January 17th:

At Ashbourne House Hotel, Glounthaune, Co Cork. Fine-art and antiques auction, conducted by Morgan O'Driscoll, including: £19,000 for Nightfall, Bloody Foreland, Co Donegal by J.H. Craig; £4,400 for Georgian mahogany bureau bookcase; £4,000 for set of 10 Victorian Queen Anne-style dining chairs; £3,900 for Victorian mahogany three-door bookcase.

January 18th:

At Thomas P. Adams & Co, Blackrock, Co Dublin. Fine-art and antiques auction, including: £2,750 for pair of mid-Victorian mahogany bookcases; £2,400 for George IV mahogany sofa table; £2,150 for set of eight Georgian mahogany fork-back dining chairs; £1,350 for pair of mid-Victorian castmetal circular garden urns; £840 for Masons ironstone-ware dinner service.