May 22, 2014 - Sale 2351

Sale 2351 - Lot 214

Price Realized: $ 640
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
O'CASEY, SEAN. Autograph Letter Signed, to Lady Gregory, sending a book of ballads relating to the labor struggle and Irish independence [not present], and with a brief postscript: "I will keep a look-out for others." 1 page, 4to; moderate staining at right edge affecting text (but still legible), horizontal folds. Np, "Monday"
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"I am enclosing a little book containing a number of ballads . . . . I have marked those that deal with contemporary events. One of them--"The Flag in the G.P.O" is by J.J. Walsh.
"'The Red Flag' was not written by Jim Connelly as stated: but my Jim Connell. . . . 'The Call of Erin' was written by Jim Connolly, the Labour Leader."
Lady Augusta Gregory (1859?-1932) was an Irish playwright who was instrumental in establishing the Irish National Theater Society.