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67 TOM CLARKE & JOHN REDMONDA calligraphed Resolution inscribed on a cardboard panel, 20 ins x 15 ins, passed at ‘a vast meeting of Irishmen .. 21st October 1898, to
welcome home the recently released political prisoners Messrs Thomas J. Clarke (Henry H. Wilson), John H. O’Connor (Henry Dalton) and
Edward O’Brien Kennedy (Timothy Featherston)’, organised by the Amnesty Association, the resolution proposed by John E. Redmond Esq.
M.P., referring to their ‘long and cruel captivity’, and carried ‘with intense enthusiasm’. [The ‘noms-de-guerre’ - Henry Wilson etc. - were
those given by the prisoners on their arrest].
Illuminated in watercolour by Miss Fitzpatrick, 192 Clonliffe Rd., Dublin.
A historic document, linking the Irish Party leader John Redmond and the Fenian Tom Clarke. Clarke had just reached Dublin on his release
after serving 15 years on a charge of involvement in a dynamiting campaign in Britain. Redmond visited him in Portland Prison during the
later years of his sentence, and spoke of ‘his brave spirit’.
Foxed and soiled, marginal tears including a closed tear upper left which impinges on the corner of the painted surface, minor abrasion
lower centre.
Fragile, please do not remove from plastic sleeve.
Provenance: Daly family of Limerick.
€ 200 - 300