January 13th: Whyte's, Marlborough Street, Dublin. Eclectic sale including: £52,000 for 1916 Proclamation of the Easter Rising; £9,000 for James Joyce postcard; £4,000 for collection of photographs taken during the Irish civil war; £1,300 for first UK edition of Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two Birds; £1,100 for 11 issues of The Daily Chronicle published during the Easter 1916 Rising.

January 15th: Vienna Woods Hotel, Cork. Antiques and fine art auction conducted by Morgan O'Driscoll including: £15,000 for Workhorses in Farmyard by Letitia Hamilton; £13,000 for set of 10 19th century Chippendale-style mahogany dining chairs; £7,400 for Lough Ineagh, Connemara by George Gillespie; £2,000 for Georgian mahogany dome-shaped wine cooler; £1,850 for William IV rosewood upholstered armchair.

January 16th: Thomas P Adams, Main Street, Blackrock, Co Dublin. Fine art and furniture auction including: £4,600 for charcoal A Literary View at Henry Moore; £3,100 for Knitters in the Sun by Cecil Maguire; £2,400 for Victorian mahogany and satinwood inlaid bureau; £2,300 for set of six mahogany dining chairs; £2,200 for set of 12 Chippendale-revival mahogany dining chairs.

January 17th: HOK Fine Art, Main Street, Blackrock, Co Dublin. Art and antiques sale including: £3,600 for set of eight early 19th century mahogany dining chairs; £2,400 for pair of 19th century bronze Marly Horses; £1,900 for Portrait of Lady Coates by Leo Whelan; £1,000 for mahogany fold-over tea table circa 1830; £900 for pair of pencil portraits by Harry Kernoff.