WHYTE'S THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR SATURDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 2018 AT 11AM

History THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR · 15 SEPTEMBER AT 11AM 103 1948 Third Battalion Dublin Brigade Dinner and Re-Union programme, signed by 29 attendees. ‘B’ and ‘K’ Companies, Third Battalion Dublin Brigade, Old IRA, a 40- page, 8vo. souvenier programme, printed paper wrappers. Estimate €200-€300 (approx £180-£270) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 103 104 Sheet music ‘Wrap the Green Flag Round Me, Boys’ Dedicated to Major John McBride, published by The Gaelic Press, Liffey Street, quarto, the cover with a photograph of Major McBride against a background of a Fenian flag and a Tricolour. Estimate €100-€150 (approx £90-£130) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 104 105 James Mallon, The Frongach Barber, archive of letters and accounts. A collection of letters, envelopes greeting cards and postcards to James Mallon and his wife Florence, including a 1920 Municipal Election campaign card an a letter from Mallon’s mother, presumably to Frongach; also account books, invoices, and correspondence relating to Mallon’s hairdressing business on Eden quay (200+ items) James Mallon, born in Belfast, lived at George’s Quay in central Dublin and had a hairdressing business in Eden Quay nearby. He was married with one son, Ernest. A member of the Irish Volunteers since 1913, he served in the 1916 Rising under Eamon de Valera at Boland’s Mills with ‘B’ Company, 3rd Battalion, Dublin Brigade. After the Rising he was interned at Wakefield and Frongoch, where he was known as ‘the Frongoch Barber’. He was a Sinn Fein candidate at Dublin municipal elections in 1920. In 1921 he was interned at Ballykinlar but later became a Lieutenant in the National Army. The hairdressing business survived until the 1990s. Estimate €200-€300 (approx £180-£270) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 105 106 1916 Dublin After the Six Day’s Insurrection and 1966 commemorative items. A commemorative book containing thirty-one pictures from the camera of Mr TW Murphy (‘The O’Tatur’). Mecredy, Percy & Co. Ltd. first edition, wide 8vo, printed paper wrappers, the inside front cover with an appreciation from General Maxwell; together with a 1916-1966 50th Anniversary Calendar, a commemorative poster of Padraic Pearse and reproduction of the front page of the first Irish Independent to report on the Rising, printed for Indepwendent Newspapers Ltd, RDS Spring Show 1966, 1916 Commemorative Stand. (4) Estimate €150-€200 (approx £130-£180) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 106