Music of Freedom on the cards for Carrigtwohill auction

This early Irish Georgian dining table is at Lynes and Lynes in Carrigtwohill on July 26. Also up for sale is a copy of ‘The Music of Freedom’ by patriot Terence MacSwiney.

AN early Irish-Georgian section dining table, and a signed copy of The Music of Freedom, by patriot, author and playwright, Terence MacSwiney — who died on hunger strike in Brixton prison in 1920, while Lord Mayor of Cork — are among the items to tempt at the next Lynes and Lynes auction in Carrigtwohill on July 26.

The table comes from the estate of the late Mrs M Timmons, at No 2, The Mall, Compass Hill, Kinsale. Measuring 9ft long and 4ft wide, it dates from 1740-60 and is estimated at €2,000-€2,500. A late-Georgian sideboard, from the same room, is also in the sale.