COLLINS, Michael. An Saorstát. The Free State. No. 28. Vol. I. Dublin, Wednesday, August 30, 1922.

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, Alice Stopford Green, ‘R. H.’, Piaras Beaslai, Margaret Gavan Duffy, Mary Frances McHugh, Ignatius Phayre, Diarmuid Fawcett and P. Brennan. There is a poem on titlepage by ‘O. G.’ [Oliver St John Gogarty], and a poem on ‘Bealnablatha’ by Shane Leslie. Also included is a full transcript of General Mulcahy’s Oration at the Graveside.
The cost of this issue in 1922 was two English pounds!

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