THE top lot at Adams history sale today was the Proclamation of Independence of the Irish Republic printed in Dublin on April 23 1916 by Christopher Brady, Michael Molloy and Liam O’Brien for the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic. It made a hammer price of 90.000. The Proclamation was read from the steps of the GPO, Dublin by Padraig Pearse on Easter Monday, thereby heralding the Easter Rising and Ireland’s advance towards self-determination. Eoin MacNeill’s countermanding order to the Rising, source of much confusion, made 30,000 at hammer. The gold medal won at Wimbledon by Harold Segersen Mahony in 1896, the last Irishman to win Wimbledon, sold for a hammer price of 24,000. An 1816 Dublin freedom box made 8,000 and a tea service presented to Patrick J. Smyth under the terms of the will of William Smith O’Brien sold for 5,700. The sale brought in just under 310,000.
(See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for April 10 and April 5, 2014).
A George III Irish freedom box from 1816 made 8,000.
The Proclamation of Independence of the Irish Republic
Printed in Dublin, 23rd April 1916 by Christopher Brady, Michael Molloy and Liam O’Brien for the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic (100.000-150,000).