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The Great War, 1914 - 1918:

Rickard (Mrs.

Victor)

The Story of The Munsters at Etreux -

Festubert - Rue de Bois,

8vo D. n.d (1915) First

Edn., 6 ports. 2 maps, orig. ptd. wrappers, with

cold. armorial laid down. Scarce. (1) €125 - 175

Signatory of Proclamation

Mac Donagh (Thomas)

Thomas Campion

and the Art of English Poetry,

D. 1912. First

Edn., boards;

Literature in Ireland,

D. 1916, First

Edn., decor. cloth; also

Poems by Thomas Mc

Donagh,

D. 1916, Foreword by James Stephens,

photo illus., cloth backed; and another book,

inscribed by Joan Meynell. (4)

€200 - 300

Boer War:

Fitzpatrick (J.P.)

The Transvaal from

Within,

A Private Record of Public Affairs. L.

1900. pict. wrappers;

Rosslyn (The Earl of)

Twice Captured A Record of Adventure during The

Boer War,

Edin. & L. 1900 First Edn., numerous

illus. cloth;

Rider Haggard (H.)

The Lost Boer

War,

L. 1900;

Naville (E.)

Britain and Boer

Independence,

Edin. & L. 1900. First English,

wrappers. (4)

€100 - 150

The Great War 1914 - 1918:

Poetry: Prose

- Service (Robert W.)

The Rhymes of a Red-

Cross Man,

L. 1916. First Edn. gilt cloth;

Brooke

(Rupert)

‘1914’ Five Sonnets,

12mo L. 1915,

wrappers;

Goldsack (Rev. S.J.C.)

Killed in Battle

and After,

12mo Paisley 1915, wrappers;

Martin

(E.M.)

Dreams in War Time. A Faithful Record,

12mo (Shakespeare Head Press) Stratford-on-

Avon, 1915, First, boards;

Hankey (Donald)

A Student in Arms,

12mo L. 1919, port. frontis,

boards. A lot. (5)

€120 - 180

Presentation Copy to Mary Spring Rice

Hull (Eleanor) Editor.

The Cuchullin Saga in

Irish Literature,

Being a Collection of stories

relating to the Hero Cuchullin. 8vo L. 1898. First

Edn. Thus., fold. map, adverts at end, orig. cloth

backed boards, repaired. Good.

* With bookplate of Monteagle & Brandon &

with inscribed presentation ‘Mary Spring Rice

from Father, Xmas 1898.'

Mary Spring Rice Nationalist, was on The

Asgard on its journey from Germany, importing

arms into Howth in 1914. (1)

€150 - 200

ScarceWork on Republican Leaders

Hannan (M.J.)

Irish Leaders of 1916 - Who were

they?

8vo Butte, Montana, [1920] Part I. First

(Sole) Edition. Preface by Prof. T.E. Hardy, late

of St. Malachy’s College, Belfast. Frontis port. of

P.H. Pearse, 107pp orig. cloth backed boards. (1)

* Presentation copy, inscribed and signed in

Irish to ‘

Do mo cara Caitlin De Barra...’

April 30

- 1922; [To Kathleen Barry, sister of the martyr

Kevin Barry.]

€200 - 300

Rare Inscribed First Editions

Collins (Michael)

The Path to Freedom,

8vo

D. (Talbot Press) 1922. First Edn. Port. frontis,

Inscribed by Eoin Mac Neill on front loose

blank, orig. decor. cloth, and orig. d.w.; with,

O’Connor (Batt)

With Michael Collins in the

Fight for Irish Independence,

8vo L. 1929. First

Edn., Inscribed Presentation Copy from Author

to Miss Molly Kerr, on front loose blank, orig.

green cloth & orig. d.w. Both v. good copies of

scarce volumes. (2)

* O’Connor joined the Volunteers 1916, &

was ordered to Kerry in advance of the Easter

Rising, but after the arrest of Casement

returned Dublin. He was arrested and court

marshalled and interned in Richmond

Barracks. He was later sent to Wandesworth

and Frongoch where he met Michael Collins.

He was an intelligence agent and Collins most

trusted .. allies. He supported the Anglo-Irish

Treaty.

€350 - 500

Austin Stack’s Copy of “The Dutch Republic”

[Clarke (Austin)] Morley (J.L.)

The Rise of The

Dutch Republic,

3 vols. L. n.d. New Edn., orig.

cloth.

* Austin Stack’s copy with his signature in each

volume in Irish, ‘Aibhistin de Staic,’ and with his

wife’s visiting card laid in. Austin Stack (1880

-1829), from Tralee, was a founder member of

the Irish Volunteers and a commandant during

the Easter Rising. He was sent to meet Roger

Casement at Banna Strand, but failed to make

contact and was arrested. He was a minister in

the first Dáil, rejected the Treaty and was jailed

during the Civil War. His health was damaged

by a hunger strike in 1923, and died in 1929. (3)

€220 - 350

Extremely Rare Report - The Belfast Pogrom, 1920 - 1922 Only a Handful of which were for Private Distribution

Northern Ireland: Kenna (G.B.) [Fr. John

Hassan]

Facts and Figures of the Belfast Pogrom

1920 - 1922,

8vo D. (O’Connell Published Co.)

1922. Sole Edn., fold. map, hf. title, title, 213pp.

orig. green cloth, lettered within black border.

A very fine copy of this Scarce-Work.

* This work was reportedly commissioned by

the Free State Government, at the investigation

of Michael Collins to document the notorious

Belfast Pogroms in which hundred of Catholics

(together with some Protestants) were driven

from their homes and work places, and when

hundreds were killed. The work which was set

in type, but publication had to be cancelled

for fear of furthering more serious sectarian

tensions. It is believed only about eighteen

copies were ever bound. An excessively rare

item. (1)

€450 - 650

The Irish in South Africa The Boer War:

Childers (Erskine)

In the Ranks

of the C.I.U.,

A Narrative and Diary of Personal

Experiences with the C.I.V. Battery (Honourable

Artillery Company) in South Africa. 8vo L. 1900.

First Edn., hf. title, frontis, adverts at end, decor.

red cloth. V. good. Scarce. (1)

€150 - 200

The Great War, 1914-1918:

Mac Donagh

(Michael)

The Irish at the Front,

L. 1916. Second,

Intro. by John Redmond, M.P.;

O’Loughran

(Rev. Rob.)

Redmond’s Vindication,

D. & L. 1919,

port. frontis, both orig. cloth. (2)

€100 - 150

Great War, 1914 - 1918:

Kerr (S. Parnell)

What the Irish Regiments have done,

With

a Diary of a Visit to the Front by John E.

Redmond, M.P. 8vo L. 1916. Second Impression.

Hf. title, boards, with orig. pict. d.w., with photo

of Michael O’Leary V.C. Scarce.

* A good account of some of the more

important engagements of The Irish

Regiments. (1)

€150 - 200