Memorabilia – 2 Columns

One page, quarto, on official bilingual Dáil Éireann / Department of Finance letterhead, dated 21 July 1920, signed in ink “Mícheál Ó Coileáin” as Aire Airgid (Minister for Finance). Addressed to Mr J. P. Cooney, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. Collins formally acknowledges receipt of £255 5s. sterling, requests the relevant application forms covering the subscription, and […]

GAA – ALL-IRELAND FOOTBALL FINAL, 1981 Kerry v Offaly. Official Programme. Dublin: Gaelic Athletic Association, 20 September 1981. Illustrated throughout, including team line-ups and diagrams of player positions. Original pictorial wrappers featuring the Sam Maguire Cup and the crests of Kerry and Offaly. A very good copy. Official programme for the 1981 All-Ireland Senior Football […]

Original silver gelatin press photograph depicting Éamon de Valera and Arthur Griffith walking together outside the Mansion House, Dublin, during the crucial peace negotiations that followed the Truce of July 1921. The reverse bears the original Wide World Photos agency caption, dated 14 July 1921, identifying the image and describing the meeting between Sinn Féin […]

Second edition. Michael Collins Memorial Number. Broadside. 16 pp. Profusely illustrated. Creased at centre folds and fraying to edges as usual. A good copy. €675 The report of the shooting of Michael Collins, illustrated with many photographs. Black-bordered titlepage with headline ‘Michael Collins Memorial Number’. With contributions by Eoin MacNeill, Kevin O’Higgins, Seamus Ó hAodha, […]

Original black-and-white photographic portrait (90 v 145mm) of Samuel Beckett, boldly signed in blue ink across the lower white margin. A striking head-and-shoulders image of the Nobel Prize-winning Irish playwright, novelist and poet, whose sparse, existential works, including Waiting for Godot, Endgame and Krapp’s Last Tape, transformed twentieth-century literature and theatre. Beckett was famously reserved […]

Large-format original black-and-white exhibition photograph depicting Muhammad Ali during a lively public training session, dramatically captured as the heavyweight champion towers over The Beatles lying playfully at his feet. Signed by Ali in bold blue felt-tip to the upper right. Measuring 762 × 508 mm (30 × 20 inches). Fine condition. The meeting between The […]

Original pencil study depicting a seated female harpist, executed with the fluid, economical line for which Elizabeth Rivers is admired. The composition captures both the quiet concentration of the musician and the graceful architecture of the Irish harp, demonstrating Rivers’ exceptional ability to suggest form and movement through remarkably few strokes. The restrained modernist handling […]

IN RARE DUST JACKET London: Deane, 1923. Crown octavo. pp. x, 167, 3 (Author’s works). Blue cloth, lettered in black, blind-stamped decoration on upper cover (a pick and shovel) design. Top edge gilt. A very good copy in the rare pictorial dust jacket featuring a portrait of the author. Scarce. Patrick MacGill (1889-1963), the celebrated […]

G.A.A.: Clár Oifigiúil (Official Programme), Craobh Peile na hÉireann, Croke Park, 25 September 1949. Meath v. Cavan (All-Ireland Senior Football Final); Armagh v. Kerry (Minor Final). Dublin: G.A.A., 1949. Original illustrated wrappers featuring a striking portrait of Michael Cusack beneath crossed Irish tricolours. 24pp., advertisements throughout. A very good copy of one of the most […]

Dublin was crowned All-Ireland Champions in the same year An original black-and-white team photograph, 200 x 250mm. Depicting the Dublin senior hurling team prior to the 1927 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship Final against Meath. The photograph is mounted on its original card, which bears the contemporary manuscript title “Leinster Final – Dublin v Meath – […]

In Croke Park, March 17 – March, 19. In Casement Park, Belfast, March, 27. Illustrated. Cover design by M.A. O’Connor. Dublin: 1966. Quarto. pp. 12. Coloured pictorial stapled wrappers. A rare survival. €225 A collection of information and memorabilia commemorating the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland. Golden Jubilee of the Easter Rising 1916-1966. Foreword by […]

Original black-and-white photographic print depicting Ernest Shackleton with officers and crew aboard ship, likely taken during one of the British Antarctic expeditions of the early twentieth century. Shackleton is identifiable among the assembled party (noted verso “Shackleton white hat”), surrounded by uniformed naval personnel and expedition members, with ship’s fittings visible in the background. The […]

Large poster with portraits of Éamon de Valera: President of the Executive Council and Minister for External Affairs. Seán T. O’Kelly: Vice-President and Minister for Local Government and Public Health. Seán MacEntee: Minister for Finance. Seán Lemass: Minister for Industry and Commerce, who later became the primary architect of Ireland’s economic modernization. Joseph Connolly: Minister […]

San Francisco, 1985. Original black-and-white photographic portrait (image approx. 250 × 200 mm), mounted on card (overall approx. 300 × 260 mm), printed with Mother Teresa’s well-known peace quotation beneath the image. Signed in black ink below the text: “God bless you / Me Teresa MC”, and dated in print San Francisco, 1985. With a […]

Decorative colour-printed broadside featuring Rudyard Kipling’s celebrated poem If, first published in Rewards and Fairies in 1910. The text is enclosed within an elaborate Art Nouveau border of Celtic-inspired interlacing, scrollwork, and geometric ornament printed in shades of blue, gold, green, orange and cream. Copyright notice at foot reads: “From Rewards and Fairies Copyright 1910 […]

Original autograph signature of John Dillon, dated and located in his hand, “Dublin, 26 October 1914”, attractively mounted beneath a portrait photograph and housed in a decorative frame, 340 x 290mm. The autograph dates from one of the most critical periods in modern Irish history, shortly after the outbreak of the First World War and […]

Dublin: 1945. pp. 8. Quarto, with reproduced photograph of De Valera at the microphone. A very good copy.  Dev’s celebrated reply to Churchill’s complaint about Irish neutrality during the War – in terms of popular support, perhaps his finest hour. He also sets out his plan for the post war Irish economy

London & Boston: Faber and Faber, 1984. First edition. .pp. 316. Publisher’s green cloth, titled in gilt to spine, in the original pictorial dust jacket. A fine bright copy. An excellent first edition of one of the most important collected dramatic works of the twentieth century, bringing together Samuel Beckett’s shorter theatrical, radio and television […]

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, [c.2005]. Large quarto. pp. 191. Full dark green leather, elaborately gilt-tooled boards and spine, raised bands, gilt lettering and decorative devices; all edges gilt; silk moiré endpapers; ribbon marker. A superb copy, including an extra signed certificate from Palmer. Housed as issued.v Signed by Arnold Palmer in ink on the […]

Limited edition, 1964. Slim quarto bifolium, printed on cream wove paper, single folded sheet (c. 210 × 135 mm). Title to front: “In Memoriam: J.F.K.”; poem printed internally, signed in type George Reavey. Rear with imprint: “Copyright © 1964 by George Reavey. One thousand copies have been printed, of which fifty have been numbered and […]

Dublin: GAA / Bank of Ireland International Series, 1984. Slim 8vo. Original pictorial card wrappers in green, white and orange, with photographic portraits of Stephen Malaxos and Jack O’Shea to covers. 8 pp. (including advertisements and informational matter). Very good. Light creasing and handling wear to covers; small abrasions and minor edge wear. Internally clean […]

Dublin: Published by Whelan & Son, 17 Upper Ormond Quay, [1916]. Quarto. pp. 4. First edition sheet music. Original printed wrappers with striking Celtic Revival design incorporating interlace motifs and a rifle vignette. Internally clean with music notation clear and legible. A very good copy of historically significant piece of Irish musical ephemera. Rare. A […]

Colour photographic portrait of Seamus Heaney, signed and dated in black ink to lower margin: “Seamus Heaney, 24 June 2008.” Image approx. 13x 18 cm. Clean and bright, signature strong and unfaded. Fine. A fine signed portrait of Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney (1939–2013), one of Ireland’s most celebrated poets of the twentieth century and recipient […]

Original press photograph, gelatin silver print, c. 1950, showing Shaw lying in state in his bedroom at his home in Ayot St Lawrence, England, shortly after his death. The intimate interior includes mantelpiece photographs and a bedside lamp; notably, a portrait of Stalin is visible among the background images, as referenced in the original press […]

Limerick Echo. Small 12mo. [c. 16 pp.]. Original printed wrappers, secured with staples; additional punched holes to inner margin (likely for filing), as issued or early use. Some wear to covers with small loss at lower corner, light staining and creasing, but text clean and legible throughout. A rare and highly localised G.A.A. publication, comprising […]