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

188 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED info@fonsiemealy.ie fm 1032 Oglaigh na hEireann. 5 th (Northern) Division. Manuscript notice on headed paper stating ‘The bearer of this, Mr. J.J. Kerr, Clones, has permission to use a camera at Demonstration in Armagh on 4th Sep. - subject to any special local arrangements. (signed) Domhnall Ó hÓgáin, O.C., 3.9.’21. (1) € 120 - 180 1033 Signed by Tom Barry Soloheadbeg Memorial O ffi cial Souvenir of unveiling of memorial commemorating the Ambush at Soloheadbeg, 21 st January 1919, by the President, Sean T.Ó Ceallaigh on 22 January 1950. 4pp, with illustration of memorial, single folded sheet. Signed at head by Tom Barry, the veteran Cork Republican (who was not present at the ambush), 22.1.1950. (1) € 125 - 175 1034 Oglaigh na hEireann [Irish Volunteers]. Training Memo No. 17, dated 24 Nov. 1921, ‘Parabellum’, issued by Director of Training, G.H.Q. With Training Memo No. 18, dated 23.11.’21, ‘Care, Cleaning and Use of the Revolver’. Each 1 pp quarto, printed one side only. With a copy of the ‘Last and Inspiring Address of Thomas MacDonagh’, fold marks, and a carbon copy of a typed letter to Director of Intelligence, 29 April 1924, 2 pp, concerning the Volunteer service of T. O’Reilly (deceased), unsigned, from an unnamed Lieut., Ordnance Department, Island Bridge (possibly by James Mallon). As a collection. Provenance: Papers of James Mallon; by family descent. (1) € 80 - 120 1035 [Co. Wexford] Military Interest: O’Brien (James) A printed document ‘Order Under Martial Law,’ dated 6 July 1921, Signed in manuscript H. Cummings, Lieutenant General, Military Governor ordering the detention under martial law of James O’Brien, St. Johns Siding, Enniscorthy, in the Camp at Spike or Bere Island. As a document, w.a.f. (1) € 150 - 200 1036 Mac Suibhne (Toirdhealbhach) [Terence MacSwiney]. Battle-Cries [poems], orig. grey printed wrappers, 1918, no printer (for the author). A very good clean copy, rare thus. Dedicated ‘To the Dead at Eastertide 1916’. Includes the poignant ‘Fragment April 1916’: ‘Where shall I be in the autumn, when the fl ower / Is waving o’er these fi elds?’ Terence MacSwiney [1879-1920] was a founder of the Irish Volunteers in Cork, and was an o ffi cer at Easter 1916, when they were outmanoeuvred by the British military, who put artillery on high points around the city centre before the Volunteers could move. MacSwiney succeeded the murdered Tomás MacCurtain as Lord Mayor of Cork in March 1920. In late August he was jailed for two years for possession of a con fi dential cipher, and immediately went on hunger strike. He died in Brixton Prison after 74 days, on 24 October 1920. The day of his funeral coincided with the execution of Kevin Barry, leading to a surge of emotion from which the British cause in Ireland never recovered. € 250 - 350 1037 [MacSwiney (Terence)]. Ua Laoghaire (An tAth. Peadar). Sliabh na mBan bhFionn agus Cúán Fithise . D. 1914, Muintir na Leabhar Gaeilge, orig. wrappers worn (spine repaired). Terence MacSwiney’s copy with his signature in Irish on t.p. dated Bealtaine [May] 1914. A well-worn copy with evidence of extensive use - it may well have accompanied MacSwiney on his travels around Cork by bicycle. (1) € 100 - 150