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The History Sale 19th April 2016
Cheque drawn on Munster & Leinster Bank, written in Irish to T.A. Callanan
and signed on reverse “Thos. Callanan”, 9 x 15cms.
€ 250 - 350
A paid cheque signed in Irish, Toirdhealhach Mac Suibhne, for ‘púnt amháin’ (one pound), payable
to Sisters of Charity - St. Vincents Convent, 25.5.1920, drawn on Banc na Mumhan & Laighean
Tta (Munster & Leinster Bank), stamped ‘PAID’, countersigned rear by recipient. Drawn during
MacSwiney’s term as Lord Mayor of Cork, about three months before his imprisonment for pos-
sessing a British code cipher, and almost exactly five months before his death on the 74th day of
his hunger strike. His enormous funeral in Cork is regarded as a turning point in public support for
the independence movement and the Irish Volunteers.
€ 200 - 250