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253 MICHAEL COLLINS AND EAMON DE

VALERA

Two cast metal relief portraits of Michael Collins and Eamon

de Valera, in profile, mounted on square marble bases, 9 x 9 x

2.5cm and 10 x 8.5 x 2cm respectively. (2)

€ 200 - 300

254 MICHAEL COLLINS FUNERAL

PROCESSION

A monochrome photograph, Dublin, 1922, c. 15.5 x 20.5cm.

Held on 28 August 1922, the Irish Independent reported the

event as the ‘Greatest pageant of sorrow ever seen in Dublin:

a cortège three miles long.’ An estimated 300,000 people lined

the streets of the capital as the funeral procession wound its

way to Glasnevin Cemetery.

€ 80 - 120