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139 Works on Paper 390 MACNEICE, LOUIS Autumn Journal London: 1996. Dark grey boards. In dust jacket. € 50 - 100 391 BODKIN, THOMAS Hugh Lane and His Pictures illustrated with numerous plates in double-tone collotype. Dublin, Pegasus Press for the Government of the Irish Free State, 1932. xiv, 82, [2] pp. Edition limited to 400 copies. Half green morocco. Signed by Liam T. Cosgrave. € 250 - 350 391A DE VALERA, EAMON With DeValera in America and Australia.World appeal against Partition Dublin, Printed by The Irish Press for Fianna Fail, circa 1948. Broadside newspaper. Signed by Eamon de Valera on first page. Creased from folding. Some light brown- ing and fraying to fore-edge In February, 1948, a general election in lreland ended sixteen years of Fianna Fáil government. From 1932 to 1948, de Valera and his party had dominated lrish poli- tics, and were to do so again for a further twenty-two years from 1951 to 1973. De Valera’s fall from power in 1948 took place during a marked revival in lreland of the issue of partition. Immediately upon his electoral defeat he turned his whole energies to the partition agitation. He embarked on a tour of the USA and Australia, India and of Britain, with the declared purpose of rousing the overseas lrish into a world-wide anti-partition movement. Without question, he was motivated by genuine principle, which went back to his entry into nationalist politics in 1913, but his anti-partition crusade was also a party political manoeuvre, designed to get him back into office. The result was the First Inter-Party Government, with compromise candidate John A. Costello of Fine Gael as Taoiseach. The following year, Costello declared Ireland as a republic, leaving partition as the most pressing political issue of the day. De Valera, now leader of the opposition, left the actual parliamentary practice of op- posing the government to his deputy, Seán Lemass. He embarked on a world cam- paign to address the issue of partition. He visited the United States, Australia, New Zealand and India, and in the latter country, was the last guest of the Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten of Burma before the handover of Indian independence. In Melbourne, Australia, he was feted by the powerful Catholic Archbishop Daniel Mannix, at the centenary celebrations of the diocese of Melbourne € 100 - 200