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[MANCHESTERMARTYRS]ManchesterMartyrsAn
attractivecolour-printedcertificate
toacknowledge adonation to theAllen, LarkinandO’BrienMemorialCommittee,Kilrush,Co.Clare, 1890s, print-
ed by Coster, Johnston & Co., Dublin, circa 51 x 38cm, no details entered, rare. Rolled, otherwise in very good
condition.
€100 - 150
35 [O’CONNELL,Daniel]LettertoMr.DanielO’Connell.
FromStewart’sDispatch (DublinPaper).Halifax, Leyland, circa1835. Foliobroadside. 24x41.5cm. Printed in three
columns onone side only. Signed anddatedbyThomas Finn, Carlow, Feb. 9, 1835. Vitriolic attackbyThomas Finn
was in response to a report of a SpeechbyO’Connell published in the ‘Pilot’ newspaper at the anti-ToryAssociation
meeting inwhichO’Connellmade reference toFinn: “Inow turn toCarlow, andaskwhywasnot that excellentman,
Mr. Vigors, returned ? Because thirty-five baseCatholics voted against him ... And thesemenpretend tobeCatho-
lics. One of these leaders savoured of Republicanism; and if I hadno other reason for disliking republicanism, this
fact alonewouldbe sufficient.Youroutrageousandhigh-flying republicans I could find fit tobe trusteduponpublic
questions ... Yes; therehe is, and I donot hesitate toname theworthygentleman ...whenMr. TomFinnvotes for the
no-popery candidate”. In responseFinn suggests that ifO’Connell hadnot readMachiavel theFlorentine, he should
have: “Fling dirt enough, some of it will sticky”. Adetailed and lengthy defence of his position follows inwhichhe
points out all O’Connell’s flaws in his political career: “You have established onemendicity asylum at Derrynane
Abbey, in theCounty of Kerry, and anothermendicity asylum atMerrion-square, in theCity of Dublin, ‘where fat
contented ignorants, brazen effrontery, and irreclaimable dullness may repose under the shade splendid beggary;
proving to the astonished cow-herd and turf-cutters of Caherciveen, as well as to the starvingweavers and ragged
scavengers ofDublin, thatwhile every trade andmanufacture in Ireland is on thewane,mendicancy-proud, puffed
up,well fedmendicancy flourishes in thedrawing-room, or lolls in thegilded chariot,without fearof diminutionor
decay”. Fine. Rare.
€200 - 300
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[PAYNORENTS]Abroadsideposterprintedone sideonly:
‘PayNoRents / NoAnnuities / Irish Land has been / Paid for / 50 times over / In this attitude youwill have / the
supportof the /DEFENCE /COMMITTEE.’Noprinter, nodate, nopublisher, but evidently late1920sorearly1930s
(before De Valera’s abolition of the LandAnnuities in 1932). 30.8 x 50.1cm. Almost certainly issued by one of the
groups on the fringes of the Republicanmovement, very possibly the Donegal land agitation organised by Peadar
O’Donnell, whichwithheld rents and brought pressure onDe Valera to tackle the annuities issue (see hismemoir
‘ThereWill BeAnotherDay’). Small stainononemargin, otherwiseaverygood copy.A rareand interestingposter.
€200 - 300
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[PROCLAMATION IN IRISH]ForógraSheachtainnaCásca 1916.
A translation to Irish of the Proclamation of 1916, printed byMahons of Dublin, possibly circa 1950. Single sheet
25.5x40.5cm, printedwithinadecorativeborder. Framed.Rare.A superb translation, clear, direct, terseandmetic-
ulouslyaccurate, unsignedbut certainlybyamasterof the language. It isbelieved that thewriterMáirtínÓCadhain
workedona translationof theProclamationwhileemployed in the translationsofficeof LeinsterHousearound this
time, and it is likely that this item is inwholeor part hiswork.
€150 - 200
