Chronicles of Jails and Prisoners, with Signatures Figgis (...

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Chronicles of Jails and Prisoners, with Signatures

Figgis (Darrell) A Chronicle of Jail, (bound with) A Second Chronicle of Jails, Dublin, Talbot, 1917 & 1919, bound together in cloth, orig. wrappers bound in.
The first item with inserted prelims signed by former prisoners including Aibhistin de Staic (Stack), with a list of nine jails in which he was detained; Peadar Mac Fhlannchadha (Clancy), listing five jails. Diarmuid Ua Loingsigh, Sean Mac an tSaoi (Mc Entee), David R. Kent (Brother of Eamon), Eamon de Valera (dated 11.7.17 at Ennis), Labhras Mag Fhionnaghail (Ginnell); Art O Griobhthaigh (Arthur Griffith) and others; also Signed by the author Darrell Figgis during the East Clare election, 2.7.(19)17.

A remarkable collection of signatures, many of them evidently collected during the East Clare Election Campaign of July 1917, when De Valera was the successful Republican candidate. De Valera's signature is dated on the day after polling day. Peadar Clancy's signature is very rare; he was shot dead with Commdt. Dick McKee on the evening of "Bloody Sunday," 1920, while allegedly trying to escape from a British Army guardroom in Dublin.  (1)