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Who Fears to Speak of Ninety-Eight ?

Name: Who Fears to Speak of Ninety-Eight ?
Author: 1798 Irish Rebellion

Book Description

Linen handkerchief of the 1798 Rebellion Centenary. Size: 560 x 580 mm i.e. 22 x 22 7/8 inches. Printed portraits of nationalist leaders and views of the principal centres of the Rebellion, with the caption "1898, Who Fears to Speak of '98?"

Dealer Notes

Featured on the handkerchief are the title: "Centenary '98", the motto "Who fears to speak of 98?" and four lines of the ballad The Memory Of The Dead (1843) by John Kells Ingram(1823-1907). With views of New Ross, Wexford, Enniscorthy, and the old Irish Houses of Parliament together with cameo portraits of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Daniel O’Connell, Robert Emmet, Theobald Wolfe Tone & Henry Joy McCracken and the statue of Grattan.

Author 1798 Irish Rebellion

Date 1898

Binding Mounted

Illustrator Printed on linen

Condition Mounted on thin cardboard, toned, small (15mm) tear to left margin (see image)

Price: £90.00

Offered by Christian F Verbeke Rare Books

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