[SYDNEY] Grand National Banquet (under the auspices of the Shamrock Club), to the Irish delegates (John Dillon, M.P., John Deasy, M.P., and Sir Thomas Grattan Esmonde, M.P.). Leigh House, Castlereagh-

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Sydney : J. G. O Connor, Nation Steam Printing Works, 1889. Menu. Folding card, 167 x 90 mm, lithograph printed in silver and green; second side with Wines and Menu, a shamrock at the head; third side with Programme of Toasts, a harp at the head; fourth side with harp, shamrocks, Irish landscape view, and list of Stewards; front and inside superb, rear with residual glue from where the card was removed from an album mount however , please note the first menu is accompanied by a second example, of which the rear side is perfect (but the front has the residual glue from album mount). Provenance: Removed from a dilapidated album of mounted printed ephemera compiled by J. G. O Connor (1839-1913), Irish-born Sydney journalist, printer, and politician. From the ADB: Joseph Graham O Connor (1839-1913), journalist and politician, was born at Dareen House, King s County, Ireland, son of Stephen O Connor, tanner and currier, and his wife Ann, née Graham. At 2 he went with his parents to New South Wales. Educated by the Christian Brothers and at the Sydney College, he was apprenticed to a wood engraver and printer. In the late 1850s O Connor began business as an engraver and printer and in 1860 produced the short-lived Sunbeam for the Catholic Young Men s Society. In 1864 he joined W. B. Dalley, W. J. Macleay and J. J. Harpur in bringing out the unsuccessful Sydney Times, devoted to the promotion of Australian literature and the advocacy and encouragement of native industry . In 1867 he

• Binding: Hardcover

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