WHYTE'S THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR SATURDAY & SUNDAY 25 & 26 July 2020

154 History 282 1928 Tailteann Games silver medal for dramatic arts to P. O’Connell and other silver medals and coins. includes UCD Rowing Club 1941 (2), 1889 crown, Order of Malta medals with ribbons (2) 1966 Rising Anniversary ten shillings coins (4). Condition: Fine to very fine. Estimate €100-€150 (approx £90-£140) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 282 283 Oliver St. John Gogarty (1878-1957) photographs including 1924 Tailteann Games and King’s Inns notices. (3) Includes a group photograph of the L.S.D. Centenary Celebrations 1930, 1924 Tailteann Games Archery group including Oliver, Brenda, Dermot and Noll Gogarty with Lord Revelstoke, Daphne and Calypso Baring etc., both 8 by 6 inches, also handwritten notice on Kings Inns card for a dinner celebrating Gogarty’s 50th year at the Bar, etc. Condition: Photo very good, mount stained. Oliver St. John Gogarty (1878-1957) was an Irish poet, author, surgeon, athlete, politician, and well-known conversationalist. He was a onetime friend of James Joyce and served as the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in Joyce’s novel Ulysses. Gogarty was active in the Sinn Féin movement from its very inception, having first met Arthur Griffith in 1898. During the War of Independence he plotted escapes of prisoners, and sheltered volunteers on the run in his home and transported them in his car. Gogarty took the pro-Treaty side in the Civil War, became a Senator of the Free State, and, as such, he narrowly escaped being assassinated by Anti-Treaty forces. Although a highly qualified surgeon and barrister, Gogarty turned to writing as a career - he won medals at the Tailteann Games and the Olympic Games and had 17 of his poems published in the Oxford Book of Verse. He also wrote fiction, including As I Was Walking Down Sackville Street. in 1939 he emigrated to the USA, where he died in 1957. Estimate €200-€300 (approx £180-£270) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 283 284 1929 (26 November) manuscript signed by King Victor Emanuel of Italy and Benito Mussolini. Appears to be a grant of citizenship to Edoardo Cherulino Aznavour, signed on reverse by the king and Mussolini . Condition: Very good. Estimate €200-€300 (approx £180-£270) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 284