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Roger Casement, a letter to Herbert Ward
1913 (September) a signed four page letter from Dungavel, Lanarkshire,
“on a Scots moor in a big house”. Together with a 1983 letter from Rev.
Herbert Ward, identifying the owners of nicknames mentioned in
Casement’s letter and explaining some of the references in it. (2)
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1,000-
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1,500 (£800-£1,200 approx)
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1914-1916. Manuscript by Michael Keogh, Sergeant Major in the Irish
Brigade in Germany.
Includes details of the British Minister in Norway’s offer to Adler
Christinson of £5,000 for information leading to the arrest of Roger
Casement, also copy of Casement’s last letter to Keogh, and other writings,
all in Keogh’s hand, on Irish Army notepaper dated 16 February 1924 and
addressed to JH MacDonnell, London solicitor and defender of Irish
republicans. 6pp quarto.
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200 (£120-£160 approx)
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle letters regarding his petition for clemency for
Sir Roger Casement
and a reply from Sir Ernley Blackwell, Under Secretary of State and legal
advisor to the cabinet who, in a public statement said, “I see not the
slightest objection to hanging Casement and afterwards giving as much
publicity to the contents of his diary as decency permits, so that at any
rate the public in America and elsewhere may know what sort of man they
are inclined to make a martyr of.” (3)
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2,000 (£1,200-£1,600 approx)
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Roger Casement, Lithographic print
from the original drawn from life in 1916 by Prof. L. Fanto, Art Director,
State Theatre, Saxony. Framed. 16 x 11in. (40.64 x 27.94cm)
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300 (£160-£240 approx)
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1916. Roger Casement In Memoriam card
Printed by Gill Dublin. A rare contemporaneous card.
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180 (£120-£140 approx)
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Sir Roger Casement’s Diaries
Curry, Dr. Charles E. Ed. Sir Roger Casement’s Diaries: His Mission to
Germany and the Findlay Affair. 1922, Arche Publishing Co. Munich.
Lacking wrappers, outer pages foxed and faded, edges brittle.
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80-
€
120 (£60-£100 approx)
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1916 German Arms Landing.
Karl Spindler, Das Geheimnisvolle Shiff, August Scherl Gmbh, Berlin,1921.
Signed by the author. Together with O’Donoghue, Florence. The Failure of
the German Arms Landing at Easter, 1916. Reprinted from the Journal of
the Cork Historical an Archaeological Society, Vol. LXXI (1966). (2)
Karl Spindler (1887-1951) was a German Naval Officer who was involved
in the ill-fated attempt with Roger Casement to bring German arms
ashore in Ireland on behalf of Irish Volunteers as part of the Easter Rising
of 1916.
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300 (£160-£240 approx)
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The 1916 Rising Service Medal to William Partridge
Stamped “67” and “William - Partridge”. With presentation box and
compliment slip in postage carton.
William Patrick Partridge was an active trade unionist, early Sinn Feiner
and trusted friend of James Connolly and Jim Larkin. He formed the
ITGWU and was a founder member of the Irish Labour Party. During the
Easter Rising he was a Captain in the Irish Citizen Army. He fought
alongside Countess Markievicz at the College of Surgeons.
He was captured and sentenced to 15 years but was released from prison
because of ill-health. He died of Bright’s Disease at his home in 1917,
aged 43.
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7,000 (£4,000-£5,600 approx)
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William Partridge Prison Prayer Book
An Irish - English bi-lingual prayer book, given to William Partridge by Rev.
Dr. O’Loughlin, chaplain to the Irish prisoners at Portland and Lewes
Prisons, inscribed “Mr W. Partridge, Lewes 20-4-17” and with ms letter to
the flyleaf from Partridge to Mr & Mrs Lennon, Kilmainham, Dublin, signed
“William Patrick Partridge, Convict V196”; together with a letter to Mrs.
Lennon dated 21 April 1917, informing her of his release from prison and
thanking her for her assistance “in the dark hours of strive (sic.) and
stress”. (2)
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2,000 (£1,200-£1,600 approx)
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1916 (3 May) letter from William Partridge imprisoned at Richmond
Barracks to James Bruton.
Address given as “c/o Officer i/c Prisoners, Block L Room 6, Richmond
Barracks, Inchicore, and addressed to Mr James Bruton of 11 South Terrace,
Inchicore. He asks Mr and Mrs Bruton to forgive him for “the
unpleasantness I unwillingly....caused in your household”. It is possible that
he lodged at the Bruton household and that the authorities raided the
house as a result. A rare early date letter from a Citizen Army captain
imprisoned at Richmond Barracks.
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700 (£400-£560 approx)
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1916 - 1921, Easter Rising and War of Independence: a family group.
A 1916 Medal and War of Independence Medal with Comhrach bar to
Walter McDermott and a War of Independence medal with Comhrach bar
to Philip Mc Dermott, together with two autograph books including
sketches and entries relating to Ballykinlar Camp, 1921. (5)
Provenance: By descent to the current owner.
€
2,000-
€
3,000 (£1,600-£2,400 approx)
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A 1916 Rising Service Medal to a Boland’s Mill veteran.
Accompanied by 1916 Veteran’s Association membership card for Peter
Coates, B Coy. III Batt., who served at Boland’s Mill, Signed by Peadar
Kearney et al., together with a 1916 Veteran’s Association Hospital Scheme
Card and a ticket to a reunion of Commandant de Valera’s Command. (3)
€
500-
€
700 (£400-£560 approx)
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