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The History Sale 19th April 2016
A copy of United Ireland for Saturday Oct. 17 1891, with elaborate account of the funeral of Charles Stewart Parnell, mourning resolutions etc. Emotional editorial headed ‘NO! We
cannot join hands over his grave with the people who killed him ..’
Newspaper folio, 8 pp, all columns within mourning bars including advertisements. United Ireland was founded by Parnell himself in 1881. It was the official organ of the Land League
and of the Irish Party.
Frayed at inner edge with minor loss. Very scarce.
With
“DUBLIN TRIALS PRACTICALLY FINISHED”
A copy of the Dublin Evening Herald for Thursday May 11 1916, listing ‘Today’s Death Sentences’ including Thomas Ashe and Edmund de Valera (both commuted to life imprisonment),
also ‘The Cry of “HALT!” No More Executions, says the Prime Minister’. The back page has photos of Countess Markiewicz, ‘leaving after court martial’, and Major MacBride, ‘being
marched away after death sentence’. The last of the Dublin leaders executed was the wounded James Connolly on 9 May. The paper also records the execution of Thomas Kent in
Cork, also on 9 May.
Newspaper folio, 4pp, fragile but a good clean copy. Very scarce.
(2)
€ 100 - 200
dated Aug. 20, 1883, 1pp. with cognate blank (folded sheet), on House of Commons mourning
paper, returning an enclosure “which I have read this evening with much interest.”
* Parnell was at the height of his popularity around this time, having founded the National
League in 1882. He made his celebrated speech about The March of a Nation,” two years later.
With a minor tear (not affecting text), but with a very clear signature. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1)
€ 300 - 500
A ‘Lady’s Ticket’ to the Parnell National Banquet 1883 [a fund raising
event], colour printed, clean; with a memorial card ‘In Loving Memory
/ Charles S. Parnell M.P.’, 1891, black borders, fold mark.
‘The paths of glory ..’
(2)
€ 80 - 120