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134 History 237 1918 (19 September and 27 October) letters from Dr Richard Hayes interned in Reading Prison Two letters to Nora Ashe from Dr Richard Francis Hayes MP, 2pp each, describing how the prisoners in Reading commemorated Thomas Ashe’s anniversary, written in ink on “PLACE OF INTERNMENT READING” paper, with stamped labels with censor labels. Family of Thomas & Nora Ashe; Private collection Condition: Very good. Richard Francis Hayes (1878–1958) was a revolutionary, politician, historian and medical doctor. He fought in the Easter Rising in 1916 and was involved in the Garristown and Ashbourne battle under Thomas Ashe. He was elected as a Sinn Féin MP for Limerick East at the 1918 general election. During the War of Independence he was interned in the Curragh Camp and Reading. He was elected at the 1921 elections as a Sinn Féin TD for Limerick City–Limerick East and was released after the truce. He supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty and voted in favour of it. He was re-elected at the 1922 general election as a pro-Treaty Sinn Féin TD and subsequently as a Cumann na nGaedheal TD at the 1923 general election. He resigned from the Dáil in January 1924 and retired from politics. He later became Irish Film Censor (1941–54) and Director of the Abbey Theatre. As a historian, he was a leading authority on Irish connections with France from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. He authored several major historical studies, including The Last Invasion of Ireland: When Connacht Rose. Estimate €150-€200 (approx £140-£180) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 237 238 1919 (23 April) Anniversary MemoriamMass at Notre Dame Paris for 1916 Rising dead, with poem by Thomas Ashe 4pp including a note on Ashe’s victory at Ashbourne and his later death from force feeding in jail. Family of Thomas & Nora Ashe; Private collection Condition: Very good. Estimate €100-€150 (approx £90-£140) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 238 239 1967 Thomas Ashe 50th Anniversary commemoration at Ashbourne photographs. (17) A collection of prints and negatives including an outdoor stage with musicians and dancers, Eamon de Valera at the event, also a veteran of the Ashbourne battle, Leo Whelan’s portrait, etc. Mostly Family of Thomas & Nora Ashe; Private collection. Condition: Very good. Estimate €100-€150 (approx £90-£140) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 239