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
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 13, 2026 - May 13, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 125 | Margaretta D'Arcy | Tell Them Everything |
1981 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 37.50 | |
| 126 | Dawson; Padraic H. Pearse; Eamonn Boyce | Red Terror and Green. The Sinn Fein-Bolshevist movement; Collected Works of Padraic H. Pearse. Plays, Stories, Poems; The Insider. Belfast Prison Diaries of Eamonn |
1920; ND; 1956-1962 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 37.50 | |
| 127 | Captain Conyngham; J. Murray | The Irish Brigade and its Campaigns; The Shan Van Vocht - A Story of the United Irishmen |
ND | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 37.50 | |
| 128 | Eleanor Hull; Myles V. Ronan | Pagan Ireland; The Irish Martyrs of the Penal Laws |
1904; 1935 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |
| 129 | Piaras Beaslai | Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland |
Dublin | 1926 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 56.25 |
| 130 | Eamon De Valera | National Discipline and Majority Rule |
Dublin | 1936 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold |
| 131 | Seamus Costello 1939-1977: Political Biography and Tributes from His Friends and Comrades |
Dublin | c. 1979 | GBP 60.00 - 100.00 | GBP 106.25 | |
| 132 | Dan Breen; P O Cathasaigh; David Nekigan; Gordon Wilson | 10 Books, including: My Fight For Irish Freedom |
1944; 1971; 1968; 1990 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 112.50 | |
| 133 | Charles Russell (Padraic O Conaire) | Should the Workers of Ireland Support Sinn Fein |
Dublin | 1918 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold |
| 134 | Padraic H Pearse; W. P. Ryan; O’Sheil | 5 Books, including: The Collected Works of Padraic H Pearse |
ND; 1919; ND | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 68.75 | |
| 135 | R.F. Tobin | A memoir of the late Lieut.- Colonel Charles Dalton R.A.M.C |
1915 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |
| 136 | Jimmy Wren; Barton; Desmond Ryan; Liam de Paor | 7 Books, including: The GPO Garrison Easter Week |
2015; 2003; 1949; 1997 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 37.50 | |
| 137 | Frank Callanen; Myles Dungan; Jane Jordan | The Parnell Split 1890-91; The Captain and the King; Kitty O’Shea – An Irish Affair |
1992; 2009; 2005 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |
| 138 | Ernie O’Malley | On Another Man’s Wound |
London | 1936 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 150.00 |
| 139 | Donal O'Sullivan; Paul Martin Sacks; F X Martin | 10 Books, including: The Irish Free State and its Senate |
1940; 1976; 1964 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 62.50 | |
| 140 | R. Barry O’Brien; Marianne Elliot; Marianne Elliott; Sean Boyne; Helen Mulvey | Bundle of five biographies: The Autobiography of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-1798; Wolfe Tone; Robert Emmett; Emmet Dalton; Thomas Davis |
Dublin | 1893; 1989; 2003; 2015; 2003 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold |
| 141 | J. Anthony Gaughan | Memoirs of Constable Jeremiah Mee, R.I.C. |
Dublin | 1975 | GBP 80.00 - 100.00 | GBP 150.00 |
| 142 | John Mitchel; Morin Chavasse; Seamus O Seanrcaig | Jail Journal; Terence MacSwiney; Padraig Mac Piarais plus 6 others |
1961; 1945 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 112.50 | |
| 143 | Hart | The IRA at War 1916-1923; History of Captain Connie Mackey defender of the Strand [Limerick]; The Irish Boundary Commission and its Origins and 4 others |
N/A | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 62.50 | |
| 144 | Sean O’Mahony; Sean McBride; Allen; Macardle | Frongoch University of Revolution; Sean McBride. That Day’s Struggle; The Storm Passed; The Irish Republic |
N/A | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 145 | Sean O’Callaghan; Alan J. Ward; Geoff Robertson; Padraig Yeats; G.W. Target | Execution; Ireland and Anglo-American Relations 1899 – 1921; Reluctant Judas; Rioters, Looters, Lady Patrols & Mutineers; The patriots; The Emergency |
Dublin | 1974; 1969; 1976; 2016; 1974; 2019 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold |
| 146 | Thomas J. Clarke | Glimpses of An Irish Felon's Prison Life |
1922 | GBP 80.00 - 100.00 | GBP 81.25 | |
| 147 | Pilkington; Ambrus | The Three Sorrowful Tales of Erin; Stones of Aran. Pilgrimage; John Devoy Fenian; Saint Patrick; The Morpeth Roll. Ireland in 1841; Lost and Found Ireland and 4 others |
1965 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 148 | Piaras Beaslai | Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland |
Dublin | 1926 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 125.00 |
| 149 | Kevin T. Cullen; James Durney; Joan Miller; Jim Maher; F.A. D’Arcy; Ken Hannigan; Marie O’Neill; M. Jesse Hoare; Geoff Robertson; Mary McAuliffe | Remembering Monaghan’s War Dead 1914 – 1918; Far from the Short Grass; One Girl’s War; The oath is Dead and Gone; Workers in Union; Grace Gifford Plunkett and Irish Freedom; The Road to Glenanore; The Life and Death of a Special Branch informer; Senator K |
2018; 1986; 2011; 1988; 2000; 1975; 1976; 2008 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | GBP 62.50 |
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