This 1956 IRA recruitment flyer is at Limerick Auction Rooms on September 18. (Click on image to enlarge).
A handwritten IRA recruitment flyer believed to have been handed out by Sean South in Limerick in 1956 comes up at a sale at Limerick Auction Rooms on September 25. Sean South is one of the most celebrated of all IRA volunteers. Born in Limerick he was one of two IRA men killed in an attack on a joint RUC/B Specials barracks at Brookeborough on New Year’s Day in 1957. The other volunteer who died was Fergal O’Hanlon.
The attack inspired two popular rebel songs, Sean South of Garryowen and The Patriot Game.
The printed Irish language flyer contains a reference to recruitment to the IRA in 1956.
The auction contains a 1948 watercolour of Timothy O’Brien, a Limerick boy dressed in a cowboy outfit, signed by Sean South.
The sale also offers a 1956 book refering to the 40th anniversary of the Easter Rising with various content in Irish and illustrations by Sean South