April 10th: At Sachs Hotel, Donnybrook, Dublin. Fine art and furniture auction, conducted by Morgan O'Driscoll, including: £12,500 for Ballycastle, Co Antrim by J.H. Craig; £6,100 for Georgian mahogany secretaire chest on chest; £4,500 for 18th-century Irish brass-dial long-case clock; £2,200 for Coastal Cottage Scene by Markey Robinson; £1,600 for Study of a Woman's Head by Sean Keating.

At Thomas P. Adams & Co, Blackrock, Co Dublin. Fine art auction, including: £12,000 for West of Ireland Landscape by Markey Robinson; £8,200 for Dutch 16th-century book of hours; £6,000 for The Italian Marionettes in pen and watercolour by Jack B. Yeats; £4,700 for Sheperding Cattle in the Mourne Mountains by J.H. Craig; £4,000 for Thatched Cottage by Percy French.