Memories of Kitty Kiernan set to fetch up to €6,000 at Whyte’s Auction

A vanity case belonging to the fiancee of Michael Collins is to go under the auction hammer next month.

Memories of Kitty Kiernan set to fetch up to €6,000 at Whyte’s Auction
Thu, 19 Apr, 2018 - 01:00
Sarah Slater

Collins proposed to Catherine ‘Kitty’ Brigid Kiernan, on October 8, 1921 in the Grand Hotel in Greystones, Co Wicklow.

She had also been the love interest of Harry Boland.

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