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1918 Spike Island, football medal
A silver and gold medal centred by a shield-shaped
cartouche engraved Spike Island - Football - 1918”,
on suspension ring, hallmarked for Birmingham,
1918.”
In 1918 Spike Island was an important British gar-
rison for troops guarding Queenstown and Cork
Harbours.
1in. (2.54cm)
Estimate €150-€200 £117-£156
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 324325
1918 Irish recruitment poster, An American
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From the New York “Life” - ‘Ballad of Sinn Feiners’.
Followed by a derogatory ‘ballad’ satirising Sinn
Fein.”
30 x 20in. (76.20 x 50.80cm)
Estimate €200-€300 £156-£234
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 325326
An Irish Self Determination League counter marked penny.
A 1918 penny coin, die-stamped “ISDL”; together with five various Irish Self Determination League hand-
bills. (6)
The Irish Self-Determination League of Great Britain was established in London in 1919. Membership
peaked at around 20,000 in and was confined to those of Irish birth or descent resident in Great Britain. The
ISDL took an anti-Treaty stance during the Civil War and in 1923 many of its members were forcibly de-
ported to Ireland at the request of the Free State government, where they were imprisoned and, in some well
documented cases, mistreated.
Estimate €150-€200 £117-£156
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 326327
1918 Report of the Proceedings of the Irish Con-
vention
Plunkett, Horace (Chairman), His Majesty’s Sta-
tionery Office, Dublin, 1918. Red cloth gilt. First
Edition. Pp. 176. Folio. Ex-library (hand stamped
“Withdrawn”). Minimal marks. Very good. Scarce.
Estimate €100-€150 £78-£117
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 327