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Arrested and Detained In Easter Week: The Ordeal of The Marquis MacSwiney [Mac Swiney (V.E.P.
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Arrested and Detained In Easter Week: The Ordeal of The Marquis MacSwiney[Mac Swiney (V.E.P.)] An 8pp typed Letter signed "P. MacSwiney of Mashanaglass", on headed notepaper "National Volunteers, Inspecting Officer for Co. Kerry, Brooklands, Killarney", dated 18 May 1916 and addressed to Major J. Crean, Acting Inspecting Officer, National Volunteers. (1)The writer gives a vivid and detailed account of his arrest in Dublin and detention by security forces during the Rising of Easter Week 1916. While being removed from his house in Waterloo Road to the Castle the party came under heavy fire from the insurgents. After interrogation he was imprisoned, together with Count Plunkett (father of Proclamation signatory Joseph Plunkett), in a cell with some twenty other prisoners in cramped conditions. The following day they were removed for internment, except MacSwiney, who was released after further interrogation.MacSwiney describes with a mixture of horror and humour the courtesy of the officers who had arrested him and their courage under fire; the appalling conditions in which he was held overnight (they were fed "very much in the manner as food is thrown to the bears and other wild beasts at the zoo"); and the kindness of his fellow-prisoners.Valentine Emmanuel Patrick MacSwiney, Marquis of Mashanaglass (1871-1945) was born in Paris, his father being an Irish banker and his mother a Polish countess. A gifted linguist, he served on several diplomatic missions for the Holy See, being created a marquis by Pope Leo XIII in 1895. In 1914 he and his family settled in Dublin, where he joined the Irish Volunteers. When the movement split between the supporters and opponents of John Redmond, he remained with the pro-Redmond National Volunteers, and served for a time as Inspecting Officer for Co. Kerry - hence his brief detention in 1916.MacSwiney interested himself in the revival of Irish industry, especially forestry. In the 1920s he served on Irish Free State delegations to the League of Nations. A Knight of Malta, he became President of the Irish Association in 1939 and during the Second World War - though suffering from ill health - he vigorously promoted the work of the Ambulance Corps and the training of members in first aid. An accomplished scholar, he was Vice-President of the Royal Irish Academy in 1936-39 and is remembered today mainly as a pioneer of the study of the Irish brigades in the armies of France, Spain and elsewhere.Through his mother, MacSwiney was first cousin of Vernon Kell, a founder of the British Secret Service Bureau. Kell would have known that MacSwiney was opposed to the Rising - hence perhaps his prompt release?A fascinating first-hand account of the experience of a well-known Irishman during the Easter Rising.
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Arrested and Detained In Easter Week: The Ordeal of The Marquis MacSwiney[Mac Swiney (V.E.P.)] An 8pp typed Letter signed "P. MacSwiney of Mashanaglass", on headed notepaper "National Volunteers, Inspecting Officer for Co. Kerry, Brooklands, Killarney", dated 18 May 1916 and addressed to Major J. Crean, Acting Inspecting Officer, National Volunteers. (1)The writer gives a vivid and detailed account of his arrest in Dublin and detention by security forces during the Rising of Easter Week 1916. While being removed from his house in Waterloo Road to the Castle the party came under heavy fire from the insurgents. After interrogation he was imprisoned, together with Count Plunkett (father of Proclamation signatory Joseph Plunkett), in a cell with some twenty other prisoners in cramped conditions. The following day they were removed for internment, except MacSwiney, who was released after further interrogation.MacSwiney describes with a mixture of horror and humour the courtesy of the officers who had arrested him and their courage under fire; the appalling conditions in which he was held overnight (they were fed "very much in the manner as food is thrown to the bears and other wild beasts at the zoo"); and the kindness of his fellow-prisoners.Valentine Emmanuel Patrick MacSwiney, Marquis of Mashanaglass (1871-1945) was born in Paris, his father being an Irish banker and his mother a Polish countess. A gifted linguist, he served on several diplomatic missions for the Holy See, being created a marquis by Pope Leo XIII in 1895. In 1914 he and his family settled in Dublin, where he joined the Irish Volunteers. When the movement split between the supporters and opponents of John Redmond, he remained with the pro-Redmond National Volunteers, and served for a time as Inspecting Officer for Co. Kerry - hence his brief detention in 1916.MacSwiney interested himself in the revival of Irish industry, especially forestry. In the 1920s he served on Irish Free State delegations to the League of Nations. A Knight of Malta, he became President of the Irish Association in 1939 and during the Second World War - though suffering from ill health - he vigorously promoted the work of the Ambulance Corps and the training of members in first aid. An accomplished scholar, he was Vice-President of the Royal Irish Academy in 1936-39 and is remembered today mainly as a pioneer of the study of the Irish brigades in the armies of France, Spain and elsewhere.Through his mother, MacSwiney was first cousin of Vernon Kell, a founder of the British Secret Service Bureau. Kell would have known that MacSwiney was opposed to the Rising - hence perhaps his prompt release?A fascinating first-hand account of the experience of a well-known Irishman during the Easter Rising.
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To include ; Modern Irish, English and International Literature , comprising an outstanding collection of 20th Century Authors, First Editions, Signed & Association Copies,Rare Items relatng to the Irish Theatre, Manuscripts, Literary Periodicals, Photographs and a Private Collection of Natural History Books with coloured plates, etc. Also a fine collection of Sporting Memorabilia, including unique GAA material and memorable gold medals for Laois , Louth , etc. Programmes , Catalogues, Manuscript Material, etc. Approx 900 Lots in all.
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Abbreviations Rare Books , Literature , Manuscripts, etc ; mls Manuscript Letters signed, als Autograph Letters signed acs Autographed Cards signed pb Paperback
a.e.g. All edges gilt t.e.g. Top edges gilt w.a.f. With all faults S.N.S.R. Sold not subject to return As is With all damages, faults, restorations As a lot With all faults
L.S.s Library Stamps Publ. Published t.e.p. Top end paper mor morocco n.d No date n.p. No place d.j. Dust jacket L.P. Large paper h.m.p. hand-made paper
vell Vellum hf Half d.w.s. Dust wrappers I.M.C. Irish M/ss Commission A.M.S. Armorial motif on spine cont. Contemporary n.a.t. Not affecting text frontis Frontispiece
engd. Engraved cold. Coloured hd Hand port. Portrait
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