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The History Sale 19th April 2016
concerning the operation of the British Army’s Ballykinlar Internment Camp in Co. Down, circa 1921, 21 folders containing well over 100
items, many in poor condition, but of considerable interest. The papers include typescript documents on officer’s pay, routine orders
on various subjects, transfer orders, fatigue records, sanitary orders, officer’s equitation certificates, etc., etc., many signed by camp
officers, mostly typescript but some in cyclostyled manuscript. A very interesting and unusual lot. As m/ss, w.a.f. * Ballykinlar Camp was
one of the principal detention centres for Republican prisoners during the War of Independence, 1919 - 1921. Provenance: Collection
of the late John Cooney of Suir House, Clonmel, an Irish Volunteer and later a Major in the Free State Army. (1)
€ 1,000 - 1,500