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1922-23: Poblacht na hÉireann War News collection
Single sheet letterpress posters. Civil War era early editions. No. 3, No. 5,
No. 6, and No. 7 (4 items)
20 x 15in. (50.80 x 38.10cm)
€150-€200 (£125-£167 approx)
301
1922-23: Collection of Irish Civil War Poblacht Na hÉireann War
News
Letterpress. Collection of 36 single sheet newspapers. Editions Nos.9-12,
14-15, 18/26/58/73/80/82/ 84-89 ,92-95, 101-104, 106-108, 165-16
/172/175, July 5-10, 12, 14, 19, 29, Sept 15, Oct, 3, 30, Nov, 2,4,6-10, 13,
15-18, 25, 28-30, Dec 2, 4-5,1922. Jan 6, Feb 23-24, 26, Mar 3, 16, 1923
€600-€800 (£500-£667 approx)
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1922-23: Collection of Civil War period handbills
Letterpress, various sizes. A collection of War of Independence, Civil War
period and later propaganda handbills with some scarce examples
including ‘The Mountjoy Hotel Menu Card’, ‘Save Your Face!’ - alleged
order from Oscar Traynor, ‘Destruction of Four Courts’, ‘British Goods
Prohibition Order No. 2’, ‘Stand by the I.R.A.’ published by Cumann na
mBan Political Prisoners Committee and a later pamphlet ‘Fianna Fáil v
England’ in the form of a sports programme. (7 items)
€200-€300 (£167-£250 approx)
303
1922 (April 1-17) Freeman’s Journal Civil War post printing
machinery destruction editions
Mimeograph typescript.
Three scarce 7pp editions of the Freeman’s Journal produced after the
destruction of their printing presses by Anti-Treaty IRA men for its
support of the Anglo-Irish Treaty. The first edition declaring “the sledge
is not all-powerful. On the night it demolished our machines we
managed to produce one sheet. Today we offer our readers seven. The
Freeman’s Journal declines to bow to tyranny...” 13 x 8.50in. (33.02 x
21.59cm)
€150-€250 (£125-£208 approx)
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1923: Prison Ship Argenta collection including medals, autograph
book and prisoner art
An extremely scarce collection of items relating to the internment ship
H.M.S. Argenta awarded to and collected by John Patrick McBrien of
County Fermanagh. Including Lough Derg (Prison Ship Argenta) medal.
War of Independence medal in box of issue, with issuing slip and ribbon
bar. Autograph book containing a total of 119 different verses and
drawings with signatures and addresses, the first entry dated 2 January
1923, the last 4 April 1924. Four pieces of prisoner art including two
bags with an accompanying letter from J. P. McBrien sent from the
Internment Camp at Larne Workhouse to his family enclosing the bags.
(8 items)
John Patrick McBrien was born in Fermanagh in 1896 the son of Patrick
McBrien a farmer from Kinawley. He was one of almost 900 men and
women who between 1922 and 1925 were detained under the 1922
Special Powers Act, many of whom posed no threat whatsoever. A
unique archive and an excellent record of this period of internment in
Northern Ireland which is often overlooked, summed up by one of the
autograph book entries “When I am dead and all my bones are rotten,
this little book will tell my name when I am quite forgotten.”
During the 1920s, the Argenta, a former cargo vessel, condemned as
unseaworthy, was used as a military base and prison ship for the
internment without trial of suspected Irish Republicans by the British.
By February 1923, under the 1922 Special Powers Act the British were
detaining 263 men on the Argenta, which was moored in Belfast
Lough.Conditions for those imprisoned on the ship were inhumane, as
described by Denise Kleinrichert, in her book, Republican Internment and
the Prison Ship "Argenta", 1922 (September 2000), Irish Academic Press
Ltd.
€2,000-€3,000 (£1,667-£2,500 approx)
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1923 (October 12) Countess Markievicz Dublin South bye-election
letter
Mimeograph, manuscript. Letter sent to the Mountjoy Sinn Féin Club
and signed by Countess Markievicz appealing for volunteers to help with
the Dublin South bye-election campaign on behalf of Michael
O’Mullane, who was eventually defeated by Hugh Kennedy. 10 x 8in.
(25.40 x 20.32cm)
€300-€400 (£250-£333 approx)
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1923 (18 November) Kilmainham Jail Civil War hunger strike letter
An interesting single page unsigned manuscript letter dated Sunday
morning 18 November 1923 and written by an IRA hunger striker.
Contents include reference to Cardinal Logue’s letter to his diocese and
the opinions of hunger strikers “if at anytime we should receive a
reasonable offer for the safety of our lives and those of our comrades,
we will not throw it back in their faces. It is not to humiliate our
political or national opponents that we are on hunger strike... we don’t
want to parade our corpses or those of our comrades for a political
show, all we demand is freedom and we stand or fall by that.” 10 x 8in.
(25.40 x 20.32cm)
€200-€300 (£167-£250 approx)
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