Mary Queen of Scots’ prayer book, Bono’s shades and Wolfe Tone’s papers in summer sales

Queen spent the last hours of her life in prayer before her execution in 1587

Art viewings are back for high summer sales

Auction rooms are opening again, but bids will continue online for now

Cash in the attic? Now’s the time to go looking

Art and antiques specialists can often give you a valuation online

Photographs from Shackleton’s Endurance voyage in London sale

What sold in the sales rooms, and upcoming auctions and fairs

Chance to bag a bargain online from Whyte’s

Bank art with low estimates and paintings by David Clarke among items for sale from €100

Going, going, gone: the top art and furniture sales of 2019

From Chinese ‘sleepers’ to a record Yeats, it has been a busy year in Irish auction rooms

Crystal chandeliers, an antique jig trap: highlights of this week’s antiques sales

Record prices paid for paintings by Jack B Yeats and Mainie Jellet

Sotheby’s €3.4m sale sets new records for Irish artists

Jack B Yeats paintings also perform well; 34 of his works are set to make auction debut

Mysterious muses and a river god at Whytes, but tapestry could top 20th century sale

LeBrocquy tapestry once owned by tycoon Tony O’Reilly estimated at up to €60,000

What has sold and what is new in the auction rooms

Small violin and bow with no label a €1,500 sleeper at Mullen’s auction

Auction results

Trophy marking British ‘victory’ in 1916 for sale at Whyte’s

Antique made from Rising artillery shell was uncovered in Islington flea market in 1987

Irish art market rebounds

Top lot at Whyte's Irish art auction was a portrait of British actress Gladys Cooper by Sir William Orpen which made €175,000, well above the estimate of €80,000-€120,000

Exhibition recalls WB Yeats

The Dublin Painting & Sketching Club to hold its 137th show in Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin

Sacred Irish first World War memento found in car-boot sale in England

Print of famous painting inscribed by chaplain, Fr Gleeson

Tricolour from Easter Rising could sell for up to €50,000 at auction next month

Uniforms worn by British military leader who suppressed 1916 rebellion also to be sold

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