Lavery, Yeats and le Brocquy beat estimates in first sales of the year
Irish banknotes also beat expectations in strong sale
Step inside the lives of Irish artists through new digital archive
Source at National Gallery of Ireland offers access to over 23,000 records and images
Concert flute, Free State penny and Cartier watch up for auction
Upcoming sales offer a feast of furniture, jewellery and coins
Last written words of Michael Collins among pre-Christmas auction lots
Original copy of 1916 Proclamation also among items in forthcoming auctions
Swift portrait included in Howth Castle contents sale could fetch up to €400,000
‘Fairy castle’ follows destiny of Dromoland, Ashford and Adare to ensure survival
Downsizing David Davies puts Killoughter House contents on sale
Churchill painting of castle where Rasputin’s assassin lived included in Fonsie Mealy sale
Lockdown auction market thrives as buyers browse from home
Sale prices for Julian Friers and Patrick Pye works far exceed auctioneer’s estimations
Arts&Antiques: Hollywood vision of Ireland on offer in collectors’ sale
Other auction highlights include signed Harry Potter books and a diamond ring
Garech Browne’s silver, vintage cars and rare art in Fonsie Mealy sale
Lots from estates of British textile designer Bernard Nevill and explorer Erica de Bary
Andy Warhol’s ‘Cow’, Lord Byron’s garnet gifts sell well in July auctions
Fine Art & Antiques auction results
Coronavirus is disrupting the auction market. It could change it for good
Auctioneers and galleries are moving sales online, and finding art lovers prepared to bid
Chinese artefacts keep coming to Irish salerooms – and collectors follow
Rare and unsual incense burners set for sale in Co Laois
Going, going, gone: the top art and furniture sales of 2019
From Chinese ‘sleepers’ to a record Yeats, it has been a busy year in Irish auction rooms
A Yeats love story in a trunk comes to light – and to market
A Victorian trunk inscribed with the name Jack B Yeats held sentimental mementos including the artist’s wife’s wedding shoes
Yes tonight Josepine: Empress’s bed could be yours for €2,000 plus
Fonsie Mealy’s sale features a bed thought to have been owned by Napoleon’s wife
Dolls’ houses: it’s a small world at Fonsie Mealy Castlecomer sale
A collection of dolls’ houses once owned by writer Graham Green’s wife Vivien are to be sold along with miniature furniture
Ulysses first edition to auction for between €70,000 and €90,000
Copy signed by James Joyce is from the earliest print run of the world renowned book
Runaway bids as 18th century box from Castletown Cox sells for €36,000
One of the first photographs of the moon taken in 1863 goes for €5,600
Auctions & Fairs – Triptych by Francis Bacon goes for £10m at Christie’s
Early version of ‘The Meeting on the Turret Stairs’ makes €24,000 in Kilkenny auction
Crucifixion painting expected to make up to €15,000 in Kilkenny sale
Artist is unknown but auctioneers believe it is Flemish School and dates from 16th or 17th century
Love the Meeting on the Turret Stairs? A draft version can be yours
Voted Ireland’s favorite painting, the artist, Sir Frederic William Burton, worked on a draft that is now for sale
Auctions – The Final Chapter of the Yeats Family Collection
WB Yeats’s signature ‘pince-nez’ glasses make €10,000 – more than 16 times the estimated price
WB Yeats’s trademark glasses for sale at €500-€600
Yet more items are to be auctioned as the family reaps a multi-million euro windfall
Bag an old church window in summer sale
Convent stained glass among 1,000 lots at Fonsie Mealy auction
Auction results and upcoming fairs
Portrait of Down-born lord chief justice of England goes for £45,000 above estimate
The original Jaws resurfaces in Sligo
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the auction house . . . A first edition of Jaws and a drawing by its author are snapped up
First edition of banned Lady Chatterley’s Lover goes on sale today
How a retired book-collecting Sligo GP managed to get a copy of DH Lawrence’s banned book while still at school
Auction results and forthcoming sales
A kilo of silver makes three times its estimate at John Weldon Auctioneers
The ‘lost’ Caravaggio, and the Irish woman who bought it
Husband’s assassination – ordered by Michael Collins – in a revenge attack for his role in suppressing the Rising prompted grieving widow to donate painting to priest
Italian sculpture and Wolfe Tone fireplace the marble stars in Kilkenny auction
A 5ft tall sculpture and a fireplace made strong prices, and the original fire surround, looted from Woodstock House before it was torched, sold for €2,500
Cashing in on 1916 memorabilia
Whyte’s, Adams and Fonsie Mealy are holding major auctions of 1916 artefacts
The art market: recovery in Ireland while international boom continues
Auctioneers confidence restored as demand returns
Clock damaged by hot air in Leinster House to be sold
Grandfather clock once worth €500,000 that plays ‘God Save the Queen’ up for auction
Guinness auction highlights include unique books and rare manuscripts
Pocket book of 18th-century Prince of Wales among Furness House lots for sale on Tuesday
Stained glass adds colour to the last major auction of the summer season
There were strong prices and big surprises at the Chatsworth sale at Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers
Auction of GAA memorabilia includes Clare’s first All-Ireland hurling medal
1901 All-Ireland football medal awarded to Dublin captain David ‘Gush Brady’ estimated at €1,500-€2,000
Card for Grand National race that never was
A race card for the ‘Martell’ Grand National on April 3rd, 1993, signed by all the jockeys, is a reminder of the race that officially never took place
Jonathan Swift’s ‘two-pronged forks’ for auction
Cutlery belonging to Anglo-Irish satirist and a portrait of Obama ancestor among mememtos of Ascendancy in fine art sale
First editions of James Joyce’s ‘Dubliners’ now classed as antiques
Copies can sell for thousands but why does the price vary so much?
Terenure’s ‘Downton Abbey’ children
South Dublin children’s private account of aristocratic life in Edwardian Ireland portrayed in rare ‘monthly magazine’
Value of GAA medals rockets
Nickey Rackard’s medal makes €17,500 - a record at auction, while mugshots make over estimate
Nickey Rackard’s All-Ireland medal for sale
Memento of 1950s Wexford hurling star is top lot in auction of sports and history memorabilia at Mealy’s
First edition of ‘Whoroscope’ by Samuel Beckett, sells for €4,200
€250,000 spent at rare books auction in Ballsbridge
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