May 27th: At Drums, Malahide, Co Dublin. Fine art sale, including: £5,000 for pair of oils by John Willis, The Irish Farrier and Friends The Irish Butcher and Friends ; £2,100 for a gilt console table with shaped white marble top; £1,250 for a brush-side Honduras mahogany diningroom table; £1,125 for a mid-Victorian rosewood chaise longue; £1,000 for a late-Victorian two-door mahogany bookcase. May 31st: At the RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin. Fine art auction conducted by Hamilton Osborne King, including: £22,000 for A Fair Day, Clifden by Letitia Hamilton; £22,000 for Cloudy Day, Connemara

by Paul Henry; £21,000 for a large mahogany circular dining table; £18,000 for a pair of mahogany satinwood-banded and marquetry-inlaid side tables; £14,000 for a portrait of James Hicks by Leo Whelan (new record for this artist); £12,000 for A Summer's Day in the West by Eva Hamilton (new record for this artist). June 2nd:

At John Ross & Co, Montgomery Street, Belfast. Irish art sale, including: £12,000 for Shawlie at the Door by William Conor; £10,500 for Wilderness Serie, No 15 by Colin Middleton; £10,500 for Feeding Chickens, Cushenden, Co Antrim by Frank McKelvey; £10,000 for At the Door by William Conor; £7,000 for Wartime Romances by William Conor.