HISTORY & LITERATUE 13 MARCH 2016

HISTORY & LITERATURE 13 MARCH 2016

399

1922 - 1923 Civil War scrap book.

Containing printed photographic postcards with

views of the destruction to Liberty Hall, 1916, the

shelling of the Four Courts, 1922, etc, along with a

good range of newspaper clippings regarding the

events of the day, including the takeover of Dub-

lin Castle in 1922 by Michael Collins, group shots

of Black and Tans, Royal Irish Constabulary, etc.

One particularly interesting postcard in this album

depicts two pro-treaty soldiers taking cover at a

barricade and returning fire in Dublin, July 1922,

and being directed by a man in civilian clothes

with a pair of binoculars and a pistol. This album

was compiled by a Waterford unionist, as evi-

denced by some of the manuscript annotations to

photographs and clippings contained in the album.

Estimate €200-€300 £156-£234

400

1923 (February 6) Poblacht na hEireann, War

News.

Issue number 153, framed.

14½ x 9½in. (36.83 x 24.13cm)

Estimate €60-€80 £46.8-£62.4

401

1923-24 Prison Ship Argenta autograph book.

A 72-page autograph book with entries from 44 prisoners, all Ulstermen, mostly with patriotic or humorous

verses.

During the 1920s, the Argenta, a former cargo vessel, condemned as unseaworthy, was used as a military

base and prison ship for the internment without trial of suspected Irish Republicans by the British. By Feb-

ruary 1923, under the 1922 Special Powers Act the British were detaining 263 men on the Argenta, which

was moored in Belfast Lough. Conditions for those imprisoned on the ship were inhumane, as described by

Denise Kleinrichert, in her book, Republican Internment and the Prison Ship “Argenta”, 1922 (September

2000), Irish Academic Press Ltd

Estimate €400-€600 £312-£468