Rare Book & Collectors' Sale 1st & 2nd October 2025

107 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 899 900 908 906 905 898. Home Rule in Co. Louth Broadside Poster: Foster (Cavendish H.) Home Rule - Irishmen, ‘Remember that if you are separated from England.. you must raise your own Taxes to replace those now paid by the Imperial Parliament.. These Exemptions amount to £4,000,000. Irish Members also will have no voice .. and Ireland will be no more than a Colony. Think well over these Facts. Signed Cavendish H. Foster, Feb. 7, 1874. Printed one side only, approx. 17½” x 11½”. Good Scarce. (1) €120 - €160 899. Photograph: [Gallagher N.Y., 1886] Brigadier General Thomas Francis Meagher, U.S. Army, (born 3 August 1823, died 1 July 1867), hand coloured Photograph, approx. 50cms x 39cms (19½” x 15¼”), in ornate gilt frame. (1) €200 - €300 900. Fine Cork Coloured Printed Poster Political interest: The Shan Van Vocht (Your King and Country Want You Says the Shan Van Vocht), Attractive poster with shamrocks, and British, Serbia, Japan, France, Belgium & Russia, Flags, and a Soldier of an Irish Regiment - ‘ God Save the King - God Save Ireland,’ approx. 37.5cms x 49cms (14½” x 19½”). Printed by Guy & Co. Ltd., Cork, after designs by E.C. Sweeny & H. Vere Flint. (1) €300 - €400 901. Co. Wexford: Ranson (Canon Joseph) Songs of the Wexford Coast, 8vo Enniscorthy 1948. Sole Edition, port. frontis orig. illus. wrappers. V. Scarce, good copy. (1) €100 - €150 902. 1798: Bigger (Francis Joseph) The Northern Leaders of ‘98 - (No. 1) WilliamOrr, 4to Dublin (Maunsel & Co.) 1906. First Edn., illus. thro.-out, orig. colour printed orange wrappers. Ex. Scarce. (1) €150 - €200 903. Republican interest: O’Cathasaigh (P.) [Sean O’Casey] The Story of the Irish Citizen Army, D. 1919. First Edn.; Macardle (D.) Tragedies of Kerry 1922-1923, 1937; O’Cruadhlaoich (Diarmuid) The Oath of Allegiance, D. 1925; MC Kenna (Rev. L.) The Social Teachings of James Connolly, D. 1920; The Sinn Fein Leders of 1916, D. 1917; Some Poems of Roger Casement, D. 1918; Pearse (P.H.) Iosagan agus Sgealta Eile, D. nd. all orig. wrappers. All V. Scarce. (7) €150 - €220 904 – See page 108 905. de Markievicz (Constance) A Call to the Women of Ireland, 8vo Dublin (Fergus O’Connor) 1918) First Edn., 16pp in orig. printed green wrappers. V. good copy. (1) €100 - €150 906. Cumann na mBan Executive: A large Printed Poster, Grand National Concert and Dramatic Entertainment, .. Defense of Ireland Fund, at 41 Parnell Square on Sunday, 16th April, at 8.00 [c. 1920?] approx. 51cms x 37cms (20” x 14½”), printed by P. Mahon, Yarnhall St., Dublin, framed. V. good. Rare. (1) €200 - €300 907. [Frongoch Prison Camp] An etched metal Tara brooch style Badge , with typical design and love heart. (1) Provenance: Crafted in Frongoch Prison Camp, by Family Descent. €100 - €150 908. An attractive 9ct gold 'Tara Brooch' by Hopkins and Hopkins, the obverse with ornate Celtic embossed design, the reverse hallmarked and with 'Deanta in Eireann' stamp, with replacement clasp. (1) * Similar in style and design to those worn by Members of Cumann na mBan. €800 - €1000 909. Political & Historical Badges: A rare enameled ‘Fianna Eireann’ Lapel Badge, with central design of Pike and ‘Blazing’ Sun; together with another enamel Badge for ‘Imperial Order - daughter of the Empire’ [based in Canada] They Provide scholarships, bursaries etc, Scarce; and another silver Badge modelled as a four leaf clover ‘I.W.T.U.,’ hallmarked (Irish Women’s Temperance Union), hallmarked S.D. Neill (Belfast), as a lot. (3) €250 - €320