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“Wrap The Green Flag Round Me Boys” sheet
music.
Dedicated to Major John McBride, published by
The Gaelic Press, Liffey Street, quarto, the cover
with a photograph of Major McBride against a
background of a Fenian flag and a Tricolour.
Estimate €150-€200 £117-£156
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 292293
“The Soldier’s Grave”, manuscript sheet music.
A transcription, in a clear hand of the ballad “The
Soldiers Grave”, on embossed paper, quarto. The
ballad was composed by Rev, C. Wolfe on the
death, in 1809, of General Sir John Moore.
Estimate €100-€150 £78-£117
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 293294
Three nationalist ballads
Sheet music for “A Battle Hymn”, dedicated to The
Irish Citizen Army, words by Countess de Marki-
evicz, music by Joseph M. Crofts, published by The
Art Depot; together with sheet music for “A Nation
Once Again!” by Thomas Davis; and “The Boys of
Wexford” Robert Dwyer Joyce, MD. Sizes up to
14 x 10in. (35.56 x 25.40cm)
Estimate €150-€200 £117-£156
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 294295
1916 Irish Volunteer, needlework panel
A linen panel embroidered with an Irish Volunteer
raising the Tricolour and trampling a Union flag.
15½ x 15in. (39.37 x 38.10cm)
Estimate €100-€150 £78-£117
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 295