Signed copies of Seamus Heaney's works among treasures at auction

Des O'Sullivan previews valuable rarities at the timed online At Home auction, on view this weekend at James Adam in Dublin

'The Place of Writing' by Seamus Heaney from the collection of Seamus Deane at Adam's.

There are treasures, gifts, one-off items, and many desirable rarities among a cornucopia of good things at the timed online At Home auction, which is on view this weekend at James Adam in Dublin.

Literary and theatre types will be interested in a collection of books from Seamus Deane, a classmate and close friend of Seamus Heaney. Together with Heaney, Brian Friel, Stephen Rea, Tom Paulin and David Hammond, Deane was a founding director of the Field Day Theatre Company, which began in Derry in 1980 as a cultural and intellectual response to the political crisis in Northern Ireland. Friel’s critically acclaimed Translations was the first of many Field Day plays to stage at Derry’s Guildhall before travelling throughout Ireland and the world.