Bloody Sunday ticket for auction

A Bloody Sunday match ticket will be the main event, writes Des O’Sullivan

A ticket to the Bloody Sunday match at Croke Park in 1920 at Sixmilebridge auction next Monday.

A ticket to the infamous Bloody Sunday match at Croke Park in 1920, at which 14 unarmed spectators were shot dead, is the prime lot at the 1,500 lot sale at The Auction Rooms in Sixmilebridge, Co Clare next Monday and Tuesday. The game between Tipperary and Dublin became a turning point in the Anglo-Irish War. The ticket is estimated at €6,000-€8,000. The Monday evening sale of around 500 lots includes fishing rods, cased specimen fish, books and general furniture. The GAA ticket, a Georgian Irish sideboard, a Victorian dining table and a 19th century walnut bookcase are among the lots on offer at the fine art and antiques sale on Tuesday at 10.30am. This sale includes Waterford chandeliers, jewellery, silver and art. Many of the lots are from the estate of the late artist and fisherman John Davies of Killaloe. Viewing is from 11am to 5pm today, 2pm to 5pm tomorrow and from 11am to the start of the sale at 6.30pm on Monday.