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

193 fonsiemealy.ie fm All contents and images are subject to copyright 1058 The First Separate Printing The Soldier’s Song Words by Peadar Ó Cearnaigh. Music by Padraig Ó hAonaigh. Arranged by Cathal MacDubhghaill. Whelan & Son, 17 Upper Ormond Quay,Dublin. 1/- net [December 1916]. Quarto, 4 pp (single folded sheet), cover design including a ri fl e within a Celtic design. Fold marks, a few minor stains, neat repair at fold, but a good copy. The fi rst separate publication, with the music, of what later became Ireland’s National Anthem. Rare. (1) € 200 - 300 1060 Department of Defence Air Raid Precautions . Handbook No. 8 (1st Edition). The Duties of Air RaidWardens. D., S.O., 7.[19]40, 26 pp booklet, printed card covers. Apparently scarce, not found in NLI online catalogue. (1) € 80 - 120 1059 A Fateful Document ‘The Murder Members’ a single folio sheet, verso blank, stating The following are the names of the members of the Partition Parliament who voted for the Murder Bill, and listing 56 names in two columns, including W.T. Cosgrave, Desmond Fitzgerald, Richard Mulcahy, Michael Staines, Padraig O’Maille, Dr. James Crowley, Sean McKeon, Ernest Blythe, Sean Milroy, Sean McGarry, Joseph McGrath, Sir James Craig, Pierce Beasley, Kevin O’Higgins, Alec. McCabe, etc., and concluding Keep This List For Reference. Beside the name of Dr. James Crowley, a contemporary hand has written Con’s Doctor - presumably a reference to Constance de Markiewicz. (1) A fateful document . The Murder Bill, so-called, was an Act of the Free State parliament which authorised sentence of death upon those taken with arms. Soon after this document was issued, gunmen opened fi re on Pádraig Ó Maille TD, deputy Speaker of the Dail, in a Dublin street while he was on his way to the Dail with another TD, Sean Hales, Ó Máille was wounded, and Hales - whose name is not on this list - was shot dead, apparently in mistake for another. In reprisal for these shootings, and in fear for their own lives, the Free State cabinet ordered the summary execution of four Republican prisoners detained since the seizure of the Four Courts, Rory O’Connor, Liam Mellows,Dick Barrett and Joseph McKelvey, entirely without any legal process or justi fi cation. The present document is very rare. Fold marks, a few minor marginal tears, else v.g. € 300 - 400 1061 Wartime Plans to Evacuate Dublin! Department of Defence. Evacuation of Dublin City and Dun Laoghaire Borough. Government Scheme. ‘The Government is arranging for the voluntary evacuation of certain classes of the civilian population .. in the event of a situation arising which would render such a course advisable.’ Lea fl et, 4pp (single sheet folded), dated February 1941, outlining a detailed scheme covering families whose incomes do not exceed £300 p.a., to be evacuated with their children to reception areas ‘mainly the Counties Roscommon, Longford andWicklow (excluding Bray, Wicklow Town and Arklow) as well as the greater part of Leitrim, Meath and Kildare and parts of Westmeath and Laoghais’, with provisions for registration, fi nancial support etc. ‘Those who fail to register may fi nd themselves unable to leave the city if a serious emergency arises’. Richer families were to make their own arrangements. With some pencilled amendments, addressed in ink at head to a Mrs. Cox of Killucan. The lea fl et does not clarify the nature of the emergency envisaged - invasion? bombing? In February 1941 Hitler had completed the occupation of France, had postponed the invasion of Britain and was preparing (in secret) to invade Russia. The Dublin bombings by the Luftwa ff e - supposedly accidental - did not happen until May/June 1941. The lea fl et is extremely rare and may not have been generally issued; no copy found in COPAC or in NLI online catalogue. € 180 - 220 1062 Important Belfast Court Case: Echo of Belfast Disturbances, Libel Action, Mc Cashin, M’Cotter, (Catholic Priests) & Mc Donnell V. W. & G. Baird (Belfast Evening Telegraph) A roy 8vo Album with 60pp. approx. of news cuttings from Irish News, covering the entire nine days of the 1st Trial, 15-27 January 1913, cloth bound. A neat compilation covering this famous trial. As a scrap album, w.a.f. (1) € 100 - 150