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Republican Newspapers:
A good varied
collection of Irish Republican Newspapers,
include.
Nationality,
18 nos;
Scissors and
Paste,
8 nos;
The Spark,
8 nos;
The Worker’s
Republic,
4 nos;
The Irish Nation,
5 nos;
The
Irishman,
3 nos; also issues of The Harp,
Poblacht na h’Eireann, The Hibernian, Irish
Volunteer etc. As a coll., w.a.f. (a lot)
€150 - 200
396
Music:
Irish Music by Alfred Perceval
Graves, Carl Hardebeck, Mairtin O’Floinn,
Wilfrid Sanderson, Herbert Rooney and
others, include. sheet music for Peadar
O’Cearnaigh’s “The Tri-Coloured Ribbon” &
“Down by the Glenside,” others with words
by W.B. Yeats “The Fiddler of Dooney;”“My
Dark Rosaleen,” by J. Clarence Mangan; “The
Foggy Dew,” & others. As a coll., w.a.f. (1)
€120 - 160
397 No Lot
398
Photographs: Co. Clare R.I.C.:
A good
collection of approx. 55 large photographs,
20cms x 28cms (8” x 11”), reproductions
of the R.I.C. in Co. Clare. Good scenes of
Officers on raids, at leisure, group scenes
and portraits, also many of scenes and
buildings in Co. Clare, include Carrahan Post
Office, R.I.C. Barracks etc. As a lot, w.a.f. Rare.
(1)
€300 - 500
399
Manuscript: Early Legal Document,
Michael Mc Grath of Kilconnor, Carlow,
his examination, single folio page c. 1752,
concerning the sale of Heifer. It states that
Michael Ling of Cruttenclogh, Kilkenny sold
the heifer to Mc Grath and subsequently
stole the heifer back. as a m/ss, w.a.f. (1)
€100 - 150
IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS
RELATING TO KEVIN BARRY
(Lots 400 – 410)
Kevin Barry was born in Dublin in 1902, the
fourth of seven children of Thomas Barry,
dairyman, and Mary, née Dowling. His
early childhood was spent on the family
farm at Tombeagh, Co. Carlow, but the
Barrys returned to Dublin and at the age of
fourteen, already imbued with republican
ideals, he entered Belvedere College. He
was a member of the championship Junior
Rugby Cup team, and also played for the
senior team. In 1918, on the formation of a
school hurling club, he became its secretary
and was also an enthusiastic player. In 1919
he won a Dublin Corporation scholarship to
UCD, where he studied Medicine.
A member of the IRA since the age of
fifteen, he took part in several actions
during the War of Independence. On 20
September 1920, an attempt to ambush a
British Army lorry misfired, one soldier was
shot dead, two were mortally wounded,
and Barry was captured. After some rough
handling by his captors, he was imprisoned
in Mountjoy Jail. On 20 October he was
tried for murder and condemned to
death by hanging. He was executed on 1
November.
Barry’s youthfulness, his bravery under
interrogation, his cheerfulness in the face
of death, and his execution so soon after
the death on hunger strike of Terence
McSwiney, made him a Republican martyr –
a status he has maintained ever since.
400
With early Kevin Barry,
Family Connection
Kevin Barry, Patriot:
A 2pp folio document,
dated July 1811, relating the information of
Matthew Kehoe of Knocklishenmore, Carlow
against Kevin Barry’s great grandfather
Michael, and Michael’s two brothers Tom
and Cavan (sic.) Barry of Tombay, Rathvilly,
& sworn before Rev. John Whitty, Rector
of Rathvily. The document described
the Barry’s looking for Kehoe at Wm.
Byran’s Public House in Knocknava & their
threatening behaviour, it described Kehoe’s
escape, & their declaration, that if anybody
said a good word about Kehoe they would
cut his guts out. Shortly after this incident
Cavan Barry left for America, but died on
the ship. It is said his ghost is still to be
seen lurking around the family farm at
Tombeagh, Rathvilly. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1)
€180 - 220
401
Kevin Barry as a Small Boy
Barry (Kevin) A mounted Photograph,
by Stanley of Dublin marked in manuscript
“Kevin as he is now, 2½ years, July 1904,” as a
photograph, w.a.f. (1)
€180 - 220
402
“Kevin Barry The Sportsman”
Barry (Kevin)
Two Postcards one with
photo of Kevin Barry wearing his rugby
jersey, the other with photo of Kevin Barry
running for touch down, in a rugby match
played at Lansdowne Road between his
school (Belvedere) and Blackrock College,
inscribed in pencil on reverse, as a lot, w.a.f..
(2)
€300 - 400
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