Signed Presentation Copy [O'Caoimh (Padraig, or Paudie)] Figgis (Darrell) A Vision of Life [Poems] 8vo L. 1909. FIRST EDN., Signed Pres. Copy, inscribed 'To P. O'Keefe with kind regards 25/11/13',...

Signed Presentation Copy [O'Caoimh (Padraig, or Paudie)] Figgis (Darrell) A Vision of Life [Poems] 8vo L. 1909. FIRST EDN., Signed Pres. Copy, inscribed 'To P. O'Keefe with kind regards 25/11/13', orig. cloth, gilt, but with traces of label. * P. O'Keefe is almost certainly Padraig (Paudie) O'Caoimh, a close friend of Arthur Griffith and Sec. of Sinn Fein 1918. Both O'Caoimh & Figgis were active in Sinn Fein and the Irish Volunteers; both took part in the arms landings in 1914. O'Caoimh, from Cork, was joint Treasurer of Sinn Fein from 1910. he was involved in Eoin Mc Neill's efforts to call off the Rising, but took part himself in one of the O'Connell St. garrisons. After the rising he was jailed in Lewes; later re-supported the Treaty and became Seanad Eireann Official. Figgis born in Rathmines, was elected joint Hon. Sec. of Sinn Fein in 1917. He was later a Pro-Treaty T.D. & acting chairman of the committee which drafted the Constitution of The Irish Free State. (1)

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