Purcell Auctioneers: wo Day Sale of the Library of the Late Tommy Smith (Grogan's Pub, Dublin) and Other Select Clients. To include Some Exceptional Items of Irish Literary, Poetic & Historical Interest. Day 1, 90325, Birr

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Auction Report
Auction Date
September 03, 2025 - September 03, 2025
Page Size: 501 items in 21 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
375 John Butler Yeats.

John Butler Yeats. Early Memories : Some Chapters of Autobiography.

1923 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 100.00
376

(Patrick McCabe rarity) es tu: An anthology of Modern Writing

1979 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 62.50
377 Seamus Murphy -- Illustrated William Harrington.

STONE MAD

1966 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
378

IRISH STRATEGIES (SIGNED)

EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 137.50
379 GALLAGHER, Patrick.

My Story (Paddy the Cope) .

Tralee. 1960 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 106.25
380 Dylan Thomas

A Child's Christmas in Wales

1954 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 81.25
381 J.R.R. Tolkien -

The Lord of the Rings,

2002 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 EUR 87.50
382 Danny Morrison (Editor).

Hunger Strike,

2006 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 137.50
383

Republican: The Wolfe Tone Annual 1932/1916 Special/37/39/40/45/48/50 and 1952 (11,Some duplicates) Rebel Cork's Fighting Story, 1947

EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 300.00
384 Desmond Bowen

Irish Interest: The Protestant Crusade in Ireland 1800-70

1978 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 43.75
385 Seamas O Siochain

Irish Interest: Roger Casement- Imperialist Rebel Revolutionary

2008 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 56.25
386 Uinseann Mac Eoin

Irish Interest: Survivors- The Story of Ireland's Struggle

1980 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 68.75
387 Rev Michael Hogan,

The Ecclesiastical Review on Morality of Hunger Strike

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 62.50
388 James O'Mara;

A Staunch Sinn Feiner Lavelle, Patricia Published by Clonmore and Reynolds, Dublin

1961 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
389 Desmond Ryan

Irish Interest: The Fenian Chief-a biography of James Stephens

1967 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
390

James N. Healy. Percy French and His Songs. 1966. 1st. Illustrated. d.j. and John Brophy. The Rock Road. 1969. (2)

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 50.00
391 Sean MacEntee -

Episode at Easter,

1966 EUR 100.00 - 140.00 EUR 125.00
392 edited by Mairtin Breathnach,

Republican Days, 75 Years of Fianna Fail,

2002 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 37.50
393 Francis Joseph Bigger,

Irish Nationalism: The Northern Leaders of 98 (No.1) William Orr

1906 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 75.00
394 Ulick O'Connor

Irish Interest: A Terrible Beauty is Born- The Irish Troubles 1912-1922

1975 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 43.75
395 Fr. Denis faul

Northern Ireland Interest: The Flames of Long Kesh

1974 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 106.25
396

Saorstat Eireann. Irish Free State Official Handbook.

1932 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 112.50
397 Kevin C Kearns

Irish Pub Life: Dublin Pub Life & Lore- An Oral History

1996 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 68.75
398 E. B. McGuire.

Irish Whiskey A History of Distilling, the Spirit Trade and Excise Controls in Ireland

Dublin. 1973 EUR 160.00 - 260.00 EUR 150.00
399 Leon D Adams

Irish Pub Life: The Commonsense book of drinking

1960 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 100.00
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