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The History Sale 19th April 2016
Collection of booklets including An Macaomh, Poems, The Spiritual Nation, The
Murder Machine, The Separist Idea etc.
A scarce assembly of original editions by the main architect of the Easter Rising. (8)
€ 150 - 250
An ALS “to my dear Hamilton” from Gendalough House, concerning an appointment
of a judge. “There are not many who jeopardised their future by giving judgement
on a National issue adverse to the Cosgrave party’s standpoint at a time when the
dice appeared to be loaded in Cosgrave’s favour”.”
Barton was an officer in The Royal Dublin Fusiliers and was stationed in Dublin
during the 1916 Easter Rising. He resigned in protest at the heavy-handed govern-
ment suppression of the revolt and joined the republican movement. At the 1918
general election he was elected as Sinn Féin member for West Wicklow. He was
appointed Minister for Agriculture in Dáil Éireann, later of Economic Affairs. He
travelled to London for the Treaty negotiations and reluctantly signed the Treaty on
6 December 1921, defending it as” the lesser of two outrages forced upon me and
between which I had to choose” but later rejected it.
€ 200 - 220