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

109 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 910. Republican & Political Interest: A group of four enamel and gilded Badges including: * An ‘ Irish Volunteers’ Lapel Badge, with green background harp and shamrocks; * A circular ‘ Irish Volunteers’ Lapel Badge with central harp and inscribed surround, stamped on reverse ‘ D.W.S.C.O. Dubin’; * A gilded Lapel or Button modelled as a trio of shamrocks; * An a ‘C.A. (Caomnoiri Aitiula) W.W.2 Emergency period Lapel Badge, as a lot. (4) €250 - €320 911. Dublin Boys’ Brigade O'Connor (W) Comp. A Scrapbook, 1890s, including news cuttings, accounts, leaflets, concert programmes, invitations, a few ALS, a manuscript address in envelope, laid in or laid down in a small 4to scrapbook, covers missing, but a useful historical source, complied by W. Connor, who as Hon. Batt. Sec., and active in the organization. (1) The Boys’ Brigade was a Protestant scouting group organized on military lines. The chairman of the Dublin Battalion was Lord Plunket (Archbishop of Dublin). €200 - €300 912. 1916 Interest: [Weekly Irish Times] Sinn Fein Rebellion Handbook - Easter 1916, 8vo, D. (Irish Times) 1917, Second Issue, illus. & adverts, fold. maps, original wrappers, bound in later orange cloth. Good clean copy. (1) €150 - €200 913. Postcards: Republican Interest, a collection of Photographic Postcards depicting the various Leaders of the 1916 Rising, including: * Joseph Plunkett, P.H. &William Pearse, T.J. Clarke, E. Daly, Cornelius Colbert, Countess Markievicz, The O’Rahilly, also a group Photo Card of John Daly, T.J. Clarke and S. Mc Dermot, a set of five Photo Cards of The Sinn Fein Revolt in Dublin, issued by Rotary Photographic Series, and two from the Daily Sketch (Irish Rebellion May 1916] and one other of Dail Eireann, An Rarna Tional 10 Abran 1919, as a collection. (1) €150 - €180 914. Rare Set of Promotional Posters for 1916 Leaders [1916 Interest] Leaders of the Rising, a rare set of Posters similar to the postcards published and printed by O’Loughlin, Murphy & Boland Ltd., Dublin, with portrait profile by Keogh Bros., including J.J. Heuston, Eamonn Ceannt, Edward Daly, P.H. Pearse, Major John McBride, William J. Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh, Michael O’hannrachain, James Connolly, Thomas J. Clarke, Sean McDiarmada, Con Colbert, The O’Rahilly, Countess Markievicz, also another Poster issued by Powell Press, Dublin with multiple pen-poster Cards of other participants in the Insurrection of 1916 in Dublin. As a collection, w.a.f. (1) €400 - €600 915. Irish Pamphlets: Pearse (P.H.) Three Lectures on Gaelic Topics, 8vo D. 1922, annotated, with comments thro-out; Sgeoil Eanna, St. Enda’s Rathfarnham - Prospectus, 8vo Dublin n.d. c. 1925?, Illus. photos orig. decor. wrappers; Corkery (D.) What’s this about The Gaelic League, D. n.d.; ‘You may Revive the Gaelic Language...’ 8vo D. (Chonnradh na Gaedhilge) n.d.; Blythe (Ernest) The State and the Language, 8vo D. 1949; also Prospectus for An Rinn, Iol-scoil na Mumhan, Tuarascbhail - Scoil na Leanbh Rinn O’gCuanach, ins na Deisibh, 8vo D. n.d. c. 1930, illus. fold. sheet; & 1 other item, Menu in Irish for Court Hse., Clonmel, 1937. As a lot, w.a.f. All Scarce. (1) €120 - €170 916. Irish Politics: [Co. Cork] An Album containing Photographs, Leaflets and other Ephemera of Cork interest, mainly Fine Gael, Cork Corporation, group Photographs, and an original Photograph of Gen. Michael Collins, in military attire, interesting Album with rare photos. As an Album, w.a.f. (1) €200 - €300 917. O’Cathasaigh (P.) The Story of the Irish Citizen Army, 8vo D. (Maunsel & Co. Ltd.) 1919, First Edn., ptd. wrappers. (1) €120 - €180 918. MacNeill (Eoin) Irish in the National University of Ireland, a Plea for Irish Education, 8vo D. (M.H. Gill) 1909, First Edn., yellow, ptd. wrappers. Scarce. (1) €140 - €180 919. 1923 Travel Pass Co. Donegal: Oglaigh na hEireann 1st Northern Division. Manuscript request to Stationmaster,Glenties, to issue return voucher for one soldier Glenties to Stranorlar, on headed paper, signed R. Ua Dochartaigh Capt., dated 26/2/23, with ms. note ‘Fare 7/4.’ (1) €120 - €170 909 916 910 918 914