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1914, July: Irish National Volunteers, Ballickmoyler, Laois.
Note addressed to Michael Quinn requesting permission for the use of gravel
pit at Rossena, Ballickmoyler, where a “suitable short rifle range can be fixed
up, and give the volunteer members some instruction in target practice on a
couple of evenings each week”. A second note dated August 1914 gives a list of
names of those who attended target practice. Both notes signed by J.Feehan,
Hon. Secretary.
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx)
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Circa 1914 National Volunteers tunic button
A brass tunic button centred by a harp flanked by the letters ‘N’ and ‘V’.
The National Volunteers was the name taken by the majority of the Irish Volunteers that
sided with Irish Parliamentary Party leader John Redmond after the movement split over
the question of the Volunteers’ role in World War I.
Replacement copper lug soldered to reverse, some wear to harp.
€80-€120 (£60-£100 approx)
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1914 ‘Ireland’ Newspaper
Twelve issues between 6 November and 3rd December, 1914 of the half-penny
daily nationalist newspaper.
€80-€120 (£60-£100 approx)
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Inginide na h-Éireann (Daughters of Ireland) brass brooch.
Large brooch with “Inginide na h-Éireann” inscribed in Gaelic lettering.
Provenance: Issued to Elizabeth Breen; thence by descent to present owner.
Inghinidhe na hÉireann (English: Daughters of Ireland) was a radical Irish nationalist
women‘s organisation led by Maud Gonne from 1900 to 1914, when it merged with the
newly formed Cumann na mBan. Originally set up to provide an alternative to Queen
Victoria’s party for children during her visit to Dublin, it rapidly evolved into a political
movement and later a support to the Irish Volunteers and IRA.
€500-€700 (£400-£560 approx)
170
1914 Fianna Handbook
with an introduction by Countess Markievicz. Central Council of na Fianna,
Dublin, 1914. Lacking boards, frontispiece and title page replaced with
photocopies. Very rare.
€200-€300 (£160-£240 approx)
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1915 (February). Fianna. First Issue of Irish National Scouts journal.
Vol. 1, No. 1, pp16, quarto. Also Vol. 1 No. 5. Interesting content including
contribution from PH Pearse. The magazine was suppressed by the authorities.
Scarce. (2)
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx)
172
1914 An tÓglac - The Irish Volunteer
21 Issues of the weekly newspaper, between 28 February 1914 and 26
December 1914.
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx)
173
1915 An tÓglac - The Irish Volunteer
28 issues of the weekly newspaper, between 16 January and 25 December
1915.
€200-€300 (£160-£240 approx)
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Nationality Newspaper, edited by Arthur Griffith
22 issues between June 19, 1915 and July 12, 1919. The United Irishman
journal collapsed in 1906 following a libel suit. Griffith refounded it under the
title Sinn Féin. The paper survived until its suppression by the British
government in 1914 after which it was sporadically revived as the radical
journal, Nationality.
€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx)
175
O’Donovan Rossa Funeral, Pass to Grave Side
Issued by the Wolfe Tone Memorial Association, a cream card admitting the
bearer to the grave side in Glasnevin Cemetery. O’Donovan Rossa’s burial was
the occasion for Pearse to deliver his great call to arms, with the climax: “the
fools, the fools, the fools! - they have left us our Fenian dead, and while
Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.”; together
with a souvenir of the public funeral. (2)
€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx)
176
Ginnell, Laurence. D.O.R.A. at Westminster
Being Selections from Mr Ginnell’s Parlimentary Activities. (Reprint from
Hansard) Before Easter Week. After Easter Week. The Irish Wheelman Printing
and Publishing Co. Ltd. Dublin. D.O.R.A. refers to the Defence of the Realm Act.
Green cloth. Scarce.
€80-€120 (£60-£100 approx)
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Mauser rifle of a type used by the Irish Volunteers
A 1898-model Mauser, the forestock named “M. J. Mulder” with inlaid white
metal, lacking bolt, the barrel filled.
Provenance: Found in a building in Dublin circa 1960. Bears old label stating it
to be from the Asgard, but it is an earlier type than those landed at Howth in
1914.
€800-€1,200 (£640-£960 approx)
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1916-1945. Cache of arms found in Dublin.
Comprises a pinfire revolver, a 1902 pattern British bayonet and also a 1939-
45 British Commando dagger. Found under the floorboards at 51/52 Capel
Street, Dublin 1, circa 1960. (3)
Provenance: Family of owner of 51-52 Capel Street, Dublin;
Whyte’s, 5 April 2008, lot 215;
whence purchased by the present owner.
€500-€700 (£400-£560 approx)
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A book with hidden revolver, dating to the 1916-22 period.
Statuta et Decreta Universitatis Oxonienis, 1909, Red cloth, gilt. A
compartment cut from the centre containing a miniature small-calibre
revolver.
Provenance: Adam’s, 15 April 2008, lot 561, where described thus: “This item was
purchased by present vendor in a lot of miscellaneous books at a dispersal auction
recently at The Mill House, Rathfarnham, which was occupied until the 1930s by Bulmer
Hobson, formerly an active member of the I.R.B. The recent sale included some books
purchased from the Hobsons at the same time the Hobsons disposed of the house. (See
accompanying vendor’s note). It is therefore most likely that this item was a concealed
pistol belonging to Bulmer Hobson, as the later owners, deny that it was ever belonging to
them. Even if not Hobson’s, the pistol must have been concealed by someone in the period
of the Irish Independence struggle (1909 at earliest). A similar example in the National
Museum. * Hobson was a leading member of the Dungannon Clubs, the I.R.B. and Fianna
Eireann from about 1905, but fell out with the I.R.B. over the Redmonite take over of the
Irish Volunteers in 1914. He took no further part in political affairs, but might well have
felt his life was potentially in danger. Although a Quaker, from Co. Down, he was not a
pacifist.”
€2,000-€3,000 (£1,600-£2,400 approx.)
180
Irish Volunteers Belt
A brown leather belt with brass two-part clasp, the tongue with harp motif,
the receiver emblazoned “Irish - Volunteers”. A rare complete example.
€200-€300 (£160-£240 approx)
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1916 The Irish Volunteer Newspaper
Eleven issues between 8 January and 22 April, 1916.
€300-€500 (£240-£400 approx)
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1916 Irish Volunteer
Eoin MacNeill ed., Irish Volunteer Vol. 2. No. 67 (New Series). Saturday, March
18th, 1916, just six weeks before the Rising.
€80-€120 (£60-£100 approx)