Adam's The History Sale Tuesday 24th April 2018

105 The History Sale 228 KENNELLY, BRENDAN Evasions, Dublin,Trinity Closet Press, 1979, fifty copies printed atTCP in July 1979, being the first printing done at the Press in the Printing House ofTrinity College, Dublin, printed stapled wrappers and signed by Brendan Kennelly. € 150 - 250 229 O DIREÁIN, MAIRTÍN An Bile aThit. Omos do Mhairtin O Cadhain. Preas Cloistin neTrionoide, 1974, Octavo. pp. 4. Folded sheet € 200 - 300 230 SCOIL ÉANNA St. Enda’S School, Rathfarnham, a detailed Prospectus, in Irish and with English on facing pages, setting out the school’s staff and programme for 1910-11, following its move to Rathfarnham. Dublin: Dollard, n.d. [1910], small quarto, 16 unnum- bered pages, printed stapled wrappers, in fine condition. The very inspiring staff listed includesWilliam and Padraic Pearse,Padraic Colum (English Literature);the extern lecturers includesW.B. Yeats,Douglas Hyde,Agnes O’Farrelly,Mary Hayden and EoinMacNeill.St.Enda’s School,or Scoil Éanna,was a Secondary school for boys set up in 1908 in Ranelagh,Dublin by Irish nationalist Patrick Pearse.He had long been critical of the educational system in Ireland,which he believed taught Irish children to be good Englishmen.He had for years been committed to the preservation of the Irish language,mostly through the Gaelic League,and was dearly concerned about the language’s future. Pearse was not a practical businessman,but he was never one to let lack of finances get in the way of his plans.With promises frompromi- nent nationalists as proponents of Irish heritage that they would give himwhatever limited financial support they could,and,when applica- ble,would enrol their children in his school,Pearse established his school,which officially opened on September 8,1908,in Cullenswood House,Ranelagh,a suburb of Dublin. The school proved a successful experiment,but was never to fully escape the shadow of looming financial woes.In fact,the school would not have survived the crucial first few years without the devoted aid of his good friend and assistant headmasterThomas MacDonagh,and the solid dedication of Pearse’s brotherWillie. The Hermitage,while perfect for Pearse’s idyllic image of what he had hoped to achieve,predictably proved to be a financial disaster. € 300 - 400 231 THE TITANIC TheTitanic,A Poem by H. Best (13½ years) of East Street,Wareham,May 3rd,1912.Eight verses of four lines each. Price 1d.each.Proceeds for “Titanic Fund” , single sheet printed on one side only within a black border with engraved decoration at corners, 108 x 189mm. RMSTitanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an ice- berg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to NewYork City.The sinking ofTitanic caused the deaths of 1,502 people in one of the greatest maritime disasters in modern history.TheTitanic was the largest ship afloat at the time of her maiden voyage. She was the second of three Olympic class ocean liners operated by theWhite Star Line, and she was built by the Harland andWolff shipyard in Belfast. On her maiden voyage, she carried 2,224 passengers and crew.This poem was printed within weeks of the disaster € 300 - 400