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800Years IrishPolitical, Literary&MilitaryHistory - 15thApril2014
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1798Newspapers: Bell’sWeeklyMessenger, Sunday
October7, 1798.
Includesnews from Ireland, including a report onWolfeTone’s defence at his
CourtMartial, “MrTone… saidhiswishwas toprove to theCourt that hewasnoway con-
nected, nor everwas,with the SocietyofUnited Irishmen, and that hehad fled from theRebels
to avoid engaging in theirwickedproceedings. TheCourtwas clearedof strangers,when after
a short consultation theCourt found thePrisoner -Guilty.”withothernumerous reports of
action.
TheWeeklyRegister - Londonweeklynewspaper.
Six issues - June 20, June 27, July4, 1798, andFebruary20, February27,March13, 1799
Includesmuchnews on the Irish rebellion. Reports also fromBallycastle, Bal-
lynahinch, Kilbeggan, Kilcock, etc - “the rebels aredispersed in all quar-
ters.”Also reports a “Returnof thekilled,wounded, andmissingon the 21
st
of June, in the attackonVinegarHill, and the townof Enniscorthy.”
€150 - 250
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AMISCELLANEOUSCOLLECTIONOFNEWSPAPERS,
containing editions of “The Spark”, “The Eye Opener”, “Irish Opinion”, “The Irish Nation”,
“TheUnited Irishman”, “ThePhoenix”, “The Irishman”, “SinnFein”andanumberof “Poblacht
nah-EireannWarNews”,No.34 and later.
€150 - 250
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[THENATION]OddnumbersofTheNation,
1849/1852, (3 issues); The Irishman, 1849, (5 issues); The Tablet, 1850/1851 (8 issues); The Cit-
izen. JohnMitchel, editor and proprietor. Vol. 1, No. 48, December 1854. Folio. Bound in con-
temporaryhalf calf overmarbledboards.
€150 - 200
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NEWSPAPERS: The IrishTelegraph
in four bound volumes, includingwar time issues, coveringdates Jan-Feb 1940, Sept-Dec 1941,
July-Dec 1942 andMar-Apr 1926
€300 - 500
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SGEALCHATHALUIMNIGHE [LimerickWarNews]
A very good collection of this extremely scarce Civil War publication, pro-Treaty, ten
numbers, July-August 1922, various sizes, including the issues announcing the deaths of
Griffith and Collins. Not complete, some issues soiled and/or scuffed, but a good run.
One issue (7 August) with the interior pages printed off-centre, with some loss of text.
As a collection,w.a.f.
€150 - 250
21 ACOLLECTIONOFNEWSPAPERS
comprisingThePeasant Saturday291906 (Navanprinted) the rare and single sheet revival
after the “suppression”of the IrishPeasant
- variousCivilWar periodnewspapers. Free state/Republican;
- aquantityof IrishUnionist alliancepamphlets;
- correspondence reTreatyHMSO1921
€100 - 200
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