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
454 Seaoamh MacCathmhaoil; Ada M Wentworth Shields

Seaoamh MacCathmhaoil: The Gilly of Christ; The Man-Child; The Mountainy Singer

1907; 1907; 1909 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 81.25
455 Liam Miller; Maurice Harmon

Dolmen XXV; The Dolmen Press: A Celebration

2001 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 43.75
456 Padraig Colum; Father Matthew Russell; MacManus; Denis McCarthy; Mackay; Richard Rowley; John Ingram

Poems; A Soggarth's Last Verses; Ballads of a Country Boy; Voices from Erin; Under Green Leaves; The Other Gods; Sonnets and Other Poems

1932; 1911; 1905; 1910; 1857; 1925; 1900 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 37.50
457 Thomas MacDonagh

The Poetical Works of Thomas MacDonagh

Baile Atha Cliath [Dublin] 1919 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 50.00
458 Conleth Ellis; Desmond Egan; Paul Hoare; Edwin McCloughan; Brendan Kennelly

Poetry: Tain; Siege!; Combo; Music; Poetry My Arse

1983; 1976; 2000 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 68.75
459 John Keegan; J. Canon O'hanlon; D. J. O’Donoghue

Legends and Poems by John Keegan

Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1907 GBP 300.00 - 360.00 GBP 375.00
460 Joseph Mary Plunkett; Patrick MacGill; James Stephens; Colum; Mervyn Wall; Anthony Allen

The Poems of Joseph Mary Plunkett; Songs of the Dead End; The Adventures of Seumas Beg; Wild Earth; Leaves for the Burning; First Songs

1916; 1916; 1915; 1916; 1952; 1918 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 43.75
461 Rev. Matthew Russell

Idyls of Killowen

1900 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 100.00
462 J. M. Synge; Harry Clarke; Nicola Gordon Bowe

Queens

Dublin 1986 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 37.50
463 Francis Ledwidge

The Collected Poems of Francis Ledwidge

London, United Kingdom 1919 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 62.50
464 Joseph Mary Plunkett; H. Neville Roberts; Peter Fallon; Maurice Wilkins

The Circle and the Sword; sonnets sombre but serene; A Garland for Robert McGlynn; The Seeker

1911; 1963; 1984; 1960 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 300.00
465 Richard Kelly; McDonald; Sadlier; Griffin; Rev. Thomas Burke

Popular and Patriotic Poetry; Poems of Ossian; Some Ethical Questions of Peace and War with reference to Ireland; The Hermit of the Rock a Tale of Cashel; The Munster Festivals; Lectures on faith and Fatherland

London 1914-19; 1866; 1919; c. 1880; 1857; c. 1880 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
466 J. M. Synge; Harry Clarke

J. M. Synge. Queens

1986 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 37.50
467 Gerald Griffin

The Collegians; The Rivals, Poems and Plays, Card drawing, the Alymers

Dublin N/A GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 68.75
468 John Boyle O'Reilly

The Poetry and Song of Ireland

New York 1889; 1887 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 225.00
469 James Duffy; James Clarence Mangan; M J Brown; Maigread Ni Annagain; Seamus De Clanndioluin

The Poets and Poetry of Munster; Historical Ballad Poetry of Ireland; Londub an Cairn Being Songs of the Iriah Gaels

1925; 1912 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 93.75
470 Agnes O’Farrelly; Thomas Crofton Croker; E.Estyn Evans; Haldane MacFall

Leabhar an Athar Eoghan, The O'Growney memorial Volume; Popular Songs of Ireland; Waltons Treasury of Irish Ballads; Irish Folk Ways; Ireland and her Fairy Godmother; Songs of the Immortals

Dublin 1904; 1885; c. 1950; 1979; 1909; 1927 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 68.75
471 Bernard Duffy; The Earl of Longford; Anthony Cronin; Richard Henebry

Four Comedies; More Poems From The Irish; Dead as Doornails- A Memoir; A Handbook of Irish Music

1916; 1945; 1976; 1928 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 68.75
473 Guillaume Apollinaire; Samuel Beckett; Liam Miller

ZONE; Dolmen XXV, an illustrated Bibliography of The Dolmen Press 1951 – 1976

1972; 1976 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 50.00
474 Arthur Conan Doyle; George Hutchinson

A Study in Scarlet

London 1892 GBP 260.00 - 320.00 Not Sold
475 Flannery O'Connor

Wise Blood

London 1955 GBP 200.00 - 240.00 GBP 175.00
476 Bernard Harris; Grattan Freyer; Douglas Hyde; Breandan Breathnach; Fred Woods; Dr. John Cullinane

The Achievement of Sean O Riada; Religious Songs of Connacht; Folklore and Dances of Ireland; Folk Revival, the rediscovery of a national music; Aspects of the history of Irish Dancing in North America; Pipes and Piping; Early Gaelic Erin; Ballads of Iris

1981; 1971; 1979; 1997 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 43.75
477 S. Rosamund Praeger

The Child's Picture Grammar

1900 GBP 120.00 - 150.00 GBP 125.00
478 S. Rosamund Praeger

The Adventures of the Three Bold Babes

London 1897 GBP 120.00 - 150.00 GBP 162.50
479 Roddy Doyle

THE SNAPPER

1990 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 75.00
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