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War of Independence THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR · 6 APRIL 2019 AT 11AM 206 1923 (February) Correspondence between Sir Horace Plunkett and George Bernard Shaw after the burning by the IRA of Plunkett’s house. A copy of a letter originally written ‘In Train - Chicago to New York’ to ‘pour out my grief, after the burning of Plunkett’s house, Kilteragh, by the IRA; and Shaw’s signed, typed response ‘Think of the bores you had to entertain, I congratulate you’, with a hand written post script. Provenance: Holroyd Smith family; Catherine Fleming; thence by descent to the present owner. Estimate €600-€800 (approx £520-£700) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 206 207 1923 (April 4 & 25) Letters from Edith Sommerville to Sir Horace Plunkett. A four-page letter April 4, from Drishane House, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, recounts the visit to the house by two heavily armed ‘Republicans’ to collect ‘Dog-Tax’ under threat of shooting the dogs; and her first sighting of ‘Civic Guardsmen’, who, she writes, have been dubbed the ‘Blue Look-Out’ by Cork people; together with a four-page letter, April 25, from Drishane House, recounting the (Protestant) Dean of Ross’ relationship with a wanted Republican ‘Spud’Murphy and the refusal of (Catholic) Bishop (Denis) Kelly (Diocese of Cork and Ross) to pray in his Cathedral for the soul of Michael Collins. (2) Provenance: Holroyd Smith family; Catherine Fleming; thence by descent to the present owner. Estimate €200-€300 (approx £170-£260) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 207