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  • CUTLERY USED BY MICHAEL COLLINS FOR HIS LAST MEAL AT MULLEN’S

    A knife, fork and spoon, stitched to a silk shamrock and framed with a photograph of Michael Collins, form a curious lot at  Mullen’s Collector’s Cabinet auction on March 11. This was the cutlery used by Collins at his last meal in the Eldon Hotel in Skibbereen on August 22, 1922, just hours before the ambush at  Béal na mBláth later that day. It was later presented to Kitty Kiernan, who gave it to her sister Maud.  Maud married Gearóid O’Sullivan, the Irish Volunteer who raised the flag over the GPO during the Easter Rising. It is estimated at €1,500-€2,000. UPDATE: THIS MADE 6,500 AT HAMMER

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