December 1st: At Tara Towers Hotel, Dublin. A book sale conducted by Mealy's included the following prices: £10,500 for Paul et Virginie by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de SaintPierre (1806 edition); £6,700 for first edition of by James Joyce; £3,400 for Journals of the House of Commons in the Kingdom of Ireland, 1613-1794 (parts missing); £3,000 for map of Dublin by Charles Brooking (1724); £2,800 for Poems Written in Discouragement by W.B. Yeats (first edition).
December 5th: House-contents sale at Nutley Lane, Ballsbridge, Dublin conducted by Town & Country. Prices included: £3,200 for set of 10 Victorian mahogany dining chairs; £3,000 for William IV console table; £1,380 for set of six Victorian mahogany dining chairs; £1,380 for Victorian fold-over Sutherland table; £1,300 for set of six Victorian mahogany dining chairs. December 11th: At Whyte's, Marlborough Street, Dublin. Eclectic collectables sale, including: £4,800 for a half-sheet of the 1916 Proclamation; £1,400 for a draft constitution signed by Eamon de Valera and his cabinet; £700 for film poster of Willy Reilly and His Colleen Bawn ; £550 for letter written by James Connolly; £440 for The Poetical Works of William Preston
December 12th: At Lindsay Road, Phibsboro, Dublin. Auction conducted by Town & Country, including: £2,400 for Victorian inlaid rosewood chiffonier; £1,400 for Victorian mahogany dining table; £800 for art nouveau bedroom suite; £800 for Regency brass fender; £700 for Regency marble clock.
December 13th: At Mullen's of Laurel Park. Fine-art and furniture auction, including: £6,500 for Edwardian mahogany breakfront bookcase; £6,000 for mahogany three-pillar dining table (Georgian and later); £5,700 for Edwardian mahogany display cabinet; £4,600 for Victorian mahogany extending dining table; £4,400 for satinwood inlaid china cabinet by Edwards & Roberts. At Adams of Blackrock. Fine-art and picture auction, including: £31,500 for Making Hay Cocks by Gerard Dillon; £4,400 for At Downings, Co Donegal by Maurice C. Wilks; £3,900 for Fishing near Downings by Maurice C. Wilks; £3,900 for bronze Madonna and Child by Albert Paner; £3,600 for Feeding the Hens by Maurice C. Wilks. December 15th: At the James Adam Salerooms, Dublin. The Polly Devlin Collection, including: £26,000 for A Sunny Day at the Seaside by Walter Osborne; £22,000 for a Georgian mahogany four-poster canopy bed; £5,500 for a Victorian brass club fender; £4,700 for by Beatrice, Lady Glenavy; £4,600 for by Patrick Hennessy.
