Adam's Works on Paper ONILNE Auction Ending August 10th 2020

96 Bidding ends 10am Monday 10 th August 264 MOONEY, THOMAS ‘Address to the Irishmen Resident in the NewWorld’ Broadside. Printed on one side only in two columns. Signed in type ‘Thomas Mooney.’ Cincinnati, May, 1848. (25 x 20 cm). Some edge wear. Traces of old water stain to lower left margin. Not in Sabin. Not recorded on OCLC. A remarkable broadside call to Irishmen living in America for financial help for arming those struggling against the English at home: “Shall we not have a conspicuous part in the honour of cutting down that power which has, wherever it could, triumphed over the weak, in blood and rapine, that power which for seven centuries oppressed our race? ... Money, men and action are the requisites for Ireland now ... Those who gave your money last year to feed the starving Irish will give money now to send arms to enable them to keep the food of their own land for their support ... The freedom of man all over the world demands your instant aid to destroy the bloody old British Empire.” “The literary efforts of young Ireland eventuated in another rebellion (1848); a revolutionary wave could not roll over Europe without touching the unlucky island. After the failure of that outbreak there was peace until the close of the American civil war released a number of adven- turers trained to the use of arms and filled with hatred to England.” - ‘Encyclopaedia Brittanica’. After returning to Ireland, Mooney published an account of his experiences in the United States, ‘Nine Years in America’ Dublin, 1850. Mooney, Thomas (c.1798-1888), historian and journalist, was born in Ireland, but nothing is known about his family or early life. In 1841 he emigrated to the USA and began contributing letters and articles to newspapers back in Ireland about politics and his travels, first for the ‘Dublin Pilot’ (1841-2) and then ‘The Nation’ (1842-6). ‘Nine years in America’ (1850) was pub- lished in Dublin in the form of a series of letters to his cousin, Patrick Mooney, a farmer. He was employed as a journalist for the Irish World in San Francisco, and often wrote under the name ‘Transatlantic’. Famous for his denunciations of British ‘brutality, treachery and hypocrisy’ (Ryan, 123), he was praised by his editor for the ‘scathing terms’ with which he attacked ‘the robberies, the exterminations and the brutalities’ of 700 years of oppression. Because of his views, the government made repeated efforts to stop the circulation of the paper in Ireland, but with little success. Mooney sent money to support Charles Stewart Parnell in the 1870s and was a consistent defender of the Irish Land league. On 15 January 1876 he claimed there was a conspiracy between the Irish church and state to subvert the national spirit of Ireland. € 250 - 450 265 O’CONNELL, DANIEL. O’Connell and Erin go Bragh Broadside Ballad. London: Printed and Published by W.I. Mitchelson, 54 Turnmill Street, near the Sessions House, Clerkenwell circa.1830. Single sheet, 9 x 23.2 cm. Printed on one side. Decorated engraved right hand margin. A few small nicks to margin. Seven verses, four lines. In good condi- tion. Rare. “For tho’ bound in peace by the Tory made laws He still will stick up for his country’s cause Then for his enemy’s he don’t care a straw Then shout for O’Connell and Erin go Bragh.” € 50 - 100