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SINN FEIN REBELLION POSTCARDS
A very good set of 12 unused Valentine’s postcards of the
aftermath of the Rebellion, very clean, with a postcard
portrait of Cathal Brugha, two first day covers (stamps
commemorating John Millington Synge and Jack Yeats), and
a booklet of Easter Rising commemorative stamps 1966.
As a collection.
€150 - €250
399
CO. KERRY POSTCARDS
An album containing about 100 postcards of Co. Kerry
views, mostly first half of 20th century, mostly postally used,
monochrome and in colour, a good selection with some
interesting cards including early motor vehicles, beach huts at
Ballybunion, etc., also a few prints at rear.
€100 - €150
400
CORK AND MUNSTER POSTCARDS
An attractive Victorian album, leather backed wooden boards,
probably French-made, containing about 200 postcards
mostly of Cork and Munster scenes, colour and monochrome,
pre- and post-independence, some real photographs, some
interesting items; some French cards at rear, Exposition
Universelle 1900.
€150 - €200
401
DUBLIN POSTCARD ALBUMS
Two large albums of postcards relating mainly to Dublin city
and county, mostly 1900/1930s, over 500 in all, monochrome
and colour, some postally used, some interesting cards, some
real photographs, some post-insurrection, some Guinness
series, many showing now vanished scenes, neatly mounted,
one album slightly damaged.
€300 - €500
402
POSTCARDS
An album of Republican and other postcards,
about 38 in all, including some rare cards,
Sean Connolly, Countess Markiewicz, Capt.
R. Monteith (Limerick printed), Archbishop
Mannix (text in Irish), Laurence Ginnell (real
photograph), an attractive Tom Clarke coloured
card, military manoeuvres at Rush 1905, John
Dillon, John Redmond, some post-Rising cards,
some picturesque ‘Irish Colleens’, etc., a good
collection.
€100 - 200
404
“WHO FEARS TO SPEAK OF ‘98”
A 1978 Centenary commerative print on linen,
with portrait vignettes of Lord Edward Fitzgerald,
Daniel O’Connell, Robert Emmet, Theobald Wolfe
Tone & Henry Joy McCracken, also depictions of
New Ross, Wexford, Enniscorthy & the then Irish
Houses of Parliament, 42 x 46cm. Together with
another plainer example titled “Remember ‘98”,
44 x 40cm, both framed. (2)
€100 - €200
405
FIRST WORLD WAR RECRUITMENT
POSTER
relating to Lance-Corporal Michael O’Leary V.C.
(1915), titled “An Irish Hero” and asking his fellow
countrymen to emulate his “splendid bravery”
and “Join an Irish Regiment - To-Day”, printed
by David Allen & Sons, Great Brunwick Street,
Dublin, 38 x 25.5cm
€100 - €200