The Dublin Easter Uprisings, Easter 1916

A Very Interesting Collection of Ephemera, including a coloured lithographic recruitment poster for the Irish Transport and General Workers Union by Phil Donovan, 98cm by 63cm; a Sinn Fein Rebellion Handbook, Easter 1916; The Rebellion in Dublin 1916 photo-book; three Irish Volunteers pamphlets; a typed letter signed by Francis Sheehy-Skeffington and a published Speech From the Dock; The Irish Volunteers Membership cards; The Irish Citizen Army Emergency Order for 24 haversacks with ammunition pockets; a subscription form to the Tomas Aghas (Thomas Patrick Ash) Memorial Fund (Thomas Patrick Ashe was a member of the Gaelic League, the Gaelic Athletic Association, the Irish Republican Brotherhood and a founding member of the Irish Volunteers, he was only 32 when he died on September 25, 1917, after a so-called "botched" force-feeding while on hunger strike in Mountjoy prison); four Dublin Opinion magazines for 1923; etc, contained in a binder file.

 

Footnote:- also of note included within this lot is an order signed by Éamonn Ceannt (born Edward Kent) and a document signed by James Connolly, two of the 'seven dead men', the seven signatories to the Declaration of the Irish Republic as part of the Easter Rising in 1916 - all seven were executed a month or so later by the British government.  A further document is signed by John McBride, who was also executed as one of the military leaders.

 

Provenance:-

Inherited from the vendor's grandmother Mrs Irma Bruce Waddell (nee Pratt) 1896-1978.  She was born at 25 Lower Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2 and lived at 19 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin 2 with her family as a teenager during the Easter Rising.  

Her father was a retired surgeon (Joseph Dallas Pratt, TCD, MA, MD, BCh, FRCSI -1856-1918) who had also been the surgeon to the Dublin Metropolitan Police (The Royal Irish Constabulary policed Ireland outside Dublin). Her great uncle (her mother's uncle) was Christopher Palles (1831-1920), Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer of Ireland who was a noted legal figure of the time and whose judgements are still cited in Irish courts today.

It is likely that the Pratt family put the Easter Rising collection together through their judicial and/or Police connections.