Purcell Auctioneers: Book Auction of c. 580 Lots to include Antiquarian Books incl. Books from Three Private Libraries, Rare - Signed - Limited Editions, Local Histories, Republican Interest Books, GAA etc, 51326, Birr

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Auction Report
Auction Date
May 13, 2026 - May 13, 2026
Page Size: 556 items in 23 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
225 Edmund Hogan

The Description of Ireland in 1598

1878 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 200.00
226 R R Madden

Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia and Palestine in 1824, 1825, 1826 and 1827

London 1829 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 225.00
227 A. E. (George William Russell); Count Cavour

Some Irish Essays; Thoughts on Ireland: Its present and its future

London 1906; 1868 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 75.00
228 John Dunton; Edward MacLysaght

Teague land, or A merry ramble to the wild Irish: letters from Ireland, 1698

Blackrock, Dublin 1982 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 175.00
229 John Mitchel

The History Of Ireland, From The Treaty Of Limerick To The Present Time: Being A Continuation Of The History Of The Abbe MacGeoghegan

Glasgow; London 1869 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 37.50
230 J M Callwell; Lord Dunsany; J B Hall; Sir Thos H Grattan Esmonde; William Harvey

N Books, including: Old Irish Life

Dublin 1912; 1950 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 150.00
231

Baratariana A Select Collection of Fugitive Polotical Pieces

Dublin 1777 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 93.75
232 Douglas Hyde; Chamberlain; Spenser, Davies, Moryson; O’Neill Daunt

N Books, including: Legends of Saints and Sinners

Dublin c. 1920; 1932; 1890; 1867 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 37.50
233

Watsons Treble Almanac

1796 GBP 80.00 - 100.00 GBP 250.00
234

The Capuchin Annual

1961; 1962; 1965; 1966; 1968; 1973; 1975 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 62.50
235 Peter Somerville-Large; Harry Percival; Donal MacCarron

N Books, including: Irish Eccentrics

1975; 1969; 2008 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 37.50
236

Evidence taken in the sessions of 1824 and 1825, to inquire into the State of Ireland

1825 GBP 60.00 - 90.00 GBP 150.00
237 Thomas Lacy

Sights and Scenes of Our Fatherland

London 1863 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 300.00
238 Thomas Wood

An Inquiry concerning the Primitive Inhabitants of Ireland corrected by the aid of Bardic History

London 1821 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 100.00
239 George Nicholls

Poor Laws Ireland

London 1838 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 100.00
240 William Molyneux; John Edward Walsh; T G F Paterson

The Case of Ireland Stated; Ireland One Hundred and Twenty Years Ago; Country Cracks- Old Tales From The County of Armagh

1897; 1911; 1943 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
241 Tim Pat Coogan; Anne O'Dowd; Brian Walker; Art O Broin; Sean McMahon

De Valera- Long Fellow, Long Shadow; Spalpeens and Tattie Hookers; Faces of Ireland-1875-1925

1993; 1991; 1980 GBP 50.00 - 81.00 GBP 62.50
242 G M Goulding; Teddy Fennelly; John Coolahan; Patrick F O'Donovan

George Gavan Duffy 1882-1951; Fitz and the Famous Flight; A History of Ireland's School Inspectorate 1831-2008

1982; 1997; 2009 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
243 Ignatius Murphy; Patricia Jalland; Terence O' Neill

The Diocese of Killaloe in the Eighteenth Century; The Liberals and Ireland; The Autobiography of Terence O' Neill

1991; 1980; 1972 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
244 John Banville; Maurice Healy; Benedict Kiely

Mefisto; The Old Munster Circuit; All the Way to Bantry Bay

1986; 1948; 1978 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 37.50
245 Patrick McCabe

CARN

London 1989 GBP 80.00 - 100.00 GBP 106.25
246 George Pellew; Rev. William Burke

In Castle and Cabin or Talks in Ireland in 1887; Irish Priests in Penal Times 1660-1760

Waterford 1888; 1914 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 50.00
247 W.G. Wood-Martin

Pagan Ireland- An Archaeological Sketch

1895 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 75.00
248 Desmond Guinness

The Georgian Society Records of Eighteenth century Domestic Architecture and Decoration in Ireland

1909; 1969 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 81.25
249 Desmond Guinness

The Georgian Society Records of Eighteenth century Domestic Architecture and Decoration in Ireland

1910; 1969 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 75.00
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