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

November 1875, warning him that the Bishop wishes to reduce the workforce to save money. • Nine Letters to Doran (in Dalkey), all but one from “Wm Faugh” (?), 1857-60, two n.d. Albert Cottage, Albert Road, Kingstown. Re work to be done … • Letter from Doran, 9 September 1890, to “Rev. Mother”, asking for details of the children attending her school. (See following) • Manuscript motion proposing that the new bridge in Limerick be named Sheares Bridge, after the two brothers executed in 1798. • Pencil draft: “A ballad dedicated to the Boys of Cove by One of them. Air: The Beautiful Lines of the Shannon.” • Draft Letter fromDoran, 18 April 1891, addressed to Michael Walsh, Secretary, Operative Stonecutters Society, Cork, clarifying details of a meeting he had had with Mr McMullen re a dispute with the stonecutters which was delaying work on the cathedral. • Pencilled notes on a vineyard at Seneca Lake, New York State. • Memorandum sent to Doran, 3 March 1890, from Cunard Offices, Queenstown, enclosing photo of Capt. Harry Walker, commander of RMS Servia. • Manuscript extracts fromPugin’s Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornament and Costume … (1846) re emblems of gods and saints. • Small photo of Stephen Joseph Meany (1822-1888), Clare-born Fenian, journalist and poet. • Extracts from addresses to Lord Mulgrave, 1835 and on the famine of 1822. • Plan of and notes on Healy’s Farm, Queenstown. • Letter to Doran from Surgeon General C.J.H. Evatt, thanking him for his report on family history, 20 May 1907. • Draft letter by Doran re invitation to unveiling of the O’Connell statue, stating that he is not an admirer of O’Connell’s political policy. • Letter of Thomas Dennehy to Doran, 9 May 1906, asking about the location of the round tower in Cork. • 3 March 1890. Note to Doran from Geo. Beamish thanking him for price list. • Soar like the Eagle: The life and times of Charles Guilfoyle Doran, by Anne McSweeney, Carrigtwohill, 2018. Signed by author. • Browne’s office diary 1875. Some important entries re St Colman’s Cathedral. • Purcell & Company Commercial Scribbling Diary for 1886. Cork. Some entries re Doran’s engineering work. Broadsheets (all damaged) • The murder league in Dublin – the first appearance of James Carey as an approver in Kilmainham Court-house. The Standard 19 Feb 1883 • The Viceregal Garden-Party at The Lodge, Phoenix Park, Dublin, to encourage Irish industries. (The Graphic, 5 June 1883) • Prominent Liberal Unionists. F. Woodhouse inv. The Graphic 15 Jan 1887. • Tory prison for Irish patriots. The order of release. How long is this to continue? [Figure of Death] Freeman n.d. • Dublin Castle. Montgard. ILN 9 Sept 1893 • A Man of ’98. (Armstrong refuses his wife’s plea for him to turn informer] Weekly Freeman, 19 March 1904. • The Million 26 March 1892. Henry Irving as Cardinal Wolsey. Hideous baby reaches for Pear’s Soap. Large Mounted Photos • 2 portrait photos, uncaptioned images of the revolutionary activist Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa (1831-1915), famous for Pádraig Pearse’s oration at his funeral in Glasnevin • Dungarvan-born Archbishop James Vincent Cleary of Kington, Ontario. Taken in Rome by Federicis, Via Cesarini, 8, Roma. • Large group with priests, altar boys, &c, by Grey & Co, Cork • Bishop Browne of Cloyne getting into carriage, by Grey of Cork • Basilica of St Mark’s, Venice • Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome • Marble statues in Crawford Gallery, Cork • Group of young men • “Back view of Charlton with River Avoca in flood, 15 th June 1903. H, Lancaster, photographers, Charlton” • Girls at Ursuline Convent, Blackrock, Cork – November 1895. By Mitavski & Brooke, Rathmines, Dublin • Triumphal arch beside warehouses • b/w photo by M. Buckley, Limerick, of illuminated address to Hon Lucius O’Brien from his tenants in Dromoland on the occasion of his [sic] marriage. Arms, vignettes, etc. By Henry O’Shea, Limerick, 1895. Wash drawings of high crosses in Ireland: • Killamery, Co. Kilkenny, east side • Kilklispeen, Co. Kilkenny, south cross, west side • Kilklispeen, Co. Kilkenny, south cross, east side • Dunnamaggan, Co. Kilkenny, west side • Dunnamaggan, Co. Kilkenny, west side • Dysert, Co. Clare (pencil) • Windele monument, Cork (print) Photos of high crosses in Ireland: • High cross in workshop, large photo • High cross in workshop, to V. Rev. John Fitzsimons, 1869 • High cross by William P. O’Neill, MRIA, 1894 • Monument to John Aloysius Blake, Waterford, by William P. O’Neill, MRIA, 1887 • Monument to Tim Daly, Killeagh, Co. Cork • Monument to Rev. Daniel McEttigan, 1887 • Monument to O’Neill Crowley, [Ballymacoda, Co. Cork], 2 photos • 2 small photos by Allisons of Belfast of the high cross in Armagh commemorating Hugh Carbery, a Volunteer of the Transvaal Irish Brigade who fell at the battle of Modder Spruit, Nov 1899 Other : • Pen and ink drawing of a standing stone • 2 drawings of a building for the National Feis • Water colour of the round tower at Old Kilcullen, Co. Kildare • Photo by Lawrence of the round tower at Cloyne, Co. Cork, from Cork Weekly Examiner • Photo by Lawrence of The Crescent, Queenstown (cathedral in background) • Photo by Lawrence of the exterior of St Colman’s Cathedral, Queenstown • Mounted photo by “J.V.” of the interior of St Colman’s Cathedral An extensive and diverse Archive of an Industrious and Patriot Irish figure from the late 19th Century. As an Archive, w.a.f. (1) €7,500 - 10,000 101 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934