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One of the last great private Georgian houses in Dublin, the home of the late Supreme Court judge James Murnaghan, at number 25 Fitzwilliam Street Upper, is to be offered for sale in the autumn. The terraced house is expected to fetch over £1.5 million at auction in early October. The entire contents, including a collection of Old Master paintings stolen by Dublin criminal Martin Cahill (The General) in 1988 and recovered later, will be sold separately through joint auctioneers Mealys and Christies of London.

McNally Handy & Partners will handle the sale of the four-storey over basement house, which James Murnaghan bought in 1919 and lived in until his death in 1973. His wife, Alice Murnaghan, lived on in the house until her death earlier this year at the age of 103.