

287 SELF-DETERMINATION LEAGUE OF GREAT BRITAIN PROPAGANDA POSTERS (5)

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288 THE SHAN VAN VOCHT, a monthly Republican magazine edited by Alice Millligan and published in Belfast.

Single issue, central pages in photocopy

€ 50 - 100

289 A COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTS RELATING TO PEACE NEGOTIATIONS OF 1921 including Dail Eirann Official Correspondence relating to the Peace Negotiations June-September 1921,

printed in Dublin, October 1921; Typed pages ‘Mr. Bartons Notes of sub-conferences held December 5th

and 6th at Downing Street’ rubber stamped ‘SECRET’; Mr. Michael Collins, minutes of his interview with Mr.

Loyd George at 10 Downing Street December 5th 1921, rubber stamped ‘SECRET’; Arthur Griffith Michael

Collins A Pictorial Record, printed by Martin Lester Ltd, Dublin

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290 POLITICAL LEAFLETSA very good collection of circa 30 political leaflets for the General Elections of 1932, 1938, 1943, 1944, 1947,

also some corporation and borough elections, mostly Dublin area but some from West Cork, issued by parties

including Fianna Fail, Cumann na nGael, Fine Gael, Labour, National Labour, Clann na Poblachta, and indepen-

dents including Alfred Byrne junior (son of Alfie) and J. Travers Wolfe (elected in West Cork in 1932), includes

some rare items.

€ 80 - 120

291 CIRCA 1900S-1920S. REBEL SONGS AND VERSE

INCLUDING THE SOLDIER’S SONG, THE WALLS OF DERRY, SAVE THE PEELERS, THE MEN OF THE BOLD IRA ETC.This is one of the first printed versions of the Soldier’s Song.

Others include The Mountjoy Boarding House, The Battle of the

Four Courts, Cathal Brúgha, as well as The Boys of Kilmichael

accompanied by news cuttings relating to the ambush on Black

and Tans in which 16 were killed by the IRA. A scarce and valu-

able collection. (17 sheets plus cuttings).

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292 THE FIRST DAILO’Connor (Fergus) Publisher. “The Declaration of Irish Independence.” Official English Translation. Historic

Pronouncement of Ireland’s Freedom from English Rule, made at the first meeting of Dail Eireann (Ireland’s

Republican Parliament) in the Mansion House Dublin, on Tuesday January 21st, 1919, roy 8vo 3pp (single folded

sheet) some colour fading, & stains on cover. Extremely Rare.* An extremely rare document. The declaration

states that ‘whereas the Irish people is by right a free people: and whereas for seven-hundred years the Irish

people has never ceased to repudiate and has repeatedly protested in arms against foreign usurpation…. Now

therefore we, the elected representatives of the ancient Irish people in National Parliament, Assembled, do, in

the name of the Irish Nation, ratify the establishment of the Irish Republic and pledge ourselves and our people

to make this declaration effective by every means at our command...’ The declaration was adopted by acclama-

tion, as the first substantive business on the first day’s meeting of The First Dail, when the Sinn Fein M.P.s elect-

ed at the British General Election of 1918 (those not in jail) met & declared themselves to be Ireland’s sovereign

Parliament. This document was vehemently suppressed by the British, and very few copies have survived. (1)

€ 400 - 600

293 1919 DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCEDeclaration of Independence. Scéal on Dáil Chum Saor-Náisiun An Domhain. Message to the Free Nations and

Democratic Programme. Adopted by Dáil Éireann in the Mansion House, Dublin Tuesday January 21 1919. An

extremely rare document. The declaration states that ‘whereas the Irish people is by right a free people: and

whereas for seven hundred years the Irish people has never ceased to repudiate and has repeatedly protested

in arms against foreign usurpation... Now therefore we, the elected representatives of the ancient Irish people

in National Parliament, Assembled, do, in the name of the Irish Nation, ratify the establishment of the Irish

Republic and pledge ourselves and this day’s meeting of the First Dáil, when the Sinn Féin MP’s elected at the

British General Election of 1918 (those not in jail) met & declared themselves to be Ireland’s sovereign Parlia-

ment. This document was vehemently suppressed by the British, and very few copies have survived. 20 x13 cm

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294 1919 DAIL EIREANN FIRST MEETING ADMISSION TICKETIssued to S. Ní Bhraonáin by Piaras Beaslaí TD who later wrote

Michael Collins’ biography. Scarce. 8x 11cm

€ 150 - 250

295 1919 DAIL EIREANN FIRST MEETING 21 JANUARY ADMITTANCE CARD SIGNED BY HARRY BOLAND

Issued to Gregory Ashe (father of Thomas Ashe) and D. O’Gallagher.

This is the first issue of the ticket with the incorrect date 22 instead of

21, corrected in ink. 11 x 8cms

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296 THE REPUBLICAN OATH A printed document dated 13 June 1921, text in Irish and in English, addressed to Mrs.

Clarke as duly elected member (of the Second Dail) for Dublin City (Mid), with the text

of the Oath of Allegiance to the Irish Republic to be taken by each member, signed by

Diarmuid Ó hÉigeartaigh, Secretary, Dáil Éireann; also a cyclostyled Dail summons dated

8.8.21. * This was the Republican oath which caused so much heart-searching during

the Treaty debate, because of the conflict between it and the Oath of Allegiance to King

George required of the deputies under the Treaty. Kathleen Clarke, in her address on

the Treaty, said ‘ I took an oath to the Irish Republic, solemnly, reverently, meaning every

word of it. I shall never go back from that.’ (2)

€ 300 - 500

297 SINN FEIN A RANGE OF PAMPHLETS, LEAFLETS, NOTICES, ARD FHEIS TICKETS including 1922, etc. Including Ethics of Sinn Féin, Scheme of Organisation

by Cathal Brugha, etc. (8)

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300 CLÁR NA CUAIRD. DECORATION DAY, 15 NOVEMBER 1917.A printed List of Graves in Glasnevin of those who gave their lives for Ireland, 1848--1916-7, listing over 60 names,

including seven in the Patriot Plot. Oblong quarto, printed one side only, published by the National Graves’ Committee,

printed by the Gaelic Press.

Those listed in the Patriot Plot included Mrs Thomas MacDonagh, who died in a swimming accident, but not her husband

and the other 1916 signatories, whose bodies at this time were still in Kilmainham where they were shot. About 40 of

those listed here died in 1916, mostly during the Rising.

With

[CASEMENT, ROGER]

A Bill to provide for the transfer to Ireland of the remains of Sir Roger Casement.

London, HMSO, Bill 90, Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printed, 14 March 1961. With list of sponsors, mainly

left-wing Labour MPs including Emrys Hughes, George Thomas and Stanley Silverman. 2pp, stitched into plastic cover.

Rare.

* The Bill was unsuccessful, but in 1965 Harold Wilson’s Labour Government accepted a similar proposal and Case-

ment’s remains were returned to Dublin, where a State funeral conveyed them to Glasnevin Cemetery. (2)

€ 100 - 150

298 AUSTIN CLARKE The Sun Dances at Easter. A Romance. London, Melrose,

1952, First Edition. Inscribed on f.e.p., Sean MacBride /

With best wishes / Austin Clarke / Autumn '52

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301 BATTLE OF ASHBOURNE, 1916 R.I.C. Defeated: Leabhar Cuimhneachain 1916 - Ashbourne Memorial Book,

8vo D. c. 1960. A Souvenir Booklet, illus. orig. decor. wrappers. Scarce;

together with a 1921 War of Independence Service Medal and a Seirbhis Naisi-

unta Na Forsai Cosanta Medal, issued during The Emergency 1939-1946 to the

Defence Forces, two bars, ribbon and clasp (3)

€ 300 - 500

302 O’DONOVAN ROSSA MEMORIAL COMMITTEEA good example of the original photograph showing the full Committee, 1915, 11

x 15 ins, including De Valera and Thomas MacDonagh in Volunteer uniform, John

MacBride, Tom Clarke etc.,

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304 DENIS ‘DINNY’ LACEY (1889-1923) A monochrome memorial card, c. 14 x 8.5cm, with oval portrait between

the inscriptions ‘Died for Ireland, Feb 18th 1923’ and ‘Denis Lacey - Killed

in Action - Glen of Aherlow’, rare, in metal and glass frame.

Lacey was an Irish Republican Army officer during the Irish War of Inde-

pendence, commanding the 3rd Tipperary Brigade, and anti-Treaty IRA

officer during the Irish Civil War.

€ 150 - 250

303 THOMAS ASHE FUNERALA card admitting bearer to the graveside, Glasnevin, Sunday Sept. 30th [1917],

signed by Sean McGarry, President, Wolfe Tone Memorial Executive.

Thomas Ashe, from Kerry, was the most successful of the 1916 commanders.

He died while on hunger strike, probably due to force-feeding.

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305 A RECTANGULAR METAL PLATE reproducing the well known oval portrait of Kevin Barry, the plate 12.5cm

x 8.5cm

€ 100 - 200

306 ASSOCIATION COPY[Plunkett (Joseph M.)] Signatory of The 1916 Proclamation. Da Vinci (Leon-

ardo). A Treatise on Painting, 8vo L. 1721 FIRST ENGLISH EDN., Engd. port.

frontis, red. & bl. title, engd. titles (some lacking), orig. calf, worn, lr. cover

detached. As an association, w.a.f.

Front paste down inscribed ‘Joseph M. Plunkett Sept. 1908,’ together with

some faded pencil sketches, books from Joseph Mary Plunkett’s Library

extremely rare.

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307 DAIL EIREANN.Minutes of Proceedings, Official Record, 1919-21; December 1921-January 1922

(Treaty Debate); August 1921-June 1922. 3 vols green cloth (reprints).

€ 150 - 250

308 LIAM DE ROISTE’S COPY DAIL EIREANN 1919 - 1922 Minutes of Proceedings of the First Parliament of the Republic

of Ireland 1919 - 1921 - Official Record, 8vo D. 1921, inscribed

by Liam de Roiste on front free end; = also Debate on the Treaty

between Great Britain and Ireland, - Official Report, 8vo D. 1921,

both orig. green cloth, & v. good. Rare. (2)

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310 MICHAEL COLLINS - DAIL EIREANN An Cheud Tionol [First Assembly], Dia Mairt [Tuesday] 21 Ea-

nair [January] 1919. Admission ticket issued to Miss A. Coyne,

with manuscript signature of Micheal O Coileain, Teachta

[Member]. Blue printed card, 3 ins x 4 1/2 ins.

€ 800 - 1,200

309 PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST DAIL DAIL EIREANN: DAIL EIREANN.Tuairisc Infheidhmeach ar Sheiseon an Mheithimh, 17adh - 19adh (Session June 17 - 19, 1919).

Printed text in Irish followed by English version, reporting the Dail business and debates in de-

tail, including appointment of Arthur Griffith as Acting President in the Absence of the President,

Eamon de Valera. Business included a resolution of thanks to American Congress, Acting - Pres-

idents’ Address, departmental reports, Ministerial proposals etc. 8vo 16pp, orig. ptd. wrappers,

somewhat browned and spotted. An exceptionally rare item. (1)

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313 ILLUMINATED ADDRESS OF WELCOME PRESENTED BY THE LORD MAYOR OF DUBLIN TO IVOR BARON WIMBORNE,

Lord Lieutenant General and Governor General of Ireland

€ 200 - 400

311 “FOR THEIR COUNTRY THEY DIED”An attractive contemporary memorial depicting Padraig Pearse, Tom Clarke,

Edward Daly, Thomas MacDonagh and The O’Rahilly “Who died for Ireland

- R.I.P.”, signed “Sheahan” and dated “June 10th ‘16”, on card, 62 x 54cm,

framed.

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314 MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMAA copy of the Classiebawn Castle Guide Book, 1962, cover torn with loss, with a

good ALS laid in on the Castle’s headed notepaper, dated 29th August 1974, to a

named Detective Garda, sending him a photo (not present) ‘As a token of grati-

tude for looking after our family so well’.

With a small framed oil painting of the Castle, similarly inscribed and signed rear.

Louis Lord Mountbatten died some five years later, in 1979, when an IRA unit

detonated explosives in his boat at Classiebawn.

(2)

€ 150 - 250

315 LORD MOUNTBATTENA TLS with handwritten additions dated 17th December 1962, on Ministry of

Defence headed paper, in thanks for a Christmas card and mentioning his

wife’s death in 1960.

€ 70 - 100

315A [1798 REBELLION]A commerative green silk panel, embroidered with repeated depictions

of Robert Emmet and Henry Joy Mc Gracken, and Wolfe Tone facing Lord Ed-

ward Fitzgerald under an embroidered title 'Remember '98' 59x59cms

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316 1916 ALLMAN’S PURE IRISH POT STILL WHISKEY40 Under Proof (34%abv), fill level to shoulder, with driven cork showing visible shrinking,

all consistent with age. Original label present but worn. Extremely scarce.

Distilled in 1916 by the (long vanished) Bandon distillery in West Cork and bottled by the (long vanished) Nun’s Island Distillery in Galway, the bottle may be the oldest unopened expression of Irish single

pot still whiskey sold in modern times. Originally owned by a Captain R.E. Palmer and bottled by the Galway Persse family who once supplied their whiskeys to the House of Commons, the bottle was even

strangely proximate to the turbulent politics of its age. Its distillery’s owner, Richard Allman, had even served as Liberal MP for Bandon during the rise of Charles Stewart Parnell’s Home Rule movement

and, aside from its connections to Irish history, the distillery he presided over ran almost directly alongside the legendary rise and tragic collapse of Irish whiskey itself.

Founded in 1826 following the 1823 excise reforms often credited as the midwife of Irish whiskey’s first great global boom, the Bandon distillery survived the rise of Father Mathew’s Cork Total Absti-

nence Society, the Famine, and stiff competition from its enormous Dublin and Belfast competitors to become one of the most celebrated Irish producers of the age. When the English journalist Alfred

Barnard (often regarded as the father of whiskey commentary) came to visit in 1886, he described it as the most successful rural distillery in Ireland, with barley plentifully supplied by local farmers and

an internal village of around 200 employees including coopers, carpenters, coppersmiths, maltmen, and of course, the master distiller “C. McPherson”. The malting facility was second only to Guinness

and aside from its own barrels, the distillery also imported specially sherry-seasoned casks from Cadiz. Although this is now common practice in the world of fine whiskeys, Allman claimed to have been

one of the first distillers in Ireland to do so. At a time when Irish whiskey was outselling Scotch three cases to one, Allman’s whiskey even earned a popular following in Scotland and would have been a

key brand there during the 1860s when, according to Scottish whisky historian Charles MacLean, imported Irish whiskeys like Allmans were actually outselling their Caledonian cousins in Edinburgh itself!

From the perspective of whiskey history, however, the bottle’s real importance to posterity may actually lie with the writing on the label. Today, the resurgent Irish whiskey industry and its admirers are

very eager to talk about a style called “Irish pot still” or “single pot still” whiskey, a uniquely Hibernian varietal closely tied to the recipes and procedures that first put Irish whiskey into snifters around the

globe. Although it must be batch-distilled in a pot still (a device also used to make almost all single malts and many artisan American whiskeys), the style is actually defined by the grain ingredients run

through that still (a mixture of malt with a fine grist of “green” unmalted barley for texture and spice). Whiskey made in a pot still without the green barley is not, by this definition, “Irish pot still whiskey”.

Originally introduced as a means of dodging the notorious Malt Tax, the use of raw barley has been a feature of Irish whiskey since the 18th century and although the less efficient green barley produced

lower yields, the practice was so ingrained in the taste of many Irish whiskeys that the practice remained even after the tax was repealed in October 1880 (coincidently only a few months after Richard

Allman entered parliament).

Although the recipe was undoubtedly a staple of Irish distilling, the practices of the Bandon distillery provide critics with one of the clearest arguments that, even in Victorian times, this ingredient-based

definition was clearly understood as, according to Barnard, the distillery separated its barley into raw gristing and malting facilities and ran them through two distinct runs in order to make “both Old

Pot Still Whisky, designated Irish, and Pure Malt Whisky, both of a superior quality”. The bottle here comes from their Pure Irish Pot Still stock. To contemporary connoisseurs, this bottle is arguably a

touchstone to the provenance of Irish whiskey’s distinct culinary heritage.

For all that history, however, the Bandon distillery was hit by the same twentieth century factors of war, prohibition, and competition from cheaper more rapidly produced blended whiskeys that

decimated the country’s old pot still classics and almost resulted in the extinction of the style. In 1925 Bandon was forced to close, missing its own centenary by just a few months. Trading as “Allman,

Dowden and Co.”, its agents continued selling off stocks until 1939, which is most likely the reason for this expression’s bottling in Galway (on the grounds of yet another proud Irish pot still distillery

closed during the collapse). Very few bottles have survived to modernity and, although the Old Still Bar (converted from the distillery offices) proudly retained a bottle until 1971, most of the contents

boiled away in a tragic fire that struck the pub that year. Like the Irish pot still industry itself, the once notorious liquid pride of Cork simply evaporated through the bottle’s cork and left the world without

a taste. That is, until the discovery of this bottle today.

€ 6,000 - 10,000


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246317 THEUNIS, JACOBSZ.(1606-1650)

Printer and publisher, also known as “Lootsman” (Pilot), issued in 1643 De Lichtende

Columne ofte Zee-Spiegel. As with other Dutch cartographers, there were many

subsequent editions and alternative languages entitled Le Grand & Nouveau Miroir

ou Flambeau de la Mer and The Lightening Column or Sea Mirrour When he died

in 1650 the plates were transferred to Pieter Goos who continued to publish the

Atlas under the same title. Theunis Jacobsz`s widow and son later produced a

new pilot-guide entitled Niewe en Vergroote Zee Boeck (1652-4) but by 1654 a new

version of the Zee-Spiegel was ready, with new plates. Finally his sons produced

the Niewe Water-Wereld ofte Zee Atlas in 1666 with only one Irish chart, similar to

those of Doncker and Goos.

Set of Four Charts of the Irish Coast including South-east, North-east, North-west

and South-west

(i) “De Zuyd Oost zyde van Yerlandt Van Dubling tot aet t`Eylandt Corkbeg.”; (ii) “De

Noord-oost zyde van Yerlandt van Caap de Hoorn tot aen Hedehde en als mede

hoe t`van Schotlandt gelegen is.”; (iii) “De Noordwest zyde van Yerlandt Beginninde

van Capo de Hoorn tot aen Schynrs, ofte Slyne-head.”; (iv) “De west custen van

Yerlandt Beginninde van Corckbeg tot aen Slyne-hooft.” Set of four charts of the

Irish coast from the 1643 edition of De Lichtende Columne ofte Zee-Spiegel, English

edition. They have numbers 41-44 in the lower right corner and verso blank. 530

x 410.

Provenance: The Richard S.J. Clarke Collection

€600 - 800

317A JOSEPH HUDDARTA Chart of the North Coast of Ireland

Laurie & Whittle (1794). 795 x 525


€150 - 250



247


317B ABRAHAM ORTELIUS (MINIATURE)Ireland

Plate 3. Engraved by Philip Galle.

Published by Peter Heyns (1603).

English text. Abl P96.

Provenance: The Richard S.J.

Clarke Collection

€50 - 100

318 GERARD MERCATOR (1512-1594)A Set a Five Maps

From the English Edition of Mercator’s

Atlas Minor. This edition 1635. English

text on verso (1635). Abl P166 (1-5).

c.185 x 133

Provenance: The Richard S.J. Clarke

Collection

€150 - 250




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318A GERARD MERCATOR (1512-1594)The Complete Irish Section (five maps and six

pages of text)

From Mercator’s Atlas Minor with Cloppenburg

Plates. (1630). French text on verso. Abl 176.

(1-5)


€1,000 - 1,500

318B JOAN BLAEU (1596-1673)A Set of Six Maps

Ireland, the Four Provinces and Caterlogh. From the

Latin edition of 1662, the maps having the extra ships.

Latin text on verso. Abl 56.


€1,000 - 1,500



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319 JOAN BLAEU (1596-1673)Four Maps of Irish Provinces and Caterlogh,

Munster, Ulster, Connaught, Leinster and Udrone.

(1654). Latin text on verso. Abl 48. (5)


€600 - 1,000

319A JOHANNES JANSSEN (1588-1664)A Set of Five Maps, Ireland, Munster, Leinster, Con-

naught, Ulster.

From Vol IV of the German edition of his Atlas Novus,

1638. Abl ME120. (5)


€1,500 - 2,000




250

319B MERCATOR / HONDIUSA Set of Five Maps, Ireland, The Northern Part, the

Southern Part, Ultonia and Udrone.

From the 1619 French edition of the Atlas sive

Cosmographicae. Black and white. Abl P145. (1-5)

c.470 x 340


€600 - 1,000

320 NICHOLAS VISSCHERHiberniæ Regnum

1710. 474 x 562. Abl DS 4


€200 - 400



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320A THOMASO PORCACCHI (1530-1585)Irland

From his L’Isole Pio Famose de

Mondo (1572) published in Venice

in 1572. 150 x 110. Abl P26.

Provenance: The Richard S.J. Clarke

Collection

€600 - 1,000

320B SIR WILLIAM PETTY AND GEORGE WILDEY (1707-1737)A Map of Ireland and a Map of Munster,

Connaught, Leinster and Ulster. From issued

separately or as a collection to be included in

composite atlases of the day. 560 x 440. Abl

24(ii). (5)


€800 - 1,200





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321 PETER KNUTTEL (B.1945)From Liberty Hall to the GPO - Easter - Dublin 1916

Watrecolour, 49 x 39cm

Signed and inscribed with title

€ 400 - 600

322 SIÂN GRIFFIN (20TH/ 21ST CENTURY)The Easter Rising 1916

Pencil on paper, 33 x 45cm

Signed, inscribed with title and dated 2014

€ 300 - 400



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323 SIÂN GRIFFIN (20TH/ 21ST CENTURY)Half length portrait of Michael Collins in uniform

Pencil on paper, 40.5 x 31cm

Signed and dated 2015

€ 300 - 400

324 SIÂN GRIFFIN (20TH/ 21ST CENTURY)Michael Collins Leading the Volunteers

Pencil on paper, 40.5 x 57.5cm

Signed and dated 2011

€ 400 - 500




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325 POSTER - COLLEGE GREEN MEMORIAL 1924A monochrome printed poster depicting the temporary monument in memory of the

16th Irish Division. The Irish Times estimated that 50,000 people were present at this

ceremony. The Celtic Cross was temporarily erected in College Green for later transport

to Guillemont, France, to stand as a permanent memorial to the dead of the 16th Irish

Division.”

Together with another poster of Grattan’s Parliament and a portrait poster of Edward

Carson. As a collection, w.a.f. (3)

€ 80 - 120

326 AFTER SEAN O’SULLIVAN (1906-1964)Tom Clarke

Lithographic print, 42 x 32cm

With printed signatures of both artist and sitter

€ 50 - 100



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327 PALM SKERRETT (20TH/21ST CENTURY)Liberation, 1916

Oil on canvas, 76 x 127cm

Signed. Signed and inscribed verso

€ 600 - 1,000

328 THE BLACKSMITH OF BALLINALEEAn original photographic print circa 4 ins x 6 ins showing a large

group of uniformed Free State soldiers and a few civilians, posed

around an 18-pounder gun, probably during the ‘Truce’ in 1922,

a mediaeval abbey behind them. The tall officer in back row sec-

ond from left is probably General Sean Mac Eoin, the ‘blacksmith

of Ballinalee’. The signing of the truce agreement was delayed

by Michael Collins until the British agreed to release Gen. Mac

Eoin, who was in prison under sentence of death.

€ 80 - 120




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330 FRED PEGRAW (1870-1937)The Parnell Commission or The Trial of the Pigott Forgeries

Eleven individual pencil illustrations on paper, framed as one, 30.5 x 72cm

Signed, dated (18)’89 and inscribed with titles and sitters’ names

In May 1882, the Chief Secretary for Ireland Lord Frederick Cavendish and the Permanent Under-Secretary for Ireland T.H. Burke were stabbed to

death in Phoenix Park, Dublin by the Irish National Invincibles. The event became known as “The Phoenix Park Murders”.

Shortly after this, a member of the Land League, Meath journalist, Richard Pigott left the League after a dispute with its Treasurer involving em-

bezzlement of funds. Pigott turned on his former political associates and began to publish articles attacking and vilifying members of the league,

in particular its President and Irish Parliamentary Party leader, Charles Stewart Parnell who had publicly condemned the Phoenix Park Murders.

In an attempt to destroy Parnell’s political career, Pigott forged a number of letters bearing Parnell’s signature and asserting both his involvement

in and support for the murders. These letters appeared in The Times in March 1887 leading to public uproar.

The Parnell Commission was the government initiated judicial inquiry set up to investigate the charges made against Parnell and the Home Rule

party. Parnell’s principal lawyer in the trial was Charles Russell, later Baron Russell of Killowen and the third Lord Chief Justice of England, illustrat-

ed in this lot alongside both Parnell and Pigott.

The inquiry eventually led to the vindication of Parnell, finding him innocent after Piggtt admitted, under the pressure of questioning, to having

forged the letters. Parnell’s name was fully cleared and The Times paid a large sum of money in compensation.

On Parnell’s return to Parliament, he received a standing ovation from his fellow MPs. Pigott meanwhile, fled to Madrid where he was found dead

in his hotel room by police after shooting himself.

€ 700 - 1,000


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332 A COLLECTION OF FOUR MONOCHROME PHOTOGRAPHS depicting a military parade including armoured vehicles, Easter Monday, April 18th, 1949,

the day the Republic of Ireland officially left the British Commonwealth, 12 cm height;

together with three monochrome photographs depicting the Blue Huzzars on parade on

O’Connell Street, circa 1940’s, 11.5cm height.

€ 100 - 150

333 JOHN O’LEARYRecollections of Fenians and Fenianism. 1896. Vol. II only, heavily worn. With what may

be the signature of Sean MacDiarmada on half title, red cloth covers, Sold w.a.f.

€ 100 - 200



259


334 MEMOIRS OF THE DIFFERENT REBELLIONS IN IRELANDDublin, 1801, a handsome volume with ¾ leather spine and marbled boards, containing 8 out of 10

maps (2 missing), some pages cut.

€ 0 - 0

335 ROYAL SOUTH DOWN REGIMENT Standing Orders, 1862

Belfast, 1865, red cloth boards with gilt letters with signature to title

page.

€ 80 - 120

336 MITCHEL (J.) JAIL JOURNAL, Five Years in British Prison, 8vo N.Y.

1854, FIRST EDN., inscribed on front loose end Denny Lane Esq.,

from his obliged friend F.M.J., August 9th, 1855, badly foxed as

usual, original embossed cloth, gilt. Good & V. Scarce. (1)

€ 400 - 600





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338 MUNICIPAL BOUNDARIES COMMISION (IRELAND) 1880Including maps of the proposed boundaries for the following: Antrim; Ardee; Arklow; Armagh; Athlone; Athy; Aughnacloy; Bagenalstown; Balbrig-

gan; Ballinasloe; Ballina; Ballymena; Ballyshannon; Ballymoney; Ballybay; Banbridge; Bandon; Bangor; Belturbet; Boyle; Bray; Callan; Carlow; Car-

rick-on-Suir; Carrickfergus; Carrickmacross; Cashel; Castlebar; Castleblaney; Cavan, Clonakilty; Clones; Clonmel; Coleraine; Cootehil; Cookstown;

Drogheda; Dromore; Dublin; Downpatrick; Dundalk; Dungarvan; Dungannon; Ennis; Enniscorthy; Enniskillen; Fermoy; Feathard; Galway; Gilford;

Gorey; Holywood; Keady; Kells; Killiney; Kilkenny; Kinsale; Larne; Letterkenny; Limavady; Limerick; Lismore; Lisburn; Londonderry; Longford;

Loughrea; Lurgan; Mallow; Maryborough; Middleton; Monaghan; Mountmellick; Mullingar; Naas; Navan; Nenagh; Newbridge; Newross; Newry;

Newtown Ards; Omagh; Parsonstown; Portadown; Queenstown; Rathkeele; Roscommon; Skibbereen; Sligo; Strabane; Tanderagee; Templemore;

Thurles; Tipperary; Tralee; Trim; Tuam; Tullamore; Waterford; Westport; Wexford, Wicklow and Youghal. Recording Present Boundary; Propsed

boundary of Outer Area & Proposed Boundary of Inner Area, in scale of two inches to one mile. Folio, in recent crimson cloth boards, rare.

€ 1,500 - 2,000


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340 T. M. KETTLE, “AN IRISHMAN’S CALENDAR”, Dublin, Browne & Nolan Limited.

together with Sinn Fein Ard-Feis admission card for Richard Doyle, 1922 and an

Irish Prayer Book from Ballykinlar inscribed “Seamus McGrath, Hut 37, Camp 1,

Ballkinlar, Co. Down”

€ 200 - 300

341 HUGHES (KATHERINE) English Atrocities in Ireland, A Compilation of Facts from Court and Press

Records. 8vo N.Y. Published by Friends of Irish Freedom. N.d. [c. 1920].

FIRST & ONLY EDN., 63pp., orig. ptd. wrappers, in recent mor. backed

marbled boards. A very good copy. (1)

€ 200 - 300



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342 ILLUSTRATIONS BY MAUD GONNE[Maud Gonne Illustrator.]

Young (Ella) The Rose of Heaven,Poems, sm. 4to D. (Candle Press) 1920. FIRST EDN., LIMITED (167) to

350 Copies. With 24 illustrations & decorations by Maud Gonne, uncut, orig. decor. boards. V. good &

Scarce. (1)

€ 250 - 350

343 [PEARSE (P.H.)] O’BUACHALLA (S.)ED. The Letters of P.H. Pearse, 8vo L. 1980, FIRST EDN., d.w. v. good. A very

useful reference;

Pearse (Mary Brigid)ed. The Home Life of Padraic Pearse, d. [1934]. FIRST

EDN., illus.; & another. (3)

€ 100 - 150




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344 I.R.A. FIGHTING STORIES, Kerryman Ltd. Tralee, Co. Kerry, etc., Publishers: Dublin Fighting Story; Limerick’s Fighting Story;

Rebel Cork’s Fighting Story; With the I.R.A. in the Fight For Freedom 1919 to the Truce,; and O’Cal-

laghan (M.) For Ireland and Freedom - Roscommon’s Contribution to the Fight for Independence,

8vo Boyle 1964. Together 5 books, all illus., & orig. ptd. wrappers, very good. A very good set of

these scarce histories. (5)

€ 500 - 800


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346 THE BIRMINGHAM SIX: AN APPALLING VISTA, ed. Oscar Gilligan.

No. 3 of a special limited edition of 100 copies of this

work, signed by seven leading writers and painters

including Louis le Brocquy, Seamus Heaney, Thomas

Kinsella and Francis Stuart.

Litereire Publishers, Dublin, December 1990, a fine copy

in hard covers and original wrapper. A splendid antholo-

gy of support, rare in this condition.

€ 600 - 800

347 THE BIRMINGHAM SIX: AN APPALLING VISTA, ed. Oscar Gilligan.

The same, a copy of the ordinary edition in soft covers, but signed on half title

and verso of cover (evidently at the launch) by a range of writers and artists

including Seamus Heaney, Robert Ballagh, Pearse Hutchinson, Paddy Joe Hill (one

of the ‘six’), Patrick Galvin, the editor Oscar Gilligan and others. A very good copy,

scarce.

€ 400 - 600





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348 FITZGERALD, WILLIAM G. Ed. by. The Voice of Ireland - Glor na h’Eireann, A Survey of the Race and Nation from All Angles. By the Foremost Leaders at

Home and Abroad. Large quarto. Dublin, circa 1926. Sole edition. Coloured frontispiece ‘Blessing the Colours’ after John Lavery,

profusely illustrated. Dublin and London: Virtue, circa 1923. Quarto. xx, 612 pp. New end papers. Cloth, title in gilt on upper

cover and spine. A good copy. Cloth gilt. Chapters on: Sinn Fein Movement; Towards Physical Force, The Reign of Terror, The

Women’s Part, Internal Strife, The Problem of the North East, Literature, Social Life, The Arts, Sports and Games, Religion, The

Language Revival, Education, Land and Agriculture, Rural and Peasant Life.

€ 300 - 500

349 [ARTHUR GRIFFITH]The French Revolution, by Hilaire Belloc, n.d.

(reprint). Signed twice by Arthur Griffith, on front

pastedown dated 11 Jan. 1921 and on title page.

Worn, text block loose.

€ 100 - 200



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350 A COLLECTION OF 8 EDITIONS OF THE CAPUCHIN ANNUALScomprising 1940, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974. (8)

€ 150 - 250

351 BARRY (TOM), Guerilla Days in Ireland, Irish Press Limited, Dublin,

signed and inscribed ‘To Mrs Katty Martin, with all

good wishes, sincerely Tom Barry, Cork 1.11.1949’,

blue cloth boards.

€ 150 - 250

351A GEN. TOM BARRYA sheet of lined notepaper with Tom Barry’s signature and those of a number of his colleagues in the

West Cork Flying Column circa 1920, involved in the Kilmichael ambush and other engagements, includ-

ing Ned Young, Jack O’Sullivan, M. O’Driscoll, Tim O’Connell, Denis O’Neill, Tim Keohane, John O’Donovan,

Patrick O’Donovan, James ‘Spud’ Murphy etc.

With a copy of Katty Hayes, ‘Ross of the Pilgrims’ (pamphlet about Roscarbery), circa 1970 (worn).

€ 200 - 300






268

352 LABOUR IN IRISH HISTORY, SIGNED & INSCRIBED CONNOLLY (JAMES),Labour in Irish History

Maunsel and Co., Dublin, 1910, First Edition, signed and inscribed on inside

front cover by Connolly “”To W. Stewart (A Belfast Socialist) from his comrade

James Connolly Nov 3 /11”, dark blue cloth boards with gilt,

extremely rare with signature

€2,500 - 3,500



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270

353 YEATS, JACK B. The Careless Flower, First Edition, 1947;

together with four other books of Yeats interest

Provenance: The Tim Vignoles Collection

€100-200

353A HEANEY, SEAMUSAn interesting collection of Seamus Heaney books,

many first editions


€300-500



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353B A COLLECTION OF BOOKS PRINTED BY THE DOLMEN PRESS, including writers Austin

Clarke, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, Richard Murphy etc.

(full list available on request)


€300-500

353C BOOKS OF IRISH INTERESTAn interesting collection of Irish books, including many

first editions comprising works by John Montague, Richard

Murphy, Brian Friel etc. (full list available on request)


€300-500




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354 YEATS (WILLIAM BUTLER)The Poems of W.B. Yeats

Macmillan & Co., London, 1949. Limited edition, no. 323 of 375 copies, SIGNED BY W. B. YEATS opposite the half-title in vol-

ume I. Each volume with frontispiece portrait of Yeats (the first by Sargent, the second by Augustus John), protected by tissue

guards. Both tall octavo with original green cloth bevelled boards, gilt titles at spine and W. B. Yeats’ monogram stamped in

gilt on upper boards. Fore edge rough-cut; top edge gilt. In the original brown slipcase, as issued. Listed in Wade, no.s 209 and

210. An extremely scarce collector’s item, particularly in this collection.

Yeats had revised and corrected the proofs and signed the limitation leaves prior to his death, but publication was delayed

due to the complications of war. This was the first definitive edition chosen by the author himself.

€ 2,000 - 3,000


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355 HEANEY (SEAMUS) DEATH OF A NATURALISTFirst Edition, Faber and Faber, 1966, London, pp.57, original green cloth boards with wrappers.

Scarce

Death of a Naturalist (1966) is Heaney’s earliest trade volume which characteristically incorpo-

rates vivid memories of his childhood in Northern Ireland. As with his later works, nature plays

a dominant role within this work. Heaney announces in the first poem of the collection that he

will figuratively “dig” with his poem, echoing the nurturing practice of his farming ancestors and

their own connection with the land.

€ 400 - 600

356 JOYCE (JAMES)Pomes Penyeach

Shakespeare and Company Paris, 1927. First edition. Original

pale green paper covered boards lettered in green, 16mo,

12.25 x 9.75cm, with errata still present, no jacket, contains 13

poems, below each of which is given the place and the year in

which the poem was originally composed.

€ 250 - 350



275


357 HOWARTH (HERBERT), The Irish Writers 1800-1940, London, 1958, signed

and inscribed by the author 1965, green cloth boards

with wrappers

€ 60 - 100

358 GEORGE RUSSELL (AE)Voices of the Stones, London, 1925, signed inscribed

and dated “12.4.28”, blue cloth boards with wrappers

together with

The National Being, London, 1916, blue cloth with gilt,

two books, signed

€ 150 - 250




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359 CATHERINE HAYES (1818-1861)“Ireland’s First Operatic Diva”, her signature on clipped paper,

together with a mounted portrait print, 11.5x 15cm

€ 80 - 120

358A HEANEY (SEAMUS) & NEUMANN (MAX)Audenesque

Signed and inscribed by Derek Mahon,

Christmas 2000. Published by Maeght,

1998. One of the limited first editions but

not complete, 16mo., in original slipcase,

w.a.f.

€ 100 - 200




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360 COUNT JOHN MCCORMACK, his brass lined travelling trunk, bearing a brass plaque

inscribed ‘Count John McCormack / Moore Abbey /

Monasterevan / Co. Kildare’

€ 400 - 600



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361 BECKETT, SAMUELA signed note, addressed to “Dear Mr Talboys”, Paris

25.5.74, concerning a list black ink on card, with

original envelope and magazine clipping with portrait

paragraph. (3)

€ 150 - 250

362 1916 LEADERS & WRITERS, A COLLECTION MacDONAGH, Thomas.

Through the Ivory Gate, Dublin, n.d., green cloth boards with gilt; Thomas Campion and the

Art of English Poetry, Dublin, 1913, blue cloth boards; and Songs of Myself, Dublin, 1910,

dark blue cloth boards with gilt.

Together with TALBOT PRESS, FIRST EDITIONS, PLUNKETT & MacENTEE

The Poems of John Francis MacEntee [Seán Mac Entee] (1889-1984), Dublin, n.d. (but 1917),

green cloth boards; with The Poems of Joseph Mary Plunkett, Dublin, 1916

(5)

€ 200 - 300



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363 EARLIEST APPEARANCES OF OSCAR WILDE IN BOOK FORMMac Ilwaine (Rev. W.) Lyra Hibernica Sacra, 8vo, Belfast 1878.

Original crimson red cloth boards with gilt and blind stamp

decoration. Contains four poems of Oscar Wilde, his earliest

appearances in book form.

€ 500 - 600

366 FITZGERALD (WM. G.) The Voice of Ireland - Glor na h’Eireann, A Survey of the Race Nation from

All Angles. By the Foremost Leaders at Home and Abroad. Lg. 4to D. n.d.

Sole Edn. cold. front ‘Blessing the Colours’ after J. Lavery, profusely illustrat-

ed, orig. cloth, gilt. Poor Condition but Good resource. * Chapters on ‘’Sinn

Fein Movement;’’ ‘’Towards Physical Force;’’ ‘’The Reign of Terror,’’ ‘’The

Women’s Part,’’ ‘’Internal Strife’’ & ‘’The Problem of the North East.’’ w.a.f.

€ 50 - 100





280

367 A MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION OF BOOKS COMPRISING, Michael Collins by Tim Pat Coogan; Frongoch by Sean

O’Mahony; The Four Glorious Years by David Hogan;

Guerilla Days in Ireland by Tom Barry; No Other Law by

Florence O’Donoghue (5)

€ 100 - 200

368 A MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION OF BOOKS Including:

The Day’s Burden, Poems and Parodies

and the Ways of War by Tom Kettle;

Principles of Freedom by Terence Mac

Swiney; Saints and Sinners by Douglas

Hyde; Peace by Ordeal y Frank Pak-

enham; Four Glorious Years by David

Hogan; etc., approx. 13 items

€ 120 - 180





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369 A MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION OF BOOKS including:

Tales of War, Guerilla, Patches of Sunlight,

Rory and Bran and Tales of Three Hemi-

spheres by Lord Dunsany; Irish Ballads

by Denis MacCarthy; Lyra Hibernica Sacra

(Oscar Wilde’s fist appearance in book

form); etc., approx. 20 items

€ 120 - 180

370 A MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION OF BOOKS including: The Memoirs of Field Marshal

Montgomery; Father Browne’s First

World War by E.E. O’Donnell; The Book

of Kells by Edward O’Sullivan; I Some-

times Think by Lennox Robinson; Prose

Poems and Parodies by Percy French;

Insurrection by Liam O’ Flaherty; The

Flying Swans by Padraic Colmum; etc.,

approx 22 items.

€ 120 - 180






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372 MAP OF IRELAND, IRISH SCHOOL, circa 1950s, published by the Dub-

lin General Steam Shipping Co. Ltd,

coal merchants, 18 D’Olier Street,

Dublin, photomechanical colour

printed map, 50 by 37cm, printed

by Fergus O’Connor, Dublin, circa

1950.

€ 50 - 100

375 THE ART JOURNAL. L. 1849-62. 16 vols. Includes supplements for

the industrial exhibitions 1851 &

1862. Contemp half calf. Raised

bands, spines profusely gilt. A su-

perb set. Rare in a run in a single

binding and in such condition. [16]

€ 800 - 1,200




283


376 THE WORKS OF THOMAS DE QUINCEY. “The English Opium Eater”. Including

all his contributions to Periodical

Literature. 3rd ed. 8 vo. E. 1871.

16 vols. Inc frontis of De Quincy.

Uniform leather binding with marb

bds & gilt motif to spines. Marb eps

& a.e.m. Fine set. [16].

€ 120 - 160

377 CARLYLE, THOMAS (1795-1881). The Works. 15 vols. of 17. 8vo.

Cont., crushed burgundy mor prize

binding, generously gilted, a.e.g. &

gilt arms to spine ends and covers.

A little rubbing to extremities. V.

good. [15]

€ 150 - 250





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378 SCOTT, SIR WALTER (1771-1832). [Fine Binding] - The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. E. 1834-35. 12 vols. 12mo. 1st complete

ed. Uniform full contemp cf, with gilt tooling to bds & gilt motif to spines. Black mor., h.ts. to

spine, & a.e.m. Tissue guarded (except vol 8) frontis to each, with facing eng by celebrated English

Romantic artist J.M.W. Turner R.A. to t.p. of each vol. Ballads accompanied by musical scores. A

fine set. Along with Sir Walter Scott; Religious Discourses. By a Layman. 1828. 8vo. 1st ed., Tipped

in newspaper clipping confirming authorship of Scott. Modern paper wraps. Extremely rare. Along

with two others by Scott; Halidon Hill. E. 1822 & The Field of Waterloo, E. 1815. [15].

€ 140 - 180

379 THE CORNHILL MAGAZINE. 1860-83. 47 vols. complete. 8vo. Uniform cont., half calf, with marbled

bds. Includes the first 47 volumes of this seminal victorian

literary magazine. Amongst its contributors whose work

appeared here for the first time in print were such Victorian

literary gliterati as, Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, Henry

James, Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins and

Tennyson. Not surprising when one considers its first editor

was William Makepeace Thackeray. Scarce in a complete

unbroken run, and one in such good condition.

€ 500 - 800



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380 JOHN RUSKIN. The Poems. L., 1891. 2 vols. Full polished

calf. Gilt tooling to bds. Raised bands, gilted

panels, and morocco labels to spine. Along

with George Eliot. The Works, 4 vols., only.

N.Y., 1885. Uniform contemp calf, marb. bds.,

morocco labels. Includes, Felix Holt, Middle-

march, Daniel Deronda, and Amos Barton

and other stories. [6].

€ 80 - 120

381 MACAULAY, THOMAS BABINGTON (1800-59). [Fine binding] The History of England, from the Accession of James the

Second. By Lord Macaulay with memoir and portrait. 8vo. 5 vols. L. 1877.

Full cont brown leather. Spines richly gilted, with mor. labels. Gilt tooling

to boards. Marb., epps., a.e.m. Frontis of Macaulay to vol 1. V. good.

Along with, Macaulay. Critical and Historical Essays contributed to the

Edinburgh Review. New ed. 8vo. 3 vols. L. 1878. Ticket of D. Wyllie & Son,

Aberdeen. Full cont cf. Gilted spines. Mor label. Gilt tooling to boards.

Marb epps. & a.e.m. V good.[8].

€ 120 - 160




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382 GEORGE TOMLINE, MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF THE RIGHT HONORABLE WILLIAM PITT. L. 1821. 2nd ed., 8vo. 3 vols. Finely Bound. Bookplate of Giles Stephen Holland, Earl

of Ilchester. Full polished calf. Gilt tooling to bds. Raised bands, with unusual Is-

lamic geometric gilt design to panels. Mor half-titles. A.e.g. with marb endpapers.

Along with, G.R. Gleig. Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honorable Warren Hast-

ings, First Govenor-General of Bengal. L. 1841. 8vo. 2 vols. Also finely bound. [5]

€ 120 - 160

383 SMOLLETT, TOBIAS GEORGE (1721-1771). The History of England, from the Revolution to the Death of George the Sec-

ond. New ed., with author’s last corrections and improvements. 8vo. 5 vols., L.

1793. Frontis, numerous plts, adverts, etc. Uniform cont tree cf. Gilt tooling to

bds. Gilt motif to spine, with Burgundy and black mor labels. Marbled eps, &

a.e.g. V. good. [5].

€ 120 - 140




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384 GIBBON, EDWARD, (1737-94). The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Em-

pire. L. 1815. 8vo. New Ed., in 12 vols. Full cf. rebacked

keeping orig., bds. Marb eps., & a.e.m., with amorial

bookplate of T. T. Kingston to ft. pastedown. Frontis

of Gibbon, with two large folding maps of the Eastern

Roman Empire in vol. I., & Western Empire in vol. VII. A

fine set. [12].

€ 140 - 180

385 LORD JOHN RUSSELL, Memorials and Correspondence of Charles James Fox. L. 1853.

1st ed., 4 vols. Half calf with marb bds. Black and red mor.,

labels. Raised bands with compartments profusely gilted. Mar-

bled edges & endpapers. Along with, William Prescott. History

of the Reign of Philip the Second. King of Spain. L. 1873. 12mo.

3 vols. Another attractive binding. [7].

€ 60 - 80




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386 DOUGLAS, JAMES, BOMBAY AND WESTERN INDIA. A Series of Stray Papers. 1st ed. Octave. L. 1893. 2 vols.

Red buckram with gilt amorial shield to front bd. Some

staining and scuffing to same. Some uncut pages.

Contains 2 fabulous fold out maps of Bombay and

numerous plates. Some Irish interest. Along with Josi-

ah Bateman, The Life of the Right Rev. Daniel Wilson,

Late Lord Bishop of Calcutta and Metropolitan India...

L. 1860. 8vo., 2 vols. Frontis of Wilson, with further

portraits, illus. and map. Cont three-quarter leather

with green buckram boards. Scuffing to bds and wear

to spines. [4].

€ 80 - 120

387 BARON DE HOLBACH (1723-89). La Politique Naturelle. Ou Discours sur les Vrais Prin-

cipes de Gouvernement. Par un Ancien Magistrat. L.

(But actually Amsterdam). 1773. 8vo. Two vols bound

in one. 1st ed? This copy has a full-stop after “Na-

turelle” in title. Rebacked. Cont., calf, with red mor.,

label to spine. Raised bands with Gilt compartments.

Gilt tooling to bds. A.e.g.Good copy [1].

€ 120 - 160




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388 NICOLAS DUTOT (1684-1741). Reflexions Politiques sur les Finances et le Commerce.

1740. The Hague. 12mo. 2 vols. Contp. Vellum, spines

gilt, speckled edges. Half-titles in red & black. 10

folding tables. Important economic work. [2].

€ 200 - 300

389 NICOLAS GERMAIN LEONARD (1744-93). Lettres de Deux Amans, Habitans de Lyon. London

& Paris. 1783. 1st ed. 12mo. 3 vols. Cont., calf,

spines gilt with red mor labels. Nice set. [3].

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390 TREMBLEY, ABRAHAM (1710-84). Instructions d’un Pere a ses Enfans, sur le Principe

de la Vertu et du Bonheur. Geneva. 1783. 1st ed.

8vo. 1 vol. Cont cf, spine gilt with red mor h.t. Nice

full page engd portrait frontis of Trembley, by

Clemens. Lord Sheffield amorial bookplate. Copac

locates only 2 copies. Rare. [1].

€ 80 - 120

391 PREVÔT, ABBE = L’ABBÉ PRÉVOST (1697-1763). Lettres de Mentor, a un Jeune Seigneur, traduites de

l’Anglois. London [actually Paris]. 1764. 8vo. 1st ed.

Cont mottled cf, spine gilt with red mor h.t. Woodcut

on t.p. Marb., eps., & a.e.m. Despite describing itself as

a trans., on the t.p., it is in fact an original work posing

as one. ESTC notes only 7 copies worldwide. Rare. [1].

€ 100 - 140



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393 GROSE, DANIEL (1731-91). The Antiquities of England and Wales. 1st ed. Quarto.

The first 4 vols. with the bookplates of “the Vicar of

Epsom” Rev. Johnathan Boucher. A close friend of

George Washington, he had been tutor to his step-son.

Uniform calf. Last two vols rebacked. Front bd to vol., 1

detached, but present. Otherwise in V. Good. All plates,

& hand-coloured maps etc., present as called for. [6].

€ 400 - 600

392 CHARPENTIER, LOUIS. Causes de la Decadence du Gout sur le Theatre…Paris, 1768. 1st ed. 8 vo. 2 vols bound in 1.

H.t., woodcut headpiece and ornaments. Cont., mottled cf. Spine richly gilted, with red mor h.

t. Marb., e.ps. with paper edges red. Along with, Metastasio, Pietro Antonio. Opere dell’abbate

Metastasio, Scelte da Leonardo Nardini, ad uso degli studiosi della lingua Italiana. Si vende da

Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor. L. 1821. 12mo. 2vols. 3 ed. rare. Copac reports only 1

copy in BL. Cont., vellum, with red mor label to spine . Engd. frontis of Metastasio. V. g. [3].

€ 100 - 140




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394 CLAVIÈRE, ÉTIENNE (1735-93), & JACQUES PIERRE BRISSOT DE WARVILLE (1754-93) De la France et des États-Unis, ou De l’importance de la Révolution de l’Amérique, pour le bonheur de la France,

des rapports de ce royaume & des États-Unis, des avantages réciproques qu’ils peuvent retirer de leurs liaisons de

commerce, & enfin de la situation actuelle des États-Unis. Londres [but according to ESTC, actually Paris]. 1787. 1 vol.

1st ed. Cont cf with marb boards. Gilt tooling & lettering to spine. Includes h.t. & errata. Internally crisp with speckeled

eps. This is a highly important work of political economy, designed to stimulate investment in the United States by the

French. ESTC T109594. [1].

€ 150 - 350

395 FAUQUES, MARIANNE-AGNES FILLEMENT (C.1720-1770). La Derniere Guerre des Betes. Fable pour Servir

a l’Histoire du XVIII Siecle. Par l’Auteur d’Abassai.

“A Londres” [i.e. Geneva?]. 1758. 8vo. 1 vol. 1st

ed.[1]

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396 THE BRITISH ESSAYISTS. L. 1808. 12 mo. 44 vols. Only missing vol. 28. Full

cont diced calf, with gilt lettering, numbering and

motif to spine. An

exceptional set. [44].

€ 300 - 400

397 ECHARD, LAURENCE (1670?-1730), Trans. Plautus’s Commedies, Amphitryon, Epidecus, and

Rudens, made English with critical remarks upon each play.

L. 1694. 1st Eng., ed. 1 vol. 8vo. ESTC R4311. 2pps., of pub

adv to rear. Cont., cf. Blind tooling to boards. Along with C.

Julii Caesaris et A. Hirtii de Rebus a C. Julio Caesare gestis

Commentarii. Trans., Michael Maittarie. Lacks title page,

but appears to correspond with ESTC T491980. Lacks pages

from 357 onwards. Nice frontis and two folding maps of

three present. Plus another on Odes. [3].

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398 KUHNER, RAPHAEL, trans. Xenophontis de Socrate Commentarii. Black

et Armstrong. L. 1841. 8vo. I vol. 1st ed. Text in Latin

and Greek. Includes index & corrigenda. Cont cf with

marbled boards. Gilt tooling to spine with black mor

h.t. A small amount of rubbing and scuffing to boards.

Copac locates 4 copies only in UK, none in any Irish

Inst. V. good. Along with Homeri Ilias et Odyssea. L.

1831. 32mo. vol. 2 only. [2].

€ 140 - 200

399 ABEL BOYER (ATTRIBUTED TO). The English Theophrastus: or, the manners of the age.

Being the modern characters of the court, the town,

and the city. L. 1702. 1st ed. 8vo. 1 vol. According to

ESTC page numbers 145-160 ommittted, but text and

register are coninuous. Rebacked. Full calf with raised

bands and gilt title to spine. Frontis and adverts.

Along with Jonathan Swift. Letters, written by the Late

Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick’s Dublin....L.

1768. Full comp mottled calf, with raised bands and

gilt motif to spine and red mor. label. [2].

€ 100 - 120



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400 MAUVILLON ELEAZAR DE.

Le Soldat Parvenu ou Memoires et Aventures de Mr

de Verval dit Bellerose. Dresden, 1753. 8vo. 2 vols.

1st ed. Engd frontis, h.t in vol 2, t.p., printed in red

and black. Includes 7 engd. plts. by Bernigeroth after

Osterreich. Occasional spotting and browning. Cont

cf. (joints splitting but firm, spines worn, rubbed).

Spines gilt with red & black Mor h.t. Cohen-de Ricci

694. Provenance: Earl of Ormonde and Ossory amori-

al bookplate. Rare. [2].

€ 120 - 140

401 THOMAS BRODRICK. A Compleat History of the Late War, in the Nether-

lands, Germany, Italy and Spin. Together with an

Abstract of the Treaty at Utreacht. L. 1732. 2nd ed. 8

vo. 2 vols. Full cont calf. Raised bands with gilting to

spine. Edges red. Green dividers present. Includes

folding maps with amorial reference. ESTC records

only 6 copies world-wide. rare. V. good. [2].

€ 120 - 140




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402 A COLLECTION OF SIX HODGES FIGGIS CATALOGUES, from the 1950s to 1980s, relating to rare Irish books, manuscripts

and Celtic philology. Formally from the library of the scholar

Seamas O’Saothrai (James Seery). Along with; By Honest Ranger,

(variously attributed to Arthur Murphy & John Ingeldew). Ranger’s

progress: consisting of a variety of poetical essays, moral, serious,

comic and satyrical. L. 1760. 1 vol. 12mo. 1st ed. Cont., cf. Gilt

tooling to bds & spine. [7].

€ 40 - 60

403 IRISH THEATRICAL INTEREST. JOHN WILLIAM COLE. THE LIFE AND THEATRICAL TIMES OF CHARLES KEAN F.S.A. Including a Summary of the English Stage for the Last Fifty Years, and a Detailed

Account of the Management of the Princess’s Theatre from 1850 to 1859. L. 1859.

1st ed. 8vo. Two vols., in one, with separate pagination and title pages. Full crimson

leather. Bds with gilt tooling. Spines richly gilt with mor., lable. A.E.M & endpapers.

Fine. The subject of the book, Charles Kean (1811-68), the son of a famous Irish

actor Edmund Kean, was born in Waterford. By the 1860s, Charles Kean was among

the most internationally celebrated actors in the English speaking work, frequently

touring North America. “He served as director of the Princess’ Theatre in London from

1850-59, and was closely connected to Queen Victoria, who had not only revived

the Elizabethan office of Master of the Revels in Charles Kean’s honour, but had also

appointed him “manager of the Christmas theatricals” and even presented him with

a diamond ring.” Victoria’s Victoria: The Theatre Royal. Along with Maturin, Charles

Robert (1780-1824). Bertram; or, the castle of St. Aldobrand. A tragedy in five acts. L.

1816. 8vo. 4 separate works in 1 vol. Rare 5th ed. Amorial bookplates of Mary Anton

Jacson. Green Buckram. Lacks spine. Included; “The Man of Ton, a satire”, by Sir John

Dean Paul, 1st ed. 1828; “Europe; Lines on the present war” by Reginald Herber, 1st

ed. 1809 and one other. Green buckram boards. Lacks backstrip. Charles R. Maturin

was born in Dublin in 1782 of Huguenot stock & became a minister in the Church of

Ireland. Related to Oscar Wilde on his mother’s side, his literary career was short,

dying in York street, Dublin, at the age of 42. However, his writings made a significant

impact on the course of English literature. [2].

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404 IRISH MANUSCRIPTS

COMMISSION CATALOGUE OF PUBLICATIONS 1928-68. Plus other rare book catalogues. [7]

€ 40 - 60

405 LAURENCE STERNE.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, a Gentle-

man. L. 1770. 12mo. 6 vols. Full cont calf, with gilt

numbering to spine and plates. Good copies. Along

with Sterne, The Sermons of Mr. Yorick. 1775-76.

12mo. 6 vols. Full cont calf. Raised bands with red

mor., labels. Uniformly bound. V. good. [12].

€ 120 - 160






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406 JOHNSTONE, CHARLES (C.1719- C1800).

8vo. 2 vols. 2nd ed. The Reverie: Or, a Flight to the Paradise of Fools.

L. 1767. Cont cf. Spines with gilt motif and black and red morocco h.t.

Amorial bookplates of Verdon Evans. ESTC T61908. Johnstone was

born in Co. Limerick. As an unsuccessful barrister he turned to writing

and journalism and became particularly known for his stinging satires.

Scarce. [2].

€ 150 - 200

407 EDMUND BURKE. The Works of the Right Honourable

Edmund Burke. L. 1822-27. 16 vols.

8vo. Rivington’s new ed. Full polished

calf. Mor labels. Raised bands and gilt

tooling to bds. A really fine set. [16]

€ 250 - 350

408 DUBLIN PRINTING. MONTESQUIEU. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF M. DE MONTESQUIEU. Translated from the French. Dublin.

1777. 8vo. 4 vols. 1st Dublin ed. Full

cont., calf, with raised bands, black

& red mor., lables and gilt to spine.

Vol. 1 with frontis of Montesquieu. A

fine set. [4].

€ 250 - 350







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409 MCGUIRE, JAMES & JAMES QUINN, Eds., Dictionary of Irish Biography from the earlies

times to 2002. (Under the auspices of the Royal Irish

Academy). 1st ed., Cambridge, 2009. 4to. Green

publisher’s cloth, with black and gilt labels. The most

authoritative biographical reference work available

both in print and online, with over 9,000 enteries by

over 700 expert contributors. An outstanding scholar-

ly work in exceptional condition. [9].

€ 300 - 600

410 THE DUKE OF WESTMINSTER’S COPY. BINDINGS. GASKIN, J.J. THE VICEREGAL SPEECHES…of the Late Earl of Carlisle, K.G., D. 1866. Engd. Port;, add. Engd. Title, a.e.g. full

crushed green mor. Dbl. gilt fillet borders, gilt spine in panels, raised bands, with

B.P. of Duke of Westminster & with gilt armorial on front cover, by Holloways.

Attractive & finely bound copy. [1]

€ 200 - 300





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411 KILDARE BREWING INTEREST. VOLTAIRE. A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY FROM THE FRENCH OF M. DE VOLTAIRE. L. 1824. 8vo. 6 vols. Full cont diced calf. Black mor labels to spine with gilt motif.

Bookplate of Robert Cassidy, Cassidy’s Distillery Monasterevan. V. good set. [6]

€ 120 - 160

412 JOHN DALRYMPLE.

Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland. 3

vols. 8vo. D. 1773. Fourth. Cont., full calf

mor labels. V. good. [3]

€ 100 - 120





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413 GORDON, REV. JAMES BENTLEY (1750-1819). A History of Ireland from the Earliest Account. To the Ac-

complishment of the Act of Union with Great Britain in 1801.

L. 1806. 2 vols. 8vo. 1st ed. Cont., calf with marb., boards.

Boards beginning to split, but holding firm. Spines with gilt

motif & black mor., j.t. (scuffed and rubbed). Copac reports

only 3 copies. Rare. Along with, Hole, (Dean R). “An Oxonian”.

A Little Tour in Ireland. L. 1859. 8vo. 1st ed. Fdg hand col’d.

engd. frontis, linen bck. 4 plts. complete. Orig pict blind stpd

cl gt & a.e.g. Nice copy. [3].

€ 100 - 120

414 PRIOR, JAMES (C.1790-1869). Memoir of the Life and Character of the Right Hon.

Edmund Burke; with specimens of his poetry and

letters, and an estimate of his genius and talents, com-

pared with those of his great contemporaries. L. 1826.

2 vols. 2nd ed. Cont. hf. mor, with marb., boards. Gilt

tooling & numbering to spine with green mor., h.t.

Port. frontis. V. good. Together with, Bulwer, Sir Henry

Lytton. The Life of Henry John Temple, Viscount Palm-

erston. L. 1870. 8vo., 2 vols. Frontis of Palmerston.

Three-quarter calf with marbled bds. V good. [4].

€ 120 - 160




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415 JOHN CARR. THE STRANGER IN IRELAND; or, A Tour in the Southern and Western parts of

that Country in the year 1805. L. 1806. 1 vol. 1st

ed. Beautifully rebound in brown leather, with

marb., bds. Gilt tooling to spine with red mor.,

h.t. Some tears to pps. without loss to text. All

plates present as called for, one coloured, with

exceptional folding plates of Dublin’s Four Courts,

and Cork’s Mardyke in particular.

Nice copy[1]

€ 350 - 450

416 AN TIOMNA NUADH …ÍOSA CRIOSD Uilliam O’Domhnuill (trans.). Bagster & Thoms. 8vo. 1vol. Rare 1827 London printed New Testament in Irish. Copac reports 3 copies of this ed., with

a further 3 possible i.e. dates not specifically stated. None in Irish institutions. 12mo. Full brown cont calf, with the very rare emblem of the British

& Foreign Bible Society imprinted onto the ft brd., (exterior rubbed and chipped with cracking to boards, though holding firm.) Text crisp & clean.

Ticket of T. Cross binder to inside f.b. 4 small inscrip. to front and rear endpapers. Double column text in old Irish script. Irish/English glossary or

Focloir to the rear. Alphabetic & Phonetic pronunciation table also to the rear. Published on the cusp of Catholic Emancipation, these Bibles were

specifically aimed at converting the native speaking “heathen Irish”, that began to flock into Britain’s cities such as, London, Glasgow, and Liverpool.

V. good. Along with another N.T., in old Irish script. Trans., Uilliam O’Domhnuill. 1849. Cont cf (rubbed & scuffed, with loss to spine). 12mo. [2].

€ 100 - 150



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417 W, DERHAM. PHYSICO-THEOLOGY; Or, a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of

God from His Works of Creation...at the Hon’ble Mr.

Boyle’s Lectures in the Years 1711 and 1712…L. 1713.

1st ed. 8vo. 1 vol. Includes adverts page. Full cont calf.

Raised bands with gilt lettering to spine. [1].

€ 200 - 250

418 AIMÉ-HENRI PAULIAN. DICTIONNAIRE DE PHYSIQUE. Avignon, 1761. 4to. 3 vols. Cont. mottled calf, spines gilt.

Engraved vignette titles and head-pieces, woodcut initials

and tail-pieces, 16 folding engraved plates. All edges red.

Dedicated by the Jesuit Professor of Physics to the Duc

de Berry. [3].

€ 200 - 300





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419 PARKES, SAMUEL. A chemical catechism with copious notes and vocabulary of

chemical terms, useful tables and a chapter of instructive and

amusing experiments. L & E & M. Keene, L. 1807. 1 vol. 2nd

ed. Cont cf., with marb bds & gilt to raised bands Frontis by

Mutlow. Includes index, tables and advert. An enormously

influencial scientific text. Along with Hamilton, Alexander

(1739-1802). A Treatise on the Management of Female Com-

plaints. E. 1824. 8vo. 9th ed., revised and expanded by James

Hamilton, son of Alexander. Cont leather with marb bds.

Gilt tooling to spine with black mor h.t. Along with G. Smith,

Laboratory; or School of Arts...L.1750. 3rd ed. Both boards

detached, but present. [3].

€ 80 - 120

420 POPPE, JOHANNN HEINRICH MORITZ VON. Neuer Wunder Schauplatz der Kunste und interessan-

testen Erscheinungen im Gabiete der Magie, Alchymie,

Chemie, Physik. Stuttgart, 1839. 6 vols., in 3. Engd

frontis of Paracelsus. Orig., marb boards. Loss to pa-

per at spines, edge wear and cnrs bumped. Important

German science literature. [3].

€ 80 - 120




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421 CHARLES DARWIN, THE DESCENT OF MAN. L. 1882. 2nd ed., fifteenth thousand. 8vo. Includes

Illustration. Original cloth. Bookplate and ink inscrip-

tion. Along with, Dresser, Christopher. Popular Man-

ual of Botany Being a Development of the Rudiments

of the Botanical Science. E. 1860. 1vol. 1st ed. 12mo.

Orig brown burkram. Gilt lettering to spine. 12 hand

col., plates as called for. Along with Robert Sweet.

The Hot-House and Greenhouse Manual, or Botanical

Cultivator; Giving full Instructions for the Manage-

ment and Propagation of the Plants etc.. L. 1831. 1

Vol. 8vo. Orig. Green cloth with paper label. [3]

€ 100 - 150

422 SPLENDID BOOK NICHE,

a leather bound ed., of Croiset’s Exercices

de Piete. Lyon 1804. Rear board wood with

pps.,80 onwards carved out and glued to

create hidden niche. [1].

€ 40 - 60





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DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL CONDITIONS

DEFINITIONS1. In these conditions the following words and expressions shall have the following meaings: ‘Auctioneer’ – James Adam & Sons. ‘Auctioneer’s Commission’ – The commission payable to the Auctioneer by the buyer and seller as speci-fied in conditions 13 and 25.

‘Catalogue’ – Any advertisement, brochure, estimate, price list or otherpublication.

‘Forgery’ – A Lot which was made with the intention of deceiving with regard to authorship, culture, source, origin, date, age or period and which is not shown to be such in the description therefore in the Catalogue and the market value for which at the date of the auction was substantially less than it would have been had the Lot been in accordance with the Catalogue description.

‘Hammer Price’ – The price at which a Lot is knocked down by the Auctioneer to the buyer.

‘Lot’ – Any item which is deposited with the Auctioneer with a view to its sale at auction and, in particular, the item or items described against any Lot number in any Catalogue.

‘Proceeds of Sale’ – The net amount due to the seller being the Hammer Price of the Lot after deducting the Auctioneer’s Commission thereon under condition 25 the seller’s contribution towards insurance under condition 26, such VAT as is chargeable and any other amounts due by the seller to the Auctioneer in whatever capacity howsoever arising.

‘Registration Form or Register’ – The registration form (or, in the case of persons who have previously attended at auctions held by the Auctioneer and completed registration forms, the register maintained by the Auctioneer which is compiled from such registration forms) to be completed and signed by each pro-spective buyer or, where the Auctioneer has acknowledged pursuant to condition 12 that a bidder is act-ing as agent on behalf of a named principal, each such bidder prior to the commencement of an auction.

‘Sale Order Form’ – The sale order form to be completed and signed by each seller prior to the commence-ment of an auction.

‘Total Amount Due’ – The Hammer Price of the Lot sold, the Auctioneer’s Commission due thereon under condition 13, such VAT as is chargeable and any additional interest, expenses or charges due hereunder.

‘V.A.T.’ – Value Added Tax.

Cataloguing Practice and Catalogue Explanations

2. Terms used in Catalogues have the following meanings and the Cataloguing Practice is as follows:

The first name or names and surname of the artist; In the opinion of the Auctioneer a work by the artist.

The initials of the first name(s) and the surname of the artist; In the opinion of the Auctioneer a work of the period of the artist and which may be in whole or in part the work of the artist.

The surname only of the artist;In the opinion of the Auctioneer a work of the school or by one of the followers of the artist or in his style.

The surname of the artist preceded by ‘after’;In the opinion of the Auctioneer a copy of the work of the artist. ‘Signed’/’Dated’/’lnscribed’;In the opinion of the Auctioneer the work has been signed/dated/inscribed by the artist.

‘With Signature’/’with date’/’with inscription’;In the opinion of the Auctioneer the work has been signed/dated/inscribed by a person other than the artist.

‘Attributed to’;In the opinion of the Auctioneer probably a work of the artist.

‘Studio of/Workshop of’In the opinion of the Auctioneer a work executed in the studio of the artist and possibly under his supervision.

‘Circle of’;In the opinion of the Auctioneer a work of the period of the artist and showing his influence.

‘Follower of’;In the opinion of the Auctioneer a work executed in the artist’s style yet not necessarily by a pupil.

‘Manner of’;In the opinion of the Auctioneer a work executed in artist’s style but of a later date. ‘*’;

None of the terms above are appropriate but in the Auctioneer’s opinion the work is a work by the artist named.

GENERAL CONDITIONS

Auctioneer Acting as Agent3. The Auctioneer is selling as agent for the seller unless it is specifically stated to the contrary. The Auctioneer as agent for the seller is not responsible for any default by the seller or the buyer.

Auctioneer Bidding on behalf of Buyer

4. It is suggested that the interests of prospective buyers are best protected and served by the buyers attend-ing at an auction. However, the Auctioneer will, if instructed, execute bids on behalf of a prospective buyer. Neither the Auctioneer nor its employees, servants or agents shall be responsible for any neglect or default in executing bids or failing to execute bids.

Admission to Auctions5. The Auctioneer shall have the right exercisable in its absolute discretion to refuse admission to its premises or attendance at its auctions by any person.

Acceptance of Bids6. The Auctioneer shall have the right exercisable in its absolute discretion to refuse any bids, advance the bid-ding in any manner it may decide, withdraw or divide any Lot, combine any two or more Lots and, in the case of a dispute, to put any Lot up for auction again.

Indemnities7. Any indemnity given under these conditions shall extend to all actions, proceedings, claims, demands, costs and expenses whatever and howsoever incurred or suffered by the person entitled to the benefit of the indemnity and the Auctioneer declares itself to be a trustee of the benefit of every such indemnity for its employees, servants or agents to the extent that such indemnity is expressed to be for their benefit.

Representations in Catalogues8. Representations or statements made by the Auctioneer in any Catalogue as to contribution, authorship, genuineness, source, origin, date, age, provenance, condition or estimated selling price or value is a statement of opinion only. Neither the Auctioneer nor its employees, servants or agents shall be responsible for the accu-racy of any such opinions. Every person interested in a Lot must exercise and rely on their own judgment and opinion as to such matters.

9. The headings of the conditions herein contained are inserted for convenience of reference only and are not intended to be part of, or to effect, the meaning or interpretation thereof.

Governing Law10. These conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Irish Law.

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Notices11. Any notice or other communication required to be given by the Auctioneer hereunder to a buyer or a seller shall, where required, be in writing and shall be sufficiently given if delivered by hand or sent by post to, in the case of the buyer, the address of the buyer specified in the Registration Form or Register, and in the case of the seller, the address of the seller specified in the Sale Order Form or to such other address as the buyer or seller (as appropriate) may notify the Auctioneer in writing. Every notice or communication given in accordance with this condition shall be deemed to have been received if delivered by hand on the day and time of delivery and if delivered by post three (3) business days after posting.

The Buyer12. The buyer shall be the highest bidder acceptable to the Auctioneer who buys at the Hammer Price. Any dispute which may arise with regard to bidding or the acceptance of bids shall be settled by the Auctioneer. Every bidder shall be deemed to act as principal unless the Auctioneer has prior to the auction, acknowl-edged in writing that a bidder is acting as agent on behalf of a named principal.

Commission13. The buyer shall pay the Auctioneer a commission at the rate of 20%, exclusive of V.A.T..

Payment14. Unless credit terms have been agreed with the Auctioneer before the auction the buyer of a Lot shall pay to the Auctioneer within one (1) day from the date of the auction the Total Amount Due. Notwithstanding this, the Auctioneer may, in its sole discretion, require a buyer to pay a deposit of 25% of the Total Amount Due at the conclusion of the auction.

The Auctioneer may apply any payments received by a buyer towards any sums owing from that buyer to the Auctioneer on any account whatever regardless of any directions of the buyer or his agent in that regard whether express or implied.

The Auctioneer shall only accept payment from successful bidders in cash or by the bidder’s own cheque. Cheques drawn by third parties, whether in the Auctioneer’s favour or requiring endorsement, shall not be accepted.

Reservation of Title15. Notwithstanding delivery or passing of risk to the buyer the ownership of a Lot shall not pass to the buyer until he has paid to the Auctioneer the Total Amount Due.

Collection of Purchases16. The buyer shall at his own expense collect the Lot purchased not later than seven (7) days after the date of the auction but (unless credit terms have been agreed with the Auctioneer pursuant to condition 14) not before payment to the Auctioneer of the Total Amount Due.

The buyer shall be responsible for any removal, storage and insurance charges in respect of any Lot which is not taken away within seven (7) days after the date of the auction.

The purchased Lot shall be at the buyer’s risk in all respects from the earlier of the time of collection or the expiry of one (1) day from the date of the auction. Neither the Auctioneer nor its employees, servants or agents shall thereafter be liable for any loss or damage of any kind howsoever caused while a purchased Lot remains in its custody or control after such time.

Packaging and Handling of Purchased Lots17. Purchased Lots may be packed and handled by the Auctioneer, its employees, servants or agents. Where this is done it is undertaken solely as a courtesy to buyers and at the discretion of the Auctioneer. Under no circumstances shall the Auctioneer, its employees, servants or agents be liable for damage of any kind and howsoever caused to glass or frames nor shall the Auctioneer be liable for the errors or omissions of, or for any damage caused by, any packers or shippers which the Auctioneer has recommended.

Non-Payment or Failure to Collect Purchased Lots

18. If a buyer fails to pay for and/or collect any purchased Lot by the dates herein specified for payment and collection the Auctioneer shall, in its absolute discretion and without prejudice to any other rights or rem-edies it may have, be entitled to exercise one or more of the following rights or remedies without further notice to the buyer:

(a) To issue court proceedings for damages for breach of contract;(b) To rescind the sale of that Lot or any other Lots sold to the buyer whether at that or at any other auc-tion;(c) To resell the Lot or cause it to be resold whether by public auction or private sale. In the event that there is a deficiency between the Total Amount Due by the buyer and the amount received by the Auctioneer on such resale after deduction of any necessary expenses the difference shall be paid to the Auctioneer by the buyer. Any surplus arising shall belong to the seller.(d) To store (whether at the Auctioneer’s premises or elsewhere) and insure thepurchased Lot at the expense of the buyer.(e) To charge interest on the Total Amount Due at the rate of 2% over and above the base rate from time to time of Bank of Ireland or if there be no such rate, the nearest equivalent thereto as determined by the Auctioneer in its absolute discretion from the date on which payment is due hereunder to the date of actual payment.(f) To retain that Lot or any other Lot purchased by the buyer whether at the same or any other auction and release same to the buyer only after payment to the Auctioneer of the Total Amount Due.(g) To apply any sums which the Auctioneer received in respect of Lots being sold by the buyer towards set-tlement of the Total Amount Due.

(h) To exercise a lien on any property of the buyer in the possession of the Auctioneer or whatever reason.

Liability of Auctioneer and Seller19. Prior to auction ample opportunity is given for the inspection of the Lots on sale and each buyer by making a bid acknowledges that he has, by exercising and relying on his own judgment, satisfied himself as to the physical condition, age and Catalogue description of each Lot (including but not restricted to whether the Lot is damaged or has been repaired or restored). All Lots are sold with all faults and imperfections and errors of description. None of the seller, the Auctioneer nor any of their employees, servants or agents shall be responsible for any error of description or for the condition or authenticity of any Lot. No warranty what-soever is given by the seller or Auctioneer or by any of their employees, servants or agents in respect of any Lot and any condition or warranty express or implied by statute or otherwise is hereby specifically excluded.

Forgeries20. Any amount paid by a buyer in respect of a Lot which, if it is proved within three (3) years of the date of the auction at which it was purchased, to have been a Forgery shall be refunded to the seller subject to the provisions hereof, provided that:

(a) The Lot has been returned by the buyer to the Auctioneer within three (3) years of the date of the auction in the same condition in which it was at the time of the auction together with evidence proving that it is a Forgery, the number of the Lot and the date of the auction at which it was purchased;

(b) The Auctioneer is satisfied that the Lot is a Forgery and that the buyer has and is able to transfer good and marketable title to the Lot free from any third party claims;

FURTHER PROVIDED THAT the buyer shall have no rights hereunder if:(i) The description of the Lot in the Catalogue at the time of the auction was in accordance with the then generally accepted opinion of scholars or experts or fairly indicated that there was a conflict of such opinion;

(ii) The only method of establishing at the time of the auction in question that the Lot was a Forgery would have been by means of scientific processes which were not generally accepted for use until after the date of the auction or which were unreasonably expensive or impractical.

The buyer’s sole entitlement under this condition is to a refund of the actual amount paid by him in respect of the Lot. Under no circumstances shall the Auctioneer be liable for any damage, loss (including consequen-tial, indirect or economic loss) or expense suffered or incurred by the buyer by reason of the Lot being a Forgery.

The benefit of this condition shall be solely and exclusively for the buyer and shall not be assignable. The buyer shall for the purpose of this condition be the person to whom the original invoice in respect of the sale of the Lot is made.

Photographs21. The buyer authorises the Auctioneer at any time to make use of any photographs or illustrations of the Lot purchased by the buyer for such purposes as the Auctioneer may require.

CONDITIONS WHICH MAINLY CONCERN THE SELLER

Auctioneer’s Discretion

22. With regard to the sale of any Lot the Auctioneer shall have the following powers exercisable solely in the discretion of the Auctioneer:

(i) To decide whether to offer any Lot for sale or not;

(ii) To decide whether a particular Lot is suitable for sale by the Auctioneer and, if so, to determine which auction, the place and date of sale, the conditions of sale and the manner in which such sale should be con-ducted;

(iii) To determine the description of any Lot in a Catalogue.

(iv) To decide whether the views of any expert shall be obtained and to submit Lots for examination by any such experts.

(v) To determine what illustration of a Lot (if any) is to be included in the Catalogue.

Seller’s Warranty and Indemnity23. The seller warrants to the Auctioneer and to the buyer that he is the true owner of the Lot or is legally authorised to sell the Lot on behalf of the true owner and can transfer good and marketable title to the Lot free from any third party claims. As regards Lots not held by the Auctioneer on its premises or under its con-trol the seller warrants and undertakes to the Auctioneer and the buyer that the Lot will be available and in a deliverable state on demand by the Auctioneer or buyer. The seller shall indemnify the Auctioneer and the buyer or any of their respective employees, servants or agents against any loss or damage suffered by any of them in consequence of any breach of the above warranties or undertakings by the seller.


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Reserves24. Subject to the Auctioneer’s discretion, the seller shall be entitled prior to the auction to place a reserve on any Lot. All reserves must be agreed in advance by the Auctioneer and entered on the Sale Order Form or subsequently be confirmed in writing to the Auctioneer prior to auction. This also applies to changes in reserves. A reserve may not be placed upon any Lots under IR£100 in value. The reserve shall be the minimum Hammer Price at which the Lot may be sold by the Auctioneer. A reserve once in place may only be changed with the consent of the Auctioneer. A commission shall be charged on the ‘knock-down’ bid for Lots which fail to reach the reserve price. Such commission shall be 5% of the ‘knock-down’ bid. This commission and any VAT payable thereon must be paid before removal of the Lot after the auction. The minimum commission hereunder shall be IR £25. The Auctioneer may in its sole discretion sell a Lot at a Hammer Price below the reserve therefore but in such case the Proceeds of Sale to which the seller shall be entitled shall be the same as they would have been had the sale been at the reverse.

Unless a reserve has been placed on a Lot in accordance with the provisions set out above such Lot shall be put up for sale without reserve.

In the event that any reserve price is not reached at auction then for so long as the Lot remains with the Auctioneer and to the extent that the Lot has not been re-entered in another auction pursuant to condi-tion 31 the seller authorises the Auctioneer to sell the Lot by private treaty at not less than the reserve price. The Auctioneer shall ensure that in such a case those conditions herein which concern mainly the buyer shall, with any necessary modification, apply to such sale.

Commission25. The seller shall pay the Auctioneer commission at the rate of 10% on the Hammer Price of all Lots sold on behalf of the seller at Irish Art Sales and 17.5% on the Hammer Price of all Lots sold on behalf of the seller at Fine Art, Wine and Militaria Sales together with V.A.T. thereon at the applicable rate. The seller authorises the Auctioneer to deduct from the Hammer Price paid by the buyer the Auctioneer’s Commission under this condition; VAT payable at the applicable rates and any other amounts due by the seller to the Auctioneer in whatever capacity howsoever arising. The seller agrees that the Auctioneer may also receive commission from the buyer pursuant to condition 13.

Insurance26. Unless otherwise instructed by the seller, all Lots (with the exception of motor vehicles) deposited with the Auctioneer or put under its control for sale shall automatically be insured by the Auctioneer under the Auctioneer’s own fine arts policy for such sum as the Auctioneer shall from time to time in its absolute discretion determine. The seller shall pay the Auctioneer a contribution towards such insurance at the rate of 1% of the Hammer Price plus VAT. If the seller instructs the Auctioneer not to insure a Lot then the Lot shall at all times remain at the risk of the seller who undertakes to indemnify the Auctioneer and hold the Auctioneer harmless against any and all claims made or proceedings brought against the Auctioneer of whatever nature and howsoever and wheresoever occurring for loss or damage to the Lot. The sum for which a Lot is covered for insurance under this condition shall not constitute and shall not be relied upon by the seller as a representation, warranty or guarantee as to the value of the Lot or that the Lot will, if sold by the Auctioneer, be sold for such amount. Such insurance shall subsist until such time as the Lot is paid for and collected by the buyer or, in the case of Lots sold which are not paid for or collected by the buyer by the due date hereunder for payment or collection such due date or, in the case of Lots which are not sold, on the expiry of seven (7) days from the date on which the Auctioneer has notified the seller to collect the Lots.

Recision of Sale27. If before the Auctioneer has paid the Proceeds of Sale to the seller the buyer proves to the satisfac-tion of the Auctioneer that the Lot sold is a Forgery and the requirements of condition 20 are satisfied the Auctioneer shall rescind the sale and refund to the buyer any amount paid to the Auctioneer by the buyer in respect of the Lot.

Payment of Proceeds of Sale28. The Auctioneer shall remit the Proceeds of Sale to the seller not later than thirty (30) days after the date of the auction, provided however that, if by that date, the Auctioneer has not received the Total Amount Due from the buyer then the Auctioneer shall remit the Proceeds of Sale within seven (7) work-ing days after the date on which the Total Amount Due is received from the buyer. If credit terms have been agreed between the Auctioneer and the buyer the Auctioneer shall remit to the seller the Proceeds of Sale not later than thirty (30) days after the date of the auction unless otherwise agreed by the seller.

If before the Total Amount Due is paid by the buyer the Auctioneer pays the seller an amount equal to the Proceeds of Sale then title to the Lot shall pass to the Auctioneer.

If the buyer fails to pay the Auctioneer the Total Amount Due within fourteen (14) days after the date of the auction, the Auctioneer shall endeavour to notify the seller and take the seller’s instructions on the course of action to be taken and, to the extent that it is in the sole opinion of the Auctioneer feasi-ble, shall endeavour to assist the seller to recover the Total Amount Due from the buyer provided that nothing herein shall oblige the Auctioneer to issue proceedings against the buyer in the Auctioneer’s own name. If circumstances do not permit the Auctioneer to take instructions from the seller or, if after notifying the seller, it does not receive instructions within seven (7) days, the Auctioneer reserves the right, and is hereby authorised by the seller at the seller’s expense, to agree special terms for payments of the Total Amount Due, to remove, store and insure the Lot sold, to settle claims made by or against the buyer on such terms as the Auctioneer shall in its absolute discretion think fit, to take such steps as are necessary to collect monies due by the buyer to the seller and, if necessary, to rescind the sale and refund money to the buyer.

Payment of Proceeds to Overseas Sellers29. If the seller resides outside Ireland the Proceeds of Sale shall be paid to such seller in Irish Punts

unless it was agreed with the seller prior to the auction that the Proceeds of Sale would be paid in a currency (other than Irish Punts) specified by the seller in which case the Proceeds of Sale shall be paid by the Auctioneer to the seller in such specified currency (provided that that currency is legally available to the Auctioneer in the amount required) calculated at the rate of exchange quoted to the Auctioneer by its bankers on the date of pay-ment.

Charges for Withdrawn Lots30. Once catalogued, Lots withdrawn from sale before proofing/publication of Catalogue will be subject to com-mission of 5% of the Auctioneer’s latest estimate of the auction price of the Lot withdrawn together with VAT thereon and any expenses incurred by the Auctioneer in relation to the Lot. If Lots are withdrawn after proofing or publication of Catalogue they will be subject to a commission of 10% of the Auctioneer’s latest estimate of the auction price of the Lot withdrawn together with VAT thereon and any expenses incurred by the Auctioneer in relation to the Lot. All commission hereunder must be paid for before Lots withdrawn may be removed.

Unsold Lots31. Where any Lot fails to sell at auction the Auctioneer shall notify the seller accordingly and (in the absence of agreement between the seller and the Auctioneer to the contrary) such Lot may, in the absolute discretion of the Auctioneer, be re-entered in the next suitable auction unless instructions are received from the seller to the con-trary, otherwise such Lots must be collected at the seller’s expense within the period of thirty (30) days of such notification from the Auctioneer.

Upon the expiry of such period the Auctioneer shall have the right to sell such Lots by public auction or private sale and on such terms as the Auctioneer in its sole discretion may think fit. The Auctioneer shall be entitled to deduct from the price received for such Lots any sums owing to the Auctioneer in respect of such Lots including without limitation removal, storage and insurance expenses, any commission and expenses due in respect of the prior auction and commission and expenses in respect of the subsequent auction together with all reasonable expenses before remitting the balance to the seller. If the seller cannot be traced the balance shall be placed in a bank account in the name of the Auctioneer for the seller. Any deficit arising shall be due from the seller to the Auctioneer. Any Lots returned at the seller’s request shall be returned at the seller’s risk and expense and will not be insured in transit unless the Auctioneer is so instructed by the seller.

Auctioneer’s Right to Photographs and Illustrations32. The seller authorises the Auctioneer to photograph and illustrate any Lot placed with if for sale and further authorises the Auctioneer to use such photographs and illustrations and any photographs and illustrations pro-vided by the seller at any time in its absolute discretion (whether or not in connection with the auction).

Catalogue illustrations are included at the discretion of the Auctioneer. Illustration charges will be calculated on the particular category of sale. These charges are subject to change. Irish Art Sale Illustrations: €150.00 full page, €100.00 half page, €50.00 other sizes. Fine Art Illustrations: Scaled fee: €100.00 for lots sold for €3,000.00 and over, hammer price, €50.00 for lots sold under €3,000.00 hammer price. All other sales: €25.00 per illustration. All lots illustrated and not sold are charged €25.00 per illustration.

VAT

34. It is presumed, unless stated to the contrary, that the items listed herein are auction scheme goods as defined in the Finance Act 1995.

35. Artist’s Resale Rights (Droit de Suite)

Government Regulations (S.1. 312/2006)

Under this legislation a royalty (droit de suite) is payable to artists or the artist’s heirs (if deceased in the last 70 years) of E.U. nationality on all works resold for €3,000 or more, other than those sold by the artist or the artist’s agent.

The resale royalty payable is calculated as follows:__________________________________________

From €3,000 to €50,000 4%From €50,000.01 to €200,000 3%From €200,000.01 to €350,000 1%From €350,000.01 to €500,000 0.5%Exceeding €500,000 0.25%

The total amount of royalty payable on any individual sale shall not exceed €12,500 The seller is liable for pay-ment (paragraph 7.1 of Government Regulations (S.1. 312/2006) of this royalty on completion of the sale. The artist may request from the Auctioneer any information necessary to secure payment.

The Auctioneer will automatically deduct the amount due from the proceeds of sale and will hold in trust for the artist, their heirs or their representative for a period of 3 years from the date of sale. A vendor may choose to check the ARR Waiver on the Sale Receipt Contract indicating that they accept sole responsibility for the payment and authorises the Auctioneers to disclose their contact details to the artist, their heirs or their representative.

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Adam's The History Sale 19th April 2016