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

184 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED info@fonsiemealy.ie fm 1010 Parnell Special Commission Reports: Proceedings of the Parnell Commission, between December 5th 1888 and 12 April 1889. Uncorrected proofs. Two large thick folio volumes, hf. mor. stamped ‘Miss Parnell’; presumably bound for one of Parnell’s sisters Fanny and Anna. (2) * The Special Commission on Parnellism and Crime was established by the government to investigate reports of collusion between Irish nationalist M.P.s. and terrorists, speci fi cally allegations made in The Times Newspaper of Parnell’s approval of the Phoenix Park Murders. The commission sat for 128 days between September 1888 and November 1889; the Times articles were exposed as forgeries and Parnell’s name was cleared. € 300 - 400 1013 [Policing Interest] Flint (John)ex Inspector. The Dublin Police, and the Police System to the Police Grievances Association, 4to D. (James Mc Cormick) 1847, 48pps, ptd. wrappers. Scarce. (1) € 200 - 300 1014 [Home Rule] Liberal Committee for the Maintenance of the Legislative Union between Great Britain and Ireland - a collection of eight single sheet Flyers relating to “Irish Parliament,” “Desertion & Coercion,” “How the Nationalists Propose to treat the Protestants of Ulster and the Ulster Linen Trade” , and others, each with strong text, and review, L. & D. (Unionist Alliance) c. 1912, as a lot, w.a.. (1) € 100 - 150 1015 United Irish League: Constitution and Rules of the United Irish League, a 4pp Document, printed by Mayo News General Printing Works, Westport, with wd. cut at rear illustrating a bundle of sticks bound together and the motto ‘ Union is Strength,’ no date but c. 1898? * The U.I.L. was founded by William O’Brien to seek National Self-Government and the abolition of landlordism. Together with an original A.L.s. fromWilliam O’Brien, on House of Commons headed paper, dated April 3, 1886. As a coll., w.a.f. (2) € 200 - 300 1016 Defence of the Realm (Consolidation) Regulations 1914. Shotgun permit, numbered 55, issued to Mrs. H.F.M. Barnes of Westland, Moynalty, Co. Meath, dated 24 Oct. 1918, with the lady’s signature and with stamped signature of Charles Burnett, Competent Military Authority. (1) € 100 - 200 1017 Irish National Volunteers (J.E. Redmond, Esq., M.P., President). Cyclostyled typescript Programme for a Review and Presentation of Colours at the Mardyke Football Grounds, Sunday November 22 nd 1914, with a cyclostyled manuscript sheet setting out the duties of various named individuals, signed in actual manuscript C.W.L. Alexander, dated 16 Nov. ‘14, and with a printed invitation to the ceremony issued to Professor C.W.L. Alexander. (1) € 200 - 300