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18th to 20th Century THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR · 6 APRIL 2019 AT 11AM 89 1871 (January 6) Autograph letter from Charles Stewart Parnell to a creditor. A one-page handwritten letter from his home Avondale, Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow, to Dudgeon & Sons, referring to an outstanding debt and asking that they do not ‘press harshly’; together with a photographic portrait of Parnell and a postcard of his grave. (3) Estimate €300-€500 (approx £260-£440) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 89 90 1880 The State of Ireland and Irish Sketches. Hand-coloured engravings, Serving a Process near Headford, Galway; Scene Outside the Courthouse, Galway; A Fisherman’s Cabin, Connemara and An Irish Obstructionist; and four others (8) Mounted, sizes up to Estimate €300-€500 (approx £260-£440) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 90 91 1881 The Crisis in Ireland, arrest of Parnell, the Land Commission, boycotting and refusing the rent.. Six hand-coloured prints depicting the events of late 1881: the Court of the Land Commission opens; Parnell and his Lieutenants arrested; Parnell receiving prisoners in Kilmainham Gaol while the Court presides; Stopping the Kildare Hounds; Boycotting; Seizure of the United Ireland newspaper. (6) Mounted, the largest Parnell’s own newspaper, the United Ireland, attacked the Land Act and he was arrested on 13 October 1881 together with his party lieutenants, William O’Brien, John Dillon, Michael Davitt andWillie Redmond, who had also conducted a bitter verbal offensive. They were imprisoned under a proclaimed Coercion Act in Kilmainham Gaol for “sabotaging the Land Act”, from where the No Rent Manifesto, which Parnell and the others signed, was issued calling for a national tenant farmer rent strike. The Land League was suppressed immediately. Estimate €250-€350 (approx £220-£310) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 91 92 1891 Charles Stewart Parnell `Ireland`s Army of Independence` commemorative medal A white metal commemorative medal by Johnson. The obverse with bust of Parnell surrounded by the words `Ireland`s Army of Independence 1891` and garland of shamrock and ivy. The reverse with the words `Let my love be conveyed to my colleagues and the Irish people` Estimate €200-€300 (approx £170-£260) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 92