Revolutionary items feature in Adam’s sale

Lady Gregory’s letter and various pictures and medals will be up for auction.

IRISH history, revolutionary, political, literary and sporting is reflected at Adam’s sale in Dublin next Tuesday at 1pm. Viewing for this auction of nearly 500 lots gets underway at 1pm today.

It offers everything from Robert Emmet’s speech from the dock to a Staffordshire figure of Lord Kitchener on horseback.

The War of Independence, the Treaty and the Civil War loom large in this auction.

Historic photographs, special newspaper editions, notes, letters, memorial cards, medals and manuscripts all feature.

There is correspondence from Lady Gregory concerning a possible Velazquez portrait (the work was finally attributed to Velazquez in 2011) and material from literary figures like Beckett, Yeats, Joyce, George Bernard Shaw, George Russell and Seamus Heaney.

An original Proclamation and the copy of Eoin MacNeill’s order countermanding the Easter Rising illustrated on these pages last week are highlights in a sale that is brimful of interest to collectors, bibliophiles, historians and anyone interested in the rich history of this land.

Viewing in Dublin is from 1pm to 5pm today and from 10am to 5pm on Monday.