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1921 The IRA GHQ Staff. A sketch by Leo Whelan.
An oil sketch for Whelan’s famous painting which depicted the GHQ staff
shortly after the Truce of June 1921, which he completed in 1923 and
which is now in the National Museum, Collins Barracks. This sketch
includes only 12 figures whereas the completed work features 13 -
Michael Collins (intelligence), Richard Mulcahy (chief-of-staff), Gearóid
O’Sullivan (adjutant-general), Eamon Price (organisation), Rory O’Connor
(engineering & OC Britain), Eóin O’Duffy (assistant chief-of-staff), Seán
Russell (munitions), and Seán McMahon (quartermaster-general). Standing:
J. J. O’Connell (training), Emmet Dalton (operational training), Seán
Donovan (chemicals), Liam Mellowes (purchases), and Píaras Beaslaí
(publicity). See History Ireland, Vol. 17, 1, Jan.-Feb., 2009.
10 x 7in. (25 x 18cm)
€
300-
€
500 (£250-£420 approx)
279
1921: (February-September) IRA prisoner mail to and from Ballykinler
Camp.
A correspondence between Patrick O’Loughlin, Prisoner No. 975, Hut 38, H
Company, No. 2 Camp, Ballykinlar, Co. Down, and his parents at 39 Lower
Kevin Street. Comprises 20 letters from the prisoner, all with stamped
envelopes postmarked BALLYKINLER CAMP, and 12 letters to the prisoner,
all with stamped envelopes and camp censor manuscript markings, also
some empty envelopes and some other letters and cards. Also included is a
photocopy of O’Loughlin’s Internment Order of 29 December 1920. A rare
primary source on life in the War of Independence prisoner camps and in
Dublin city. (48)
€
300-
€
500 (£250-£420 approx)
280
1921: Ballykinlar Internment Camp Chess Medal
An extremely unusual and scarce white metal medal. With chess board
decoration on the obverse and engraved on the reverse in Irish ‘Chess
Competition in Ballykinlar 1921’. Also with ‘“On my keeping and in theirs :
a record of experiences on the run, in Derry Gaol, and in Ballykinlar
Internment Camp’ by Louis J. Walsh, Talbot Press, Dublin 1921. (2 items)
€
250-
€
350 (£210-£290 approx)
281
1921: (August) Barbed Wire. Ballykinlar prisoners’ publication Vol. 1 No.
1
Mimeograph, 6pp. The first edition of Barbed Wire produced by prisoners
held in Ballykinlar camp. A scarce item consisting of six single pages with
information, advice, jokes, sports notes etc.
€
150-
€
200 (£130-£170 approx)
282
1919-21: Original photograph of a ‘Flying Squad’
An extremely interesting photograph of an unidentified War of
Independence ‘Flying Squad’. Marked bottom right “Copyright J.J. Leonard”
Framed. 8½ x 11½in. (20 x 28cm)
€
100-
€
150 (£80-£130 approx)
283
Breen, Dan. Manuscript Letter on Dáil Éireann Letterhead 15th, July,
1961
1961. Good A 4pp. mss. signed letter on Dáil Éireann headed notepaper
dated 15/7/61. Includes: “.Some kind friend would like to see me out of
public life or even dead and forgotten. That would suit them
best............when it would be more easy for me to stay on a hill side in
Tipp............. The other report they speak about Breen don’t live in
Tipp.....why vote for him. Well I was in Tipp whenever I was needed............”.
Daniel “Dan” Breen (1894-1969) was a leading figure in the Irish
Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil
War. In later years, he was a Fianna Fáil politician.
€
200-
€
300 (£170-£250 approx)
284
1919-46: War of Independence medal, 1971 Truce Anniversary medal
and Emergency Medal group
1919-21 War of Independence Service Medal, 1971 50th Anniversary of
the Truce Medal and 1939-1946 Emergency Service Medal with one
additional service bar, Local Security Force issue. Issued to an unknown
recipient from the South Tipperary area.
€
400-
€
500 (£330-£420 approx)
285
1919-21: War of Independence Service Medals
Two War of Independence Service Medals. Recipients unknown but found
in South Tipperary.
€
300-
€
500 (£250-£420 approx)
286
1919-21: War of Independence Service Medal with Comrac bar
With box of issue.
€
200-
€
300 (£170-£250 approx)
287
1921-1971 50th Anniversary of the Truce Medal
Awarded to those who received the 1919-21 War of Independence Service
medal and who were still alive in 1971. With original box and issuing slip.
Recipient unknown.
€
200-
€
300 (£170-£250 approx)
288
1916-30: Republican ephemera collection including de Valera East Clare
by-election handbills
A good mixed collection of Republican ephemera including nine different
Éamon de Valera East Clare by-election handbills, ‘Bishop of Limerick and
General Maxwell’ mimeograph circular, ‘English Brutality’ pamphlet,
editions of ‘The Factionist’, ‘Commandant General Michael Carolan’s
Speech from The Dock’ and ‘England’s Gallows Tree circulars, 1798
Rebellion information pamphlets etc. (25 items)
€
200-
€
300 (£170-£250 approx)
289
circa 1860: British Army private purchase land pattern revolver from
the collection of Éamon De Valera
A revolver similar in style to the Beaumont Adams revolver but with front
loading lever latch, made by J Beattie 205 Regent Street, London and with
VR patent marks. Many antique and older weapons were used by Irish
Volunteers during the 1916 Rising and the War of Independence, this
example was acquired by Éamon De Valera and gifted by him to a member
of An Garda Síochána who guarded his house at Cross Avenue, Blackrock.
5 x 8in. (13 x 20cm)
Provenance:
Gifted to the previous owner’s father by Éamon De Valera
thence by descent; Whyte’s, 16 April 2011, lot 248; Private Collection
€
500-
€
700 (£420-£580 approx)
290
1940s: Éamon de Valera signature with Constitution of Ireland
Éamon de Valera signature on the reverse of a Presidential compliment
slip. Tipped into the free front end paper an early official printing of the
Constitution of Ireland.
€
150-
€
200 (£130-£170 approx)
291
circa 1940: Éamon de Valera signed portrait photograph
A card mounted portrait photograph by A. H. Poole & Co. Waterford signed
lower right by de Valera. Also with some modern printed photographs of
Michael Collins and newspaper clippings. (5 items) 8¾ x 7in. (20 x 18cm)
€
120-
€
150 (£100-£130 approx)
292
circa 1940: Éamon de Valera autographed photograph of his portrait by
Leo Whelan
Autograph in white on a fine photograph of Whelan’s excellent portrait.
Also an Irish Press photograph of President Sean T. O’Kelly circa 1950. (2)
9½ x 7½in. (23 x 18cm)
Provenance:
Family of the artist, Leo Whelan.
€
100-
€
150 (£80-£130 approx)
