Purcell Auctioneers: Sale of the Extensive Library of the Late J. J. Hurley, Tralee, Co. Kerry, Tim Hurley, Tralee and Some other Private Clients., 92524, Birr

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Auction Date
September 25, 2024 - September 25, 2024
Page Size: 804 items in 33 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
551 R. M. Fox.

The History Of The Irish Citizen Army

Dublin, 1945 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
552 John McCann.

War by the Irish

1946 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 50.00
553

Portrait of a Rebel Father by his daughter Nora Connolly O'Brien.,

1935 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 43.75
554

Irish Republicanism: The Irish Struggle 1916-1926 edited by Desmond Williams, 1966; James Connolly -The Forerunner by R M Fox, published The Kerryman, 1946 plus 7 others (9) Ex libris

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 68.75
555

Sinn Fein Rebellion Handbook: 1917 edition of the Handbook, an extremely useful reference on the 1916 Rising.

1917 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 68.75
556

P. S. O'Hegarty 'Sinn Fein - An Illumination', 1919; War by The Irish by John McCann, 1946, 1st Ed, HB DJ; The Life Story of Eamon De valera by Sean O Faolain, 1933 plus 1 other (4)

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 112.50
557 Dan Breen -

My Fight for Irish Freedom'

1924 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 162.50
558

Irish Related: Life and Adventures of Theobald Wolfe Tone written by himself; The Irish Republic. Why?-Non Official Statement Prepared for Submission to the Peace Conference by L Ginnell, 1919; ...

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 50.00
559

Irish Nationalism: The Story of the Irish Citizen Army by Sean O'Casey, No 65 of 750, 1971; Guerilla Days in Ireland by Tom Barry, 1949 plus 3 others (5)

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 75.00
560 Margaret Buckley,

The Jangle Of The Keys , With a Preface by Mary Mc Swiney.

Dublin 1938 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 56.25
561

The Four Green Fields, George O'Brien,

1936 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 68.75
562

Irish Republicanism: The I R B and the 1916 Insurrection by Diarmuid Lynch, 1957; The Imagination of an Insurrection- Dublin Easter 1916 by William Irwin Thompson, 1967 plus 7 others (9)

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 50.00
563

Communist Party of Ireland. History. Circa 1971; Frongoch. University of Revolution by O'Mahony. ; John Joe's Story. ...

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 43.75
564 Frank O'Connor.

The Big Fellow, Nelson, 1937; The Saint And Mary Kate, MacMillan, 1932; Guests Of The Nation, MacMillan, 1931; Bones Of Contention, MacMillan, 1936 (4)

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 81.25
565 Thomas Toomey.

The War of Independence in Limerick.

2010 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 87.50
566

Spies in Ireland by Enno Stephens; Maud Gonne by Levenson; The Black and Tans by Bennett 1959; Augustine Birrell in Ireland.

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 37.50
567 Desmond Ryan.

Michael Collins and the Invisible Army, Anvil Books, 1968; and Noel Scannell. The 100th Anniversary of the Death of Michael Collins, 2022 (2)

EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
568

Smith, The Fighting Irish in the Congo, cards, 1962. Cox, Damned Englishman. Erskine Childers, 1975.

EUR 50.00 - 70.00 EUR 56.25
569 Tim Pat Coogan -

Ireland Since the Rising,

London, 1966 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 31.25
570

Wolfe Tone Annual; Collection of.1932/1935 Special 1916 Number/1936/1937/1946/1948/1949/1950/1952 (9)

1932-1952 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 56.25
571

Irish Nationalism: The Singing Swordsman by John Caball- a Tale of Kerry in the days of the Cavaliers, 1953 SIGNED by P J Kearney " A Wing" Belfast Prison 1957; ...

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 100.00
572

Padraic H. Pearse -- Plays, Stories, Poems.

Dublin 1966 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
573 C. J. C. Street,

Ireland In 1921

1922 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 31.25
574

Irish Nationalism: One Day in My Life by Bobby Sands, 1983; Unmanageable Revolutionaries - Women and Irish Nationalism by Margaret Ward, 1983 plus 7 others (9)

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 31.25
575

Roger Casement: Casement's Last Adventure Monteith, Captain Robert SIGNED Published by Privately Printed, Chicago, 1932-First Limited Edition, HB,DJ; ...

EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 37.50
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    Gonnelli: Menù di gala per l'incoronazione di Nicola II Romanov e di Aleksandra Feodorovna. Moskva, 1896. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Raccolta di 38 albumine, molte colorate a mano, di vedute della Cina, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Giappone e vari ritratti, 1880. Starting price 340 €
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    Gonnelli: Menabrea Luigi Federico, Sketch of the analytical engine invented by Charles Babbage Esq. London: Richard and John E. Taylor, 1843. Starting price 5000 €
    Gonnelli: Bardi Giovanni, Memorie del calcio fiorentino. Florence, 1688. Starting price 1000 €
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