Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers Rare Books & Collectors' Sale December 9th & 10th, 2020

162 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED info@fonsiemealy.ie fm 891 John Coughlan (b. 1932) “William Butler Yeats,” Etching, Lim. Edn., 99 (100) copies, approx. 46cms x 36cms (18” x 14”), in oak frame. (1) € 200 - 300 892 An Exile Romancing about Ireland Manuscript: [Irish Poetry & Songs] A 19th Century Booklet containing neatly written copies of Poems and Songs of Irish Interest, evidently assembled by an Irish Exile in England, mostly well known poems of exile and nostalgia, some from the Irish, possibly some original material and drawings, approx. 78pps., with blue mor., as a manuscript, w.a.f. (1) € 150 - 200 893 Photograph: Sir J.P. Maha ff y, a large Portrait Photograph, approx. 8” x 6” (20cms x 15cms), by Keogh Bros., mounted on board, and Signed by Prof. Maha ff y & Dated Nov. 1917. (1) * Prof. Maha ff y, Irish classicist, and polymathic scholar, was also Provost of T.C.D. both Oscar Wilde and Oliver St. Gogarty were his pupils. His dismissal of literature in the Irish language and his refusal to allow Patrick Pearse to address Trinity’s Gaelic Society in the college guaranteed he would not be fondly remembered in Irish historical folklore. € 150 - 200 894 Walsh (Maurice)Author. An interesting ALs to ‘Donagh’ [Mac Donagh?] 1pp 30.VIII.40, commenting favourable on a story he has just written, and making some suggestions, and advising him to send it to ‘The Bell’. Single Sheet. (1) € 70 - 120 895 Hogan (Dr. E.) An ALs 3pp on U.C.D. notepaper to Dr. (Douglas) Hyde concerning examination papers, and commenting on the high quality of the candidates for the oral examinations. ‘I’ m sorry you were not there, it would have done your heart good to hear (them).’ Also mentions his Onomasticon which ‘ ought to be out this month, over 700 pages.’ As a m/ss. (1) € 60 - 90 896 [Hyde (Dr. Douglas)] O’hOnain (Tomas) ALs. one page folio, to An Craoibhin Aoibhinn, from a Liverpool address 23.8(19)09, in Irish throughout, asking for Hyde’s assistance in fi nding out what happened to a poetry manuscript which O’Honan sent to the Gaelic League’s publishing committee some six months previously, and with a m/ss copy of a letter (also in Irish) which he sent to Padraic Mac Piarais at Scoil Eanna, earlier in 1909, making the same enquiry, and receiving no reply. It seems the manuscript went astray or was mislaid, and the unfortunate author says he had no copy of most of the work. Not for the fi rst time, alas! All in attractive Irish hand. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (2) € 80 - 120