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A letter from Arthur Griffith on Eire Óg
headed paper, detailing his thanks for
an invitation to a meeting at the Mater
Hospital and his regrets for not being
able to attend, dated July 14, 1920
€150 - €200
674
SGOIL ÉANNA - ST. ENDA’S
SCHOOL, RATHFARNHAM
A detailed Prospectus, in Irish and
English on facing pages, setting out
the school’s staff and programme
for 1910-11, following its move to
Rathfarnham. Small quarto printed
wrappers, 16 pp (unnumbered),
printed by Dollard of Dublin. The staff
listed includes Padraic Colum (English
Literature); the extern lecturers
include W.B. Yeats, Douglas Hyde
and Eoin MacNeill. Scarce.
€200 - €300
675
The 1916 Casualties & Heroes
I.N.A.V.D.F. (Irish National Aid and
Volunteers Fund), In Memoriam, I
gcuimhne na nÓglach sa chré, Your
Prayers we Earnestly Requested
...., Go ndeinidh dia Trocaire ar a
n-anamnaibh, a printed card, approx.
30cms x 16cms D. (Gaelic Press)
c. 1916, framed and glazed. Rare.
Provenance: Purchased in these
rooms, “Independence” auction, lot
28, 19th April 2011
€400 - €600
676
REPUBLICAN AUTOGRAPH
BOOK 1918-21.
A small leatherbound autograph book
containing two groups of signatures,
the first group entered during the
South Armagh by-election of February
1918, when the Sinn Fein candidate
Dr. Pat McCartan was defeated by an
Irish Party nominee, with signatures
including Joe McGuinness, victor
in the South Longford by-election
of 1917, Aibhistin de Staic [Stack]
and some others; and secondly
a small group of signatures dated
August-September 1921, including
Michael Collins, Eoin Ua Dubhthaigh
[O’Duffy], Tom Cullen [one of Collins’
close associates], Harry Boland,
Sean O Murthuile and Frank Aiken. It
is unusual to find Boland’s signature
with Collins’, as Boland was in the
United States with De Valera for much
of 1919, and the two took opposite
sides in the Treaty debate. There is
significant damp damage to the spine
area throughout, affecting some of
the entries marginally, but not that of
Collins.
€400 - €600
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