€1,500
Any Particulars .. For 'The Big Fellow'
Collins (Michael) A collection including an envelope addressed in Collins’ hand to P. O’Delaney, with a note signed M.C. saying ‘Art knows who this is’; also a cryptic ALS signed Art Ua Briain dated 28/11/19 to ‘A chara’, saying ‘Michael Collins requests me to ask you if you are in a position to supply him with any particulars such as those which you used to give him in Dublin’, etc.; a postally used envelope addressed to Collins at a West Kensington address; and a receipt issued to Collins for £3 - 2s., returns from MacHale concert, signed MacDonnell, dated 15.3.1915.
Art O Briain was President of the Sinn Fein Council of Great Britain. His reference to ‘particulars’ strongly suggests there is an intelligence connotation.
As a collection, w.a.f. (1)
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