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800Years IrishPolitical, Literary&MilitaryHistory - 15thApril2014
194 Collins (Michael),Griffith (Arthur)&others.
Apaid cheque for £200 dated 20 January 1922, drawnon theRotunda
Branchof theNational BankLtd., payable toMr. FinianLynch, drawn
by aMr. O’Sullivan, signed on reverse by Fionan O’Liongsigh (Fion-
an Lynch), Arthur Griffith&Michael Collins, andwith instructions,
possibly inCollin’s hand, ‘PayGeorgeNesbitt / L.T. Cosgrave /&Dan
MacCarthy.’Amost interestingdocument,whichclearlymust relate to
DailEireannand /or I.R.B. affairs. £200wasa substantial sum in those
days. Fionan Lynch was an I.R.B. member, a deputy of Dail Eireann,
andamemberof theProvisionalGovernment formed in January1922.
The date on the cheque is January 20, 1922 and is significant as that
was just sixweeks after theTreatywas signed and twoweeks after the
Dail ratified it. Griffith’s & Collins’ signatures are very rarely found
together, both men were dead within eight months, in August 1922.
Thenames appear as theydidon the treaty.
W T Cosgrave was to become Chairman of the Provisional Govern-
ment following Collins’s death and later President of the Executive
Council.McCarthywas later tobecomeParliamentarySecretary to the
President of theExecutiveCouncil.
€2000 - 3000
195 P.H. Pearse /PadraicMacPiarais
Apaid cheque for £10.00payable toP.H. Pearse, Royal Bankof Ireland,
Terenure, dated 25thAug. 1913, signed by PadraicMac Piarais, coun-
tersigned rear by P.H. Pearse. Three good signatures (one pierced by
cancellation) in two languages.
€1200 - 1500
