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FIANNA FAIL (THE IRISH ARMY)
A Journal for Militant Ireland. Nos. 1-11 (all
published). Cork, 19 September - 5 December
1914, various printers. Folio, mostly 4 pp (one
double number). Very good copies.
This short-lived periodical was edited, financed
and mainly written by Terence MacSwiney,
later Lord Mayor of Cork, who died on hunger
strike in a British jail in 1920. Its purpose
was to support the Irish Volunteers, and to
dissuade Irishmen from joining the British Army
at the start of the First World War. It covers the
controversy with Redmond over the Volunteers
in detail, also the attempt to transfer Sean
O’Hegarty (Volunteer leader and post office
worker) to England, etc..
It was suppressed by Dublin Castle after the
eleventh issue, which quotes a statement
given to Roger Casement in Berlin, promising
German support for Irish freedom. The
printer’s name is cut from the final page of this
issue in all copies we have seen, presumably
for fear of reprisals.
It did not circulate outside Cork, and sets are
extremely rare.
€400 - €500
420
DANIEL O’CONNELL MP
A pair of free-front envelopes, dated 8
and 13 October 1838, both handstamped
Cahirciveen / Penny Post, to Dr. Slattery,
Catholic Archbishop of Cashel at Thurles,
both clearly signed Daniel O’Connell. With
two old postcards, one showing the ruins
of O’Connell’s old home, the other his later
residence.
€200 - €300
421
IRISH POSTAGE STAMP
COLLECTION
An extensive investment collection of unused
Irish postage stamps, 1922-1990s, unmounted
mint stamps in pairs, blocks and large panes,
very fine, mostly in pristine condition as issued,
includes some booklets and postal stationery,
neatly filed in an album. Catalogue valuation
of some 4,000 euro.
€300 - €500
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