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Purcell Auctioneers: C.600 Lot Auction to include Antiquarian Books, Rare, Limited & Signed First Editions, Maps, Irish Literature & Poetry, Local Histories, Fine Bindings, Republican Interest,GAA Programmes & Books

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Auction Name C.600 Lot Auction to include Antiquarian Books, Rare, Limited & Signed First Editions, Maps, Irish Literature & Poetry, Local Histories, Fine Bindings, Republican Interest,GAA Programmes & Books Total Sales (EUR) 73,412.50
Auction Date January 21, 2026 - January 21, 2026 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 35,730.00
Sale Number #12126 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 60,500.00
Total Lots 603
Sold Lots 499.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 48,950.00
% of Lots Sold 82.75% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 79,611.00
Unsold Lots 104 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 92.21%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
278

Irish Republicanism: Remnant of Falg from Republican Red Cross dressing Station- St Stephens Green , Easter 1916.

1916 EUR 400.00 - 800.00 EUR 4,250.00
271

Austin Stack: Archive of letters including one written in Kilmainham Gaol dated 19th June 1916.

 1916 EUR 300.00 - 600.00 EUR 2,500.00
210 Edward Fitzgerald with an introduction by A C Benson,

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayya, translated into English verse

 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 2,125.00
119

GAA: Collection of GAA Hurling and Football County Programmes from the 1960's,

1960's EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 1,937.50
260 Seamus Heaney and Barry Flanagan.

The Names of The Hares.

EUR 600.00 - 900.00 EUR 1,875.00
264

IRISHWOMEN CHAINS OR CHANGE, (Irish Women's Liberation Movement (IWLM)) Group's manifesto.

1971 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 1,875.00
118

GAA: Collection of County GAA programmes from the 1970's. Including Leinster and Munster Ball Finals c 80

 1970's. EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 1,687.50
215 John Speede.

The Province of Connaugh with The Citie of Galwaye described.

1610 EUR 500.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,125.00
282 Alice Furlong:

Dublin, Easter 1916.

1916 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 975.00
288

Thomas Ashe: Mourning Locket (sealed) believed to contain some of the hair of Thomas Ashe. White metal with B & W photograph of Ashe. Unique item.

 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 937.50
559 T J Hurley

T J Hurley; Archive material. TJ Hurley was closely connected to Austin Stack and Constance Markievicz and other notables from the revolutionary period.

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 875.00
455 Yeats, W. B..

The Winding Stair and Other Poems.

 101 EUR 300.00 - 600.00 EUR 775.00
8

Cork Irish Language Newspaper: An Lochrann 1916-1919, Issues 1 -- 36.

1916-1919 EUR 180.00 - 240.00 EUR 750.00
214 John Speede.

The Province of Ulster

 c.1610 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 750.00
289

Kevin Barry: Original Black & White photograph

 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 750.00
445 W. B. Yeats.

The Tower.

 1928 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 750.00
205 Charle Cullen,

Nighttown. 10 photopolymer etchings.

 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 625.00
287

Padraig Pearse: Memorial card for General P H Pearse. 'Pray For the Souls of General P. H. Pearse and the Officers and Men of the Irish Republican Army'

1916 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 600.00
572

The Masonic Lodge Research for Ireland . A large collection of historical transactions spanning from the 1920s to 1980s.

 1920s to 1980s. EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 600.00
413 Patrick Kavanagh

NIGHT UNSTARRED, edited, with introduction and epilogue

 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 525.00
457 Yeats, W. B..

The Cutting of an Agate.

 1919 EUR 180.00 - 280.00 EUR 525.00
439 Gerrit van Gelderen,

Irish Wildlife. The original illustrations and page layouts for the book to accompany a promotion for Jacobs biscuits from the early 1970s

 early 1970s EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 500.00
443 Oscar Wilde.

Oscar Wilde. Poems Oscar Wilde with The Ballad of Reading Gaol.

1916 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 500.00
444 Roald Dahl. Quentin Blake.

Boy.

1985 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 475.00
319 Rev. James Gordon,

1798 Rebellion: History of the Rebellion in Ireland in the year 1798 containing an impartial account of the proceedings of the Irish revolutionists, from the year 1782 till the suppression of the Rebellion.

 1801 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 425.00