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The History Sale 19th April 2016
A graveside pass, 3 ½ x 4 ½ ins, with stamp of memorial committee and signature of Sean Mac
Gadhra [Sean McGarry] for the Wolfe Tone Memorial Committee.
Diarmaid O’Donovan Rossa, a lifelong Fenian from Co. Cork, lived mostly in the United States after
his release from a British prison. When Tom Clarke heard of his death in 1915, he immediately ca-
bled John Devoy to have the body returned to Ireland for burial, and sent Sean McGarry as his envoy
to accompany the coffin on its transatlantic journey. No effort was spared to make the funeral a
massive show of strength by the Irish Volunteers, culminating in Pearse’s historic address
Provenance: Daly family of Limerick. Reproduced in Kathleen Daly Clarke’s Revolutionary Woman, 1991,
p. 102.
€ 200 - 300
A small collection including
- A mounted photograph, 4 x 6 ins, probably circa 1900, showing fifteen members
of the Daly family, men and women (one boy), dressed in style, the ladies in
fancy hats, seated and standing on a sidewalk. The elderly gentleman in middle
of centre row is probably John Daly, the former Fenian prisoner, friend of Tom
Clarke, who founded the family bakery business and was three times Mayor of
Limerick. A person behind him appears to be wearing a Mayoral chain. Some
damage, small portion missing at top, would benefit by restoration, but a historic
photograph.
- An original photograph, approx 3 x 5 ins, showing a group of mainly women
outside Sarsfield St. Barracks in Limerick, 1922, during the Civil War, inscribed rear
by Agnes Ní Dhálaigh.
- Óglaigh na hÉireann [i.e. Free State Army]. Field General Headquarters, Limer-
ick, 15.7.1922. Permit for Miss Daly to leave Barracks, signed Coffey, Adjutant.
- Memorial card to John Edward Daly, Commandant, Irish Republican Army,
Thomas J. Clarke, Fenian, and John Daly, Fenian, died May and June 1916.
- and a few other items.
As a collection, w.a.f.
Provenance: Daly family of Limerick.
€ 200 - 300