Des O’Sullivan finds a welcome in the parlour for a very fine collection of Irish art pieces sold in Dublin.

MORE than 340 lots will come under the hammer at two sales of Important Irish Art in Dublin next week.

COLLECTORS from all corners of Ireland will converge on Limerick this weekend.

This copy of the ninth printing of the first edition of Joyce’s Ulysses published by Shakespeare & Co, Paris, 1927, is among the lots at Cork Auction Rooms tomorrow at noon.