WHYTE'S THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR TIMED ON-LINE AUCTION 17 MAY TO 7 JUNE 2024

111 History THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR · FRIDAY 7 JUNE 2024 287 1970s republican prisoner arts and crafts - a pair of leather bags. Both with Celtic designs, one with ‘Portlaois Jail’ and ‘Margaret’. Condition: Very fine. Estimate €100-€150 (approx £90-£130) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 287 288 1973-1976 Republican prison art from Long Kesh internment camp. (3) Includes a very elaborate shoulder bag featuring portraits of Pádraig Pearse and James Connolly, verses, map of Ireland etc. inscribed ‘Long Kesh 1973’ and two wallets, one inscribed ‘Long Kesh 1976’. Condition: Fine. Estimate €300-€400 (approx £260-£340) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 288 289 1974 oil painting of Michael Gaughan, hunger striker, by a Long Kesh prisoner. Attributed to Michael Lawless (Mícheál Láighéis) the painting shows Gaughan lying on a bed in chains in a cell with a woman mourning. Oil on board with, on reverse, 40 signatures of prisoners in Long Kesh. 14 by 18in. (35.6 by 45.7cm) Condition: Fine, framed. Estimate €500-€700 (approx £430-£600) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 289 290 1974. Oil painting of Long Kesh internment camp by Mícheál Laighléis, a republican prisoner. Oil on board depicting the camp in snow by Michael Lawless, signed and inscribed lower left, ‘Céis Fada, Cás 13: 1974’ 16 by 24in. (40.6 by 61cm) Condition: Fine, not framed. Estimate €200-€300 (approx £170-£260) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 290