WHYTE'S THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR - Saturday 17 September 2016

The Eclectic Collector · 17 September 2016

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Collection of early 20th century Irish poetry and literature. (16)

Includes: T.M. Kettle, Poems and Parodies, Talbot 1916; George

Russell (AE), New Songs, Dublin 1904; George Russell, Voices of the

Stones, MacMillan 1925; P.H. Pearse, The Collected Works, Maunsel

1918; James Stephens, The Crock of Gold, MacMillan 1924; James

Stephens, Here Are the Ladies, MacMillan 1914; Terence Mac Swiney,

Principles of Freedom, Talbot 1921. (16)

Estimate €150-€200 £130-£170

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A collection of books from the library of Ronald J. P. Mortished.

Mainly on the rise of Irish nationalism, Irish socialism and the foundation of the State. Authors include George

Bernard Shaw, Darrell Figgis, George Russell (AE); James Connolly; Ernie O’Malley, et al. (51)

Ronald James Patrick Mortished was born in London to Irish parents on 19 June 1891. He joined the Civil

Service in London and was posted to Dublin in 1909. He married Marie Shields, sister of actors Arthur Shields

and Will Shields (Barry Fitzgerald). He joined the British Independent Labour Party in 1907 and the Socialist

Party of Ireland in 1909. He wrote for Jim Larkin’s Irish Worker and other Labour periodicals, usually under the

pseudonym of Patrick Thompson”. He was working in the Valuation Office when he was appointed Secretary of

the Constitutional Committee in 1922. He later stood unsuccessfully for Labour in the 1927 general election., and

then went to work for the International Labour Office in Geneva. He returned to Dublin in 1946 to become the

first Chairman of the newly founded Labour Court. He died in 1957.

Estimate €200-€300 £170-£260