A valuable painting discovered on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow is among over 170 works up for auction this week in Dublin in a sale expected to break all Irish records.

A SURRENDER note written by Padraig Pearse fetched €700,000 — almost 10 times its guide price — at an auction held in Dublin last night.

A surrender note written by Irish revolutionary icon Padraig Pearse fetched €700,000 – almost 10 times its guide price – at auction in Dublin tonight.

The Government could purchase the hand-written surrender note from the revolutionary icon Padraig Pearse which goes under the hammer this week, it emerged today.