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

Auction Details

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
199	Daniel Gallogly	Kilmore/Clogher: The Diocese of Kilmore 1800-1950		1999	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 68.75
200	O'Connell, Philip	The Diocese of Kilmore Its History and Antiquities. In dust jacket.	Dublin	1937	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 62.50
201	Rev John Lanigan	An Ecclesiastical History of Ireland Vol 1-4		1829	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 162.50
202	Rev John Canon Monahan	Ardagh & Clonmacnoise Antiquarian Society, 14 issues including Vol 1 No 1. Records relating to the Dioceses of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise		1886	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 56.25
203	Cowan, J. Davison	An ancient Irish Parish past and present being the Parish of Donaghmore, Co. Down.	London	1914	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
204	Kilian J Mitchell	Irish Interest: The Missionary Priests and Bishops of the Diocese of Kilmore		2000	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
205	James J MacNamee D.D.	History of the Diocese of Ardagh		1954	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 43.75
206	S. Gwynn and D. Gleeson.	A History of the Diocese of Killaloe.		1962	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 56.25
207	MONAHAN, Rev. John Canon.	Records relating to the Dioceses of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise.			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 43.75
208	J P Donleavy	J P Donleavy Signature on a picture of Gainor Stephen Crist bohemian and Dublin 'character', his wife and J P Donleavy at Trinity College			EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 162.50
209	J. P. Donleavy	Beastly Beasts, Birds, People & Places - Damien Matthews Fine Art Presents J. P. Donleavy at The Molesworth Gallery --- Dublin --- February 7th - 20th 2006. (Exhibition Catalogue) Donleavy, J. P. - Bill Dunn, Karim White	London	2006	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 75.00
210		The Tables of the Law			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 125.00
211		The Gaelic Journal- Exclusively devoted to the preservation and cultivation of the Irish language			EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 150.00
212	Jack B. Yeats	Ah Well: A Romance in Perpetuity		1942	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 62.50
213	Joe Heaney and Treasa O'Driscoll	Long Playing Records Bloomsday. Recorded live in Toronto on the occassions of James Joyce Centenary Birthday, February 1982.			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 56.25
214		Kavanagh's Weekly, edited by Patrick Kavanagh. A Journal of Literature and Politics. Facsimile edition of the original series of thirteen			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 112.50
215		Early Limerick Opera Souvenir Programmes. The Limerick Operatic Society. San Toy, January 1915. Theatre Royal,		[circa 1914]	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 37.50
216		Martin Luther the Reformer -- Ian R.K. Paisley, small pamphlet, Nos. 11 & 12.	Belfast	circa 1966	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
217	Howth Demesne.	The Rhododendron Gardens of Howth Castle Demesne. A Descriptive Guide.		Circa 1902	EUR 100.00 - 120.00	EUR 106.25
218	Mervyn E Burns	Westmeath: Wilson's Hospital Multyfarnham - a history from its origin to 1860- a dissertation presented to the school of education at Trinity College Dublin.			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
219		Waterford Mayoral Election 1909: Case for Counsels Opinion for electing the Mayor of Waterford 1909.		1909	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 37.50
220	Peadar O Cearnaig	Ireland's Songs of Freedom. New Songs by Peadar O Cearnaig author of 'The Soldiers Song' later to become our National Anthem.		c early 1900	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 100.00
221		Irish Republicanism: Long Kesh Poems. Collection of Poems written by Sentenced Republican Prisoners (Provisional) in Long Kesh Concentration Camp.		1975	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 93.75
222	William Cregson.	Orange societies. Addresses from the Brotherhood Club, and Orange Stradbally Lodge, with the answers thereto, Whitehall, 23 March 1835.			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 68.75
223	O'Byrne (Dermot)	A Dublin Ballad and Other Poems		1918,	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50

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