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28 [COLLINS & GRIFFITH] A rare poster of Arthur Griffith, Michael Collins, Sean MacEoin (The Blacksmith of Ballinalee), Richard Mulcahy and President De Valera. The medallion portraits within a Celtic decorated border and the landscape portrait of De Valera is against a draped tricolour and sunburst. Framed. 30.5 x 30.5cm.

In August 1921, de Valera secured Dáil Éireann approval to change the 1919 Dáil Con- stitution to upgrade his office from prime minister or chairman of the cabinet to a full President of the Republic. Declaring himself now the Irish equivalent of King George V, he argued that as Irish head of state, in the absence of the British head of state from the negotiations, he too should not attend the Treaty Negotiations at which British and Irish government leaders agreed to the effective independence of twenty-six of ’s thirty-two counties as the Irish Free State, with Northern Ireland choosing to remain under British sovereignty. It is generally agreed by historians that whatever his motives, it was a mistake for de Valera not to have travelled to .

Lot 31 A rare and interesting item. Lot 29

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29 [] Victorious Charge of the Irish Brigade 11th May, 1745. 30 [IRISH PATRIOTS] The United Irish Patriots 1798. French Commander: Marshall Morris - English Commander: Duke of Cumberland. A coloured lithograph showing the ‘patriots of 1798’ seated and standing with in a col- Coloured lithograph. Framed. 70.0 x 35.0cm. Chicago: Kurz & Allison Art Publishers. onnaded assembly room. Framed. 66 x 52cm. Some surface scratches. An American No date (c.1840s). production, probably in 1848 for the 50th Anniversary of the Rebellion. Leaders pic- tured: , , John Sheares, William Corbett, Arthur O’Con- nor, AH Rowan, William Jackson, WJ MacNevin, Nathan Teeling, , The Battle of Fontenoy, 11 May 1745, was a major engagement of the War of the Austri- Henry Sheares, , , Napper Tandy, , Henry an Succession, fought between the forces of the Pragmatic Allies - comprising mainly Joy McCracken, and Lord Edward Fitzgerald. An attractive item. Dutch, British, and Hanoverian troops under the command of the Duke of Cumberland - and a French under , commander of King Louis XV’s forces in €150 - 200 the Low Countries. The battle is notable for several reasons. It was one of the most im- portant in the war, and for the French a famous victory and the masterpiece of Marshal Saxe; the French Monarch Louis XV and his son the Dauphin were present on the field. 31 [IRISH POLITICAL PORTRAITS] A collection of portraits I later declared that the victory at Fontenoy prolonged the Ancien Régime of Irish Political figures of the nineteenth century: monarchy in France by 30 years. Edmund Burke; Charles Stewart Parnell; Thomas Davis; Daniel O’Connell; Colonel Michael Doheny; John Mitchel; Alexander M. Sullivan; John D. Frazer; Thomas Devin Irish regiments served in the War of the Austrian Succession, Seven Years’ War, both Reilly; Terence Bellew M’Manus; James Finton Lalor; John Savage; James Clarence in Europe and India, and during the American War of Independence, though by the Mangan; An Craoibhín Aoibhinn [Douglas Hyde]; Archbishop Croke of Cashel; Rich- the number of Irishmen serving in the regiments had begun to markedly decline. ard Power M.P.; Daniel Maclise. Circa 1880s. Various sizes mainly from The Graphic The five regiments were increased to six during the War of the Austrian Succession, and supplement to the Irish Fireside. Some frayed others overall in very good condi- the sixth being Lally’s, initially created by the Comte de Lally -Tollendal through drafts tion. (17) from the original five. Each regiment had a strength of one battalion of 685 men and Fitz James’ cavalry regiment counted 240 men. The Brigade played a crucial role at Fontenoy €200 - 300 attacking the right flank of the British column suffering some 500 casualties while cap- turing the two colours from the Coldstream Guards and fifteen cannon.

Some officers of the Irish Brigade are believed to have cried out Cuimhnígí ar Luim- 32 McBRIDE, John. Two broadside ballads in praise of neach agus ar fheall na Sasanach! (“Remember and Saxon Faith” or “Remem- ber Limerick and Saxon perfidy”) at the battle of Fontenoy in 1745. Over the course of Major John McBride one hundred years new recruits were brought into the brigade mostly from the Irish together with a postcard portrait of the Major in the uniform of the Transvaal Irish speaking regions of West Munster, the homeland of, among other the O’Connell family. Brigade, holding sight of British cannon captured at Colenso and a manuscript clipping Daniel O’Connell’s uncle was the last Colonel of the French Irish Brigade. According with the legend “Obtained at Irish National Club, Chancery Lane in 1901 during the to official French Army regulations, officers of the Irish Brigade regiments had to be Boer War”. Framed. 59.5 x 53.5cm. Irish, half of which had to be born in Ireland and the other half born of Irish parents in France. €250 - 350 €350 - 450 Lot 27