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1916 Tom Clarke, letterhead paper
An unused sheet of letterheaded paper of Tomás S.
Ó Cléirigh, tobacconist, stationer and newsagent.
Proclamation signatory Tom Clarke established
this tobacconist’s shop at 75A Parnell Street in
1907.
10¼ x 8in. (26.04 x 20.32cm)
Estimate €150-€200 £117-£156
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 199200
1914 The Wild Knight & Other Poems signed by Joseph Plunkett, ex-libris Eimar O’Duffy
Chesterton, G. K., The Wild Knight and Other Poems; J.M. Dent & Sons, London, 1914, inscribed to the fly-
leaf in black ink, “Eimear O’ Dubhthaigh - Nodlaig 1914 - o Joseph O’Pluincéid”; together a first edition of
‘The Wasted Island’ by Eimar O’Duffy, dedicated “Mother - from - Eimar” and a copy of the 1929 Macmillan
edition of the same work signed by Eimar’s wife Cathleen and dated 1929. (3)
Eimar Ultan O’Duffy (1893-1935), like Joseph Plunkett, was educated in Belvedere College, Dublin and
Stonyhurst College, Lancashire. It was he and Bulmer Hobson who informed Eoin MacNeill, Chief of Staff of
the Irish Volunteers, of the plans for the Rising at Easter, prompting MacNeill to cancel all Volunteer maneu-
veres. Mac Neill’s orders ensured that a nationwide Rising was impossible.
Estimate €1000-€1500 £780-£1170
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 200198
Tom Clarke’s shaving mug
An early 20th century slip-cast porcelain shaving
mug, the white ground decorated with sprays of
gilt shamrock.
4¼ x 5½in. (10.80 x 13.97cm)
Provenance: By descent to Tom Clarke’s son,
Emmet. Given by Emmet to the current owner, a
relative, in 1974.
Estimate €1000-€1500 £780-£1170
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 198