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 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
26

Christians, The First Hundred Years, A celebration of one hundred years of Christian Brothers College Cork.

Cork 1989 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 50.00
27 Evelyn Bolster

Cork: A History of the Diocese of Cork

1971 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
28 Florence O'Sullivan

Cork: The History of Kinsale

1979 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 100.00
29

Cork Local Histories. The Annals of Churchtown.

2005 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 56.25
30 O'Sullivan.

Economic History of Cork to the Act of Union

1937 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 50.00
31 editors O'Flanagan and Buttimer.

Cork History & Society. Interdisciplinary Essays on an Irish County

1993 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 68.75
32 the Late John Windele. Revised and annotated James Coleman.

Windele's Cork. Historical and Descriptive Notices of the City of Cork

Cork. 1910 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 100.00
33 edited by P O Flanagan and C G Buttimer

Cork History and Society

1993 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 75.00
34 J A Murphy

Cork: The College- a history of Queen's University College Cork

1995 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 106.25
35 Silke

Cork Interest. Kinsale. Spanish Intervention 1601

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 68.75
36

Shannon hydroelectric Scheme

EUR 300.00 - 600.00 EUR 525.00
37

[Shannon Scheme] Siemens. Progress on the Shannon. First Year August 1927.

1927 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 162.50
38 P D

Clare: A Handbook to Lisdoonvarna and its vicinity

1998 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 62.50
39 T J Westropp

Clare: Archaeology of the Burren-Prehistoric Forts and Dolmens in North Clare

1999 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 50.00
40 Gleeson and Gwynn

A History of Diocese of Killaloe. Early Period and Middle Ages

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 125.00
41 Knott, Mary John P

Two Months at Kilkee

Dublin 1836 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 137.50
42

County Clare interest. Committee of Agriculture 1938 and 1969

1938 and 1969 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 137.50
43 Doherty, William James

Inis-Owen and Tirconnell. Notes, antiquarian and topographical. First series.

Dublin 1891 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 162.50
44 Dorothy Harrison Therman

Donegal: Stories from Tory Island

1989 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 125.00
45

Donegal Anonymous. The Donegal Highlands.

1861 EUR 140.00 - 180.00 EUR 275.00
46 Traynor, Michael

The English Dialect of Donegal

Dublin 1953 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 175.00
47 Harry Percival Swan

The Book of Inishowen: A Guide Book and Conspectus of Information Relating to the Barony of Inishown, County Donegal

Donegal 1938 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 75.00
48 Joseph Chubb Develin

Tyrone: The Story of an Irish Sept- The O'Devlins of Tyrone

1938 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 212.50
49 E M Patterson

Donegal: The County Donegal Railways

1982 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 87.50
50 E Shane

Donegal:Tales of the Donegal Coast and Islands

1923 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 125.00
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