WHYTE'S THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR 13 MAY 2023

104 History 193 1916. Sinn Fein Rebellion Handbook, first edition. Weekly Irish Times, Dublin, 1916, 248 pp. scarce first edition of this useful reference work. Full of details relating to the Rising with lists of casualties, prisoners, and other participants, well illustrated. Condition: Covers distressed but interior very good. A candidate for binding or reference. Estimate €100-€150 (approx £90-£130) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 193 194 1916. Peadar Kearney ‘The Soldier’s Song’ First Edition Published by Whelan & Son, Dublin. Scarce. 12 by 9in. (30.5 by 22.9cm) Condition: Poor condition, several tears, some repaired with gummed stamp paper, soiled, but a useful reference copy and could be restored. Music by Pádraig O’ hAonaigh, arranged by Cathal MacDubhgall. Peadar Kearney worked first as a labourer in Dublin, where he was born and educated. In 1911 he got a job at The Abbey Theatre as a props man where he met Patrick Heeney who helped him score The Soldier’s Song which he had composed in 1909-1910. He joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood in early 1903, and became a member of its Supreme Council. He was a founder member of the Irish Volunteers. The Soldier’s Song quickly became the Volunteers’most popular marching song and was widely published. It was sung in the GPO during the Rising. In the 1916 Rising Peadar Kearney fought under Thomas MacDonagh at Jacob’s biscuit factory in Bishop Street. He evaded capture after the Rising was put down but was arrested during the War of Independence and interned at Ballykinlar Camp in County Down in 1920-21.Published by Whelan and Son, Dublin, 1916. Composed as a marching song for the Irish Volunteers, The Soldier’s Song”was adopted as the Irish National Anthem in 1926. Estimate €80-€120 (approx £70-£110) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 194