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

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Wednesday 26th April
A collection including; Belfast in a Regional Setting, a Scientific Survey, 1952; Belfast
and its Charitable Society; Henry Cooke, a biography; Bernard Hughes, 1808-1878,
a biography; Northern Ireland,A political directory, 1968-79;Tyrone Precinct;The
Life andTimes of Mary Ann McCracken; etc
€ 100 - 200
Cork: History and Society, Dublin, 1993, Geography Publications. First edition,
signed by John Murray, Lord Mayor of Cork, cloth hardcover with d.j; together
with James S Donnelly,The Land and the People of Nineteenth Century Cork, First
Edition, Routledge & Kegan Paul Books, 1975. (2)
€ 80 - 120
Field DayTheatre Company, First Production, 23rd September 1980, 12 pages, 4to.,
in card cover, cover design by Basil Blackshaw,With Poem in English and Irish, “After
the Irish”, by Seamus Heaney. Signed by Brian Friel and eight of the cast, including
Liam Neeson, Mick Lally,Ann Hasson, Roy Hanlon, David Heap, Shaun Scott, Bren-
da Scallon, Nuala Hayes.Also signed by Art O’Brien, Director, Consolata Boyle, Set
and Costume Design, Bo Barton, Stage Manager & Finola O’Doherty.A superb item.
€ 300 - 500
An original petition form addressed to His Grace the Duke of Abercorn, Governor
of Northern Ireland, seeking clemency forThomasWilliams and five others sen-
tenced to death over ‘the tragedy which resulted I n the death of Constable Patrick
Murphy’. Single sheet, folio size, unfilled.
Williams was executed on 18 August 1842; the others were reprieved and their
sentences commuted to imprisonment.
With an offprint of an article in French on ‘La Question Irlandaise’ byW.Allison
Phillips, Bologna 1918.
(2)
€ 60 - 80