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125 Works on Paper 343 MADDEN, R.R. The United Irishmen.Their Lives and Times With several additional memoirs, and authentic documents, heretofore unpublished: The whole matter newly arranged and revised. Edited by James J. O’Neill. Three volumes. Dublin, no date. Cloth. Fine The Society of United Irishmen was founded in Belfast in October 1791 by Samuel McTier and Robert Simms; and in Dublin a month later by Wolfe Tone and Thomas Russell. Their declared objective was “an equal representation of all the people of Ireland”. Wolfe Tone first came into prominence when he published a pamphlet anonymously, entitled ‘An Argument on Behalf of the Catholics of Ireland’, signing himself `A Northern Whig’. Inspired by the French revolution he advocated a republic. € 200 - 30 344 BARRY, TOM Guerrilla Days in Ireland, Cork, 1955. [xii] 223 pp. Cream boards in dust jacket. Lengthy letter loosely inserted from Tom Barry. Fine. Tom Barry was born in the west of the ‘Rebel County’ in 1897. During the First World War he served with the British Army in Mesopotamia. On returning to Ireland in 1919 he became a prominent member of the Irish Republican Army, commanding the West Cork unit which he later developed into one of the leading Flying Columns of the war. The Column enjoyed re- markable success notably in the Kilmichael and Crossbarry ambushes. He opposed the Treaty and supported the Republican side during the Civil War. He also served as I.R.A. Chief of Staff in the late thirties. The autographed letter is signed ‘T.B.’ on 64 St. Patrick’s Street, Cork, headed paper, to the interviewer [at Montrose, November, 1969]. In this lengthy letter (one and a half pages quarto) Barry sets out his salient points on agreeing to appear on television on the “49th Anniversary of the Fight at Kilmichael ... I am hoping it will be a commemorative programme, more than a personal interrogation. There is certainly enough interesting material about the action & the times before and after it.” He request that he will not be questioned on his early life, schooling, etc up to the age of 17. The programme interviewer is allowed to ask “Any questions you like on my activities, Brigade Training Officer, Brigade Column Commander: Various actions, tactics, spies & informers, the church, excommunications, the good people who backed up, the poor, the I.R.A. social outlook; the types of men who made up the I.R.A in West Cork. The Loyalist minority and their attitudes.” He concludes by stating that: “I hope you understand the above has being written with a view of suggesting questions which can contribute to a programme worthy of those who died for Ireland nearly a half century ago.” € 350 - 450 345 BÉASLAÍ, PIARAS Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland Two portraits in full colour by Sir John Lavery. (2 vols). Dublin, 1926. Second edition. Cloth with medallion portrait of Collins in gilt on each volume. Signed by Piaras Béaslaí and dated May 1951. Rare signed copy. € 400 - 600 346 STEPHENS, JAMES. (AE)/FINNERAN, RICHARD J. AND MARY M. FITZGERALD (EDS.). Some Unpublished Letters: FromAE to James Stephens Limited edition, 306/350, Cuala Press 1979. Signed by Anne & Michael Yeats € 100 - 200