€1,800 - €2,500
Unique Presentation & Association Copy
With Forty Five Republican Signatures
Gregory (Lady Augusta) Seven Short Plays, Dublin: Maunsel 1909. Inscribed on f.e.p. 'to Ambrose Power from A. Gregory', with subsequent owner's inscription on half title of 'Eadhmonn S. O Dugain' (Eamonn Duggan), 'q. 120, 3 years'; and with two full pages on rear blanks of Republican prisoners' signatures 1916 / 17, 44 signatures, all with prison numbers, mostly with terms of imprisonment, including J. [Sean] Mc Garry, G.B. Crofts, Tomas Aghas (Ashe), Fionan O Loingsigh (Lynch), John F. Mc Entee, Diarmuid Ua Loingsigh (Lynch), Deasmumhan Mac Gearailt (Desmond Fitzgerald), Aoibhistin de Staic (Stack), Donnchadh Ua Ceallachain, Seoirse O Fluingceid (Plunkett), Colm O Gaora, G.B. Crofts, etc etc. Original cloth backed boards, soiled. New in a custom made cloth box.
Eamon Duggan, later a signatory of the Treaty with Britain, fought in the 1916 Rising and was sentenced to 3 years imprisonment, but was released after serving a year. A lawyer, he acted for the next-of-kin at the inquest on Thomas Ashe, and was for a time IRA Director of Intelligence. The signatures must date from his year of imprisonment after the Rising, and must precede the death of Thomas Ashe on hunger-strike in November 1917. A fascinating memento of heroic and trouble items in Ireland.
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