Adam's The History Sale Tuesday 24th April 2018

85 The History Sale 147 KEVIN BARRY The Daily Mirror, November 1st 1920, featuring funeral of Kevin Barry on the front page with headline ‘SINN FEINER’S EXECUTION - CORK HONOURSTHE DEAD’ € 80 - 120 148 POSTAL HISTORY 1823 - 1858 Fifteen covers and letters regarding ex-soldiers, all but one with postmarks, some scarce. Including “Free ” to Duke ofYork, good cover to Duke ofWellington from soldier imprisoned for drunkenness and cover to General Blakeny, purchases of Army Commissions, pensions 6d and 9d per day, plea from abandoned wife of ex-soldier and some re effects of named Irish soldiers who died while serving in the East India Co. service € 700 - 1,200 149 AFTER OLIVER SHEPPARD The Death of Cúchlainn Patinated copper on Connemara marble, 19xm high (22cm high including base) € 200 - 300 150 GREEK INDEPENDENCE C.1822 A lithograph broadside by the Lithographic Press, Leinster Street with profile portrait of Constantine Cunanos and a description in script of his heroic attack on theTurkish fleet in 1822 in revenge for the massacre on the island of Scio. Signed, A.H.R. 305 x 204;Together with A statement of Greek Liberty signed by Julius Millinger,Anapli,April 11th 1825 Full of Byronic romanticism the students ofTrinity College espoused Greek national- ism. Some, like Hamilton Rowan, Emerson andWyse, were actively involved.