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Irish Times
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Irish Times
Taking the spotlight
Sir, – Tánaiste Simon Harris, on Morning Ireland, commended Cara Darmody, a 14-year-old disability campaigner currently holding a protest outside the Dáil 'for shining a spotlight' on disability issues. Does this mean the young girl is doing the work of a Minister, and an entire government department? Perhaps the Minister should take the spotlight from Cara, and use it to do what the State is supposed to do. – Yours, etc, PETER DECLAN O'HALLORAN, Belturbet, READ MORE Co Cavan.
Irish Examiner
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Examiner
For auction: London portrait of Michael Collins in the frame
A full-length portrait of Michael Collins will create interest at Fonsie Mealy's rare book and collectors' sale in Castlecomer on Wednesday and Thursday (April 30, May 1). Collins, who has a moustache in this picture, is photographed standing on a balcony in London. A full-length portrait photograph of Michael Collins in London by Lafayette at Fonsie Mealy. More than 700 widely varied lots will come under the hammer here over two days. These range from rare sporting memorabilia like Kerry's first All-Ireland football championship winners medal from 1903 to a limited-edition illustrated volume of The Vatican Frescoes of Michelangelo and a scarce limited-edition copy of Squarings: Twelve Poems by Seamus Heaney, with four lithographic prints by Felim Egan. This work is signed by both the author and the artist. Lots and lots of all types of lots will come under the hammer in Ireland next week, with rare collectibles leading the charge. The mahogany and brass-mounted country house letterbox at James Adam. With everything from a mahogany and brass-mounted country house letter box that would not be out of place at Downton Abbey to a vintage alligator Gladstone bag, the annual library collection sale at James Adam in Dublin on Tuesday (April 29) offers a selection of 344 lots with something of interest to most of us. Vintage road signs are popular collectibles and feature at several sales. There is bound to be local interest in an old AA mileage sign for Blarney and Cork at Victor Mee's sale at Belturbet on Tuesday and Wednesday. AA road sign at Victor Mee. The online-only auction offers advertising materials and a mix of nostalgic items. Among them are enough Irish carnival and fairground pieces from Warrenpoint in Co Down and Buncrana in Co Donegal to keep any keen restorer busy for months. A 1970s vintage chrome and gilt Italian bar is not something you come across every day. This one, complete with tinted mirror front and stainless steel counter, is at the deVeres timed online design auction, which runs until Tuesday. A vintage Italian bar at deVeres. The auction offers a mix of classic design pieces by Eileen Gray, Arne Jacobsen, Gianfranco Frattini and Gianni Versace and art by John Shinnors, Albert Irvin, Cecil King, Tony O'Malley, Felim Egan and Mark Francis. There are all sorts of highlights at these sales. Franz Ludwig Hermann's The Dedication of the Temple of Solomon at James Adam is monumental and depicts a fantastical view of the temple. Sacrifices to mark the dedication are said to have included 22,000 bulls and 120,000 sheep. A painting by George Mounsey Wheatley Atkinson depicts a crowded harbour with paddle steamers. A child's carousel ride at Victor Mee will evoke many memories, along with several antique puppets and a 1970s tinplate fairground motorcycle. A prototype of the Liam MacCarthy Cup, by tradition, the sample that the trophy's maker, jeweller Edmund Johnston of Grafton Street in Dublin, presented to the Liam MacCarthy committee, is at Fonsie Mealy. In the event a variant was chosen. Choices here also include is a first (1955) edition of Moonraker, the third James Bond novel by Ian Fleming, and a painting of George Best in action by the British artist Tom Croft, approved by Best and originally intended to be made into a limited-edition print run, a plan that was abandoned when Best fell ill. Also for auction are five volumes of the Irish Georgian Society records of 18th-century domestic architecture in Dublin and an official Adidas Argentina team jersey signed by Diego Maradonna. Treasures abound everywhere.
