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A collection of thirteen press photographs of Irish political figures.
Each with contemporary notes verso. Mainly head and shoulders portraits including Eamon de Valera, Tim Healy,
John Dillon, Ernest Blythe, Desmond FitzGerald, Basil Brooke, John Lonsdale, Jonathan Pim, Lord Wimborne,
Robert Brennan, Sean Russell, John MacNeill and John Redmond. Sizes up to
7 x 5in. (17.78 x 12.70cm)
Estimate €150-€200 £130-£170
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 112113
1923 Drumboe Massacre, letters and ephemera.
Two letters (April 7th and 16th) from relatives of victims Daniel Enright and Tim O’Sullivan, to Hugh W. Lean,
Lismulladuff N.S., Killygordon, Co. Donegal, acknowledging his expressions of sympathy, with envelopes; together
with two memoriam cards and a ballad sheet, printed with portraits of the four victims to each corner. (7)
Drumboe Castle, near Stranorlar in County Donegal, became the General Headquarters for the forces of the Irish
Free State in County Donegal during the Civil War. On 14 March 1923, four anti-Treaty IRA fighters, Charles Daly
(26), Sean Larkin (26), Daniel Enwright (23), and Timothy O’ Sullivan (23), who had been captured and held in
Dromboe Castle since January, were summarily shot in retaliation for the death of a National Army soldier in an
ambush.
Estimate €600-€800 £510-£680
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 113