Hobson, Bulmer, A Short History of The Irish Volunteers, signed presentation copy to Eimar Ultan O'Duffy.
Signature: Medium: Dimensions: Provenance: Exhibited: Literature: Dublin, The Candle Press, 1918. .first and only edition. Volume 1 (all that was ever published) 12mo, IX, 205 pages, with a preface by Eoin MacNeill.green cloth gilt. Inscribed by Bulmer Hobson 'Eimea... ar O'Duffy from his friend Bulmer Hobson'. John Bulmer Hobson (1883- 1969) was a leading member of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) before the Easter Rising in 1916. Though he was a member of the IRB which had planned the Rising, he opposed its being carried out, and attempted to prevent it. He swore Patrick Pearse into the IRB in late 1913. Eimar Ultan O'Duffy (1893-1935) was born in Dublin and educated at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire and at University College Dublin. He and Bulmer Hobson caused disaster to the plans for the 1916 Easter Rising when they told Eoin MacNeill that the Rising was planned for the next week; MacNeill, nominal head of the Irish Volunteers, reacted by sending messengers around the country to call off the manoeuvres which were the cover for the Rising, and advertising in newspapers to cancel them. BOOKS MILITARIA more
Hobson, Bulmer, A Short History of The Irish Volunteers, signed presentation copy to Eimar Ultan O'Duffy.
Signature: Medium: Dimensions: Provenance: Exhibited: Literature: Dublin, The Candle Press, 1918. .first and only edition. Volume 1 (all that was ever published) 12mo, IX, 205 pages, with a preface by Eoin MacNeill.green cloth gilt. Inscribed by Bulmer Hobson 'Eimea... ar O'Duffy from his friend Bulmer Hobson'. John Bulmer Hobson (1883- 1969) was a leading member of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) before the Easter Rising in 1916. Though he was a member of the IRB which had planned the Rising, he opposed its being carried out, and attempted to prevent it. He swore Patrick Pearse into the IRB in late 1913. Eimar Ultan O'Duffy (1893-1935) was born in Dublin and educated at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire and at University College Dublin. He and Bulmer Hobson caused disaster to the plans for the 1916 Easter Rising when they told Eoin MacNeill that the Rising was planned for the next week; MacNeill, nominal head of the Irish Volunteers, reacted by sending messengers around the country to call off the manoeuvres which were the cover for the Rising, and advertising in newspapers to cancel them. BOOKS MILITARIA more
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