5 May 2020 - #0319 Timed Auction

#0319

Lot 258/0319

SOLD Hammer price €500

Irish Republican: Co. Tipperary – Third Tipperary Brigade, [Thomas Coughlan, 67 Main Street, Midleton, Co. Cork] A Civil War Period leather Sam Brown Belt and Holster, with brass links and clasp, worn; together with typescript file for the above Th. Coughlan, detailing his activities from 1919 – 22., and his ‘On Application to the Military Pensions Board,’ 3pps, a 2pp m/ss letter dated 26.1.1923, signed by W.P. Walshe (secretary) re: Third Tipperary Brigade. As a collection, w.a.f. (4)

Lot 259/0319

SOLD Hammer price €100

Postcards: Republican etc: Rebellion 1916, and Aftermath, 4 cards, orig. photo Portrait Cards of P.H. Pearse, E. de Valera, Dr. Douglas Hyde, & Benito Mussolini, 2 cards of Parnell interest, one card Guinness Brewery and 6 other cards mostly Irish interest, 18 cards in all. A lot. (1)

Lot 260/0319

SOLD Hammer price €300

Co. Waterford Republican Documents, 1922 A series of Leaflets and a Pamphlet denouncing the Treaty, sent to Thomas Brennan of Ballytruckle, Waterford, with a typed letter signed E. Donnelly requesting “each organiser” to “get thousands of them printed.” An accompanying note states that Brennan was unable to get any copies printed as he had been interned at the Curragh for having opposed the Treaty. Also brief letters, one dated 25 March 1922, from Arthur Ryan, state solicitor, Dungarvan, to Edmond Dee, anti-Treaty TD, also of Dungarvan, and from him to Thomas Brennan, enclosing a tracing of the constituency boundaries of East and West Waterford. Both in envelopes with British stamps over stamped “Rialtas Sealadach na hireann.” As a collection, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 261/0319

SOLD Hammer price €150

Mac Suibhne (Toirdhealbhach) [Terence MacSwiney]. Battle-Cries [poetry]. 1918, grey printed wrappers, no publisher, no censor’s approval, upper cover beginning to separate. Very Scarce. Laid in is a rare concertina-folded leaflet, ‘Terence MacSwiney Speaks with Prophetic Vision’, quoting his poem ‘Parley.’ Proceeds in aid of Dependents’ Fund. (1) MacSwiney [1879-1920] was a founder member of the Cork Volunteers and a full time Volunteer Organiser, elected Lord Mayor of Cork after Tomas Mac Curtain’s murder in March 1920. Arrested later that year and charged with having seditious documents, MacSwiney went on hunger strike and died in Brixton Prison on the 74th day of his fast. His death coincided with the execution of Kevin Barry, marking a turning point in popular support for the independence struggle.

Lot 262/0319

SOLD Hammer price €80

Republican Pamphlets: Johnson (Thos.) A Handbook for Rebels, D. (Irish Labour Party & Trades Union Congress) n.d. c. 1918; O’Rahilly, The Secret History of the Irish Volunteers, D. n.d., c. 1915; Beasla¡ (P.) Bealltaine 1916 agus Danta Eile, D. c. 1919; O’Brien (Wm.) The Responsibility for Partition, 8vo D. 1921; O’Hegarty (P.S.) Ulster – A Brief Statement of Fact, D. 1919; Constitution of the Free State of Ireland, English Translation, 8vo D. 1921; & 3 others. As a lot. (1)

Lot 263/0319

Prison Letter: A manuscript letter from a prisoner named ‘Dick’, to his mother, from Mountjoy, 13.2, no year, faded and in places difficult to read, mentions hunger strikes among untried and uncommitted men – ‘It is the only form of protest’ – tells her not to worry, reassuring her that things are not half as bad as Lough Derg [the pilgrimage?], heated cell, mattress, plenty of blankets. Mentions that young Salkeld was in the same cell in the Bridewell; expects to be home in a day or so. With censor’s marks. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1)

Lot 264/0319

SOLD Hammer price €40

Postcard: Republican Interest, a real Photographic sepia type Card of Comdt Peader Breslin, in full military attire – published by Keogh Bros. Ltd. Rare. (1) * Peader Breslin was a member of the I.R.A. Dublin Brigade (4 Courts Garrison) he was shot by the Free State Army whilst imprisoned in Mountjoy in October 1922.

Lot 265/0319

SOLD Hammer price €100

Republican Ephemera: [O’Connor (Fergus) & O’Casey (Sean)] Inquest on Thos. Ashe – The Verdict of the Jury, single page, D. (Fergus O’Connor) n.d. (c. 1917) First Edn., Scarce clean example. (1)

Lot 266/0319

SOLD Hammer price €140

War of Independence: Poblacht na hEireann – War News Broadsides, a group of four broadside publications: 1. No’s 20 (21st July 1922) The Truth about Dundalk etc; 2. No. 21 (22 July 1922) The Fight in Limerick etc; 3. No. 22 (24 July 1922) A Prison Tortured etc; 4. No. 23 (25 July 1922) The Free State Motto, as a collection, w.a.f. (4)

Lot 267/0319

Oglaigh na hEireann etc.. A collection including a receipt for œ5 signed by Bulmer Hobson, 20 July 1915; an election leaflet for Doctor O’Higgins [1929]; and a three page manuscript ballad entitled ‘Recruiting’, signed An Gall Fada, ‘Founded on the present-day English motto – “God is good & the devil’s not a bad fellow either”‘. As a collection, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 268/0319

Dail Eireann – Official Correspondence relating to the Peace Negotiations June – September 1921 (Part 1 – Preliminary Correspondence) & (Part 2 Correspondence arising from the conversation at London between de Valera and the British Prime Minister) folio D. 1921, 24pps., ptd. wrappers. Clean Copy. (1)

Lot 269/0319

SOLD Hammer price €260

Collins and Griffith Photographs: Two fine Portraits, one of ‘General Michael Collins, T.D.,’ killed in action Aug. 22, 1922, in full military uniform in a landscape, by J.J. Gallagher, Upr. Gardiner St., Dublin; the other of “Arthur Griffith,” in coat with velvet collar, seated, by L. Mc Gowan, 538 North. C.R., Dublin, both approx. 6″ x 4 1/4″, and mounted but not framed. V. good. Rare. (2)

Lot 270/0319

SOLD Hammer price €50

World War Two: Diocese of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin Order of Service for the Unveiling and Dedication of the Memorial Erected in St. Canice’s Cathedral in Remembrance of the Men of the United Diocese who Laid Down their Lives in the War 1939 – 1945, Tuesday, November 11th 1947 at 3.30.pm, 8vo Kilkenny (Kilkenny People) 1947, 10pps, folding plt. printed wrappers. Scarce. (1)

Lot 271/0319

SOLD Hammer price €60

Photographs: Irish Army & Commemorative 1916: [A. Lohan (Capt.) & other] R.N. & I.R.M. (Irish Military College), a small collection / archive of Photographs (press & personal) to include group shots, studio, parades, funerals, some with De Valera & Lemass, Ryan & others, newspaper cuttings, as a collection, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 272/0319

SOLD Hammer price €70

Co. Wexford: 1916 Commemoration – Souvenir Programme of Easter Week Commemoration Concert in the Athenaeum, Enniscorthy, Monday 25th March, 1940, 4to Enniscorthy (Redmond Bros.) 1940, illus. & adverts., 12pps. ptd. wrappers. Clean Copy., Scarce. (1)

Lot 273/0319

SOLD Hammer price €90

L.S.F. [Local Security Force] Defence, Handbook of the Local Security Force 1940, 8vo D. 1940, Sole Edn., illus. adverts., orig. colour printed wrappers; Murphy (T.C.) What Every L.S.F. Man Should Know – L.S.F. Manual, 12mo D. n.d. c. 1940. Sole Edn. illus. etc. printed wrappers; also Na Caomhn¢iri Aiti£la (The Local Security Force) Group ‘B’, 12mo D. n.d. a manual, lacks wrappers. As a lot, w.a.f. Unusual. (3)

Lot 274/0319

SOLD Hammer price €3200

Highly Important I.R.A. Army Council Archive 1924-5, 1929-31 This is a central file of documents sent to and issued by the IRA’s Chief of Staff, who for much of the period covered was Moss (Maurice) Twomey. The documents were filed (or ‘dumped’) in groups and there is some overlapping of dates. For the periods covered, this file gives a meticulously detailed account of all the IRA’s activities and internal procedures. Outgoing letters and instructions from the Chief of Staff are generally in carbon copy; incoming letters are some times in manuscript and sometimes in typescript. Most letters are signed with initials, if at all, or by military position, but most of the writers can be identified by anyone familiar with the IRA’s personnel. Many are on headed IRA paper. almost all letters are carefully dated whether by the writer or the recipient. There are over 300 documents, extending to over 500 pages. There is a gap between October 1925 and April 1929. The range of documents is very broad, and the following is intended as no more than an outline guide. (24.3.1924), 3rd Western Div. to C/s, interesting letter about funds needed to pay legal bills for Jock Leonard, in prison for shooting of D.I. Swanzy in 1920; (3 May 1924) Chief of Staff to O/C. Limerick County, setting up a new Limerick command, with code work; (21 May 1924) O/C. No. 2 Tirconaill Brigade, resigning due to financial circumstances (had been offered a temporary job in Belfast); (25 Sept. 1924) M. Twomey (Inspection Officer) to C/o making recommendations for battalion mobilizations; (Oct. 15 1924) C/S to Comdt. Sean Mc B(ride), ‘ I do not think there will be any pogroms in the North; etc; (24.4.25) Sighle nic Amhlaoibh, Cumann na mBan, to O/C, about volunteers giving evidence in court; (24 April 1929) C/S to ‘H.S.’ concerning a financial dispute with one Fitzgerald. ‘ We are determined that this debt will be discharged by Fitzgerald and are prepared to take very drastic action, if necessary, to compel him to do so.’ ; (2 Aug. 1929). C/S to late Adt. No. 2 Area, Ulster, accepting his resignation (after ‘justified strictures’ on his performance); (April 1929) Letter signed ‘P’, probably Peadar O’Donnell, mentioning India and Nehru, discussing his own need for independence. ‘I had to jump clear of things to follow my own vision, believing that a narrowing deadening insurrectionism is paralysing our revolutionary possibilities.’ With a page of ‘Notes for fraternal delegates to Birmingham Conference.’; (12.8.1929) Adjt. Gen. to ‘L.P.’, seeking details of U.S. ‘Timthire’ (representative) of men who got into USA ‘illegally’ 1918 – 1921, etc; (5 Sept. 1929) ‘J.B.’ (Sean Brady) to Mr. Ambrose, seeking to dissuade him from resigning his position; (9.9.29) R.King to C/S, ‘I regret that owing to feeling completely tired out and in need of rest and change, I am obliged to resign my position of D. Comms. (Director of Communications), with reply urging him to take leave of absence instead; (13.9.29), C/S to O/C South Dublin Battn. re carrying of arms by volunteers; (22.11.1929) O/C Cork No. 1 Brigade to C/s about a man named Barrett whom they are trying to ‘run to earth,’; also an arms capture, ‘not as a result of inside intelligence,’ etc; Sept – Dec. 1929, extended correspondence between C/S and others over poor inspection reports from Ulster No. 1 area, missing dispatches, resignation of O/C, etc; (16.12.29) ‘M.F.,’ I/O No. 2 Area, Britain, angry letter complaining about interference by a man (previously suspended) who has returned claiming to having instructions ‘to collect the remnants of the Army together,’ etc; (18.12.1929), reply from C/S saying the man has no authority from him to act in the matter described, but criticising, ‘the laxity in the organisation over there for some time,’; (6 Jan. 1930) Copy of communication addressed to the British Government, about prisoners in English Gaols, – identifying four men in jail for a bank raid and saying ‘the act … was duly authorised by th Competent Authority here,’ etc., with manuscript list of members of the British Cabinet (to whom presumably it was distributed); (Jan. 25, 1930), ‘An Timthire,’ (New York), news of Luke Dillon’s death, asks for receipt for $1500 cabled recently; (27 Jan 1930) Army Council to Chairman Clan na Gael Executive (USA), detailed 3 page letter seeking to dispel various misunderstanding stating, ‘The Army Council recognises itself as the Supreme National Authority in Ireland’; has power to proclaim itself at anytime a Provisional Government, with powers of war and peace, etc., discussing its relations with the Second Dail etc., also complaining about cutting off of financial support. ‘The situation now and for some months has been very serious.’; and inviting the Clan to send a Representative to Ireland for discussions; with a detailed reply (Jan. 30, 1930) from ‘C’ mentioning an Envoy sent by ‘Sceilg’, who has caused difficulties, etc; (Feb. 1930) More letters about disorganization in Britain; (12.2.30) ‘I am amazed at your report that organisation was let lapse; (17.2.30) C/S to O/C Dublin Brigade, complaining he did not turn up at the meeting place yesterday. (25.2.30) Long and interesting letter from ‘your old friend’ (Probably Moss Twomey) to ‘Tom’ (evidently a trusted Republican then based in the USA), explaining the situation at home – ‘Things are quiet normal here, raids, arrests, and journeys to the Bridewell everyday, for most of the lads,’ etc.; emphasising the need for foreign publicity for the I.R.A.; disassociating the Army from ‘the Councils of the Irish Republic,’ being started under the auspices of C(omhairle) na Poblachta; and complaining bitterly that ‘for some unexplained reasons the Clan practically cut off financial supplies since August last .. If they had told us that the money was not available we would be satisfied, but the position is that on the strength of it coming we incurred debts, and borrowed extensively. Now we are in a mess … You can scarcely appreciate the mental torture and uncertainty we have gone through for months past. It has nearly finished me. Indeed I want to close it all, and would have got out, but it would only be leaving others in a hole,’ etc. (April 1930) Points for Speaker, Easter Sunday in New York, 3pp., with a further page of notes of matters to be raised; (26.4.30) notes on American engagements signed ‘R’, probably in Frank Ryan’s hand; (4.6.30) unsigned 3pp personal letter to ‘An Timthire’ (USA) probably from Moss Twomey, discussing the political situation and relations with De Valera making it clear that Clan people who hope for an arrangement with Dev. are wrong as he is moving towards Free-Staterism, etc; also same date, official Army Council despatch to ‘An Timthire,’; (31.3.31) very detailed 3pp typescript to Chairman, Army Council, from new York, evidently from ‘Timthire’ discussing various issues raised in previous message (lacking last page). There are also many detailed notes from units around the country concerning appointments, local difficulties, operations, financial matters etc etc. A multiplicity of important letters, notes and documents, as an Archive, w.a.f. * These files provide historians with the opportunity for the first time to construct a fuller authoritative account of the I.R.A. in the years following the Civil War and before Fianna Fail’s accession to power. (1)

Lot 275/0319

SOLD Hammer price €230

1913 All-Ireland Hurling Final G.A.A.: Programme: 1913 (Reprint) The All-Ireland Hurling Final at Jones’s Road, Dublin, on Sunday November 2, 1913. Tipperary V. Kilkenny – Programme – Souvenir, 12mo D. 1913 (facsimile) adverts, ptd. wrappers. (1)

Lot 276/0319

SOLD Hammer price €1200

1926 All-Ireland Hurling Final G.A.A. Programme 1926, G.A.A. All-Ireland Hurling final, Kilkenny V. Cork at Croke Park on Sunday, October 24th, match 3pm, 8vo, D. (The Progressive Printing Works) 1926, 2pps, defective (lacks surname to Cork Players 8 -18), as is, w.a.f. Scarce. (1) * This was the 40th year of the competition, in front of a crowd of 26,829, Cork beat Kilkenny 4.6 to 2.0, it was their 8th title.

Lot 277/0319

SOLD Hammer price €1600

1931 All-Ireland Hurling Final G.A.A.: Programme 1931, Craobh na hEireann san Iom nuidheacht bPairc an Chrocaigh 6.9.1931 Kilkenny v. Cork, Cl r Oifigeamhail, 8vo D. 1931, 2pps., ptd. wrappers. Scarce. (1) * Regarded as the Final that “Excited the Nation,” the match ended in a draw, the replay saw Kilkenny lose their talisman Lory Meagher. The Lee Siders took the Replay on a score line of 5.8 to 3.4.