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450 ACOLLECTIONOFBOOKS
comprisingof
Charles Stewart Parnell:His Love Story andPolitical Life.Vol I and II (1914)
TomasBairéad: Cumact naCinneamna (1936) signed copy
G.A.Henty: In the IrishBrigade (1950)
P.W.Wilson: The IrishCase (1920)
Robert Brennan:Allegiance (6)
€200 - 300
451 NELIGAN,David.
The Spy in the Castle. Illustrated. London, MacGibbon&Kee, 1968. First edition. 189
pp. Signedpresentationcopy from theauthor.DavidNeligan [Collins’man in theCastle]
joined the DublinMetropolitan Police during the FirstWorldWar. He was to become
Michael Collins’ right-handman in his intelligence network against the British Forces.
At great personal risk,Neliganwas able topass vital information toCollins,whohimself
was leading a life of great danger from all sides. This work covers in every detail the
treacheries, heroisms, excitements anddangers of that time. Rare signed copy.
€150 - 200
452 ÓBRÁDAIGH,Ruairí.
Dílseacht. The storyofComdt.Gen. TomMaguire and theSecond (All-Ireland)Dáil. Il-
lustrated.Dublin, IrishFreedomPress, 1997. vi, 89pp. Fine indarkgreenbuckram, gold
blocked on spine, in dust jacket. With: SixDays to Shake an Empire. By Charles Duff.
With: The Partition of Ireland. By Denis Gwynn. With: The Fall of Parnell. By F.S.L.
Lyons.With: KevinO’Higgins. ByTerencedeVereWhite.With: TheAccusingGhost or
Justice forCasement. ByAlfredNoyes.With:War by the Irish. By JohnMcCann.With:
Frongoch. BySeanOMahony. Scarce. (8)
€150 - 200
453 [Ó’CEALLAIGH, Seán - J.J.O’Kelly - Sceilg]
The Claim of the Irish Republic. Statement submitted to Frank B. Kellogg, Secretary
of State, Washington, signed by Ó Ceallaigh as Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann.
No publisher. 1928, pp. 32. Stapled wrappers. Foxing to covers. A Rebel Church-
man. Very Rev. Canon William O’Kennedy [President of St. Flannan’s College, and
Treasurer of the Dail Loan for East Clare], Foreword by Mons. M. Hamilton. Tralee,
1962. 16 pp. Illustrated wrappers. With: Imaginary Happenings. Published by Brian
O’Higgins at The Irish Book Bureau, 1940. With: The Republic of Ireland Address-
esHisHoliness, ThePope. IssuedbySinnFéinStandingCommittee, 1929. (4)
TheClaimof the IrishRepublic statementwas signedbySeanUaCeallaigh, J.J.O’Kelly’s,
penname, Sceilg (1872-1957).He signedasChairmanofDáilÉireann.ThisDailÉireann
was the illegal SecondDail Eireann reconvenedby deValera in 1922 and abandonedby
him in1927afterhehad founded theFiannaFail Party.Thosewho remained in thisDail
Eireann and in the SinnFéinParty after the departure of deValera attempted to justify
the all-Ireland republican policy of 1919 against the claims of both the Free State and
British governments. This appeal to Frank B. Kellogg, theAmerican Secretary of State,
waspart of that policy. Similar statementswerepresented toRamsayMacDonald, Prime
Minister of England, inAugust 1929 and to thePope inDecember 1929. Finally, in1938
this body of Dail Éireann delegated its authority to theArmyCouncil of the IRA. This
statement, therefore, provides a rare insight into aparticular republican ideology.
€150 - 200
