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Circa 1922. IRA threatening letter to Bandon businessman.
Signed “ Head Officers of the 3rd Brigade IRA” the crudely lettered note
gives Mr Slattery 24 hours to leave Bandon Steel Industries. Inscribed in
ink 1934 but this is believed to be an archive number and the message
dates from the Civil War period. 6 x 6in. (15.24 x 15.24cm)
€
150-
€
200 (£120-£160 approx)
357
1922-23 Civil War, Anti-Treaty propaganda and ephemera
A scrapbook containing photographs and newspaper clippings, especially
from “Our Boys”, the magazine of the Christian Brothers1921-1922,
together with a collection of typewritten and printed pamphlets and
broadsheets
€
200-
€
300 (£160-£240 approx)
358
1922 A Civil War Prisoner of War painting, Collooney Engagement
In honour of James J. Lee, Quartermaster, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Western
Division, taken prisoner of war at the battle of Collooney, 14th July 1922,
and imprisoned in Athlone Barracks, the painting depicting a trophy of
arms flanked by two Republican Volunteers, a shield emblazoned ‘’IRA’’ ,
above a banner and ribbons above and below bearing the inscriptions
‘’Irish Republic 1916’’ and ‘’1922’’, by W.J. Houston, Ballymoate. Framed. 9
x 13in. (22.86 x 33.02cm)
€
300-
€
400 (£240-£320 approx)
359
1798 & 1922 An Irish Civil War Prisoner painting, Collooney
Engagement
Depicting the Teeling monument, erected on the site of the earlier (1798)
Collooney battlefield, and titled ‘’The Monument of Telling (sic) on the
spot where he shot the Gunner in the 1798 Rebellion’’, presentation
inscription around ‘’Nicholas Mullan Rathnarrow, Ballymoate, captured at
the fight of Collooney, July 14th 1922. Presented to Mrs Kelliner by a
prisoner of war 1922 in return for her many kindnesses’’ , signed W.J.
Houston, Prisoner of War. Framed.
10½ x 14½in. (26.67 x 36.83cm)
€
200-
€
300 (£160-£240 approx)
360
1922 The First Shot at Millmount, 1922. Thomas Markey
(1885-1967)
oil on board, signed and dated [4 July 1922] lower right; signed again on
reverse and inscribed with date and title, 24 x 36in. (60.96 x 91.44cm)
Provenance:
Family of the artist. See also lots 10, 11 and 89.
€
800-
€
1,200 (£640-£960 approx)
361
1922-1924 Anti-Treaty pamphlets
A collection of 23 examples of various Sinn Fein anti-treaty leaflets,
pamphlets and hand-bills, several copies of most; together with a form
for the appointment of a polling agent for the 1923 Dail Election.
€
1,000-
€
1,500 (£800-£1,200 approx)