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
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