ADAM'S - THE HISTORY SALE - APRIL 26TH 2017 (Click Lot title for more images and to Place Bid)

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clerk of the First Dail and friend of Michael Collins. A selection of books from
his personal library, comprising:
-Reynolds, [Rev.] Frank L. Ireland’s Important and Heroic Part in America’s
Independence and Development. Daleiden, Chicago n.d. [c. 1927], 322 pp, 2
col. plates, first, inscribed on f.e.p. ‘To Lieut. General D. O’Hegarty / from
Frank L. Reynolds / as a souvenir of yourVisit to America and Chicago / Jan. 22
1928.’ Spine dull, o.w.v.g. Scarce. No copy found on COPAC.
[Ó hÉigceartaigh went to NewYork in 1927-8 to represent the Free State at
hearings over control of Republican funds in the United States].
- Joyce, James. Dubliners. NewYork, Huebsch, 1925 (fourth printing). Orig.
cloth, spine soiled and worn, o.w. good, scarce. Inscribed on t.p.,‘Diarmuid Ó
hÉigceartaigh’. Of the London first edition of Dubliners only some 700 copies
were issued, and a very small number of a second edition in 1918. Once these
were sold, it was for many years only available in the American edition. Proba-
bly purchased by Ó hÉigceartaigh during his NewYork visit.
- MacDonagh,Thomas. Literature in Ireland: Studies Irish and Anglo-Irish. L.
1919., orig. cloth gilt, portr., 248 pp. Inscribed‘Diarmuid Ó hÉigceartaigh’ on
t.p.
- Jennings, Rev. Brendan OFM. Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, Chief of the Four Masters,
and his Associates. D. 1936, first, orig. cloth (dulled), 220 pp., ills, a little
spotting. Inscribed on t.p.‘Diarmuid Ó hÉigceartaigh’.
- MacManus, Frank. Stand and Give Challenge [the story of the Munster poet
Donnchadh Ruadh mac Conmara]. D. 1934, orig. cloth, 306 pp, a little spot-
ting, first. Inscribed on t.p.,‘Diarmuid Ó hÉigceartaigh’.
Ó hÉigceartaigh, from Skibbereen in Cork, was a 1916 veteran who fought in
the streets around the G.P.O. An experienced administrator, he became clerk of
the First Dail, and was largely responsible for its smooth running in the midst of
the Anglo-Irish war. He was a member of the reorganised IRB supreme council
with Michael Collins, and succeeded Collins as the IRA’s Director of Organi-
sation. Collins was best man at his wedding to Claire Archer in April 1922. Ó
hEigceartaigh was secretary to theTreaty delegation, secretary to the cabinet
of the Provisional Government, and later secretary to the Free State Executive
Council. Lord Longford describes him as ‘the civil servant of the revolution’.
Evidently he was a cultured and well-read man. Not many Irish public servants
in the 1920s would have bothered to buy ‘Dubliners’.
€ 200 - 300
Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Debates, Official Report,Vol. XV,April-May 1926,
reporting at cols. 1381-84 and 1593-1606 the discussion about Sam Maguire’s
dismissal from the Civil Service on charges related to the Army Mutiny of 1924. Di-
armuid Ó hEigceartaigh’s copy (Secretary to the Executive Council, formerly an IRB
Executive member), with his office stamp,‘Oifig an Rúnaí do’n Ard-Chomhairle’ on
f.e.p. Large 8vo green cloth, double column, Dublin, S.O.,VG.
€ 300 - 400