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

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The History Sale
AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS, concern-
ing 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 docu-
ments on officer’s pay, routine orders on various subjects, transfer orders, fa-
tigue 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 m/ss, w.a.f. * Ballykinlar Camp was one
of the principal detention centres for Republican prisoners during theWar of
Independence, 1919 - 1921.
Provenance:Collection of the late John Cooney of Suir House, Clonmel, an IrishVolunteer
and later a Major in the Free State Army.(1)
€ 400 - 600
Liberation, 1916
Oil on canvas, 76 x 127cm
Signed. Signed and inscribed verso
€ 400 - 600