Adam's The Irish Library Wednesday 17th April 2019

52 68 MACSWINEY, TERENCE A contemporary photograph of an illuminated me- morial parchment dedicated to Terence MacSwiney, the martyred Lord Mayor of Cork who died on hunger strike in a British jail in 1920, approx 6 ins x 7 ins, the original probably by Art O’Murnaghan. With a copy of a Breton newspaper, 1935, containing coverage (in French) of the 19th anniversary of the 1916 Rising. (2) Provenance: Collection of Jack Lynch TD, formerly on loan to Cork Public Museum. € 100 - 200 66 REPUBLICAN AUTOGRAPH BOOK 1918. $ YHU\ JRRG 5HSXEOLFDQ DXWRJUDSK ERRN ZHOO ȴOOHG mostly with names from Belfast Jail Nov./Dec. 1918, signatures include Aibhistín de Staic [Stack], ‘I gcarcar i mBéal Feirisde’, Fionán Ó Loingsigh [Lynch], Earnán de Blaghd [Blythe], Mícheál Ó Braonáin [Brennan], Co. an Chláir, Gearóid Ó Beoláin [Boland], ‘The Shin- dy Eleven’, with eleven signatures headed by Charles Minogue, Máirtín Ó Droighneáin, An Spidéal, and many others; also a good small watercolour sketch of Cave Hill as seen ‘from top windows of “B” wing Bel- fast Prison’. In a small oblong autograph book, with home-made cover incorporating a tricolour, spine perished, the binding shaken but holding. Provenance: Collection of Jack Lynch TD, formerly on loan to Cork Public Museum. € 600 - 800 67 OGLAIGH NA HEIREANN [I.R.A.] POLICE HEADQUARTERS (CORK, 1ST BRIGADE), 19.10.1921. A.L. on headed paper to O/C. I.V.P. [Irish Volunteer Police] 7th Batt., stating that ‘A prisoner from Kilmur- ray, who was working at Crookstown and taken in for a robbery at Eyrecourt by men from 3rd Batt. .. was forcibly released from his guard on 28/10/21 by two men from Kilmurray .. [sgd] O/C I.V.P. Cork I. 6LQJOH VKHHW SXQFKHG IRU ȴOLQJ QR ORVV VWDLQHG DQG frayed. Documents relating to Republican policing are rare. Provenance: Collection of Jack Lynch TD, formerly on loan to Cork Public Museum. € 100 - 200