Antiques: Online sales open new chapter

‘Battle Cries’ by Terence MacSwiney at Fonsie Mealy’s sale.

Des O’Sullivan takes a look at an auction world that’s adjusting to the new normal.

Offering everything from the theatre programme for the first production of The Playboy of the Western World at the Abbey Theatre in 1907 to the poetry of Terence McSwiney to the GAA medals of Leonard McGrath and a cache of old IRA documents from 1924-31, the online collectors sale by Fonsie Mealy is brimful of interest.