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

189 fonsiemealy.ie fm All contents and images are subject to copyright 1039 Republican Music: Gaelic Press - Clarke (Richard) The Prison Grave of Kevin Barry, Music by Joseph Stanley, 4pp folio D. (Gaelic Press) c. 1920; also O’Neill (Phil) The Felons of Our Land, published by J.J. Walsh, Dublin c. 1920. Four pages 4to with illustrated oval portrait of Séan Mac Diarmada on front cover. As music, w.a.f. Both Very Rare. (2) € 200 - 300 1040 Kevin Barry and LiamMellows Kevin Barry. A memorial poem by Brian O’Higgins, with printed portrait in colour printed Celtic design, mounted on card, c. 1920’s, scarce; with The Story of LiamMellows. A pamphlet 4pp (single folded sheet), with portrait, 1929, issued by Executive, Cumann na mBan. Both items scarce. (2) € 100 - 150 1041 Arthur Gri ffi th Lea fl et, “How Tipperary Freed the Prisoners,” 4to 4pp (single folded sheet), ending “ Now Longford ! Vote for Mc Guinness” Issued for Joseph McGuinness by his election agent, P.. Hannon, Longford, Printer Mahon, Dublin. Good & Scarce. * Gri ffi th’s article relates to a Tipperary by- election in 1868. Joseph Mc Guinness was successful in the South Longford by-election of May 1917, by a margin of 37 votes. According to Manchester Guardian, the result was “the equivalent of a serious British defeat in the fi eld.” (1) € 100 - 150 1042 [Memorial Card] In Ever Loving Memory of Seaun Allis Treacy, Soloheadbeg, Co. Tipperary, Commandant I.R.A., killed in action in Talbot Street, Dublin, on Oct. 13th, 1920, whilst fi ghting for Irish Freedom aged 24 years,’ double sided (folding) with original photograph. Scarce. (1) € 120 - 180 1038 ‘Just a Lad of Eighteen Summers ..’ Kevin Barry [1902-1920] His personal Cruci fi x and Scapular, in an inscribed envelope signed by Kathleen McKenna [an assistant on the Irish Bulletin], stating they were given to Sean McKeon on November 2nd 1920 after Vespers and prayers for Barry’s immortal soul. The hand-sewn scapular much worn, its ribbon in pieces, the cruci fi x in good condition. [The Scapular, worn by Catholics suspended from the shoulders, is a silent prayer that shows one’s dedication to the Blessed Virgin Mary]. Kevin Barry, a medical student in Dublin, joined the Volunteers in October 1917. He was arrested on 20 September 1920, reportedly with a pistol, after an engagement in which three British soldiers (one of them slightly younger than Barry) were killed. He was sentenced to death, and in spite of appeals for clemency, was hanged in Mountjoy Jail on 1 November (All Saints Day), the fi rst Volunteer to be executed since the aftermath of the Rising. He died on the day of Terence MacSwiney’s funeral in Cork, the two events causing massive international publicity which greatly damaged the British cause in Ireland. A personal and religious memento of great signi fi cance. (1) € 1000 - 1500