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

186 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED info@fonsiemealy.ie fm 1019 “Wade through Fields of Blood of the Saxon Tyrants” Manuscript: [Anon] ‘Sinn Fein Oath’ A bloodcurdling document, m/ss, 2pp., on lined paper, ‘ taken from captured documents in various parts of the country, & is the general oath taken by the I.R.A.’ Includes a promise to ‘ wade through fi elds of blood of the Saxon tyrants, & murders for the glorious cause of nationality,’ etc. Undoubtedly spurious, and of interest only insofar as it shows how little the British black- propaganda people understood about Sinn Fein and the I.R.A. (1) € 150 - 180 1020 Connolly (James) The Reconquest of Ireland, 8vo D. (Liberty Hall) 1915, hf. title, 64pps., red decorative wrappers. Clean Copy. Scarce. (1) € 200 - 300 1021 Markievicz (Countess Constance) What Irish Republicans Stand For, Reprinted from “Forward” by courtesy of the Editor. 8vo Glasgow Printed, n.d. (c. 1923), 8pp orig. pink printed wrappers, stapled, some fold marks. V. Scarce. (1) € 160 - 240 1022 Dublin Metropolitan Police A cyclostyled and manuscript pass dated 2 nd May 1916 allowing A.B. Coyle J.P. of Ballyowen House Lucan to pass through the streets of the city and D.M.P. area, with illegible DMP stamp; further inscribed in ms. on rear, ‘The within pass is valid outside the D.M.P. area’, with Dublin Castle stamp and signature (possibly stamped) of Neville Chamberlain, Inspector General RIC [this is Sir Neville Francis Fitzgerald Chamberlain,not the politician. He resigned in July 1916]. € 100 - 200 1018 Report on The ‘National Volunteers’ Co ff ey (Diarmid) An important signed ‘Report on the Organisation of Ireland on 6th November 1914’ dated 24 Nov. 1914, 5pp typescript (carbon copy), fi rst page on paper of Irish Volunteers, Inspector General’s O ffi ce. The fi rst 3 pages give a detailed summary of organisation in each of the 32 counties, including several where ‘No returns’ are recorded, followed by a general report on fi nal two pages. ‘It is noticeable in the above report that the organisation in Ireland is very uneven. Thus,in several counties, the returns are complete and the Counties are organised into Battalions. In other cases there are no organisation returns at all. In those counties where energetic organisers have been at work, the organisation has been completed in two or three months.. ‘There has been a considerable falling o ff in the Volunteers of late,[due to causes including] the secession of Sinn Fein members of the Volunteers. This has in many cases, even where the vast majority of the Volunteers have followed Mr. Redmond, [caused] considerable disorganization.’ Signed in bold signature on last page. As a typescript, w.a.f. A most interesting document, unusual (1) € 400 - 600 1023 Dublin Metropolitan Police A cyclostyled and manuscript Pass dated 30 April 1916, allowing bearer (unnamed) to pass to N.C. Road and return to Lucan, signed Osborne Beckett, ,Lieut. R. Dub. Fus. (1) € 100 - 200 1024 A Memento of Liberty Hall in 1916 [1916 Easter Rising, Liberty Hall] the remains of packet for ‘100 - Central Fire - 380 Ball Cartridges - S.F.M. Paris (with original label) contemporaneously inscribed ‘Liberty Hall 1916,’ as a relic, w.a.f. (1) Provenance: From the Collection of Dr. Eileen Mac Carvill (secretary to Michael Collins) given as a gift, and by descent to the present vendor. € 150 - 200