Lot 46202 - 1916 Robert “Robbie” O’Shea Correspondence: A fascinating and historically important archive of eight covers and cards, including six items of correspondence between Robbie O’Shea and his mother during his imprisonment a

1916 Robert “Robbie” O’Shea Correspondence: A fascinating and historically important archive of eight covers and cards, including six items of correspondence between Robbie O’Shea and his mother during his imprisonment as an Irish Republican prisoner, firstly at Knutsford and subsequently at Frongoch and Wandsworth. Also included is an earlier 1891 item relating to Terry O’Shea, Robbie’s brother. A particularly evocative group of personal prisoner correspondence from the aftermath of the 1916 Easter Rising, documenting O’Shea’s successive periods of internment and providing a tangible connection with one of the defining episodes of modern Irish history. Condition mixed to very fine. A rare and highly desirable historical assembly.