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Tipperary's Lost Leader Mc Can (Pierce

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15.04.2008
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Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 671

Tipperary's Lost Leader Mc Can (Pierce

INDEPENDENCE
15.04.2008
Schätzpreis
8.000 € - 12.000 €
ca. 12.600 $ - 18.900 $
Zuschlagspreis:
15.000 €
ca. 23.625 $
Beschreibung:

Tipperary's Lost Leader Mc Can (Pierce) (1882 - 1919) An important collection of nine autograph signed letters and postcards to a woman friend, circa 1911 - 1918, including three written from detention in Richmond Barracks and Knutsford after the Easter Rising of 1916; with a further group of 19 ALs to the same recipient mostly from Mc Can's mother Jane Mc Can 1916 - 1919, several discussing his prison experiences and his death while in British custody. A most moving collection, unpublished and unrecorded. Pierce Mc Can came of a prosperous family near Cashel, farming some 900 acres at Ballyowen House, Dualla (a grandfather is said to have made money in Australia). His mother Jane was a sister of P.J. Power, Irish Party MP for Waterford. Pierce was a well-known athlete and huntsman, a founder member of Sinn Fein and President of its Tipperary executive. He was a strong supporter of the Irish language and a leading member of the Gaelic League. He gave financial support to the Galway periodical An Stoc, and these letters indicate that he also gave money to assist the publication of Padraic O'Conaire's story Tir na nIongantas. He jointed the Irish Volunteers in 1914 and organised locally for them. Although he was not an IRB member, he was one of the small minority who resisted Redmond's attempt to enrol the Volunteers in the British Army. In 1916, plans for a Volunteer rising in Tipperary were thrown into confusion by Eoin Mc Neill's countermanding order. When the Rising began in Dublin, Mc Can proposed to bring out the Tipperary Volunteers if Cork and Limerick also agreed to rise. In the event this did not happen, but Mc Can was arrested in early May and interned in Britain. After his release in 1917 he resumed his Gaelic League and Sinn Fein activities, and became engaged to marry Josephine Aherne, a member of Cumann na mBan. Pierce was arrested again May 1918 in the 'German Plot' round-up, and was held in Gloucester jail with Arthur Griffith (using the opportunity to teach Irish to Griffith). He contested the 1918 General Election for Sinn Fein, and won the South Tipperary seat with a large majority. He was still in prison in February 1919, when the influenza epidemic reached the jail. On 3 March his parents were advised that he was seriously ill; he died shortly after they reached him. On the evening of Pierce Mc Can's death, the British government released all the Irish prisoners, and they returned to Ireland bringing his body with them. There followed one of the most impressive funerals of the time. Michael Collins and Harry Boland were among those who bore his coffin from the boat on the Dublin Quays, and ten thousand mourners followed the hearse through the city. Later, as the cortege travelled from Thurles to Dualla, the procession extended over four miles along roads lined with mourners. Cathal Brugha, a close friend, gave the grave side oration. These letters show Pierce as a thoughtful man, active and notably devout, with wide interests including both Irish and English literature, writing fluently in both languages. The recipient, Siubhan or Joan Jennings of 60 Eccles St., Dublin, must have been fluent in Irish also. There may initially have been a romantic interest -Pierce decided early in life that he wished to marry an Irish speaker - but the friendship continued after he became engaged to another girl, and he writes easily and unselfconscious about his activities and concerns. Five of Pierce's letters are in Irish - all except the first and the three written from detention - and he evidently was completely at home in the language. his first letter [circa 1911] is lightly romantic in tone, discussing the nature of romance and whether girls should wear scent, as well as his current reading ('Seadna' and Thackeray's 'The Virginians'); the second (1914) encloses a leaflet about an Archonfraternity which he thinks may interest her. A postcard in January 1916 asks her to meet him at the Hotel Russell (where he apparent

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 671
Auktion:
Datum:
15.04.2008
Auktionshaus:
Adams's
St Stephens Green 26
D02 X665 Dublin 2
Irland
info@adams.ie
+353-1-6760261)
Beschreibung:

Tipperary's Lost Leader Mc Can (Pierce) (1882 - 1919) An important collection of nine autograph signed letters and postcards to a woman friend, circa 1911 - 1918, including three written from detention in Richmond Barracks and Knutsford after the Easter Rising of 1916; with a further group of 19 ALs to the same recipient mostly from Mc Can's mother Jane Mc Can 1916 - 1919, several discussing his prison experiences and his death while in British custody. A most moving collection, unpublished and unrecorded. Pierce Mc Can came of a prosperous family near Cashel, farming some 900 acres at Ballyowen House, Dualla (a grandfather is said to have made money in Australia). His mother Jane was a sister of P.J. Power, Irish Party MP for Waterford. Pierce was a well-known athlete and huntsman, a founder member of Sinn Fein and President of its Tipperary executive. He was a strong supporter of the Irish language and a leading member of the Gaelic League. He gave financial support to the Galway periodical An Stoc, and these letters indicate that he also gave money to assist the publication of Padraic O'Conaire's story Tir na nIongantas. He jointed the Irish Volunteers in 1914 and organised locally for them. Although he was not an IRB member, he was one of the small minority who resisted Redmond's attempt to enrol the Volunteers in the British Army. In 1916, plans for a Volunteer rising in Tipperary were thrown into confusion by Eoin Mc Neill's countermanding order. When the Rising began in Dublin, Mc Can proposed to bring out the Tipperary Volunteers if Cork and Limerick also agreed to rise. In the event this did not happen, but Mc Can was arrested in early May and interned in Britain. After his release in 1917 he resumed his Gaelic League and Sinn Fein activities, and became engaged to marry Josephine Aherne, a member of Cumann na mBan. Pierce was arrested again May 1918 in the 'German Plot' round-up, and was held in Gloucester jail with Arthur Griffith (using the opportunity to teach Irish to Griffith). He contested the 1918 General Election for Sinn Fein, and won the South Tipperary seat with a large majority. He was still in prison in February 1919, when the influenza epidemic reached the jail. On 3 March his parents were advised that he was seriously ill; he died shortly after they reached him. On the evening of Pierce Mc Can's death, the British government released all the Irish prisoners, and they returned to Ireland bringing his body with them. There followed one of the most impressive funerals of the time. Michael Collins and Harry Boland were among those who bore his coffin from the boat on the Dublin Quays, and ten thousand mourners followed the hearse through the city. Later, as the cortege travelled from Thurles to Dualla, the procession extended over four miles along roads lined with mourners. Cathal Brugha, a close friend, gave the grave side oration. These letters show Pierce as a thoughtful man, active and notably devout, with wide interests including both Irish and English literature, writing fluently in both languages. The recipient, Siubhan or Joan Jennings of 60 Eccles St., Dublin, must have been fluent in Irish also. There may initially have been a romantic interest -Pierce decided early in life that he wished to marry an Irish speaker - but the friendship continued after he became engaged to another girl, and he writes easily and unselfconscious about his activities and concerns. Five of Pierce's letters are in Irish - all except the first and the three written from detention - and he evidently was completely at home in the language. his first letter [circa 1911] is lightly romantic in tone, discussing the nature of romance and whether girls should wear scent, as well as his current reading ('Seadna' and Thackeray's 'The Virginians'); the second (1914) encloses a leaflet about an Archonfraternity which he thinks may interest her. A postcard in January 1916 asks her to meet him at the Hotel Russell (where he apparent

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 671
Auktion:
Datum:
15.04.2008
Auktionshaus:
Adams's
St Stephens Green 26
D02 X665 Dublin 2
Irland
info@adams.ie
+353-1-6760261)
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