irish independence (7 Ergebnisse)

38pp., 12mo. Stapled pamphlet. In grey printed wraps. Errata slip at rear. Aged, and with wraps detached as result of rusting of staples. Uncommon.

First edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed self-wraps; 12pp. Light soil; hand-stamp of the Montgomery Count (PA) Historical Society to front cover and first text leaf; Very Good. Vigorous attack, by an Irish nationalist, on Wister's anglophilic and anti-Irish tract, The Straight Deal, or the Ancient Grudge (1920).

2pp., 4to. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. One minor manuscript emendation (see below). Dated at the head 'March 3rd. 1921' and addressed to 'Madam'. Part of the letter was published - lacking the first sentence and all of the second page, and with the name 'Clonmult' omitted - in the second volume of the 'News Letter of the Friends of Irish Freedom, National Bureau of Information, Washington', where it was preceded by: 'The following is the story of an Irish mother, who relates, in a letter received by a lady resident in England, how she was called to a military barracks in Ireland to identify her dead son:' The letter begins: 'Madam, | I beg to acknowledge with grateful thanks the sum of £1. I am one of the mothers of the boys who was killed at Clonmult on February 20th., [sic] He [amended in manuscript from 'he'] was only 19 years old, and as fine a young man as you would wish to see, and I his mother that saw him only three weeks previous to his death when I went up to Cork barracks to identify him I really at first could only recognise his hair - Oh! my goodness what a butchery they gave those 12 young men. To my dying day I wont [sic] forget the sight that met my eyes when that dead house door was opened, to see all those fine young men thrown like dogs on the floor labeled "on H.M.S." and each one having a number, and their poor feet tied with ropes. My poor boy was just inside the door, his poor face all broke up, his eyes were broke in his head, his mouth broke and twisted, and all his teeth in his mouth, one arm completely cut off, and not one inch of his poor body but bayonet wounds, you could easily see they were bayonet wounds as ll his coat and pants were cut through, and one great big hole just up at his neck like as if they drove the bayonet to the butt and turned it round'. Here the published extract ends, but the author goes on to describe how her husband has been '12 months idle the end of this month, he is gone to work yesterday thank God', and that her '4 little children' have been 'often hungry and would be worse only I went out working myself to try and keep the home over us, and anywhere that poor boy tried to get employment the police prevented him, also his father, so thank God he is at rest'. She asserts that she 'could write a book on the way I and my family are persecuted by police and military during the past 18 months, torn out of bed at all hours of the night, my house and place all upset.' From the Dryhurst/Lynd papers.

Zustand: Good. New York: National Headquarters, n.d. ca. 1920. 8vo staple-bound pamphlet. 8pp. Map. Good copy. Pages toned. Small 1/8in bindery tear through all pages. (Ireland, History) Inquire if you need further information.

1p., 4to. The first page only; 42 lines. Addressed to 'Dear Mr Lynd'. On aged and heavily-worn paper, with holes causing loss to a few words of text. An interesting document, written within days of the atrocity. The author - presumably the owner of Woodville, W. E. A. Cummins - begins: 'I venture to write to you as the English papers appear to have obtained very meagre information about the recent ruin of Cork.' He begins with 'the important point for the Philistine public in England': 'that the property of loyalists valuing many thousands of pounds has been destroyed, that many loyalist employees have been thrown out of work. [.] I know personally a number of victims who had their little all in small businesses that have been destroyed. They're beggared of course. Under great difficulties they remained loyal to the English Government. the man who denounced murder in season and out of season to the injury of his business. He's ruined, not by the men he denounced but by the men he defended. It may be unfair to state at this stage that the B and T's committed these outrages; but even strong Unionists are convinced that they set fire to the city.' He points out that the citizens of Cork are not 'made enough to destroy three million pounds worth of property in their native city. [.] A number of employees were republicans. Secondly military and B and T's also have access to Patrick st. in curfew hours. People didn't even sleep there so great was their terror. Constant patrols pass up and down the street. Why didn't they prevent gangs of masked men from setting alight to these shops? Grants was set alight quite early in the night. When that occurred the military, who had complete control of the street, should have been prepared to prevent burnings a hundred yards higher up the street.' The page ends with 'an important point overlooked by T. P. in his speech': 'On Thursday last the B. and T.'s put a notice in the Cork papers announcing that they intended to burn houses in the city if a man named Horgan wasn't returned. If that was a bogus notice why didn't they deny it in the Saturday papers? It would be a bit too late in the day for them to deny authorship now. If a notice appeared in an newspaper with your name under it announcing that you intended to burn down certain houses within 48 hours wouldn't you write a denial to that newspaper at once?' From the papers of Robert Lynd.

116pp., 4to. (Paginated to 117, without a p.95, but with no text lacking.) No prelims. Each page typed on a separate leaf, and the whole bound together by string through punch holes. Text complete. Dog-eared and worn, with the first two leaves separated from the rest. No record discovered of author or title. The play is set during the Second World War, and begins: 'Afternoon fourclock . Late spring . side of road, North Cork district six miles from town of Kilneesh, Irishman trying to fix a tire . car protruding from wings showing a flat. He's sitting on a clump of gravel muttering to himself as Curtain Rises .' The driver's name is 'Jim Fitz' and he is joined by coincidence by 'Adam Hilson the bow'ld Black-n-Tan', whom he arrested two years before. The play proceeds through a series of reminiscences and flashbacks. No published version yet located.

First edition; 8vo (21 x 13.5 cm); double-page map of Ireland showing the result of the December 1918 general election; unbound, stapled, small tear to tile-page; [8]pp. A rare political pamphlet promoting the first American bond-drive to finance the newly declared Irish Republic. The bonds were issued as part of the external loan authorised by the Dáil Ãireann in August 1919, the assembly formed of the Sinn Fà in MPs elected to the UK's Parliament in the general election of 1918, and headed by the future President of Ireland, Ãamon de Valera (1882-1975). In total, the external loan raised over $5,000,000 in the USA to help keep the political and revolutionary movements alive in Ireland during the country's struggle for independence. With a double-page map of Ireland showing the election result of 1918, in which 73 of 105 seats were won by the republican party Sinn Fà in. OCLC records only 4 copies in institutional collections, 3 in the USA (Boston Athenaeum, Boston College, and University of Michigan), the other in the National Library of Ireland. COPAC adds another copy at the University of Cambridge.