Tortoiseshell Boulle cabinets for £2,000plus

This month's furniture and fine art auction in Drum's of Malahide, Co Dublin, takes place next Thursday, starting at 7 p.m. Included in the sale is a number of part clearances, offering items such as a pair of singledoor Boulle cabinets, with tortoiseshell and brass inlay (estimate £2,000-£2,500), and a birds-eye maple French bureau plat, with ormolu mounts and a green, tooled leather top (£1,000-£1,500). Other lots include an Edwardian inlaid two-door china display cabinet (£1,000), a Georgian string inlaid chest of drawers (£500-£700), a mid-Victorian two-door gentleman's wardrobe (£500) and a mahogany six-drawer tallboy (also £500).

Photographs of Wilde as schoolboy in London sale

Two early, unpublished photographs showing Oscar Wilde among the other pupils and staff members of Portora Royal School in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh, are due to be sold in London next Tuesday. Auction house, Bonhams of Knightsbridge estimate the pictures will make £200-£300 and £700-£900 respectively. In the same sale is a bronze statue of the Young Sophocles with a Lyre, by American artist, John Donoghue, who wrote to Wilde in 1881 when the writer visited Chicago; Wilde subsequently bought a number of Donoghue's works for his Tite Street home. Also on offer at Bonhams next Tuesday are 12 police photographs of members of the Irish Volunteers, who were arrested between May 5th and 11th 1916. These pictures, taken by Patrick Smith, a Dublin police sergeant and the vendor's grandfather, are expected to fetch £300£350. Finally, the same auction house is selling a selection of pamphlets which refer to Irish history from 1610 to 1873. Of particular interest is a publication relating to Ulster at the time of James I, and called Conditions to be Observed by the British Undertakers of the Escheated Lands in Ulster (£800-£1,000).