34
WHYTES
SINCE 1783
,
308
1919: Terence MacSwiney handwritten and signed cheque
Crossed cheque for £141 sterling is made payable to The Trustees Dáil
Éireann. The text is in English and the signature is in the Irish language
amd is drawn Munster & Leinster Bank, Cork. Countersigned on rear by
David O Donnchadha per pro The Trustees Dáil Éireann. 3.25 x 7.75in. (8.26
x 19.69cm)
€
300-
€
400 (£260-£350 approx)
309
1920: Spanish language Terence MacSwiney commemorative medal
Obverse: EL RUIDO DE ROTAS CADENAS. LA DEMOCRACIA SANCIONA LA
REPUBLICA EN IRLANDA. Depicting a seated figure, sword drawn, a
“mermaid” harp, looking towards a sun rising over the sea. Reverse: NO
SERAN LOS QUE MAS PUEDAN HACER SUFRIR SINO LOS QUE PUEDAN
SUFRIR MAS LOS VICTORIOSOS MCSWINEY ALCALDE DE CORK. Translates
as: “O listen to the noise of the broken chains. Democracy sanctions the
Republic of Ireland” R: “Not the ones who make people suffer but the ones
who suffer will be the victorious. MacSwiney Mayor of Cork.” Scarce
1.25 x 1.25in. (3.18 x 3.18cm)
€
100-
€
150 (£90-£130 approx)
310
Circa 1920 The Soldier’s Song by Peadar Kearney and other ephemera
including maps.
Also includes Saorstát Éireann map of Dublin, 1966 commemorative
leaflets, 1963 President Kennedy newspaper souvenir etc. (8)
€
150-
€
200 (£130-£170 approx)
311
1920s-40s: ‘Ballykinlar March’ sheet music and Manchester Martyr’s
Commemoration programme
A mixed collection comprising of ‘Arise (Ballykinlar March)’ sheet music
published by Peadar Kearney, Manchester Martyrs Commemoration Concert
Programme held at the Gaiety Theatre 30 November 1947, The Irish
Ecclesiastical Record for April 1916 and My Old Irish Cottage sheet music
written by Patrick Kavanagh. (4 items)
€
60-
€
80 (£50-£70 approx)
312
G.B. Kenna, Facts & Figures of the Belfast Pogrom 1920-1922
O’Connell Publishing Company, 1922. Printed wrappers. Includes map.
€
100-
€
150 (£90-£130 approx)
313
Erskine Childers. The Constructive Work of Dáil Éireann No. 1.
Talbot Press 1921. Original printed wrappers, rebound in cloth with printed
label. A presentation copy Christmas 1933 to Margaret and Sohies Welch
signed by Molly Childers and inscribed by her “compiled and edited by
Erskine Childers”.
€
150-
€
200 (£130-£170 approx)
314
1921 (15 July) Óglaigh na hÉireann General Headquarters letter from
Gearóid O’Sullivan
A typescript letter on Dublin General Headquarters headed paper addressed
to “O.C. Chemicals” with content relating to the issuing of circulars dealing
with demolitions and manufacture of explosives. Initialed by the Adjutant
General Gearóid O’Sullivan.
8 x 5in. (20.32 x 12.70cm)
€
200-
€
400 (£170-£350 approx)
315
Seán Keating PRHA HRA HRSA (1889-1977)
Sketch of Dan Breen, 1958
charcoal and pastel heightened with white chalk on tinted paper
signed lower right
19.75 x 17in. (50.17 x 43.18cm)
Provenance:
The Collection of Justin Keating (the artist’s son) and former Minister for
Industry and Commerce (1973-1977);
by whom donated to an RHA fundraising auction, Dublin c. late 1970s;
Where purchased by the present owner
The commission to paint a portrait of Dan Breen was given to Seán Keating
by Todd Andrews, Managing Director of Bord na Móna, in the Spring of
1958. The two men got on extremely well, and Keating found Breen to be
an excellent model, very talkative and very interesting. The artist tended to
make many sketches before he began to work on canvas, as exemplified in
this fine example. Keating completed the oil painting of Breen in the
summer of 1958. It was exhibited in the RHA in 1959 and in the major
retrospective of the artist’s work at the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery in
1963.
Dr Éimear O’Connor HRHA
TRIARC-Irish Art Research Centre
Trinity College Dublin.
€
1,500-
€
2,000 (£1,310-£1,750 approx)
316
1922: Poblacht na hÉireann War News collection
A collection compising of issue numbers 2, 3, 6 and 101. From the
collection of Joe Connolly (see also lots 279 and 317)
€
200-
€
300 (£170-£260 approx)
317
1922 (30 June) Oscar Traynor letter to Dublin Fire Brigade regarding the
evacuation of casualties from the Four Courts
A unique and important typescript letter on Óglaigh na hÉireann Dublin
City Brigade Headquarters headed paper signed by Oscar Traynor. Sent to
Joe Connolly of Dublin Corporation Fire Brigade Ambulance asking him
“...to take a car to the Four Courts and ask for the wounded who are lying
there... The Free State forces may demand them from you as prisoners but...
no force on earth can take them from you except by force and this would
be a breach of international law... This should be done at once as the men
are in a rather bad way some of them on the point of death and the
buildings are still being shelled.” Signed in ink by Traynor as O/C Dublin.
€
800-
€
1,200 (£700-£1,050 approx)
318
1922 (8 December) Mellowes, Barrett, O’Connor and McKelvey last
letters prints
Letterpress on card transcipts of “Letters written before their martyrdom
on the feast of The Immaculate Conception, 1922” The first for Liam
Mellowes and Richard Barrett, the second for Rory O’Connor and Joe
McKelvey. (2 items) 10 x 8in. (25.40 x 20.32cm)
€
100-
€
150 (£90-£130 approx)
319
1922: Original Rory O’Moore handwritten manuscript for ‘Ireland Over
All’
A handwritten notebook containing an original script for the drama
described as an Irish Operetta in four acts. With many loose notes and
pages. Including the intended foreword and dedication for publication
which describes the operetta as “..an attempt to portray the National Spirit
of Ireland as it appeared to the writer during the past two terrible years of
Ireland’s agony. It was hastily put together during the second week of the
truce (July 1921) and was first staged (by the Tralee Dramatic Troupe) in
August 1921...” Unique
€
300-
€
400 (£260-£350 approx)
320
1922 (July 4) Millmount Barracks Drogheda by Thomas Markey
An impressive watercolour and pencil drawing heightened with white,
signed and dated lower right. Titled “Shelling Millmount Barracks Drogheda
July 4th 1922” Showing the 18 pounder artillery field gun that was
positioned at The Dominican Church on Wellington Quay to help bring an
end to the siege of the barracks. Interestingly this appears to be a
contemporary drawing by Markey rather than a retrospective historical
study. Theo Snoddy in ‘Dictionary of Irish Artists 20th Century’ (p. 413)
notes that “During the civil war when the Free State forces were shelling
Millmount barracks, he sat behind the ‘big gun’ in Dominick Street,
sketching the scene. Later he transferred the sketch to canvas. The Shelling
of Millmount 1922 is in Millmount Museum run by the Old Drogheda
Society.” The reverse also shows another unfinished pen and ink drawing of
Millmount. 20 x 25in. (50.80 x 63.50cm)
€
300-
€
500 (£260-£440 approx)
