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734 AUSTIN STACK [1880-1929]: The Siege of Belfast Jail Austin Stack’s autograph book compiled ‘i gcarcar i mBeul Feirsde’ [in prison in Belfast] dated 31.12.1918, during the ‘siege’ when Sinn Fein prisoners took over a section of the jail for several days, a small red clothbound autograph book containing signatures of Seumas O Muineachain, inscribed ‘oidhche an bhuaidh’ [the night of victory], 31.12.18, Joseph Devine 10.1.19, Joseph McAree, James Hoey, Micheal O Duineachdha, Charles J. O’Brien, James Walsh, Patrick Waldron, Robard Mac Coisdeala, ‘4 months for kissing Dora, Up the Rebels’, Sean P. Mac Treinfir, Sweet Vale of Avoca, Capt, B. Co. Wicklow Batt., Michael Stapleton, Wm. Hoolan, John Curley, 31.12.18, ‘Fourth Day of the Siege of Belfast Gaol’, Seamus P. O Casaide, with a list of jails he has seen, Aodh Polloch, Sean O Dorain, Timothy Leahy, Lt. Dan McCarthy, and several others inscribed ‘Siege of Belfast Jail’ or similar; and including an attractve coloured drawing of a cell by Padraig Ua Murchadha. In excellent condition. Austin Stack, from Tralee, was a founder member of the Irish Volunteers and a commandant in the Easter Rising, when he was arrested while trying to make contact with Roger Casement. Later he was Dail Minister for Home Affairs. He disagreed with Collins about some issues, and opposed the Treaty. In jail again in 1923, he led a hunger strike which seriously injured his health.

€400 - €600

735 PATENT ON VELLUM WITH SEAL OF GEORGE IV A manuscript Patent on a large sheet of vellum with engraved borders, appointing John Carey Esquire Clerk of Pleadings and Affadavits in the Court of Common Pleas, 24 January 1827, with large brown wax seal of George IV attached (the seal rubbed and cracked, but rare). Together with copies of supporting biographical documents for John Carey.

€500 - €800

736 CONCHUBHAR Ó COLBAIRD [CON COLBERT] A hand-lettered ‘Fógra’ [Notice], stating that ‘No person is allowed to loiter in this Hall’, dated ‘Aibreán 1915’, signed by Conchubhar Ó Colbaird, Co. Comdr, on the notepaper of The Irish Volunteers, Inchicore, 4th Battalion, Dublin Regiment, inscribed ‘F Company, Emmet Hall, Inchicore’. Worn, mounted on a (probably contemporary) piece of timber. Con Colbert, born in 1896 near Athea, Co. Limerick, worked as a clerk at Kennedy’s Baskery, Dublin. He joined Fianna Eireann, and was a drill instructor at St. Enda’s School and also for the Irish Volunteers. In the weeks before the 1916 Rising, he acted as bodyguard to Thom Clarke. He fought at Jameson’s Distillery and Marrowbone Lane, and on the surrender he took command of his unit, to save the life of the actual commander, who was a married man. He was shot by firing squad at Kilmainham Jail on 8 May.

€300 - €500

737 CIVIL WAR MANUSCRIPT A four page handwritten diary account of the civil war by an unknown author, starting on “Wednesday 28th June” with almost daily entries until “Tuesday 11th July”. Including, for Thursday 29th June; “If that damned gun would only stop…. Only too plainly can I hear the fighting, and a faint little peaceful breeze motles and sighs through the leaves. Oh God! That it should have come to this.”

€200 - €400

738 P.H. Pearse / Padraic Mac Piarais A paid cheque for €10 payable to P.H. Pearse, Royal Bank of Ireland, Terenure, dated 25th Aug. 1913, signed by Padraic Mac Piarais, countersigned rear by P.H. Pearse. Three good signatures (one pierced by cancellation) in two languages.

€700 - €1,000

739 Terence MacSwiney A paid cheque for €10 issued to Maire Ní Suibhne [his sister], 9.vii.1920, signed in Irish by MacSwiney, endorsed rear by recipient and also by a subsequent payee, Edw. O’Mahony. Signed by MacSwiney just four weeks prior to his arrest on August 12th, 1920. He went on hunger strike shortly after and died 74 days later on October 25th, 1920. Provenance: Cronin collection, Independence Auction 17th April 2007

€250 - €350 [email protected]

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