Purcell Auctioneers: c.630+ Lot Auction of a Collection of Irish & World Interest Books - Antiquarian Books, Rare & Signed First Editions, Maps, GAA Interest, Local Histories, Journals, Maps, Irish Language etc., 21925, Birr

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 19, 2025 - February 19, 2025

Page Size: 627 items in 26 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
375	Tom Barry.	Guerilla days in Ireland by Commandant General Tom Barry.	Dublin,	1949	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 112.50
376		Pre-Famine Ireland. historical geography by Freeman. 1957; Letters from Ireland by Martineau. 1852;...			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 68.75
377	George Dangerfield,	The Damnable Question --	London	1977	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 25.00
378	Charles Stewart Parnell;	Collection of tiles such as Parnell of Avondale (play) by Fearon, W.R.,		1937	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 62.50
379	Saorstat Eireann.	Irish Free State Official Handbook.		1932	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 81.25
380		Irish Republicanism: The Enemy Within by Martin Dillon, 1994, 1st Ed; Before The Dawn -An Autobiography by Gerry Adam, 1996; ...			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
381		Paddy Doherty Looks Back, An Autobiography of a Leitrim Freedom Fighter.	Cavan,	1977	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 75.00
382		An Assortment of Irish History Books including On Another Man's Wound and the very scarce Deathless Glory			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
383	Desmond Ryan	Republicanism Interest: Sean Casey and the 3rd Tipperary Brigade		1945	EUR 65.00 - 130.00	EUR 81.25
384		Irish Interest: Collection of Irish Related Titles c 85			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 150.00
385	David Hogan (Frank Gallagher).	Four Glorious Years --			EUR 60.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
386		Commemorative Newspapers. Irish independent 1916-1966. Superb colour cover; Seachtain na Casca 19166; Fainne Geal na Lae. 1966; Easter 1916-1966; ...			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 25.00
387		Irish Interest: Folktales of Ireland edited and translated by Sean O'Sullivan, 1966 (ex libris); Ireland and the Irish by Charles Lucey, 1970 (ex libris); ...			EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
388	Rev. Patrick F.Kavanagh	A Popular History of the Insurrection of 1798 Derived from Every Available Record and Reliable Tradition --	Cork.	1898	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 43.75
389	Sean MacEntee -	Episode at Easter,		1966	EUR 260.00 - 280.00	Not Sold
390	Piaras F Mac Lochlainn,	Republicanism Interest: Last Words-Letters and statements of the leaders executed after the Rising at Easter 1916		1971	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
391		Irish Republicism: Gerry Adams Before the Dawn-an autobiograph SIGNED, 1996; The SAS in Ireland by Raymond Murray, 1990 plus 2 others (4)			EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 25.00
392		Irish Battles. A Military History of Ireland by Hayes-McCoy. 1969; The Irish militia 1793-1816. A social and military study by McAnally. 1949			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 25.00
393		Republicanism Interest: My Kilkenny IRA Days by James J Comerford, 1980 PB; Six Years in Galmoy-Rural Unrest in County Kilkenny by Padraig O Machain, 2007, PB.			EUR 100.00 - 160.00	EUR 225.00
394	H. Neville Roberts,	(YES) poet, controversialist and artist: rare collection of five of his pamphlets: The Fruits of Freedom; Gauntlet, Three Candles, 1934; ; A Free State in Fetters (1933).			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 125.00
395		Republicanism Interest: Michael Collins "Own Story" as told to Haydon Talbot with frontis of Michael Collins,		1923	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
396		Irish Republicanism: Hope and History by Gerry Adams, 2003, 1st Ed;...			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 25.00
397		The Echo Special Edition. Saturday July 8th 1922.		1922	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
398	James Connolly-	A Tribute by Proinsias Mac Aonghusa - The Mercier Press		Vinyl Record, 1968	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
399		Notes on I. R. A. Activities etc. 1941-1947 Confidential.			EUR 250.00 - 500.00	EUR 575.00

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