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Stop Press War NewsAll Published Republican Documents: An important compilation of Republican, separatist and similar Periodicals and Leaflets, 1922-24, with some earlier material, strongly bound in green buckram in a single large folio volume, including the ‘Stop Press / War News’ series Complete, nos. 1-175, as follows:-?glaigh na hireann. Proclamation, 28th June 1922. ‘The fateful hour has come ..’ [announcing the start of the Civil War];-Stop Press. Poblacht na h-ireann. A Diary from the Four Courts. June 28th, 1922;-Stop Press. June 28th.. Communique from the Four Courts [War News no. 1, poster, neatly folded in];-Stop Press. War News nos. 2-7, Thursday June 29 – July 3 [posters, neatly folded];-Stop Press. War News no. 8, July 4, 2 pp cyclostyled typescript, foolscap, 2 pp supplied in manuscript;-Stop Press. War News no. 9 [July 5 1922] to no. 175 [16 March 1923], the final issue. No. 10 possibly lacking a page, but virtually a Complete File, chronicling the Civil War week by week from the anti-treaty side. With a series of scarce portraits bound in, including De Valera, Kevin Barry, The O’Rahilly, Joe McKelvey, Noel Lemass, Tom Clarke, Seamus Devins, Liam Lynch, Cathal Brugha, Rory O’Connor, Harry Boland, Liam Mellowes, Erskine Childers, also a few folded posters. 1There are some issues in NLI online catalogue, not clear if there is a complete file. COPAC/JISC shows no complete file; also bound in:-The Nation. Sovereign and Undivided. Complete in 19 numbers, Saturday 12 August – Tuesday 19 December [1922], cyclostyled typescript. First two issues (only) found in NLI online catalogue.-An Gaodhal. The Gael. Vol. 1 no. 1 [New Series], October 20 1923 – Vol. 2 no. 6, May 24 1924.-The National Democrat. P ip‚ar na Muintire. Vol. 1 no. 1, August 2 1923 – no. 2, August 9 [all pub.] [Organ of National Democratic Party & Land League, Hon. Sec. P. Belton]. Not found in NLI online catalogue.-The Separatist. A National Political Weekly. Vol. 1 no. 1, 18 February 1922 – Vol. 1 no. 29, 9 September 1922, all pub. [edited by P.S. O’Hegarty with funds provided by the IRB].All these in very good condition, with only a few minor marginal tears. A superb compilation. Unique opportunity to acquire an extensive collection of major Republican and separatist periodicals in one volume, including important items rarely if ever found complete.Provenance: ‘J.F.’ [compiler].