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Lot 92

IRELAND - EASTER RISING
Group of 12 police photographs of Volunteers arrested between 5 and 11 May 1916, taken at Richmond Barracks, [Dublin, May 1916]

15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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IRELAND - EASTER RISING

Group of 12 police photographs of Volunteers arrested between 5 and 11 May 1916, taken at Richmond Barracks, gelatin silver prints, each showing suspects face-on and in profile, with their names, arrest dates and index numbers in negative below, Sweeney chipped at corners, Doyle with clean tear at left edge, 75 x 100mm., [Dublin, May 1916]

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Comprising: J.J. Walsh (1880-1948; arrested following the general surrender and sentenced to death after a court-martial; released the following year under a general amnesty); William [Liam] Tobin (1895-1963; fought in the Four Courts Garrison under Edward Daly); Piaras Béaslaí (1881-1965); Thomas Hunter (1883-1932); Joseph Melinn (1883-1973); J.J. [Séamus] Hughes (1881–1943); D. O'Callaghan; J. Byrne; J. Bevan; P.C. Doyle; P.E. Sweeney; one other, indistinct.

Provenance: Patrick Smith, Dublin police sergeant; gifted to his son Edward in 1916, who was on convalescent leave from the Western Front; thence by descent; Bonhams, 24 February 1998, lot 424.

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