Des O’Sullivan reports on stellar prices and previews upcoming sales

Des O’Sullivan previews the August bank holiday weekend auctions in Ballyconneely, Connemara.

THOSE in need of a fix at this fallow time of year for auctions can always head west.

The contents of four Dublin houses will offer a wide range of items, including rare collectibles, writes Des O’Sullivan.

A private collection of 177 paintings and drawings by Sean O’Sullivan RHA (1906-1964) comes under the hammer at James Adam in Dublin next Wednesday at 6pm It was put together over a period of 50 years by a single Irish collector.

TERRY Wogan and portrait artist Tom Ryan have agreed to accept the Freedom of Limerick.

THREE paintings by Irish artist Jack B Yeats, owned by the Allen family of Ballymaloe House in Cork, sold for €1.38 million under the hammer in Dublin yesterday.