An extremely rare copy of the 1916 Proclamation of the Irish Republic was sold for €170,000 at auction.
The important document in Irish history, is one of an amazingly small few known surviving copies, most of which are in public institutions, was sold at the Christmas Rare Books and Collectors’ Sale which took place in the Talbot Hotel in Stillorgan, Dublin on Wednesday.
The Proclamation, the corner-stone of modern Irish history, the Irish Declaration of Independence, was probably the literary composition of Padraig Pearse, with some changes and amendments by James Connolly and Thomas MacDonagh.
