November 29th: Herman & Wilkinson, Lower Rathmines Road, Dublin. Furniture auction including: £3,000 for lady's mahogany rectangular kneehole desk; £2,600 for set of seven mahogany pierced and reeded dining chairs; £2,500 for mahogany rectangular three-tier console table; £1,800 for rosewood rectangular card table.

December 5th: Jury's Tara Hotel, Merrion Road, Dublin. Two-day book and manuscript sale conducted by Mealy's including: £65,000 for collection of correspondence between James Joyce and T.G. Keohler; £10,000 for A History of the River Thames by J & J Boydell, 1794 to 1796; £8,000 for The Rhododendrons of Sikhim-Himalaya by Joseph Hooker, 1849 to 1851; £7,800 for archive of Yeats family letters; £5,250 for complete file of journal of Galway Archaeological and Historical Society.

Victor Mitchell, Mount Butler, Roscrea, Co Tipperary. Antique furniture auction including: £4,700 for William IV mahogany extending dining-table; £2,200 for late Georgian mahogany three-door bookcase; £1,950 for ornate brass repeater carriage clock.

December 10th: Mullen's, Laurel Park, Woodbrook, Co Dublin. Furniture and fine art auction including: £3,200 for marble group of the Three Graces; £3,000 for 19th century English oil painting; £3,000 for mahogany inlaid bedroom suite by James Hicks. December 11th: John Weldon Auctioneers, Cows Lane, Temple Bar, Dublin. Silver and jewellery auction including: £2,250 for diamond brooch; £2,100 for diamond bracelet; £2,000 for emerald and diamond ring.