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Auction Report
Auction Date
December 10, 2025 - December 10, 2025
Page Size: 617 items in 25 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
126

Laois GAA: Ninety Years of GAA in Laois-Insight into Laois GAA affairs 1884-1974

1975 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 62.50
127

Clare GAA: History of Shannon Gaels 1887-1990 in the Parish of Kilmurry McMahon/ Labasheeda

2001 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
128 John Clarke

Offaly GAA: The Glorious Hundred- History of the Tullamore GAA 1888-1988

1988 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 125.00
129 Brid Griffin

Sand In Our Boots- Origins and History of Beale GAA 1898-2014

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
130 Gabriel M Brock

Fermanagh: The Gaelic Athletic Association in County Fermanagh

1984 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 112.50
131 Tom Mongey/Mick Mongey and Damien McBride

Meath GAA: Rathkenny GAA A History

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 106.25
132 Jim McGovern

GAA Wexford: Coming of Age in Wexford GAA 1983-2004

2005 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
133 Ryall, Tom Kilkenny

The GAA Story 1884-1984

Kilkenny 1984 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
134

Louth: The GAA in Louth- An Historical Record

1984 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 125.00
135

Longford GAA: The Story of Saint Patrick's GAA Club Ardagh 1889-1984

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 125.00
136 larry Meegan

Monaghan GAA: The Inniskeen Story- A History 1888-1955

1988 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 187.50
137

GAA: 2 Volume set of History of the GAA in Skryne

2012 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
138 Joe O Muircheartaigh and T J Flynn

Princes of Pigskin- A Century of Kerry Footballers

2007 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
139

A Lifetime in Hurling

London 1955 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 37.50
140

Munster GAA Story [ 1887-194]

1984 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
141 Liam P. O Caithnia

Sceal Na hIomana. O Thosach Ama Go 1884

Dublin 1980 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 62.50
142

Offaly GAA: Edenderry

1997 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 62.50
143 Timmy O'Neill

[signed by Michel O'Muircheartaigh and eminent players] Up the Well

[1984] EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 87.50
144 Willie D White

GAA Carlow: Kildavin GAA Club

2013 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 81.25
145 Senan Cooke

A History of the GAA in Kilmacow 1884-2010

2010 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
146 Eddie Keher

GAA: The Rower-Inistioge

EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 81.25
147 Michael Kelly and John Kenneally

The Shamrocks Story- History of the GAA in the parish of Ballyhale 1872-2022

2022 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
148 Ultan Macken

Eddie Keher's Hurling Story-a biography of the famous Kilkenny hurler

1978 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
149

Kellie -- Kellie Harrington & Roddy Doyle

2022 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
150 Ryall, Tom

SIGNED Kilkenny. The GAA Story 1884-1984

Kilkenny 1984 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 43.75
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