WHYTE'S THE HISTORY SALE TIMED ON-LINE AUCTION 1-11 NOVEMBER 2023

112 1922. Provisional Government posters - The Irregulars’Tactics and The Kilmainham Prisoners. Propaganda on behalf of the Pro Treaty givernment. The larger: 11 by 8.50in. (27.9 by 21.6cm) Condition: Fine. Estimate €150-€200 (approx £130-£170) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 112 113 1930s Irish Fascist ‘Blue Shirts’ rare photographs. (2) Both showing Blueshirts on parade, in Phoenix Park and on a roadway. 3.50 by 5.50in. (8.9 by 14cm) Condition: One laid down on foxed mount, the other with diagonal cracked crease and clipped lower left corner, otherwise good. The Army Comrades Association (ACA), later the National Guard, then Young Ireland, and finally League of Youth, but best known by the nickname ‘The Blueshirts’ was a paramilitary organisation in the Irish Free State, founded as the Army Comrades Association in Dublin on 9 February 1932. The group provided protection for political groups such as Cumann na nGaedheal from intimidation and attacks by the IRA. Some former members went on to fight for General Franco’s Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War after the group had been dissolved. Estimate €150-€200 (approx £130-£170) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 113 History 74