May 19th: Ballyward Lodge, Castlewellan, Co Down. House contents auction conducted by Ross's of Belfast, including: £26,000 for The Watering Place by Thomas Gainsborough; £20,000 for Irish Georgian circular rosewood centre table.

May 23rd: C Sheppard & Sons, The Square, Durrow, Co Laois. Antiques and fine art auction including: £15,000 for River Landscape by Andreas Schelfont; £7,500 for set of 10 Victorian balloon-back dining chairs.

May 27th: Vernon Avenue, Clontarf, Dublin. House contents auction conducted by Town & Country including: £1,00 for set of eight ladder-back dining chairs; £1,240 for small Victorian bookcase; £1,220 for gilded compartmental mirror; £1,100 for Georgian secretaire; £1,060 for small Victorian dining table.

May 28th: Mullen's, Laurel Park, Woodbrook, Co Dublin. Antiques and garden furniture auction including: £4,600 for a pair of Colebrookdale design garden seats; £3,600 for mahogany serpentine side table; £3,600 for set of 12 mahogany dining chairs; £3,000 for Edwardian mahogany display cabinet; £2,600 for Venetian Scene with Ducal Palace , 18th century Italian school.

May 28th and 29th: RDS, Dublin. Furniture and fine art auction conducted by HOK Fine Art including: £44,000 for pair of 19th century walnut and marquetry centre tables; £42,000 for late 18th century Irish oval facet cut-glass studded mirror; £40,000 for late 18th century Irish mahogany five pedestal dining table.

May 30th: James Adam Salerooms, St Stephen's Green, Dublin. Irish art sale including: £180,000 for The Light is Going by Jack B Yeats; £120,000 for Still Life with Fruit and Vase by Roderic O'Conor.