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Bunreacht na hEireann, Constitution of Ireland,
signed by Eamon de Valera
Government Publications Sale Office, green cloth,
gilt; signed to the flyleaf in black ink “Eamon de
Valera - Nollaig, 1964”.
Estimate €100-€150 £78-£117
248
1982. Centenary of Eamon de Valera’s Birth
commemorative pictorial concert programme
signed by Charles Haughey, Sile de Valera and
others.
Printed by Irish Printers for the Government.
Autographed by Taoiseach Charles J. Haughey TD,
Eamon de Valera’s granddaughter, Sile de Valera
TD, Brian Lenihan TD, Tanaiste, and Jim Tunney
TD, Cathairleach of Dail Eireann. Accompanied by
a Marian prayer card signed by Eamon de Valera.
11¾ x 8in. (29.85 x 20.32cm)
Estimate €100-€150 £78-£117
249
1916 (April 24 - May 6) Easter Rising eye witness
account
A 20-page handwritten eyewitness account of the
1916 Rising in Dublin, by Captain George Steven,
Inspector of Fisheries. Steven cycled around Dub-
lin city throughout the Rising “watching the fight-
ing in different quarters”. His account of Monday
April 24 includes a description of “Sinn Feiners”
inside St. Stephen’s Green shooting dead an un-
armed drunken man “of the labouring class” who
had removed a trunk from a barricade. On Tues-
day he witnessed the Fire Brigade attending a fire
in Dunn’s on Sackville Street and describes how
an urchin raised barbed wire “on a pike” to allow
the engine through and, despite heavy firing on
the street, the “firemen were not interfered with”.
“Early Wednesday morning our Fisheries Cruiser
“Helga”, now a formidable gunboat, slipped up the
Liffey and threw a few shells under Butt Bridge
right into Liberty Hall.”
8 x 5½in. (20.32 x 13.97cm)
Provenance: By descent to the present owner.
Estimate €1000-€1500 £780-£1170
250
1916 Easter Rising, note in pencil recording the
shooting of a Volunteer at the corner of Moore
Lane.
Twelve lines some illegible: “Jim O’Civilly (?) was
in Findlater........P.O......at the cor of Moore Lane -
shot in ankle then on side & fell again.” etc. First
hand witness account of the shooting of a rebel
volunteer on Moore Lane.
6½ x 5in. (16.51 x 12.70cm)
Estimate €100-€150 £78-£117