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The History Sale 19th April 2016
An attractive New Year remembrance card from the Mansion House, 4 pp (single folded sheet), on heavy paper, specially produced by the Cluna
Studio, marking the 25th anniversary of the 1916 Rising. The cover with a hand coloured drawing of the General Post Office, Dublin, under a
scroll with the date 1916, a Four Provinces shield and a Phoenix flame, inscribed inside with ‘Greetings from [manuscript signature] Caitlín Bean
Uí Chléirigh, Lord Mayor’.
Kathleen Clarke, a niece of the Limerick Fenian John Daly, was the widow of Tom Clarke, first signatory of the 1916 Proclamation. She had
wished to join her husband in the GPO, but was asked to remain at home and prepare to assist the survivors after the Rising. She did so very
successfully by establishing the Irish National Aid & Volunteer Dependants Fund, where she gave Michael Collins his first position of responsibility
as Secretary.
She opposed the Treaty, and in 1926 joined the new Fianna Fail party and became an executive member. In 1939 she was the first woman to be
elected Lord Mayor of Dublin. It is said she declined a request from Eamon de Valera that she should stand aside in favour of Margaret Pearse,
reputedly saying to him ‘Tom Clarke’s widow stands aside for nobody!’ She left Fianna Fail in 1944 after criticising the treatment of Republican
hunger strikers.
A rare and attractive item, in very good condition.
€ 200 - 250
A menu card for the Ninth Annual Dinner of the D.M.O.A. (Dublin Municipal Officers Association), 4 pp (single folded sheet), at the
Dolphin Hotel, December 22nd 1910, in honour of (Sir) Charles A. Cameron, Chief Medical Analyst for Dublin, the embossed card
bearing a portrait of Cameron over his manuscript signature, details of the menu inside, list of toasts to rear, where Mr. Eamonn
Ceannt is listed to propose the toast of ‘The D.M.O.A.’.
This is the IRB leader, athlete, musician and signatory of the 1916 Proclamation, executed on 8 May 1916 for his part in the Rising.
Born in Glenamaddy in Co. Galway, where his father was an R.I.C. officer, he worked as a clerk in Dublin Corporation, and became
Chairman of the D.M.O.A. The menu card has a notable national orientation, the toasts including ‘Ireland a Nation’ and ending with
the Manchester Martyrs slogan ‘A Dhia Saor Eire’.
Sir Charles Cameron [1830-1921], a chemist by training, was for many years Dublin’s Chief Medical Analyst. He promoted many
reforms in sanitation, slum clearance and public health. Among many other achievements, he discovered the deposit of kaolin clay
which led to the founding of the Beleek pottery. In 1916, aged 85, he inspected the internment camp at Frongoch in Wales at the re-
quest of the British Home Secretary. His report is thought to have led to the release of the prisoners. He had a European reputation,
and was well regarded by all parties.
A very rare survival, linking two remarkable men, a little dusty but generally in good condition.
€ 200 - 250