Adam's The History Sale Tuesday 24th April 2018

95 The History Sale 192 DE VALERA, EAMON A photograph of Eamon DeValera along with Republican Deputies, Dr. Ryan and Mr. J. Corry arriving at Leinster House, with caption on verso “ DeValera takes the Oath of Allegiance ”, dated August 29, 1927. 20 x 15cm; together with four more photographs of DeValera. Fine. (5) € 150 - 250 193 BENNETT, GEORGE The History of Bandon, Cork, 1862, first edition, cloth. € 150 - 250 188 Ó CATHASAIGH, SEAN Songs of theWren - Humorous and Sentimental - New Series No I. Dublin: Fergus O’Connor, n.d. (c.1918), orig- inal printed wrappers, some browning to extremities but otherwise a very good unopened copy of this scarce early work by a leading dramatist of the 20th Century € 150 - 250 189 FLANAGAN, FR. MICHAEL, Father Flanagan’s suppressed speech, 4 pp (single folded sheet), [1918].‘The following is a verbatim report of the speech delivered to 10,000 people of Ballyjamesduff on Sunday May 26 1918, by the Rev. Michael Flanagan, C.C., Crossna,Vice-President, Sinn Féin.The Censor refused to allow even one word of the speech to be published.’, with the pamphlet. Father Flanagan’s Boys Home for Homeless,Abandoned Boys regardless of race or creed, Dublin: Browne & Nolan [1946], with a preface by Gabriel Fallon. Franklin D Roosevelt, President of the United States referred to BoysTown as “ years of constructive service to American Citizenship .” € 80 - 120 190 SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD Photograph of George Bernard Shaw celebrating his 90th Birthday in 1946, 140x150mm. € 80 - 120 191 SOMERVILLE, EDITH OENONE An unpublished original sketch by Edith Somerville, illus- tration for her classic work ‘ Some Adventures of an Irish R.M .’, pencil on paper mounted on card, signed with initials, showing the cook (Mrs. Cadogan) holding forth, with inscription in the artist’s hand, “ A horse! a horse! Is that my darlin’ MajorYeates ?”, said the cook, also signed, addressed and captioned on verso. 285 x 190mm. Not found in the published work, 1899, where there appears to be no portrait of Mrs. Cadogan, though it may have been used in the Badminton Magazine, where the sto- ries first appeared.An attractive item from an underrated and influential work, which portrays the lives of the minor Anglo-Irish gentry with ‘a smile and a tear’ € 350 - 450