Fonsie Mealy's RARE BOOKS & COLLECTIBLES December 7th & 8th, 2021

Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 100 Imperfections Not Stated • “Letters of the late Joseph Brenan, poet and patriot, 1848-’49.” Corkman Joseph Brenan (1828-1857) was an active member of the Young Ireland movement and the Irish Confederation. He contributed letters, articles and poems to John Mitchel’s United Irishman and other publications, was imprisoned after the failure of the 1848 rising, & upon his release attempted to revive the revolutionary movement. He was involved in the attack on Cappoquin police barracks, after which he escaped to America. There he continued his writing & married, but died at the age of 29. • Extracts from Daniel O’Byrne’s History of the Queen’s County, Dublin 1856. • Exercise Book: “Extracts from The Real Story of John Carteret Pilkington written by himself London 1760.” (Pilkington, 1730- 1763, was an Irish singer, writer and author of memoirs; son of Matthew Pilkington, art historian, and Laetitia Pilkington, poet and author of memoirs which have much to say about Swift) • Various Newspaper Extracts Regarding: Land League, Evictions, Royal Visit, 1885, Phoenix Park Murders, State of Ireland, Cork, Home Rule • Exercise Book containing interesting MS account by Doran entitled “Some notes on the manner in which the O’Connell Memorial Church, Cahirciveen, was originated.” With large 4 pp brochure containing plan, description, and illustrations. Contains an account of Doran’s visit to Cahirciveen on 10 June 1893 to meet Canon Brosnan. The church commemorating Daniel O’Connell was designed by Ashlin in Gothic style and built between 1886 and 1892. • Exercise Book containing specifications for pipe testing at Adare Manor, 1897, with notes on the history of Adare. • Exercise Book entitled “Some popular publications for recreation and education in the last century,”with notes on hedge schools. • Notebook containing inscriptions on wreaths and crosses from the funeral of Bishop John McCarthy of Cloyne, 1893. • “Workers’ Republic Pamphlets no. 7. Work, wages and profits. A lecture delivered by W.J. Gallagher before the Cork Branch of the Irish Socialist Republican Party.” • List of Saloon Passengers on SS Germanic , travelling from NewYork to Liverpool, 16 July 1890. Programme for fancy dress ball for 3 rd class saloon passengers on HMS Durham , 22 April 1921. • Programme for Third Grand Concert, Philharmonic Society, twentieth season, Concert Rooms, Great Brunswick Street, 8 May 1846. • Pamphlet: An Irishmusical genius: the inventor of the musical glasses, by D.J. O’Donoghue. Dublin, 1899. An account of the eccentric Monaghan-born Richard Pockrich, c1695-1759), who is credited with the invention in 1741 of the Glass Harp, a musical instrument composed of wine glasses filled with water, the rims being rubbed with the player’s fingers to produce notes. • Circular issued by Jeremiah Crowley, C.G. Doran and Maurice McDonnell in advance of the Queenstown municipal election of October 1899. • Card issued for C. & W.D. Seymour & Co’s Roche’s Point Signal and Pilot Station, at entrance to Queenstown. Another, with letterhead. • Petition form in favour of Irish Sunday closing, addressed to the Chief Secretary, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, 1870s. • Draft letter from Doran to Thomas Neville Stack, London, enclosing application for patent and specification for the Ship’s Elevator, 15 May 1891. (see also nos 82, 83) • Draft letter from Doran to R.U. Penrose Fitzgerald, MP for Cambridge, 2 April 1890, thanking him for his support for the Ship’s Elevator. Not sent? • Draft letter to Thomas Neville Stack, London, with offer of a partnership in the Ship’s Elevator, 22 April 1890. (see also nos 46, 47) • Note in shorthand. Draft letter, 15May 1891, fromDoran to Admiral Sir William Dowell, KCB, Chairman of the Royal Naval Exhibition, advertising the merits of his Ship Elevator “that will supersede the use of dry docks and afford facilities for the cleaning and repairing of ships at home or on foreign stations …” • Account (written by Doran on paper with letterhead of the Limerick Junction Hotel & Refreshment Rooms) of the 11th anniversary Mass for the Manchester Martyrs [1878], at which Doran was one of the speakers. Intended for publication in a newspaper? • Interesting account by Doran of his journey by train from Queenstown to Dublin in 1892. • Printed circular from the Rev. P.F. Kavanagh, OFM, Wexford, denouncing enlistment for the British Army in Ireland, 31 October 1905. • Invitation to Doran dated 22 March 1880 to a meeting of the Cathedral Committee. The Bishopofficially requests his attendance. • Series of Prints etc from newspapers relating to murders &c in Ireland, 1880s. • File including items re John Daly (1845-1916) , Limerick-born Fenian andmember of the Supreme Council of the IRB; active in the Amnesty Association that campaigned for the release of republican prisoners; uncle of Tom Clarke’s wife and of Commandant Ned Daly; three times Mayor of Limerick, 1899-1901. Large mounted photo of E. O’Donovan, special correspondent, Daily News , by Henry O’Shea, Limerick,15 January 1882. 30 x 26 cm. Photo of The O’Donoghue, MP, received from Captain James Mitchel, New York, with photos of his mother and himself! [sic], endorsed by Doran. Letter to Doran from John Fitzgerald, Town Hall, Limerick, inviting him to a protest meeting Copies of offprint from the Limerick Leader , 21 February 1890, on the “cruel treatment of Irish prisoners in England”. Draft resolution of QueenstownTown Commissioners, proposed by Doran, approving the resolution passed by Limerick Corporation re preceding. News cuttings Pamphlet: “The inhuman treatment of John Daly and other political prisoners in English jails. Appeal to the people of Great Britain and Ireland.” Limerick, January 1890. • Letter to Doran from Michael Walsh (foreman at the Cathedral?), 3 E . 1 4