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Auction Date
January 21, 2026 - January 21, 2026
Page Size: 601 items in 25 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
376 McCarthy, Samuel Trant.

The MacCarthys of Munster: The Story of a Great Irish Sept. 1st Edition. A Facsimile Edition.

1997 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 68.75
377 John O'Hart with intro by Edward MacLysaght.

The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry

1969 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 62.50
378 Patrick O'Connor

People Make Places Story of the Irish Palatines

EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 75.00
379 P. W. Joyce. Intro by R. L. Thomson.

The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places

1972 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 81.25
380 P. J. McCall

Four works: The Fenian Nights' Entertainments (1897 -- First Series); In the Shadow of St Patrick's (1894 1st ed); Pulse of the Bards (1904,...

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 125.00
381 James Godkin.

The Land-War in Ireland: A History for the Times.

London. 1870 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 87.50
382 P.W. Joyce.

Irish Names of Places Three Volumes -- Vols I and II

1883 EUR 80.00 - 140.00 EUR 112.50
383 W. S. Trench.

Realities of Irish Life.

c.1875 EUR 70.00 - 100.00 EUR 37.50
384

Curragh Chase Library. Pensees de Blaise Pascal.

Paris. 1823 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 100.00
385 W H Bartlett

The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland'

EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 93.75
386 John Tyndall (Carlow scientist)

The Forms of Water.

1889 EUR 60.00 - 90.00 EUR 62.50
387 P.W. Joyce --

A Social History of Ancient Ireland VOL II,

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 50.00
388 Terence O'Hanlon. Foreword by Late Father Pat Walshe.

The Minstrel of Erin a selection of national poetry arranged with notes

1930 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 56.25
389 Painted by Alex Williams RHA, Described by Stephen Gwynn-

Beautiful Ireland. Painted by Alex Williams RHA, Described by Stephen Gwynn-

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 100.00
390

Report of the Irish Boundary Commission first publication of the 1925 document with an introduction.

1969 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 50.00
391 Eoin O'Kelly.

The Old Private Banks and Bankers of Munster. Bankers of Cork and Limerick Cities

1959 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 56.25
392 Frederick O'Dwyer.

The Architecture of Deane and Woodward.

1997 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 50.00
393 Edited with Introduction by Patrick F. Moran. Bishop of Ossory -- David Rothe,

The Analecta of David Rothe, Bishop of Ossory.

Dublin 1884 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
394

Irish Interest: County Tipperary Old I R A Commemorative Millennium Calender

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
395

The Viking Period in Europe. Bundle of four books: Land, Sea and Home -- Settlement in the Viking Period

2004 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
396 Captain Robert Monteith,

Author Inscribed: Casement's Last Adventure

Chicago 1932 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 118.75
397

The impact of the Reformation. A seventeenth-century tract: The Difference of the Case between the separation of Protestants from the Church of Rome, and the separation of Dissenters from the Church of England.

London 1683 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 137.50
398

Three works by poet and songwriter P.J. McCall: Irish Noinins (1894 1st ed); In the Shadow of St Patrick's (1894 1st ed); Songs of Erin (1899 1st ed); Biography...

EUR 70.00 - 90.00 EUR 50.00
399 P.J. McCall

Two anthologies by Dublin-born, but with strong Wexford ancestry, P.J. McCall -- Irish Noinins (1894) and Irish Fire-side Songs (1911).

1894, 1911 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 75.00
400 Capt W F Lyons -

Brigadier-General Thomas Francis Meagher,

1869 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50